Han Solo (Stormtrooper Disguise) — Star Wars The Black Series #09

Overview

Blue Wave #09 is Han Solo in the Death Star Stormtrooper armour from A New Hope — a figure that only achieves its full display potential alongside the Luke Skywalker Stormtrooper Disguise released the following year. Together they form the Death Star infiltration pair: two Rebels in appropriated Imperial armour, helmets optionally on or off depending on which moment of the sequence you want to capture. Separately, this is a competent Blue Wave trooper body with a pre-Photo Real Harrison Ford face beneath a removable helmet.

The upper body reuses the engineering of the Sandtrooper — a practical decision that delivers solid articulation while leaving a visible backpack attachment socket in the figure’s back. For front-facing displays the socket is invisible. For photographs showing the rear of the figure it’s present. MSRP $19.99.

The Scene Context

The Stormtrooper disguise sequence in A New Hope is one of the film’s most characterful moments — played for both tension and comedy, establishing the Han and Luke dynamic before the escape sequence resolves it. The plan is simple and the execution is Han Solo at his most characteristic: confidently improvising in an increasingly implausible situation, loudly improvising when the situation deteriorates, and somehow coming out the other side.

The specific film window this figure captures is the brief period where the disguise is intact: Han in full Stormtrooper armour, blaster holstered, helmet on, doing his best impression of a trooper escorting a prisoner. The moment before the detention block officer asks too many questions. The removable helmet is the engineering decision that makes this figure meaningful — without it, this is just a Stormtrooper repaint. With the helmet off and the Harrison Ford face visible, it’s a specific story moment in plastic.

The pre-Photo Real portrait approximates Harrison Ford’s features without capturing them precisely. This is the unavoidable limitation of the 2014 production era for human character figures. At display distance and in context — the armour, the specific scene framing — it reads adequately. Directly compared to a 2025 Galaxy Collection Han Solo, the portrait gap is visible.

Accessories

Three accessories: a removable Stormtrooper helmet, a neck seal, and a DL-44 blaster pistol.

The Stormtrooper helmet fits tightly and covers the head completely when positioned. The neck seal covers the gap between helmet and armour collar — use it with the helmet for the fully-armoured look; it can remain in place for helmet-off display as an accurate in-scene detail of a trooper mid-de-armouring. The DL-44 blaster pistol holsters in the moulded hip holster with an acceptably secure fit and holds better in the right hand for active display poses.

Sculpt and Articulation

The Sandtrooper upper body engineering delivers 23 points of articulation: ball-jointed neck, swivel neck, ball-jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, dual elbow swivels, ball-jointed wrists, ball-jointed waist, ball-jointed hips, swivel thighs, above and below knee swivels, ball-jointed ankles. The armoured torso creates an excellent patrol and guard posture range.

The backpack socket in the rear of the figure — a consequence of the Sandtrooper body reuse — is the only sculpt note requiring display management. Front-facing display eliminates it as a consideration.

The Infiltration Pair Display

This figure is specifically designed for the paired display with Luke Skywalker Stormtrooper Disguise (P2-12) from the 2015 Blue Wave. Together: helmets on for the patrol-and-checkpoint moment before interrogation; helmets off for the identity reveal; partial reveal — helmet removed, neck seal still in place — for the transitional moment between. The accessories support all three configurations.

Add a Death Star Trooper as an unknowing bystander to extend the scene composition. See the Death Star Corridors scene guide.

There is no Galaxy Collection equivalent for this figure. The Blue Wave Han Solo Stormtrooper Disguise is the only Black Series Han Solo in Stormtrooper armour.

The Stormtrooper Body Reuse

The Sandtrooper upper body engineering that powers this figure gives it one of the highest articulation counts in the Blue Wave at 23 points — meaningfully better than many of the wave’s human character figures. The trade-off is the visible backpack socket in the figure’s back, which Hasbro addressed in later Stormtrooper figures with plugs or redesigned backs but left open here. Front-facing display positions eliminate the socket as a visible element. Side and three-quarter angles also obscure it behind the arm geometry.

For collectors who photograph their displays rather than just standing them on a shelf, this is worth knowing before purchase. For standard shelf display facing forward, it is a non-issue.

The Han Solo Stormtrooper Disguise and the Luke Skywalker Stormtrooper Disguise both use the same Sandtrooper base body — the visual consistency between the two figures when displayed together is a direct benefit of the shared engineering.

Verdict

There is no alternative. If you want the Death Star infiltration display, this is the figure. Buy it alongside Luke Skywalker Stormtrooper Disguise.

Secondary Market

The Blue Wave Han Solo Stormtrooper Disguise trades at modest-to-moderate secondary market prices — the unique scene pairing with the Luke Stormtrooper Disguise creates sustained demand that single-character figures without a pairing partner don’t experience. Collectors who want one typically want both, which keeps both figures relevant on secondary markets simultaneously. No significant variants documented. No Galaxy Collection equivalent exists.

Product codes: ASIN B00MYL77OA

For collectors specifically building the Death Star infiltration paired display: the Han Solo Stormtrooper Disguise and the Luke Skywalker Stormtrooper Disguise both use the Sandtrooper upper body as their base — which means they display at perfectly matched scale and proportion alongside each other. The shared engineering that created the backpack socket issue also created the visual consistency that makes the paired display work. Two figures, same base body, same scale relationship, same production era quality. The infiltration pair is one of the most compositionally satisfying scene displays in the early Black Series precisely because the matched engineering makes them read as a set.

Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Blue Wave. Related: All Han Solo figures | Luke Stormtrooper Disguise | A New Hope | Death Star Corridors scene.