Luke Skywalker (Endor) — Star Wars The Black Series #ROTJ 04
The Black Series Luke Skywalker in Endor configuration — Phase 4 ROTJ Collection #04, 2020. The combat fatigues of the Endor strike team with lightsaber. The ROTJ Jedi Knight before the black tunic.
Overview
Luke Skywalker at #ROTJ 04 is an interesting figure in the Luke Skywalker catalogue precisely because of which ROTJ Luke it covers. The Endor configuration — the same combat fatigues and poncho as Leia (#ROTJ 03) and Han (#ROTJ 05), the woodland mission gear of the strike team that infiltrates the forest moon — is not the most immediately associated ROTJ Luke visual. That would be the black tunic of the Jabba’s Palace/Throne Room configuration, the Jedi Knight look that the Red Line covered at #55. This is the Luke before that — the Endor operative, dressed practically, not yet in the formal Jedi black.
$19.99. 2020. Lightsaber. The Endor mission Luke at Phase 4 production quality.
The Endor Luke in Context
ROTJ Luke’s arc is one of the original trilogy’s most carefully constructed character progressions. ANH Luke is a hero discovering his purpose. ESB Luke is a student learning painful lessons. ROTJ Luke is a Jedi who has already made the fundamental choice — he surrenders himself to Vader deliberately, he walks into Palpatine’s throne room by choice, he refuses to kill his father even when every tactical argument says he should.
The Endor configuration covers the beginning of that arc’s final act: the moment when Luke separates from the strike team, turns himself in to the Imperial patrol, and begins his deliberate march toward his father and the Emperor. He carries the lightsaber not because he expects to fight his way through the mission but because he knows where he’s going after the mission is done. The Endor poncho and combat fatigues are his disguise among the strike team; the lightsaber is the truth underneath.
Luke Endor vs Luke Black Tunic
We get asked which ROTJ Luke configuration to prioritise, and our answer depends entirely on what display you’re building. If you want the confrontation scene — the Throne Room duel, the Vader revelation, the Emperor — you want the black tunic configuration (Red Line #55). If you want the Endor ground battle display — the strike team, the forest moon, the shield generator mission — you want this figure.
Our honest recommendation is that the two figures serve different displays rather than competing for the same one. The Endor Luke belongs with Leia Endor (#ROTJ 03) and Han Endor (#ROTJ 05) in a forest mission diorama. The black tunic Luke belongs with Darth Vader and the Emperor in the Throne Room confrontation. Buy both if you’re building either display seriously.
The Strike Team Poncho
Luke in the same Endor poncho as Leia is a specific visual choice by the film’s costume department that the figure accurately reflects. The uniformity of the strike team’s gear — Luke, Leia, Han, and the rebel commandos all in the same brown combat fatigues with the forest-green poncho — communicates that this is an organised military insertion rather than a collection of individual heroes doing their own thing. They dressed as a team. The figures, released together in 2020 at consistent production quality, reflect that same team aesthetic.
The poncho on Luke specifically creates a display challenge and opportunity: the hooded configuration reads as infiltration mode, while the hood down configuration reads as active combat. Both are valid ROTJ Endor moments; the Phase 4 sculpt communicates the outdoor forest setting either way.
Photo Real Mark Hamill at ROTJ Configuration
The Photo Real Mark Hamill portrait at ROTJ age — approximately 31 — is meaningfully different from the ANH #09 portrait of the same actor four years younger. The face is more settled, the eyes carry more weight, the specific quality of someone who has been through two films’ worth of loss and training and failure. The ROTJ Luke doesn’t look naïve in the way the ANH Luke does; the Phase 4 portrait captures that distinction.
For the Endor configuration specifically, the outdoor production context — the same real-forest-location shooting that makes the Leia portrait work — means the Photo Real standard has good source material to work from. Luke on Endor was shot outdoors. The portrait reflects that.
Building the Complete ROTJ Arc
The Phase 4 ROTJ Collection is building toward the most complete ROTJ original trilogy display the Black Series has enabled. Ackbar (#ROTJ 01) for the fleet command context. Teebo (#ROTJ 02) for the Ewok alliance. Leia (#ROTJ 03), Luke (#ROTJ 04), Han (#ROTJ 05) for the Endor ground mission. Each figure adds a specific element that the ROTJ display requires.
Luke at #ROTJ 04 is the one the display most depends on, because he’s the character whose arc ROTJ is most specifically about. The lightsaber he carries in this configuration is the one he uses to resist the Emperor, to fight Vader, and ultimately to put down. The Endor Luke is the beginning of all of that.
Display Recommendations
Primary display: the Endor strike team. Leia to the left, Han to the right, Luke at centre. Lightsaber in hand or holstered — we’d recommend holstered for the strike team context (he’s not there yet) and drawn for any solo display that references his deliberate surrender to Vader.
Secondary display option: Luke Endor as the counterpart to Darth Vader ESB (#P4-ESB-01). Father and son, in their respective Phase 4 ROTJ and ESB configurations, before the final confrontation that ROTJ is building toward.
Secondary Market and Availability
Above-retail secondary market prices. Luke Skywalker figures at any configuration hold secondary market value consistently. No production variants documented. Verify lightsaber on secondary market purchases.
Our Verdict
Luke Endor at #ROTJ 04 is the ROTJ Collection’s structural centrepiece. The collection opens with Ackbar commanding the fleet, places Teebo in the forest, and then builds the Endor strike team at #03-#05. Luke is the hinge of that team — the one who separates from them, who has a different destination than the shield generator, who carries the lightsaber into the forest because he knows where he’s going next. Buy him. Build the strike team first, then the Throne Room after.
We’ll add one final thought: the Endor Luke is the last time in the original trilogy that Luke looks like everyone else. The black tunic that follows is a deliberate signal of his Jedi identity. The poncho and fatigues are the last moment before he separates from the group entirely — and the figure captures that threshold.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ROTJ Collection. Related: Princess Leia Endor P4-ROTJ-03 | Han Solo Endor P4-ROTJ-05 | All Luke figures | Return of the Jedi.