Clone Trooper (Kamino) — Star Wars The Black Series #TCW 01
The Black Series Clone Trooper Kamino — Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection #01, 2020. The Phase II armour training configuration with blaster rifle. 17 joints. Standard retail. The TCW Collection's opening army builder.
Overview
The Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection opens at #TCW 01 with the Clone Trooper in Kamino configuration — the clean white Phase II armour of the Republic’s soldier class, unmodified by the unit markings and campaign weathering that distinguish later clone variants. Blaster rifle. 17 joints. $19.99. 2020. Standard retail. This is the baseline: the clone before the unit, the armour before the paint, the soldier before the war has written itself on the equipment.
The TCW Collection opening on the Kamino clone is structurally correct — it establishes what all the variants that follow are variants of.
The Kamino Configuration and What It Represents
Kamino is where clones are made, where they train, and where the Phase II armour was developed. The Kamino clone trooper represents the production standard — the clean white armour with no unit markings, no campaign weathering, no personalisation. This is the clone as the Kaminoans produced him: identical, interchangeable, ready for assignment.
That specific quality — the pre-assignment clone, the soldier before he becomes a specific unit’s soldier — is what the Kamino configuration communicates. Every other clone variant in the TCW Collection (the 332nd orange of Ahsoka’s troopers at #TCW 03, the 212th Battalion at #TCW 09, the 187th at #TCW 10) is a modification of this baseline. The Kamino Clone Trooper at #TCW 01 is the root from which the tree grows.
Standard Retail at $19.99
At $19.99, the Kamino Clone Trooper is the TCW Collection’s most affordable figure and its only standard retail release in the first five slots — every other figure at #TCW 02 through #TCW 05 is a Walmart exclusive at $24.99. The standard retail pricing makes the Kamino Clone Trooper the most accessible army building option in the TCW Collection’s opening wave, and the clean white armour means multiples create the unmodified clone formation display rather than duplicating a specific unit’s markings.
17 Joints and the Clone Trooper Configuration
The 17-joint scheme for the Phase II clone armour is the TCW Collection standard — the same count as the 332nd clone at #TCW 03, consistent across the Phase 4 clone variants in this collection. The joint configuration covers the essential clone trooper combat poses: the two-handed blaster rifle raise, the advancing crouched stance, the at-rest patrol position.
Army Building the Kamino Formation
Multiple Kamino Clone Troopers create the unassigned clone formation — the white-armour training or barracks display that the TCW Collection’s unit-specific clones at #TCW 03, #TCW 09, and #TCW 10 vary from. The clean white palette creates visual unity across any number of copies without the unit-specific markings of the later variants. For collectors who want to build a large clone formation at the most accessible price point in the TCW Collection, #TCW 01 is the figure.
The 22-Figure TCW Collection
The Kamino Clone Trooper at #TCW 01 opens one of Phase 4’s largest single-series collections — 22 figures covering The Clone Wars animated series across clone variants, Jedi, bounty hunters, Separatist characters, and Mandalorian factions. The collection spans 2020 through its later releases and is the most comprehensive animated-series coverage in the entire Phase 4 Black Series system. The Kamino Clone Trooper is its correct starting point.
Secondary Market
Modest secondary market prices — standard retail, army builder baseline. Verify blaster rifle. No production variants documented.
Our Verdict
The Kamino Clone Trooper at #TCW 01 is the TCW Collection’s foundational purchase — the clean Phase II armour that every unit variant in the collection departs from. $19.99 standard retail, 17 joints, the opening figure of a 22-figure collection that spans the entire Clone Wars era. Buy multiples. This is the army builder that establishes what comes before the unit markings.
Phase II Armour and Its Significance
The Phase II clone armour — the design that replaced the Phase I Kamino armour — is one of the prequel era’s most important visual evolutions. Sleeker, more angular, with the specific helmet design that influenced the Stormtrooper armour of the Imperial era, Phase II communicates the direction the Republic’s military was heading even as the Republic itself was being dismantled from within.
The Kamino configuration at #TCW 01 is that armour in its factory state — unmodified, un-weathered, without the campaign damage or unit customisation that clones accumulated in the field. It is the armour as designed, as issued, before the war wrote its record on it.
The TCW Collection’s Scope
Twenty-two figures. The Clone Wars Collection is Phase 4’s most ambitious animated-series collection — spanning clone variants from Kamino to the 212th Battalion and 187th Battalion, Jedi from Anakin to Obi-Wan to Mace Windu, bounty hunters including Cad Bane, Asajj Ventress, and Aurra Sing, and the Mandalorian factions of the Siege arc. The Kamino Clone Trooper at #TCW 01 opens that collection on the figure that all the clone variants derive from. Buy it as the foundation it is.
The Kamino Clone Trooper at $19.99 standard retail is the TCW Collection’s most repeatable purchase — no exclusivity complications, no Walmart sourcing required, clean Phase II armour at the most accessible price in the opening wave. Buy multiples alongside your 332nd troopers and Kamino formation display. The TCW Collection’s baseline has never been more affordable.
The opening of the TCW Collection is a structural statement: the blank slate before the unit markings, the soldier before the war gives him an identity beyond the template. Every Clone Wars collector knows what the variants that follow represent — the 332nd orange, the 212th yellow, the 187th purple. The Kamino white is what they all came from. Buy it as the foundation.
Seventeen joints. Blaster rifle. $19.99. The Phase II armour baseline at standard retail. The foundation every TCW Collection clone variant is built on. Buy it and build the collection outward from the white.
The TCW Collection is 22 figures spanning the full Clone Wars animated series. This figure opens it. The white armour, the blaster rifle, the standard retail accessibility that none of the other four opening figures share. It is the beginning and the baseline. Start here.
Buy it.
One more clone for the formation.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection. Related: Ahsoka Tano TCW P4-TCW-02 | 332nd Clone Trooper P4-TCW-03 | The Clone Wars.