Han Solo (Solo) — Star Wars The Black Series #62

Overview

Red Line #62 is Han Solo from Solo: A Star Wars Story — the Mimban configuration from the film’s opening act, where Han is serving as an Imperial infantry soldier on the mud planet Mimban before deserting to join Tobias Beckett’s crew. This is young Han at his most desperate and resourceful: the Corellia scrumrat who joined the Empire to get off his homeworld, who is still figuring out who he is, still a long way from becoming the cynical-but-decent smuggler of A New Hope.

The Alden Ehrenreich portrait is pre-Photo Real and presents the specific challenge of capturing a young Harrison Ford-adjacent character — someone playing a character known primarily through Ford’s performance — in a face that is clearly different from Ford’s. At display distance the portrait reads as the young Han configuration. Blaster pistol and removable jacket (sleeves sculpted onto the body). 18 total Han Solo Black Series releases. MSRP $19.99.

The Solo Film and Young Han’s Context

Solo: A Star Wars Story takes place approximately ten years before A New Hope — Han is in his late teens to early twenties, still forming the identity that the original trilogy will eventually present as fixed. The specific Mimban sequence that this figure covers is Han’s lowest point in the film: he’s been press-ganged into the Imperial infantry, fighting in the brutal Mimban mud-war that goes nowhere and kills everyone, using the chaos to try to connect with a criminal gang that might get him out.

The Mimban environment — grey mud, rain, Imperial military monotony — produced one of the film’s most distinctive visual choices: a dark, wet, desaturated palette as far from the space-adventure aesthetic of A New Hope as the franchise has ever been. Han’s Mimban uniform is correspondingly utilitarian, the opposite of the charismatic smuggler’s white shirt and black vest.

Accessories

Blaster pistol and removable jacket — the same engineering as Finn’s TFA jacket (#01) and DJ’s coat (#57), where the garment is removable but the sleeves are part of the figure body. The Mimban configuration’s jacket is the specific military-adjacent coat of the Imperial infantry deployment rather than Han’s signature later outerwear.

19-point articulation via the standard Red Line dual neck scheme.

The Young Han Portrait Question

Casting a young Harrison Ford analogue creates specific portrait challenges. Alden Ehrenreich’s face is not Harrison Ford’s — he was not cast as a lookalike but as an actor who could inhabit the character — and the pre-Photo Real portrait captures an approximation of Ehrenreich’s specific features at display distance. For collectors who loved the Solo film, this is the correct Black Series Solo Han. For those who primarily know Han through Ford’s performances, the portrait may read as unfamiliar.

Han Solo’s Eighteen-Release Catalogue

Eighteen total Black Series Han Solo releases span every era of the character’s life: young Han here, through ANH smuggler, through ESB and ROTJ hero, through TFA elder, and into the Solo film timeline with multiple configurations. This Solo film version is among the most contextually specific — tied to a particular scene in a particular film rather than the generalist configurations that cover multiple appearances.

Secondary Market

Available at modest secondary market prices. No production variants documented.

Verdict

Buy for the Solo film Mimban configuration, a dedicated Solo: A Star Wars Story display, or Red Line sequence completion.

The Solo Film’s Reception and its Black Series Legacy

Solo: A Star Wars Story was the franchise’s first major box office underperformance, which affected both the film’s reception and the collector community’s engagement with the associated figures. Some collectors built complete Solo displays; others found the figures easy to acquire at below-retail prices as initial retail sell-through was slow. The Red Line Solo figures — Han (#62), Range Trooper (#64), and the Lando Calrissian Skiff Guard Disguise release — represent an era where the Black Series was producing quality figures for a film that the market hadn’t fully embraced.

In retrospect, the Solo film’s reputation has improved among fans who revisit it — the heist structure, the Han and Chewbacca chemistry, the specific characterisation of a young man who hasn’t yet decided what kind of person he’s going to be — and the figures have modest secondary market value rather than the premium that films with stronger initial impact command.

Young Han and the Pre-ANH Timeline

The Mimban configuration specifically places this figure before Han knows what the galaxy’s major conflicts are about. He enlisted in the Empire to get off Corellia, not from Imperial ideology; he’s not yet the cynical “I’m in it for the money” smuggler, not yet the person who shoots first. The Mimban mud is the specific nadir before the upswing of meeting Chewbacca, joining Beckett’s crew, and eventually becoming the character that ANH introduces. This figure is Han at the bottom of his arc before the story begins its ascent.

The Solo Han’s jacket — removable like several previous Red Line figures — is the Mimban Imperial infantry coat rather than the signature leather that later Harrisons will wear in Han’s more recognisable configurations. For collectors who want only one Han Solo figure for their display shelf, the ANH or ESB configurations carry more immediate visual recognition. For collectors building a complete Han Solo arc across the trilogy and anthology films, the Solo Mimban configuration is the essential pre-ANH entry point.

No production variants documented. Secondary market prices are modest, reflecting the slower initial sell-through of the Solo wave. The Alden Ehrenreich portrait is a pre-Photo Real approximation — for collectors who want the most accurate young Han representation, this is the only option the Black Series offers for the Solo film configuration.

The Solo film’s specific contribution to the Han Solo mythology is showing him before he’s had the experiences that make him who he is in ANH. The specific moment this figure covers — Mimban, the Empire, the decision to desert — is the turning point where the scrumrat becomes the smuggler. This figure is Han at the hinge.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: All Han Solo figures | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Han Solo TFA P3-18.