Rio Durant — Star Wars The Black Series #77

Overview

Red Line #77 is Rio Durant — Rio Durant, the four-armed Ardennian pilot of Beckett’s crew in Solo: A Star Wars Story, who flies the AT-Hauler during the Vandor-1 Conveyex heist and is shot and killed in the mission’s chaotic middle phase. Rio is the Solo film’s most visually distinctive character design — the Ardennian species’ four arms, short stature, and enthusiastic disposition create a figure that is immediately memorable despite relatively limited screen time. Voiced by Jon Favreau, he carries the crew’s warmth and optimism before the mission destroys them.

23 joints including four ball-jointed shoulders, four ball-jointed elbows, and four ball-jointed wrists — an articulation scheme designed specifically around four-arm poseability. Three accessories: goggles, plus two blasters. Two releases total: this single-carded figure and the AT-Hauler vehicle pack variant. MSRP $19.99.

The Four-Arm Articulation Scheme

Rio Durant is the Black Series’ only four-armed figure in the Red Line, and the articulation engineering reflects the specific design challenge. The 23-joint count includes 12 joints just for the four arms: four ball-jointed shoulders, four ball-jointed elbows, four ball-jointed wrists. This enables poses that are genuinely alien — simultaneous actions with multiple arms, the specific physical vocabulary of a species that evolved with four limbs rather than two.

For display, the four-arm scheme creates immediate visual variety that no standard human-template figure can match. Rio in a dual-wield pose (two guns up) while the other two arms handle controls, or all four arms in different positions as a walking figure, reads as genuinely non-human in a way that alien head sculpts alone don’t achieve.

The Character

Rio’s specific role in Beckett’s crew is the cheerful professional — the pilot who genuinely loves the work, who flies the AT-Hauler with the specific confidence of someone who has done it a hundred times in places nobody sane would attempt. His death on the Vandor-1 Conveyex — shot while managing the craft, killed in the chaos that follows the Cloud Riders’ intervention — removes the crew’s most reliably positive presence at exactly the point where things go worst.

He is the Solo film’s second death, after Val’s. Together they signal that the Vandor-1 heist was not a manageable operation that went slightly wrong but a catastrophe that cost the crew two of its four original members. The film begins with four named crew members; it ends the heist sequence with one (Beckett, plus the new additions of Han and Chewbacca).

Accessories

Goggles — the pilot’s eyewear appropriate to the AT-Hauler cockpit configuration, fitting over the head sculpt. Two blasters — the paired weapons that the four-armed Rio carries with natural ease. All three accessories should be present on secondary market loose purchases; the goggles are the most likely to be separated.

The AT-Hauler Pack and the Single Release

The Rio Durant with AT-Hauler is a vehicle pack release that includes a modified version of the figure alongside the AT-Hauler vehicle. This single-carded #77 is the standalone figure release — the same character without the vehicle. For collectors who want Rio on a standard figure shelf without the vehicle, this is the correct purchase.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices — unique species design, four-arm poseability, specific Solo film crew member. The goggles are the accessory verification priority.

Verdict

Buy for the Solo film crew display, the four-arm articulation novelty, or Red Line sequence completion.

The Ardennian Species and the Four-Arm Display

The Ardennian species’ four-arm biology creates display possibilities that no other Black Series figure type offers. The specific thing four arms enable that two arms cannot: overlapping or sequential actions — the figure can be posed reaching for two things simultaneously, or operating controls while armed, or in the multi-limb fighting stance that the species’ physical configuration naturally suggests. These are not poses that any human-template figure can approximate.

For collectors who enjoy dynamic multi-figure displays, Rio Durant provides contrast that pure human-cast displays lack. A shelf with Rio among the Solo crew communicates the franchise’s alien diversity more viscerally than any alien-headed figure on a humanoid body does — the entire physical grammar of the character is different.

Rio’s Death and the Vandor-1 Sequence

Rio Durant dies as the Vandor-1 heist collapses — shot while managing the AT-Hauler during the Cloud Riders’ intervention. His death immediately after Val’s creates the specific rhythm of the film’s first act: two crew members established, trusted, and gone before the audience has fully registered them. The Solo film doesn’t let you settle into the heist as a genre exercise; it reminds you immediately that these jobs have costs.

The figure at #77 captures Rio alive and operational — the pilot in his element, goggles at hand, blasters ready. The display knows what the film shows; the figure doesn’t need to reference the death to carry its weight for collectors who know the story.

The AT-Hauler Pack vs This Release

Collectors choosing between the AT-Hauler pack and this single release: the vehicle pack provides the AT-Hauler itself for vehicle-focused displays; this #77 provides the standard figure for crew displays and shelf arrangements. The figure in both releases is similar — the single release is the standard recommendation for crew display purposes.

Rio Durant at #77 sits between Leia Hoth (#75) and Lando Skiff Guard (#76) in terms of display genre — the Solo film’s most visually alien character adjacent to two disguise configurations from characters known primarily in other contexts. The three figures together demonstrate how the Red Line’s 2018 wave balanced franchise eras: one ESB classic configuration, one ROTJ disguise variant, one Solo film original. All at consistent 2018 production quality. No variants documented.

Secondary market prices hold above retail. Verify all three accessories before purchasing loose: goggles, blaster one, blaster two. The goggles are the most easily separated. A Rio Durant without goggles is missing the pilot identity accessory that connects the figure to his AT-Hauler operational role.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Tobias Beckett P3-68 | Val P3-71 | Solo: A Star Wars Story.