Figrin D'An — Star Wars The Black Series #ANH 04
The Black Series Figrin D'An — Phase 4 ANH Collection #04, 2022. The Bith Cantina Band leader with kloo horn. 19 joints. The only Black Series Figrin D'An. Essential for the Mos Eisley Cantina display.
Overview
Phase 4 ANH Collection #04 is Figrin D’An — the Bith musician and leader of Figrin D’An and the Modal Nodes, the cantina band whose performance of “Mad About Me” (the piece the franchise’s fanbase knows universally as “the Cantina Song”) is the specific piece of music that made Mos Eisley Cantina one of the franchise’s most memorable locations. Figrin D’An is the figure who makes the cantina display musical.
Kloo horn accessory. 19 joints. $22.99. 2022. The only Black Series Figrin D’An.
The Cantina Song and Why It Matters
The cantina band’s music — composed by John Williams — is one of the franchise’s most immediately recognisable pieces: the slightly off-kilter jazz-adjacent melody that plays as background music in a space alien bar, communicating both the scene’s mundane normalcy (bars have live music) and its alien otherness (this is not the jazz you know). It was a specific creative choice to make the cantina a working establishment with live entertainment rather than an ambient background space.
The Modal Nodes are the specific band playing it — seven Bith musicians in identical outfits with their identical Bith heads and their assorted instruments. Figrin D’An leads them with the kloo horn. The figure captures the band leader mid-performance.
The Bith Design
Bith species design — the oversized craniums, the large black eyes without visible pupils, the lipless mouths — is one of the franchise’s most consistently produced alien designs, appearing in multiple Star Wars productions across multiple decades. The design communicates musician-archetype at alien-design scale: large heads suggest large brains suggest musical sophistication, which is a very human heuristic applied to alien design.
Figrin D’An and Nalan Cheel: The Band Pair
Figrin D’An (#ANH 04) and Nalan Cheel (#ANH 05) are the ANH Collection’s Bith musician pair — the band leader and a band member in consecutive slots. Two Bith musicians at consistent 2022 production quality. The Modal Nodes had seven members; the collection currently has two in plastic.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices — only release, cantina band demand, the kloo horn is the primary accessory to verify. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The only Black Series Figrin D’An. Buy for the Mos Eisley Cantina display, the Modal Nodes pair with Nalan Cheel, or ANH Collection completion.
The Modal Nodes and Music as World-Building
The Modal Nodes’ cantina performance is ANH’s most successful incidental world-building. Background music in films communicates mood and setting without demanding attention; ANH’s cantina music demands attention — it’s too distinctive, too alien-adjacent, too specifically itself to function as wallpaper. The effect is that the cantina feels like a real establishment with a regular band, which makes the alien clientele feel like regulars, which makes the galaxy feel lived-in.
Figrin D’An leads the band that created that effect. The figure at #ANH 04 is the physical form of that specific world-building contribution.
The Kloo Horn as Display Element
The kloo horn is a prop specifically designed for the ANH production — an alien instrument that reads as a wind instrument without being any identifiable human wind instrument. At 6-inch scale, the kloo horn creates a display configuration unique to this figure: a Bith musician mid-performance, instrument positioned as if the song is playing.
The figure works best displayed beside Nalan Cheel (#ANH 05) — the band leader and the keyboard player together communicate the ensemble in a way that either alone doesn’t achieve. Two Bith in matching outfits with their respective instruments is a band; one Bith is a musician.
The Complete Cantina Display Vision
The ANH Collection is building the most complete cantina display in Black Series history. Figrin D’An at #04, Nalan Cheel at #05, Ponda Baba at #02, Dr. Evazan at #03, and the future Momaw Nadon at #07 together create the cantina’s social scene: the band playing, the criminals drinking, the Hammerhead patron minding his business. The Mos Eisley Cantina in plastic, one figure at a time.
No production variants documented. One release. Verify kloo horn on secondary market purchases. The kloo horn is the figure’s defining accessory and without it the display reads as a Bith in a suit rather than the cantina band leader mid-performance.
Figrin D’An at $22.99 is the ANH Collection’s best value Bith musician — the band leader at the standard price tier, the correct first purchase for any cantina display. Nalan Cheel (#ANH 05) at $38.99 is the expensive completion; Figrin D’An is the entry point.
Figrin D’An is the ANH Collection’s most original-trilogy-specific figure in a specific sense: there is no prequel era Figrin D’An, no sequel era Modal Nodes. The cantina band exists only in ANH and its Tatooine-adjacent expanded materials. The figure is purely an ANH figure.
The cantina band’s specific cultural contribution to the franchise is hard to overstate: the music is immediately recognisable across five decades, across multiple generations, across cultural contexts far outside the film’s original audience. Figrin D’An is the figure responsible for that contribution. The kloo horn is the instrument. The display is the world-building.
Figrin D’An is the ANH Collection figure most likely to generate the specific collector question: ‘Which one is this?’ The answer is the band leader. The kloo horn. The one who starts the song.
The ANH Collection’s cantina sequence — #02 through #05, four consecutive figures covering the same bar on the same evening — is the Black Series’ most concentrated single-location scene building. Every cantina figure added completes the scene further.
One release. The only Black Series Figrin D’An. The cantina would be a bar without him. With him, it’s a music venue.
The cantina band plays on. Figrin D’An leads it. The kloo horn sounds the melody.
Figrin D’An at $22.99 is the ANH Collection’s most straightforward purchase for the cantina display — the band leader, the standard price, the kloo horn. Start here, then add Nalan Cheel when the budget allows.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ANH Collection. Related: Nalan Cheel P4-ANH-05 | Ponda Baba P4-ANH-02 | Dr. Evazan P4-ANH-03 | A New Hope.