Princess Leia Organa — Star Wars The Black Series #ANH 08
The Black Series Princess Leia Organa in ANH action configuration — Phase 4 ANH Collection #08, 2025. The white dress with double-bun and blaster pistol. 20 joints. Photo Real Carrie Fisher portrait.
Overview
Phase 4 ANH Collection #08 is Princess Leia Organa in her ANH action configuration — the white dress with the iconic double-bun hairstyle, the blaster pistol, the Rebel Senator who is also the most capable person on board the Tantive IV. This is the Leia of the film’s main action: the diplomat who keeps her composure under interrogation, the prisoner who holds out against Darth Vader, the operative who sends R2-D2 with the Death Star plans and trusts the message will reach someone.
Blaster pistol. 20 joints. Photo Real Carrie Fisher portrait. $24.99. 2025.
The ANH Action Configuration vs Yavin Ceremony
The ANH Collection has two Leia configurations: the Yavin ceremony version at #ANH 01 (hair down, white ceremony gown, medal context) and this action version at #ANH 08 (double bun, ANH main action white dress, blaster). The #08 covers the vast majority of Leia’s ANH screen time — from the Tantive IV opening through the Death Star escape through Yavin’s preparation. The ceremony at #01 covers only the film’s final minutes.
For collectors who want a single ANH Leia: the action configuration at #08. For the Yavin ceremony display: #01. Both at consistent Phase 4 production quality.
The Double-Bun Hairstyle
The double-bun — side buns at ear level, one of cinema’s most immediately recognisable hairstyles — is the visual identifier that makes ANH Leia instantly recognisable in any display context. The specific styling communicates 1977 ANH rather than any other Leia configuration; no other film uses this exact hair arrangement.
20 Joints at Phase 4 Standard
The 20-joint count is the highest Leia has received in Phase 4 — reflecting the current production standard’s commitment to full articulation for principal characters. The Photo Real Carrie Fisher portrait at 2025 production standards provides the current accuracy ceiling for the ANH configuration.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Verify blaster pistol. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The definitive Phase 4 ANH action Leia. Buy for the ANH principal cast display or collection completion.
Leia’s ANH Arc
Leia’s specific ANH arc — Senator, prisoner, survivor, leader — is one of cinema’s most efficiently established female protagonist arcs. In the first fifteen minutes she hides the Death Star plans, resists Vader, sends the message to Obi-Wan, gets stunned, and faces execution. Before the film’s halfway point she has been interrogated, escaped the Death Star with the help of a smuggler and a farm boy, and begun planning the Rebellion’s next move.
The ANH action configuration at #08 covers the woman who does all of that — the blaster pistol in her hand communicates an operative rather than a captive.
Photo Real at 20 Joints
The 20-joint count is the ANH Collection’s highest for any female figure and communicates the Phase 4 commitment to full articulation for principal characters regardless of costume construction. The Photo Real Carrie Fisher portrait at 2025 standards is the current ceiling for ANH Leia production quality.
The Two ANH Leia Configurations Together
Displaying Yavin ceremony Leia (#ANH 01) and ANH action Leia (#ANH 08) side by side creates the complete ANH Leia arc: the operative who sent the plans, and the commander who gave the medals. Beginning and end. Both figures at Phase 4 production quality, within the same collection, twelve numbers apart.
Leia at #ANH 08 alongside Luke (#09), Han (#10), and Chewbacca (#11) is the most complete ANH principal cast the Black Series has produced at consistent single-year production quality. All four 2025 releases, all standard retail, the ANH heroes at Phase 4’s current ceiling.
No production variants documented. Standard retail. Verify blaster pistol. The Phase 4 ANH action Leia at 20 joints and 2025 Photo Real quality.
Leia’s Phase 4 ANH collection representation is now the most complete it has ever been: the action configuration (#08) for the film’s main arc, the ceremony configuration (#01) for the film’s close. Two figures, one film, the complete Carrie Fisher ANH performance in Phase 4 plastic.
The ANH Leia at Phase 4 quality also completes a specific collector goal: the ANH Collection offers two versions of Leia for two different displays. The double-bun action figure (#08) for the desk or shelf that covers the film’s main arc; the ceremony version (#01) for the Yavin display that closes it. Buy both.
The ANH action Leia is also the figure that connects most directly to the franchise’s foundational premise: the Rebellion exists because of this woman, at this moment, hiding these plans, trusting this message. Without Leia, there is no ANH. The figure at #ANH 08 is the Phase 4 acknowledgment that the franchise’s founding female character deserves the current production ceiling.
The 20-joint count makes the ANH action Leia the most poseable Leia in Phase 4 — the blaster-arm extension, the running poses, the confrontational stances of a woman who holds her ground under interrogation. The figure’s articulation matches the character’s specific quality.
Two ANH Leia figures, twelve collection numbers apart — the action figure and the ceremony figure. Buy both; display them as the beginning and end of her ANH arc.
The specific quality of Carrie Fisher’s ANH performance — the composure under interrogation, the controlled fury of someone who watched her homeworld die and kept fighting anyway — is what the Photo Real portrait and the blaster-ready pose are designed to capture. The figure at 2025 standards is the current best attempt at putting that performance in plastic.
At $24.99 standard retail with 20 joints and Photo Real portrait, the ANH action Leia is the best-value principal figure in the 2025 ANH wave.
The ANH Collection’s Leia at #08 is the princess who holds the Rebellion together when everything else is falling apart. The figure deserves the current production ceiling.
The 2025 Leia ANH figure is a tribute to a performance and a character that the franchise has never stopped needing.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ANH Collection. Related: Princess Leia Yavin P4-ANH-01 | Luke Skywalker P4-ANH-09 | A New Hope.