Range Trooper — Star Wars The Black Series #64
The Black Series Range Trooper — Red Line #64, 2018. Solo: A Star Wars Story Imperial frontier trooper with magnetic boot plates and blaster rifle. Army builder guide. Collector guide covering all three releases.
Overview
Red Line #64 is the Range Trooper — Imperial frontier garrison soldiers deployed to remote, hostile environments in Solo: A Star Wars Story, specifically in the Vandor-1 train heist sequence where they guard the Conveyex transport carrying coaxium fuel across a mountain pass. The Range Trooper is Solo’s defining trooper design: the heavy fur-trimmed coat over armour, the magnetic boot plates designed for train-top operations in extreme cold, and the overall impression of Imperial military presence adapted to a frontier environment where the polished white of standard Stormtroopers would be impractical.
The fully-enclosed armoured design with no portrait quality concern makes this figure display-durable at any production era. Three total releases including a 2025 Andor series version. Blaster rifle accessory. 19 joints. MSRP $19.99.
The Range Trooper Design
The Range Trooper’s design brief was specifically for train-top operation in cold mountain environments — and the design team delivered a figure that communicates that environment immediately. The magnetic boot plates at the figure’s feet are the most unusual engineering element: their purpose in the film is to lock Range Troopers to the Conveyex train’s exterior when traversing difficult sections, enabling them to operate on the train’s roof in conditions where standing is otherwise impossible.
The fur-trimmed coat over the armour echoes the Snowtrooper design tradition — the Empire adapting its standard Stormtrooper aesthetic for extreme environments — while establishing a distinct identity appropriate to the mounted-patrol function. Where Snowtroopers are the infantry deployed to assault cold environments, Range Troopers are the garrison force assigned to protect specific assets in those environments long-term.
The Vandor-1 Train Heist Context
The Range Trooper’s defining scene is the Vandor-1 Conveyex heist — one of Solo’s strongest action sequences, structured as a classic western train robbery with Star Wars production design. The Empire uses Range Troopers on the Conveyex specifically because the train runs through terrain where normal ground deployment isn’t viable. The Rogue One/Solo-era Empire is deploying specialised troops to protect the specific assets — coaxium fuel — that keep the Empire’s war machine operational.
The train heist sequence is where Enfys Nest’s Cloud Riders arrive to contest the heist that Han, Beckett, and Chewbacca are conducting — a three-way fight over the coaxium that the Range Troopers are trying to protect, which is the film’s most kinetic and most visually inventive action sequence.
Accessories
Blaster rifle — the standard-issue weapon for Range Troopers in the field. The magnetic boot plates are sculpted as part of the figure’s feet rather than being separate accessories. 19-point articulation via the standard Red Line scheme.
All Three Black Series Range Trooper Releases
Range Trooper (2018) — this figure: The original Red Line Solo configuration. Range Trooper (Holiday) (2020): A seasonal novelty variant. Range Trooper (Andor) (2025): Phase 4 release reflecting the Range Trooper’s appearance in the Andor series, where the design establishes a strong visual presence in the frontier Empire sequences.
Solo Film Imperial Force Display
The Solo film’s Imperial presence is represented in the Black Series primarily by Range Troopers and Imperial officers from the film’s various sequences. Multiple Range Troopers in a train heist configuration — arranged along the implied top of the Conveyex — is one of the more evocative Solo scene displays achievable in the line. The design’s visual distinction from standard Stormtroopers (the fur coat, the heavier silhouette) means they read as a specialised force rather than an army builder duplicate.
Secondary Market
The Red Line Range Trooper is available at modest secondary market prices. The 2025 Andor version provides an updated option with Andor-era production standards. No production variants documented for the 2018 release.
Verdict
Buy for the Solo film train heist display, Solo-era Imperial force variety, or Red Line sequence completion. The fur-coat design is one of the Red Line’s most visually distinctive trooper additions.
The Magnetic Boot Plates as Design Detail
The Range Trooper’s magnetic boot plates are the figure’s most distinctive engineering feature and the most specific nod to the Vandor-1 train environment. The plates allow the Troopers to stand on the exterior of the moving Conveyex train — a design choice that reflects specific operational requirements rather than general military deployment. No other Imperial trooper in the Black Series carries this specific equipment, which makes the Range Trooper’s feet immediately distinctive at display distance.
For collectors who display figures on elevated surfaces or on shelving with a metallic component, the magnetic boot plates have a functional element as well — though the specific magnet strength varies between examples. More importantly as a display detail, the plates communicate the specific operational role without any additional context: these soldiers were designed for a specific environment, and the environment is encoded in their equipment.
Solo’s Frontier Empire and the Andor Connection
The frontier Imperial presence that Solo: A Star Wars Story established — the Empire as an extractive colonial force controlling resource routes through remote planets — was significantly expanded in the Andor series. Range Troopers appear in Andor as part of the Empire’s presence in exactly the kind of remote, resource-focused deployment that Solo suggested. The 2025 Andor Range Trooper release reflects this expanded canonical presence and provides an updated version for Andor-era collectors.
Range Troopers army-build well specifically because their design variation from standard Stormtroopers means multiple copies don’t read as repetitive — the fur coat silhouette creates a distinct unit appearance. For a Vandor-1 train heist display, two or three Range Troopers positioned as if traversing the Conveyex exterior creates the scene context without any additional scenic elements. The magnetic boot plates at the figure’s feet are the visual detail that locks the scene in place.
No production variants documented for the 2018 release. The 2025 Andor update is the current recommendation for Andor-era deployment accuracy; the 2018 version is the Solo film original for the Vandor-1 train heist context. Both share the same fundamental design vocabulary — the fur coat and magnetic boots of the frontier Imperial garrison.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Solo: A Star Wars Story | Han Solo Solo P3-62 | Galactic Empire faction | Army Builders.