Black Krrsantan (Marvel: Star Wars) — Star Wars The Black Series 50th Anniversary
The Black Series Black Krrsantan (Marvel: Star Wars) — 50th Anniversary, 2022. Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99. 16 joints. Bowcaster in two parts. Repaint of 2014 Chewbacca body with new head and warrior harness. Body reuse doesn't capture Krrsantan's size or bulk. Flat black paint, no fur shading. No knuckle dusters. Cool head sculpt.
Overview
Black Krrsantan (Marvel: Star Wars) is a Fan Channel exclusive in the Black Series 50th Anniversary sub-line, released in June 2022 at $27.99. This is the first Black Series figure of Krrsantan — the Wookiee gladiator-turned-bounty hunter who appears across multiple Marvel Star Wars comic series, working for Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader before his appearances in The Book of Boba Fett. The figure is based on his comic book appearances rather than his live-action look.
The honest assessment: this is a cool head on the wrong body. Hasbro reused the 2014 Black Series Chewbacca body, painted it black, and added a new head and warrior harness. Black Krrsantan is significantly larger and more imposing than Chewbacca in every comic source, and the Chewie body doesn’t capture that. At $27.99 with flat black paint and no knuckle dusters, the figure is a disappointment by most measures — a missed opportunity that the head sculpt almost, but not quite, rescues.
Articulation
16 joints. Ball-jointed neck, ball-jointed shoulders, ball-jointed elbows, ball-jointed wrists, ball-jointed upper body, ball-jointed hips, swivel thighs, ball-jointed knees, ball-jointed ankles.
16 joints is below the typical Black Series count, reflecting the constraints of the large Wookiee body type. The figure displays adequately in upright poses. The harness around the figure is not removable.
Accessories
1 accessory. Bowcaster in two parts.
The bowcaster consists of two pieces — the front section plugs easily into the weapon’s body. It fits well into the right hand. It can also be attached to Black Krrsantan’s back via the harness, giving a stored display option.
One accessory at $27.99 is lean. The bowcaster works, but Krrsantan’s comic book appearances include the knuckle dusters that are among his most visually distinctive equipment — heavy spiked gauntlets that make his close-combat capability explicit. Because Hasbro used Chewbacca’s hands, there are no knuckle dusters on this figure. That specific omission is the most character-accurate miss.
The Body Problem
The core issue is proportional. In Jason Aaron’s Star Wars comics and in Kieron Gillen’s Darth Vader series, Black Krrsantan is consistently depicted as bulkier and more physically imposing than standard Wookiees — a gladiatorial physique that communicates immediately why he’s a credible threat to Jedi and trained soldiers alike. Chewbacca’s body, while large, is lean by Wookiee standards. Using it for Krrsantan loses the size differential that makes him menacing in the source material.
This isn’t a subjective read — the data notes explicitly that Krrsantan looked “even more menacing and bigger in the comic books than what he looked like in The Book of Boba Fett,” and that the figure “doesn’t capture this well at all.”
The Paint Problem
The fur paint is flat black with no shading, no depth, no variation between the fur areas and the rest of the figure. Chewbacca’s body, in its original 2014 paint, had different shades of brown across the fur to create texture and depth. Krrsantan’s body drops all of that — it’s simply black. The harness has no highlights, no dirt, no weathering. The overall effect is a figure that looks like it was painted by a single pass with one colour rather than finished to a premium collector standard.
At $27.99 this paint application is hard to defend.
The Head Sculpt
The head sculpt is the figure’s genuine strength. The comic book Krrsantan design — the more angular, heavier-browed Wookiee face that distinguishes him from Chewbacca’s rounder features — is captured well. The eyes, the expression, the specific menace of the character’s face in the comics: all present. It’s a good head on a figure that doesn’t match it.
What to Wait For
The data notes that at time of release, Hasbro had already announced a new version of Black Krrsantan based on his Book of Boba Fett live-action appearance. The recommendation was to wait for that figure rather than buying this comic version — which gives you a sense of how the community assessed this release. The comic-version is the only Black Series Krrsantan based on the source material that made him famous, but the execution doesn’t do that source material justice.
Fan Channel Acquisition
Fan Channel exclusive at $27.99, June 2022. No variations recorded.
Secondary Market
Fan Channel exclusive 2022. Secondary prices typically $22–35 — below retail in some cases, reflecting the critical reception. The announcement of a better Krrsantan figure suppressed demand for this one.
Verdict
Black Krrsantan (Marvel: Star Wars) is a figure with a great head sculpt, a wrong body, flat paint, no knuckle dusters, and one accessory at $27.99. The comic book Krrsantan deserved better engineering. The head sculpt alone isn’t enough to recommend it at market price — but it’s the only comic-source Krrsantan in the Black Series. Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | 50th Anniversary. Related: Jaxxon (Marvel: Star Wars) P4-50A-JAX | Doctor Aphra (Comic) P4-50A-DAC.