Star Wars Black Series Wicket W. Warrick

Wicket W. Warrick is the Ewok — the one with a name, the one with a face Leia sees when she wakes up after the speeder bike crash, the one whose first instinct is curiosity rather than fear. Four figures cover him across the ROTJ anniversary programme and the seasonal Holiday and Valentine’s Day editions, all produced in the Galaxy Collection era.

Wicket in Star Wars

Wicket is Ewok — a member of the Bright Tree Village on Endor’s forest moon, a young hunter who discovers Leia Organa after she’s separated from the Rebel strike team and takes her back to his village. He’s the character whose relationship with Leia opens the Ewoks to the Alliance, and whose willingness to help people he just met is what makes the Endor alliance work.

The Ewoks’ role in Return of the Jedi has been the franchise’s most consistently contested creative decision since 1983. The argument against them — that they’re too cute, that low-tech warriors defeating the Empire’s garrison strains credulity, that they shift the film’s tone — is the argument that never quite goes away. The argument for them is that the galaxy’s most primitive culture defeats the most technologically advanced military because they fight on their own ground, because they understand the forest in ways that Stormtroopers don’t, and because the original trilogy’s entire thesis about ordinary beings against institutional power requires exactly this kind of victory. George Lucas has acknowledged the Vietnam War influence on the Ewok design — guerrilla fighters in familiar terrain defeating an occupying technological power is not an accident.

Wicket specifically benefits from Warwick Davis’s physical performance — the character’s expressiveness is built from movement and costume rather than facial animation, and Davis communicates personality through Wicket’s posture, head tilts, and reactions in ways that make the character feel individual within the Ewok community. His 6-inch figure carries the specific visual of that performance: the small scale, the hood, the distinctive spear.

The Ewok debate also has a collecting dimension. Collectors who love Return of the Jedi and want the complete Endor display need Ewoks. Collectors who find Ewoks insufferable still need them for completeness if they’re building the Shield Bunker Assault scene. Wicket’s four figures give the complete Endor builder enough options across production contexts.

The ROTJ Gallery Collection Figure

The Galaxy Collection ROTJ Wicket W. Warrick from 2023 is the primary display figure — the ROTJ anniversary wave release at current Galaxy Collection production quality. The specific fur texture, the distinctive hood, and the spear weapon are all present at the standard the line currently delivers. For the Shield Bunker Assault and Ewok Village displays, this is the recommended figure.

The 40th Anniversary Figure

The 40th Anniversary Wicket from 2023 is the Kenner cardback version — the anniversary programme’s ROTJ contribution for the character, the same basic figure in the Kenner tribute packaging. Both the ROTJ sub-line and 40th Anniversary versions were released in 2023 as part of the ROTJ 40th wave, giving collectors two packaging contexts for the same character simultaneously.

The choice between them is entirely packaging preference. Galaxy Collection mural box or Kenner cardback anniversary packaging; the figure inside is functionally equivalent.

The Seasonal Figures

The Ewok Holiday Edition Hasbro Pulse exclusive and the Ewok Valentine’s Day Edition cover the seasonal programme’s approach to the character type — the Ewok aesthetic adapted for holiday and Valentine’s Day contexts respectively. The Valentine’s Day Edition is one of the more unusual releases in the programme, reflecting Hasbro’s willingness to extend the seasonal programme beyond the standard winter holidays.

For the Holiday Display, the Holiday Edition is the Endor contribution to the seasonal shelf. The Valentine’s Day Edition is for collectors who engage with the full seasonal programme scope.

Wicket and the Endor Display

Wicket is the Ewok figure most worth owning for the Shield Bunker Assault and the Ewok Village celebration context — the named individual within the species, the character who has a specific relationship with Leia, the Ewok who functions as more than background. The ROTJ Galaxy Collection version paired with the Endor Leia, Han, Luke, and the Endor-era cast creates the complete ROTJ forest moon display.

The small scale of Ewok figures at 6-inch is worth noting as a display asset — the size differential between Wicket and the human characters communicates the relationship dynamic accurately, and the physical scale contrast in a mixed-species display is one of the more effective visual elements in the ROTJ ensemble.

The ROTJ display without Wicket is technically incomplete for anyone trying to represent the Endor sequences accurately. He’s in more scenes than most of the Rebel strike team, he has a named relationship with Leia, and his presence in the Shield Bunker Assault is what makes the assault work narratively. The four figures the line has produced give the collector more options than they probably need, but the Galaxy Collection ROTJ version is the clear starting point and most collectors who build the ROTJ display end up wanting exactly one Wicket.

All Wicket W. Warrick Figures in the Black Series

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Characters. Related: Ewok | Shield Bunker Assault | Princess Leia Organa | Han Solo.