Star Wars Black Series Range Trooper

The Range Trooper is Solo: A Star Wars Story’s cold-weather Imperial variant — the heavily armoured soldiers who patrol the Conveyex transport on Vandor, and whose distinctive fur-trimmed design is one of the Solo film’s more memorable visual contributions to the Imperial military aesthetic. Three figures cover this soldier type across the Solo film, the Holiday Edition programme, and the Andor series.

Range Troopers in Star Wars

Range Troopers are human — Imperial soldiers assigned to patrol extreme environments, in the Solo film specifically the frozen mountainous terrain of Vandor. Their armour is a practical evolution of the standard Stormtrooper design for cold conditions: heavier, with the specific magnetic boot technology that allows them to operate on the exterior of moving vehicles in harsh weather. The maglocks are what make them relevant to the Conveyex heist — they can follow the robbers onto the train’s exterior in conditions that standard Stormtroopers couldn’t manage.

The fur-lined cape and the specific cold-weather visual modifications make them one of the Solo film’s more distinctive Imperial designs. Like the Mudtrooper design (the grey slogging infantry from Mimban), the Solo film’s Imperial variants take the standard Stormtrooper template and apply operational specialisation in ways that feel like genuine military equipment evolution rather than design-for-design’s-sake variation.

The Andor series’ inclusion of Range Troopers extends the character type beyond its Solo film origin — the Imperial military’s cold-weather specialists appearing in a different production context, connecting the Andor era to the wider Imperial military diversity the line covers.

The Solo Film Figure

The Red Line Phase 3 Range Trooper from 2018 is the Solo film launch figure — the cold-weather Imperial soldier at the production quality of the Solo release wave. As a fully armoured figure with no exposed face, the pre-Photo Real gap is irrelevant. The fur trimming, the armour plates, and the specific visual vocabulary of the Solo Imperial designs are accurately represented.

For the Kessel Run display and the broader Solo Imperial forces context, this is the only available figure and it holds up well for the purpose.

The Holiday Edition

The Range Trooper Holiday Edition Target exclusive from 2020 is the seasonal programme’s Solo Imperial entry — the cold-weather specialist adapted for the holiday display context. The fur-trimmed armour makes the Range Trooper one of the more natural fits for the seasonal programme among Imperial soldier types, the winter aesthetic already built into the design rather than added for the occasion.

For the Holiday Display, it adds the Solo era’s Imperial military presence to a shelf that typically includes Clone Troopers, Stormtroopers, and First Order soldiers.

The Andor Figure

The Range Trooper (Andor) Target exclusive from 2025 covers the character type’s Andor series appearance — an era-specific release that places the cold-weather soldier in the Andor sub-line context. For collectors building the comprehensive Andor Imperial forces display, this is the Range Trooper that belongs.

The Andor version is distinct from the Solo film release in sub-line context rather than fundamental design — the same basic soldier type in different production and packaging contexts. Target exclusivity is the sourcing consideration for both the Holiday and Andor versions.

Which to Buy

For the Solo film and Conveyex heist context: the Red Line Phase 3 Range Trooper is the only film-specific option. For the Andor series display: the 2025 Andor Target exclusive. For the Holiday Display: the 2020 Holiday Edition.

The Range Trooper occupies a specific niche in the Black Series — it’s a Solo film original that has persisted across the line through two subsequent releases, which is more production longevity than some Solo character types have received. For collectors who engage with the Solo film seriously, the original Red Line figure is the essential one; the Andor version extends coverage into the Disney+ era.

The Solo Film Imperial Context

The Range Trooper belongs in the same display context as other Solo Imperial soldiers — alongside the Mudtrooper, the Imperial Patrol Trooper, and Han’s Imperial Army figures from the Mimban sequence. The Solo film’s Imperial forces are the most operationally varied collection of specialised Stormtrooper types introduced in any single film, and building the Solo Imperial display is one of the more distinctive shelf choices in the Black Series.

Range Troopers specifically are associated with the Conveyex heist — the sequence where the film’s action set pieces meet the Imperial military’s response capability. One or two figures alongside the Solo Han, Qi’ra, and Enfys Nest creates the core of that display.

The Solo film is worth championing for its collecting potential even if its cultural moment has passed. The film’s specific commitment to showing the Imperial military as a functioning institution — with ranks, specialisations, operational environments, and the mundane logistics of galactic enforcement — produced a set of figure designs that don’t exist anywhere else in the line. Range Troopers, Mudtroopers, Patrol Troopers: these are the soldiers who maintain the Empire’s control in the spaces between the battles the main saga depicts. Building the Solo Imperial display is building a different kind of Star Wars shelf, and the Range Trooper is one of its more distinctive elements.

The maglocks detail is worth noting as a collecting specificity: a soldier designed to operate on the exterior of moving vehicles is a specific operational requirement that produces a specific equipment design. That kind of functional explanation for a design choice is what makes the Imperial specialisation figures more interesting than generic variants.

All Range Trooper Figures in the Black Series

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Characters. Related: Human | Kessel Run | Han Solo | Aldhani Heist.