Luke Skywalker — Star Wars The Black Series #ANH 09
The Black Series Luke Skywalker in ANH configuration — Phase 4 ANH Collection #09, 2025. Tatooine farm boy with lightsaber and blaster pistol. 18 joints with butterfly shoulders. Photo Real portrait.
Overview
Phase 4 ANH Collection #09 is Luke Skywalker in his A New Hope configuration — the Tatooine farm boy in the white tunic and trousers of his journey from moisture farmer to galactic hero, with the blue lightsaber he inherited from his father and the blaster he carries as a practical concession to the environments he passes through. The ANH Collection’s most important hero arrives at #09 — after the cantina aliens, after the musicians, after Darth Vader.
Lightsaber and blaster pistol. 18 joints with butterfly shoulders. Photo Real Mark Hamill portrait. $24.99. 2025.
The ANH Luke Configuration
The ANH white-tunic Luke is the franchise’s founding visual — the young man from the desert who becomes the hero of the original trilogy. The specific clothing communicates his origin: the practical white clothes of Tatooine’s moisture farming community, functional and unassuming, worn by someone who hasn’t yet chosen his path. He carries the lightsaber because Obi-Wan gave it to him; he carries the blaster because the galaxy requires it.
The butterfly shoulders at Phase 4 standard enable the specific two-handed lightsaber grip and the one-handed draw poses that ANH’s Obi-Wan training sequence and Death Star corridor fight reference.
The Dual Accessory Loadout
Lightsaber and blaster pistol — the dual-weapon ANH Luke configuration. Both accessories communicate different aspects of the character: the blaster is the practical weapon of a man who grew up where the law doesn’t reach; the lightsaber is the inheritance of a tradition he’s only beginning to understand.
The ANH Principal Cast at #08-#11
Leia (#08), Luke (#09), Han (#10), Chewbacca (#11) — the ANH Collection’s four consecutive slots for the principal cast, all 2025 releases at consistent production quality. The Millennium Falcon crew and the Rebellion’s figurehead, together in four consecutive numbers.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Verify both accessories. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The Phase 4 ANH Luke. Buy for the ANH principal cast display or collection completion.
Luke as the ANH Protagonist
ANH’s structural logic is built around Luke Skywalker’s perspective — the film begins with the audience not knowing anything about this galaxy, and Luke’s ignorance is the narrative mechanism through which the franchise delivers its world-building. He doesn’t know his father was a Jedi. He doesn’t know Obi-Wan. He has never seen a lightsaber activated. Everything the audience needs to learn, Luke learns alongside them.
The ANH configuration is the most open Luke — the widest eyes, the most genuine wonder, before the specific losses of ESB and ROTJ have narrowed his emotional range. The Photo Real Mark Hamill portrait captures that specific quality of a young man encountering a galaxy that is simultaneously stranger and larger than his Tatooine perspective prepared him for.
The Dual Weapon Logic
Luke carries both the lightsaber and the blaster not because he is equally skilled with both, but because the galaxy requires the blaster even when the Jedi’s preference is the lightsaber. The ANH Luke is not yet fully committed to either path — the farm boy who picks up both weapons and learns which one fits better as the film unfolds. The two accessories communicate that specific in-between-ness.
Phase 4 ANH Luke vs Earlier Configurations
The Red Line covered Luke in the ANH white-tunic configuration at #21. The Phase 4 ANH Collection #09 provides the butterfly shoulder articulation and 2025 Photo Real portrait that the 2016 release predated. For collectors who want the current production peak for ANH Luke, this 2025 version is the correct purchase.
Luke at #ANH 09 is also the starting point of the franchise’s longest single-character arc in the Black Series — from this ANH farm boy configuration through the ESB Jedi trainee, the ROTJ dark-tunic Jedi, and the sequel trilogy Force Spirit. The ANH Luke is the beginning of everything.
No production variants documented. Standard retail. Verify both accessories — lightsaber and blaster pistol. The current production peak for ANH Luke.
Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca at #ANH 08-11 — all 2025, all standard retail — is the cleanest single-year principal cast acquisition in the Black Series’ history. The ANH heroes at consistent production quality, all available simultaneously.
The ANH Luke at #09 is the beginning of a Phase 4 Luke arc that Phase 4 continues with the ESB, ROTJ, and Sequel Trilogy configurations available elsewhere in the line. The ANH white-tunic version is the starting point — the farm boy before the galaxy changed him.
The ANH Luke at Phase 4 quality also closes a specific gap: for collectors building a Phase 4 ANH principal cast display, the 2025 Luke (#09) alongside the 2025 Leia (#08), 2025 Han (#10), and 2025 Chewbacca (#11) creates the most consistent single-year same-wave principal cast the Black Series has ever offered for A New Hope. Four figures, same production year, same collection.
Luke Skywalker’s ANH configuration is the franchise’s foundational hero — the character who made Star Wars what it became, in the specific outfit he wears when the adventure begins. The Phase 4 version is the best available representation of that specific moment.
The ANH Collection’s Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca: four consecutive numbers, four 2025 releases, the complete Millennium Falcon crew at Phase 4 quality.
The ANH Collection’s Luke Skywalker at #09 arrives after the cantina, after Darth Vader, after Momaw Nadon, after Leia — seventh among the ANH Collection’s principals to be announced. The franchise’s most important character arrives after its background aliens and its villain. The collection’s sequencing is either accidental or perfect.
At $24.99 standard retail with 18 joints, butterfly shoulders, and dual accessories, Luke #ANH 09 is straightforwardly the right purchase for the ANH hero display.
Luke Skywalker at #ANH 09 is the hero the franchise built everything on. The 2025 Phase 4 version is the current best.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ANH Collection. Related: Princess Leia P4-ANH-08 | Han Solo P4-ANH-10 | All Luke figures | A New Hope.