Darth Maul (Cybernetic Legs) — Star Wars The Black Series #TCW 11

Overview

Darth Maul with cybernetic legs at #TCW 11 is one of the most visually distinctive figures in the entire Phase 4 Black Series system — the Clone Wars animated Maul who survived being bisected by Obi-Wan at the end of The Phantom Menace, who spent years in the Outer Rim in a state of madness sustained by pure hatred, and who was eventually recovered and rebuilt with the spider-like mechanical lower body that The Clone Wars introduced. Saberstaff. 18 joints. Standard retail. $24.99. 2022.

The cybernetic legs are not a variant of Darth Maul. They are the specific form of a character who refused to die.

The Clone Wars Maul and His Survival

The Phantom Menace ended with Darth Maul cut in half by a Padawan. The Clone Wars series, picking up years later, revealed that he hadn’t died — that his hatred of Obi-Wan Kenobi sustained him through injuries that should have been fatal, that he had dragged himself to the junk moon Lotho Minor and built a spider-like mechanical lower body from scavenged parts in a state of profound madness. His brother Savage Opress finds him there, brings him back to Dathomir, and the Nightsisters restore his mind.

What The Clone Wars created by doing this is genuinely remarkable: a Darth Maul with a character. The prequel film Maul was a visual without an interior — dangerous, iconic, absent of dialogue or backstory. The Clone Wars Maul has a history, a grudge that defines him, an arc across multiple seasons that ends in one of the series’ most devastating confrontations. The cybernetic legs figure is the physical form of that transformation: the villain who came back from an impossible death and became something far more interesting than a silent assassin.

The Saberstaff and What It Means

Maul’s saberstaff — the double-bladed red lightsaber that is his visual signature — is the accessory that carries the weight of the entire TPM collection figure as well as this one. Displayed with the saberstaff ignited in the at-ready position, the Clone Wars Maul communicates the specific threat of a character whose primary weapon is unchanged from his first appearance despite everything else that has changed about him. The blade is the continuity. The spider legs are the difference.

The Cybernetic Lower Body at 6-Inch Scale

Rendering the mechanical spider-legs lower body at 6-inch scale is the figure’s primary technical challenge, and the 18-joint scheme covers it by allocating articulation points to the mechanical limbs rather than restricting them to a standard humanoid configuration. The result is a figure with the specific visual of the Clone Wars Maul — the organic upper body and the mechanical lower body — at the Phase 4 production standard appropriate to the character’s specific design.

The TCW Maul vs the TPM Maul

The TPM Collection’s Darth Maul (P4-TPM-05) covers the human-legged Phantom Menace configuration. This figure covers the Clone Wars cybernetic-legs version. They are different characters in a meaningful sense: the same person at two radically different points in his life, with a failed death and a madness-survival and a reconstruction between them. For collectors who want the complete Maul arc in Phase 4 plastic, both figures are necessary. For collectors who want only one: the cybernetic legs version is the more interesting figure for the reason that it represents the Maul who earned his story.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices. Standard retail 2022. Verify saberstaff. No production variants documented.

Our Verdict

Darth Maul with cybernetic legs at #TCW 11 is the TCW Collection’s most visually striking individual character figure — the villain who survived the impossible, rebuilt himself in the dark, and came back to be one of the Clone Wars series’ most compelling characters. The saberstaff, the spider legs, the 18-joint scheme at $24.99 standard retail. Buy him. He is the Maul who got a story.

The Clone Wars Maul’s Full Arc

The Clone Wars series gave Darth Maul three distinct phases after his return. First, the madness phase — the spider-legged creature on Lotho Minor, driven by obsession and pain. Second, the recovered criminal phase — the rebuilt Maul who took control of Death Watch, the Shadow Collective, and eventually the Pyke Syndicate. Third, the Mandalore arc — the Sith pretender turned crime lord whose hold on Mandalore was the reason the Siege was necessary.

Each phase is a different character in some respects. The figure at #TCW 11 — the cybernetic legs, the saberstaff, the 18-joint scheme — is Maul across all three phases, because the spider legs are his specific visual identity throughout the Clone Wars run. The TPM figure is who he was before. This is who he became.

Displaying the Clone Wars Maul

Maul with cybernetic legs displayed against Ahsoka Tano (#TCW 02 or #TCW 13) creates the Siege of Mandalore confrontation — the Padawan-who-left versus the Sith-who-survived, the two characters whose final Clone Wars confrontation is one of the series’ most thematically loaded encounters. The cybernetic Maul opposite Ahsoka is the specific display the TCW Collection’s Siege arc builds toward.

Darth Maul with cybernetic legs at $24.99 standard retail is the most conceptually interesting Maul figure in the Phase 4 system. The TPM version is the icon; this is the character. The saberstaff, the mechanical lower body, the 18-joint scheme that makes the specific Clone Wars Maul poses achievable. Buy him as the Maul who earned his story through survival.

The Clone Wars Maul is not a prequel nostalgic figure. He is a character who wouldn’t exist without the prequel’s most exciting villain getting a second life through animated storytelling. The cybernetic legs are the physical evidence of that second life. Buy the figure that shows what survival looks like when fuelled by hatred.

Darth Maul with cybernetic legs is the TCW Collection’s argument that the most interesting villains are the ones who survive. The spider legs, the saberstaff, the 18 joints, the $24.99 price. Buy him.

The Maul who survived TPM went on to become the most interesting Sith-adjacent character in the Clone Wars era. This figure shows you why. The mechanical lower body is not a disability — it is the evidence of what he endured and what he is capable of enduring. Eighteen joints and a saberstaff. The TCW Collection’s most striking villain figure.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection. Related: Clone Commander Jesse P4-TCW-12 | Darth Maul TPM P4-TPM-05 | The Clone Wars.