Imperial Patrol Trooper — Star Wars The Black Series #72

Overview

Red Line #72 is the Imperial Patrol Trooper — the lightly-armoured urban and frontier security troopers deployed across Corellia and other core-world Imperial territories in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Where Range Troopers (#64) are the heavy-weather frontier garrison, Patrol Troopers are the mobile urban presence: lighter armour, speederbike-optimised configuration, the specific white-and-black design that echoes standard Stormtrooper aesthetics while adapting them for faster, more flexible deployment.

21 joints including butterfly-jointed shoulders — the same additional shoulder mobility that the Rebel Fleet Trooper carries, here applied to the speederbike-riding configuration that the Patrol Trooper’s operational role requires. Blaster pistol. One release only. MSRP $19.99.

The Patrol Trooper Design and the Corellia Opening

The Patrol Trooper’s primary screen context is Corellia — the densely urban industrial planet where Han and Qi’Ra grew up, where the White Worms gang runs the streets, and where the film’s opening chase sequence takes place on speederbikes through the city’s underlevels. The Patrol Troopers are the Empire’s street-level presence on Corellia: not the heavy armoured force that polices open conflict, but the fast-response officers who monitor the city’s movement.

Their white-over-black armour is a streamlined interpretation of the standard Stormtrooper aesthetic — the same Imperial visual language adapted for urban mobility. The helmet’s specific design integrates a visor more suited to high-speed speederbike operation than the standard Stormtrooper T-visor, and the overall armour profile is lighter, suggesting a role where speed matters more than protection.

Accessories and Articulation

Blaster pistol — the sidearm appropriate to urban patrol rather than heavy combat deployment. The butterfly shoulder joints (supplementing the standard ball-and-socket) enable the forward-reach arm positions required for speederbike riding postures and the dynamic patrol-action stances that the lighter armour and mobile operational role suggest. 21-point total.

The Only Black Series Patrol Trooper

One release. For any Solo film or Corellia urban Imperial display, this is the sole option. Army building the Patrol Trooper creates the street-level Imperial presence that the film’s Corellia opening requires — a formation of Patrol Troopers evokes the speederbike chase through Corellia’s underlevels more immediately than any other Solo-era Imperial trooper.

Solo Film Imperial Trooper Variety

The Solo film produced two distinct Imperial trooper designs for the Black Series: the Range Trooper (#64) for the Vandor-1 train heist and the Patrol Trooper (#72) for the Corellia urban environment. The two figures together represent the Solo Empire’s visual range — heavy frontier garrison versus light urban patrol — and provide genuine design variety for a Solo-era Imperial display. Where the Range Trooper’s fur coat and magnetic boots read as heavy and specialised, the Patrol Trooper’s streamlined armour reads as fast and mobile.

Secondary Market

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

Verdict

Buy for Solo film Corellia urban display, the butterfly-shoulder articulation advantage, or Red Line sequence completion.

Butterfly Shoulders in Army Builder Context

The butterfly shoulder joint in the Patrol Trooper is the same engineering improvement documented on the Rebel Fleet Trooper (#69) — an additional arc of arm motion that enables forward-reaching poses the standard shoulder can’t achieve. For the Patrol Trooper specifically, this is useful for the speederbike riding configuration: the forward-lean, hands-extended-toward-handlebars stance that is the natural display posture for a character whose operational role is defined by vehicle operation.

Without a Black Series speederbike to mount the figure on, the butterfly joint enables implied speederbike stances on a flat shelf — the figure’s posture communicating the activity without requiring the vehicle. This is a broader Black Series display principle: an articulation scheme that enables a contextually appropriate pose tells the story without props.

Solo Film Imperial Completeness

With the Range Trooper (#64) and the Imperial Patrol Trooper (#72) both in the line, the Solo film’s Imperial presence is covered across both its primary trooper deployments. The Range Trooper for the Vandor-1 train and mountain environment; the Patrol Trooper for the Corellia urban environment. Side by side, the two figures communicate the Solo film Empire’s operational range — not just a generalised military presence but a specialised force deployed to specific environments with appropriate equipment.

The Patrol Trooper at #72 is the Red Line’s last Solo film trooper in the numbered sequence — the Range Trooper (#64) covered the Vandor-1 environment and the Patrol Trooper covers Corellia. Together they close out the Solo film’s Imperial visual vocabulary in the main numbered line. No production variants documented. One release only.

For collectors building the Corellia sequence specifically — the film’s opening chase — multiple Patrol Troopers create the Imperial street-level presence that pursues Han and Qi’Ra through the city’s underlevels. The butterfly joints enable the crouched, forward-leaning speederbike stances even without the vehicle. The white-over-black armour reads as Imperial immediately while being visually distinct from standard ANH Stormtroopers.

The Patrol Trooper’s single-release status makes it a gap-filler in the strictest sense — produced to cover a visual from the Solo film, released in the 2018 wave, and not updated since. The butterfly joint and the 21-point count make it one of the Red Line’s better-engineered trooper army builders despite its lower profile relative to the ANH Stormtrooper or the ESB Snowtrooper.

No production variants documented. One release only. The butterfly shoulder joints are the specific engineering detail that elevates this above a standard blaster-pistol army builder — they enable the dynamic operational poses the character’s role requires. Multiple copies are the standard recommendation for the Corellia patrol display.

The Patrol Trooper is also the Red Line’s quietest Solo film figure — it carries no named character, no significant plot function, no memorable scene beyond the Corellia chase background. Its value is purely environmental and aesthetic: the right visual for the right display. That is, in the collector’s logic, sufficient justification.

Available at or near retail on secondary markets — the Solo wave’s modest premium applies here as elsewhere.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Range Trooper P3-64 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Army Builders | Galactic Empire faction.