Sandtrooper — Star Wars The Black Series #ANH 12
The Black Series Sandtrooper — Phase 4 ANH Collection #12, 2025. Tatooine desert Stormtrooper with orange pauldron and blaster rifle. 18 joints. The ANH Collection's army builder. Collector guide.
Overview
Phase 4 ANH Collection #12 is the Sandtrooper — the Tatooine-deployed Stormtrooper variant in the dusty, weathered white armour with the distinctive coloured shoulder pauldron and the heavy backpack that communicates desert deployment. The ANH Collection closes its twelve-figure run with its army builder — the same structural logic as the Red Line opening with TFA Stormtroopers: the formation infantry closes the sequence.
4 accessories: orange shoulder pauldron, blaster rifle, and additional gear. 18 joints with butterfly shoulders. $24.99. 2025.
The Sandtrooper Design
The Sandtrooper’s specific visual differentiation from the standard Stormtrooper: the weathered, sand-dirty white armour (rather than clean white), the pauldron on the right shoulder that indicates rank, the heavy backpack that represents desert survival gear, and the heavy blaster that communicates a more combat-intensive deployment than standard Stormtrooper patrol.
The orange pauldron marks the squad leader rank — the specific Sandtrooper configuration visible in ANH’s Tatooine scenes, riding dewbacks through the desert searching for the Death Star plans.
Four Accessories
The four accessories make the ANH 12 Sandtrooper the most accessory-complete figure in the 2025 ANH Collection wave. The orange pauldron is a removable piece that enables the non-ranking Sandtrooper configuration (pauldron off) or the squad leader version (pauldron on). The blaster rifle is the primary weapon.
The ANH Collection’s Closing Army Builder
The Sandtrooper at #ANH 12 closes the ANH Collection at its twelfth figure — a structure that mirrors the franchise’s tradition of ending waves with the formation infantry. The complete ANH Collection display: celebrity alien (#07), principal heroes (#08-#11), and the Imperial formation the heroes are evading (#12). The ANH world complete.
Secondary Market
Modest secondary market prices — army builder at standard price point. Buy multiples for the desert formation. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The ANH Collection’s army builder finale. Buy multiples for the Tatooine Imperial patrol display.
The Sandtrooper’s Four Accessories
The four accessories make the ANH 12 Sandtrooper the most-accessorised figure in the 2025 ANH Collection wave. The orange pauldron is the defining rank indicator — the specific colour marking of the sergeant variant visible in ANH’s Tatooine scenes. Additional gear represents the desert deployment equipment appropriate to a Tatooine posting.
The orange pauldron specifically has collector significance from the Blue Wave: the original Sandtrooper Corporal at Blue Wave P2-01 introduced the figure type to the line at the very start of the Black Series. The Phase 4 ANH Collection #12 brings the design to current production standards eleven years later.
Army Building the Imperial Tatooine Patrol
Multiple Sandtroopers create the Tatooine Imperial patrol formation that searches for the Death Star plans. The weathered, sandy armour creates an immediately ANH-specific visual that clean-white Stormtroopers don’t — these are Imperial soldiers in a specific field environment, not parade-ground formation troops.
The ANH Collection Closing Logic
The collection that opened with Princess Leia at the victory ceremony (#01) and closed its cantina sequence with Momaw Nadon (#07) ends with the Imperial formation (#12). The complete ANH Collection covers the Rebellion’s triumph, the cantina’s alien diversity, the principal heroes, and the Empire’s ground forces — the entire ANH world in twelve figures.
The Sandtrooper at #ANH 12 closes the complete P4-ANH Collection. Twelve figures from 2021 to 2025, covering the cantina, the ceremony, the principal heroes, and the Imperial forces. The ANH Collection is complete.
No production variants documented. Standard retail. Four accessories — verify all including the orange pauldron. Buy multiples for the Tatooine patrol formation.
The Sandtrooper’s orange pauldron is the specific visual detail that distinguishes this figure from generic Stormtrooper displays. The squad leader rank marker, the weathered armour, the desert backpack — three ANH-specific Tatooine elements in a single army builder.
The complete ANH Collection: #01 Leia Ceremony, #02 Ponda Baba, #03 Dr. Evazan, #04 Figrin D’An, #05 Nalan Cheel, #06 Darth Vader, #07 Momaw Nadon, #08 Leia ANH, #09 Luke ANH, #10 Han Solo, #11 Chewbacca, #12 Sandtrooper. Twelve figures. One film. A New Hope in Phase 4 plastic.
Multiple Sandtroopers create the Imperial search formation that ANH depicts on Tatooine. The weathered armour reads as a field force rather than a parade unit; the orange pauldron creates rank differentiation within the formation. The ANH Collection’s final figure is also its best army-building entry, closing the twelve-figure run on the most practical purchase recommendation of the set.
Buy at least two Sandtroopers. The Tatooine patrol requires numbers — one Sandtrooper is a figure; two is a patrol; three or more is the desert formation that searches for the droids in ANH’s third act.
The ANH Collection is complete at twelve figures. The Sandtrooper closes it. Buy multiples and build the Tatooine patrol.
The ANH Collection at twelve figures represents Phase 4’s most comprehensive single-film coverage. From 2021’s cantina criminals through 2025’s principal cast and army builder, the collection built ANH in plastic across five years of production. The Sandtrooper is the last piece.
The ANH Collection is done. Twelve figures. Buy your Sandtroopers, build your patrol, and display the complete ANH world.
The Sandtrooper is never the most exciting figure in any collection. It is always one of the most important. Buy it. Buy more than one.
The ANH Collection closes at #12. Twelve figures, one film, Phase 4 complete.
Army build. Four accessories. The ANH Collection’s perfect closing figure.
The Sandtrooper closes the P4-ANH Collection at its twelfth figure and closes the ANH Collection’s chapter on the Empire’s presence on Tatooine. The Death Star plans had to pass through these soldiers’ search. They didn’t find the droids. The droids are still out there. Buy the Sandtrooper, build the patrol, and display the moment before the escape.
The ANH Collection complete: twelve figures, one film, Phase 4 plastic. A New Hope from Leia’s ceremony white to the Sandtrooper’s desert patrol.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 ANH Collection. Related: Darth Vader ANH P4-ANH-06 | Army Builders | A New Hope.