Momaw Nadon — Star Wars The Black Series #ANH 07

Overview

Phase 4 ANH Collection #07 is Momaw Nadon — the Ithorian known informally as “Hammerhead,” one of A New Hope’s most recognisable background cantina aliens, whose T-shaped head silhouette has made him an immediately identifiable presence in the cantina sequence for nearly five decades. The Deluxe release includes cantina accessories — the props and furniture-scaled elements that communicate the specific Mos Eisley Cantina environment rather than a figure in isolation.

Fan Channel exclusive. Cantina accessories. 17 joints. $33.99 deluxe. 2024. The only Black Series Momaw Nadon.

The Character

Momaw Nadon’s specific expanded canon: the Ithorian who was exiled from his homeworld Ithor for revealing Ithorian agricultural technology to the Empire under duress — the specific moral compromise of sharing sacred knowledge under coercion that made him a figure of guilt and redemption in the expanded materials. In ANH he is simply a cantina alien in the background; the expanded universe gave him a history.

The “Hammerhead” nickname predates his canonical name — the original 1977 Kenner figure was simply called “Hammerhead,” and the character has carried both names through the franchise’s collector history. The figure captures the specific Ithorian design: the T-shaped head with two mouths facing opposite directions, the large eyes at the tips of the horizontal head extensions, the broad-shouldered humanoid body.

Cantina Accessories and the Deluxe Format

The cantina accessories — the specific props included at the $33.99 deluxe price point — are the figure’s environmental components, creating the cantina setting around the figure rather than displaying Momaw Nadon in isolation. Display context accessories are unusual in the Black Series at this scale; the Deluxe format enables them.

The Fan Channel exclusive distribution reflects the specialist nature of a deluxe cantina background character — the audience is specifically the ANH collector building the complete cantina scene rather than the general consumer.

Completing the Cantina Display

Momaw Nadon at #ANH 07 is the fifth cantina figure in the ANH Collection: Ponda Baba (#02), Dr. Evazan (#03), Figrin D’An (#04), Nalan Cheel (#05), and now the Hammerhead (#07). The cantina’s social world — troublemakers, musicians, and background aliens — is the ANH Collection’s most comprehensively covered single location.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices — Fan Channel exclusive, deluxe accessory set, only Black Series Momaw Nadon. Verify all cantina accessories on secondary market purchases. No production variants documented.

Verdict

The only Black Series Momaw Nadon. Buy for the complete Mos Eisley Cantina display or ANH Collection completion.

The Hammerhead in Collector History

Momaw Nadon has collector significance that predates the Black Series — the original 1977 Kenner figure “Hammerhead” was part of the first wave of Star Wars action figures, making the character one of the franchise’s earliest cantina aliens to receive plastic representation. The Phase 4 Deluxe Black Series version is the character’s first 6-inch scale treatment, bringing a figure with a forty-year collector history to the current era’s production standards.

The Ithorian Head Design

The Ithorian species’ T-shaped head — a horizontal bar extending from the neck, with eyes at each end and two mouths positioned facing opposite directions — is one of ANH’s most alien designs. Unlike the Aqualish or Bith designs, which are modifications of humanoid face layouts, the Ithorian is genuinely differently organised: the eyes don’t face the same direction as the mouth, the head doesn’t sit in line with the body axis.

At 6-inch scale, the Ithorian head proportions require specific engineering — the horizontal extension changes the figure’s balance and display stability in ways that humanoid figures don’t present. The deluxe format’s cantina accessories serve a practical function as well as a display one: they provide display support for the figure’s unusual head geometry.

The ANH Collection’s Cantina Completion

With Momaw Nadon at #07, the ANH Collection has five cantina figures: the two criminals (#02-#03), two Modal Nodes musicians (#04-#05), and the Hammerhead (#07). The cantina display is the ANH Collection’s most completely realised single-location scene, with five figures populating a space that ANH showed for under five minutes of screen time.

Momaw Nadon at #ANH 07 is also the ANH Collection’s second deluxe figure at the $33.99 price point, alongside the Nalan Cheel Deluxe at $38.99. Both are cantina figures. Both are specialist purchases. The cantina is the ANH Collection’s most expensive display — two deluxe figures, one exclusive, all concentrated in the same scene.

No production variants documented. Fan Channel exclusive. Verify all cantina accessories on secondary market purchases. The only Black Series Momaw Nadon.

The cantina display at its most complete — Ponda Baba, Dr. Evazan, Figrin D’An, Nalan Cheel, Momaw Nadon — is the ANH Collection’s crowning achievement and its most expensive display commitment. Five figures, three price tiers, one cantina scene.

The Ithorian species design — peaceful, plant-focused, naturalists forced into confrontation with the Empire — makes Momaw Nadon’s expanded backstory one of the more sympathetic cantina characters. The figure represents the alien background presence whose history the expanded universe took seriously and whose design the original film made immediately iconic.

The Deluxe format with cantina accessories is also the ANH Collection’s most effective display investment beyond the figure itself. Where standard figures stand in a void, Momaw Nadon stands in a context — the cantina props around him communicate the specific environment that makes the figure’s display coherent. The $33.99 buys the figure and the scene fragment.

Momaw Nadon is the kind of figure that rewards collectors who know both the films and the expanded universe. For ANH-only viewers: the Hammerhead, the distinctive cantina alien, the figure that makes the cantina display feel populated. For expanded-universe readers: the Ithorian exile whose specific compromise with the Empire gives him a backstory the cantina scene doesn’t tell.

The complete Phase 4 ANH cantina display: five figures, three price points, one Mos Eisley Cantina scene from one film.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ANH Collection. Related: Figrin D’An P4-ANH-04 | Ponda Baba P4-ANH-02 | A New Hope.