Luke Skywalker (Yavin Ceremony) — Star Wars The Black Series #100
The Black Series Luke Skywalker in Yavin Ceremony configuration — Red Line #100, 2019. The ANH victory celebration figure with Medal of Yavin and blaster pistol. The 100th numbered figure. Collector guide.
Overview
Red Line #100 is Luke Skywalker in the Yavin Ceremony configuration — the white tunic and trousers of A New Hope’s closing victory celebration, when Luke, Han, and Chewbacca receive the Medal of Yavin for their roles in the destruction of the Death Star. The hundredth numbered figure in the Red Line sequence is Luke Skywalker — the franchise’s most central character at its centenary slot, which is either a production coincidence or Hasbro’s most elegant piece of sequence curation. Either way, it lands correctly.
The Medal of Yavin as an accessory — the golden sunburst medallion that Leia places around Luke’s neck — is the figure’s most narratively specific element and the accessory most associated with this configuration. Blaster pistol. 19 joints. 27 total Luke releases. MSRP $19.99.
The Yavin Ceremony and What It Means
The Yavin ceremony is A New Hope’s emotional resolution — the moment the film allows itself to feel triumphant. The Death Star is gone. The Rebellion survived. The rag-tag group of pilots and smugglers who held together through the battle are now in a great hall, being recognised by the Alliance’s leadership, with the full orchestral sweep of the score underneath. Luke stands next to Han. Chewbacca doesn’t get a medal (a long-running franchise joke that TROS addressed in passing).
The white ceremony tunic is the costume of that resolution — not the X-Wing pilot’s orange flightsuit, not the Tatooine farm clothes, but the specific formal-but-simple outfit of someone who just saved the galaxy and hasn’t changed who they are in the process. Luke in the white ceremony clothes is Luke at his most purely hopeful, before any of what follows.
The Medal of Yavin
The Medal accessory is the figure’s most specific prop — the golden sunburst medallion that appears only in ANH’s final scene and became one of the franchise’s most immediately recognisable symbols despite appearing for less than two minutes of screen time. The medal communicates the ceremony configuration completely without any other context required.
The medal was addressed in TROS through a brief scene where Maz Kanata gives Chewbacca the medal Leia had kept, acknowledging both the long-standing joke about the missing Wookiee medal and carrying the weight of Carrie Fisher’s death in the gesture.
#100 as a Milestone
The sequence’s centenary slot going to Luke Skywalker is appropriate for a franchise built on his arc. The Red Line began with TFA’s new characters at #01 — Finn, Rey, Kylo Ren — then expanded backward and outward to cover the franchise’s full history. At #100, the sequence returns to ANH’s triumphant closing image: Luke Skywalker in white, medal around his neck, the Rebellion’s victory fresh. It is the correct figure for the round number.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices — milestone slot, the Medal of Yavin accessory, and the specific Yavin ceremony configuration’s collector demand all sustain pricing. Verify the medal is present on secondary market purchases. No production variants documented.
Verdict
Buy for the ANH victory ceremony display, the Medal of Yavin accessory, or Red Line sequence completion. The hundredth numbered figure.
The Ceremony Costume vs ANH Field Gear
The Yavin ceremony configuration is one of the most narrowly specific in the entire 27-release Luke Skywalker catalogue — the costume appears in a single scene at the film’s end and nowhere else in the trilogy. Where the ANH white tunic at #21 covers Luke’s general ANH field appearance across the film’s second and third acts, the Yavin ceremony configuration covers precisely the film’s last three minutes. The specificity is the point: this is Luke at the moment of his first acknowledged triumph, before everything that complicates the original trilogy’s arc gets started.
The medal’s specific design — the Yavin sunburst medallion — appears in that scene and was not referenced again in the films until TROS. Between those appearances, it became one of the franchise’s most recognisable props despite its minimal screen time.
Luke at #100
The sequence placed Luke Skywalker at its centenary slot during the same production year that covered the end of the sequel trilogy (#90-#99). The wave 23 production that includes Luke Yavin at #100 also includes Cara Dune (#101) and Wedge Antilles (#102) — an ANH veteran, a Mandalorian-era Rebel, and the original trilogy’s most celebrated surviving pilot in three consecutive numbers. The wave functions as an ANH victory lap coinciding with the sequence’s milestone.
The Yavin Ceremony’s Broader Canon Significance
The Yavin ceremony has been the subject of expanded canon treatment across multiple media — the specific moment of Han Solo receiving his medal has been depicted in comics as having particular significance to Han’s sense of belonging, and the question of why Chewbacca didn’t receive a medal generated enough community discussion to be referenced in TROS. Luke’s medal configuration is the figure’s specific access point to all of that layered significance.
Luke Skywalker at #100 is the correct figure for the milestone. The sequence could have placed any figure here based purely on production timing, but the wave 23 schedule put Luke Yavin at the centenary slot, and the result is exactly right. The franchise’s most central character, at its most triumphant moment, at the sequence’s round number. Secondary market prices reflect the milestone slot and the medal accessory. No production variants documented.
The Yavin display at its most complete: Luke Yavin (#100) alongside Princess Leia ANH (#30) and Han Solo in ANH configuration — the three principals who receive recognition at the ceremony, at consistent Red Line production quality. Leia places the medals. Han arrives last and accepts his. Luke stands there and has just saved everyone. The three figures together are the original trilogy’s victory image in plastic form.
Verify the medal is present on secondary market purchases — a Luke Yavin without the medal is missing the configuration’s defining accessory and the figure’s entire display justification.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: All Luke Skywalker figures | Princess Leia ANH P3-30 | A New Hope.