Lando Calrissian (Solo) — Star Wars The Black Series #65
The Black Series Lando Calrissian from Solo: A Star Wars Story — Red Line #65, 2018. Donald Glover's young Lando in signature cape and flamboyant Solo-era style. Collector guide.
Overview
Red Line #65 is Lando Calrissian from Solo: A Star Wars Story — Donald Glover’s young Lando, the flamboyant gambler and Millennium Falcon co-owner who Han will eventually win the ship from in a sabacc game. The Solo film Lando is many viewers’ favourite element of an uneven film: Glover captures the specific quality of a character who knows exactly how charming he is and deploys it as a precision instrument, who has personal codes that look like selfishness from the outside and turn out to be something more complicated on closer examination.
The Donald Glover portrait is pre-Photo Real and approximates his features at this production standard. The cape — the specific Solo-era Lando cape from the film’s Kessel run sequence — is the figure’s most visually distinctive element, the signature flourish of the most stylish character in a film full of working criminals. Six total Lando releases; this is the only Donald Glover configuration. MSRP $19.99.
Donald Glover’s Lando
The specific quality that makes the Solo Lando memorable is Glover’s performance creating a character who is entirely consistent across the film’s moral spectrum: the same charm that makes him a reliable host is the same quality that makes him an unreliable ally is the same quality that makes him genuinely affecting in the L3-37 scenes. He is not performing differently in different situations; he is the same person responding to different circumstances, and the consistency is what makes him real.
His relationship with L3-37 — the custom droid he travels with, who advocates for droid liberation and whom he clearly loves — adds a dimension to the Solo Lando that the ESB Billy Dee Williams version doesn’t have. The grief when she dies, the decision to integrate her consciousness into the Falcon’s navigational systems: these are the specific Solo film details that give the character interiority the ESB version arrives at through different means.
The cape in this configuration is the floor-length dramatic version visible throughout the film’s main run rather than the Millennium Falcon pilot version — the cape of the Lando who hasn’t yet had the Falcon taken from him.
Accessories
Blaster pistol. 19-point articulation via the standard Red Line scheme. The portrait approximates Glover’s specific features at display distance.
Lando’s Six-Release Catalogue
Lando Calrissian ESB (#39) — 2017 Billy Dee Williams. Lando Solo (#65, this figure) — 2018 Donald Glover. Lando Calrissian (Skiff Guard Disguise) (2018) — ROTJ infiltration. Lando Calrissian (2020) — Updated release. General Lando Calrissian (2021) — TROS General. The ESB and Solo versions are the two configurations that capture Lando at his two most distinct developmental stages: the young gambler-pilot who owns the Falcon and the older Baron Administrator who lost it and built something else.
The Solo Film Crew Display
The complete Solo film principal cast in Black Series at consistent 2018 production quality: Han Solo Solo (#62), Lando (#65), Qi’Ra (#66), and Tobias Beckett (#68) are all consecutive numbered figures — #62, #65, #66, and #68 — from the Solo wave. The Lando figure at #65 is the ensemble’s visual highlight, the cape and the profile completing the crew display.
Secondary Market
Available at modest secondary market prices. The Donald Glover portrait is the only Solo film Lando in the line. No production variants documented.
Verdict
Buy for the Solo film crew display, the Donald Glover Lando configuration, or Red Line sequence completion. The cape silhouette makes this one of the most visually arresting figures in the 2018 wave.
The Solo Film Lando vs ESB Lando
The two Red Line Lando figures — ESB #39 (Billy Dee Williams) and Solo #65 (Donald Glover) — are the only two display options for two distinct periods of the same character’s life, portrayed by two different actors with two distinct approaches. Williams’ ESB Lando is the administrator who has built something and is about to lose it; Glover’s Solo Lando is the gambler-pilot who has built his identity around the Falcon and his own reputation, before any of the ESB complications arrive.
The cape is the visual through-line. Both Landos wear capes; the ESB cape is the administrator’s practical garment and the Solo cape is the showman’s statement. Displaying both figures communicates the character’s continuity better than either alone — the flamboyance persists across three decades, even as what’s underneath it changes.
L3-37 and the Millennium Falcon
The Solo film’s most significant addition to the Lando mythology is L3-37 — the custom self-modifying droid who is Lando’s co-pilot, his equal in the partnership, and whose navigation systems are integrated into the Millennium Falcon after her death. This means the Falcon has been partly conscious since the Solo film timeline. Every subsequent film in the franchise where the Falcon makes decisions — and it does, repeatedly — is coloured by this detail. Lando’s grief and his decision to honour L3 by keeping her systems in the ship is visible in this figure’s specific configuration and context.
No production variants documented. The Donald Glover portrait and the cape silhouette are the figure’s two primary display elements — the portrait approximates at shelf distance, the cape reads immediately at any distance. For the Solo film display, #65 is the figure that most strongly communicates the specific aesthetic of the film’s most stylish character.
Displayed alongside Han Solo Solo (#62) — the two friends whose sabacc game over the Falcon hasn’t happened yet in either figure’s configuration — the Solo Lando creates the specific pre-history of the Millennium Falcon’s most important ownership dispute. Both figures are at the same 2018 production quality; both are the only Black Series coverage of their respective Solo film configurations.
No production variants documented. Available at modest secondary market prices. The only Black Series release for this character.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: All Lando Calrissian figures | Qi’Ra P3-66 | Han Solo Solo P3-62 | Solo: A Star Wars Story.