Saw Gerrera (Deluxe) — Star Wars The Black Series #R1 10

Overview

Saw Gerrera at #R1 10 closes the R1 Collection’s complete ten-figure run as its most physically imposing and most morally ambiguous figure — the extremist, the partisan, the guerrilla fighter who has been at war so long that the war has consumed him. The $33.99 deluxe format covers what makes this figure exceptional: the blaster rifle, the breathing apparatus that Saw requires to survive, and the specific sculpt investment in the armoured, augmented body of a man who sacrificed everything including his health to fight the Empire. This is one of the R1 Collection’s most acclaimed releases, and it earned that reception.

Blaster rifle and breathing apparatus. 19 joints. $33.99 deluxe. 2022. The only Black Series Saw Gerrera.

Saw Gerrera and the Question of How Far Is Too Far

Rogue One uses Saw Gerrera to ask a question the franchise rarely asks directly: is there a limit to how much you can compromise your methods in fighting an enemy like the Empire? Saw Gerrera’s partisans use tactics the Alliance considers too extreme. He is so committed to the fight that he has literally destroyed his own body in its service — the breathing apparatus he requires is the consequence of injuries sustained in decades of combat. He is what the war does to you if you let it do everything.

The film doesn’t fully answer the question. Saw doesn’t get a hero’s arc. He gets a specific kind of death — choosing to stay on Jedha rather than flee, letting the Death Star’s blast take him — that reads as both tragic and inevitable for a character who has always been more committed to the cause than to his own survival. He is an argument the franchise is willing to make but not willing to resolve.

The Breathing Apparatus: The Deluxe Accessory That Defines Him

The breathing apparatus is the figure’s most character-essential accessory — the prop that communicates everything about Saw Gerrera’s condition before a single word is read. The mechanical breathing apparatus, the armoured support structure, the visible evidence of a body pushed past its natural capacity and kept operational by technology: this is the physical record of what the war has cost him. Without the apparatus, Saw Gerrera is a man with a blaster. With it, he is the argument about cost made into plastic.

The $33.99 deluxe pricing reflects this dual-accessory investment — the blaster rifle plus the breathing apparatus justify the premium in a way that a figure-only release wouldn’t. We think the pricing is appropriate. Both accessories are essential.

A Well-Received Release

Saw Gerrera received strong collector reception when it landed in 2022 — the Forest Whitaker portrait at Phase 4 production standards, the deluxe accessory configuration, and the specific character design that gives the figure its visual weight all combined into a release that collectors responded to warmly. The R1 Collection closing its ten-figure run on its most acclaimed figure is the correct structural decision.

The Complete Ten-Figure R1 Collection

Saw Gerrera at #R1 10 completes the Phase 4 Rogue One Collection. Ten figures covering the full Rogue One principal cast: the mission team (#01-#06), the scientist who made it possible (#07), the Blue Leader who committed the air assault (#08), the Imperial occupation force (#09), and the extremist partisan who was there at the beginning (#10). The collection is complete. It is the most comprehensive single-film collection in Phase 4 after the ANH and ROTJ runs, and it is worth every figure.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices. Standard retail 2022. Verify both blaster rifle and breathing apparatus — the apparatus is the more distinctive and more display-critical of the two. No production variants documented.

Our Verdict

Saw Gerrera at #R1 10 is the R1 Collection’s closing argument: the man who fought the fight longer than anyone, who paid more for it than anyone, who asked the question the franchise is still working through. The deluxe accessories, the portrait, the 19-joint scheme. The collection is complete. This is the right figure to end it on.

Saw Gerrera Across the Canon

Saw Gerrera’s specific canonical significance extends well beyond Rogue One — he appears in The Clone Wars animated series as a younger man fighting the Separatist occupation of his homeworld Onderon, and in the Andor series in a role that contextualises his Rogue One extremism within a longer arc of escalating commitment. The figure at #R1 10 is the Rogue One Saw — the armoured, augmented, breathing-apparatus-dependent veteran of decades of conflict — but the character’s full arc makes him one of the franchise’s most developed recurring figures.

For collectors who have seen the full canonical Saw, the figure represents the endpoint of an arc that began with a young man fighting his first occupiers and ended with an old man choosing to let the Death Star take him rather than flee. The breathing apparatus is the physical record of everything between those two moments.

The Deluxe Justification in Detail

The $33.99 deluxe pricing covers two specific production investments. First, the blaster rifle — a standard accessory at this scale, appropriate to any combat figure. Second, the breathing apparatus — a character-specific prop that required dedicated tooling, that is specific to this one character, and that is the figure’s defining display element.

The breathing apparatus is not a prop you’d expect to find in any other figure’s accessories. It exists only for Saw Gerrera, built only for this figure, at the cost of the deluxe premium. We think that investment is correctly priced. The apparatus makes this figure. Without it, the R1 Collection closes on a man with a rifle. With it, it closes on the argument Rogue One has been making all along: this is what the war costs.

Saw Gerrera closes the R1 Collection at its most complex and its most physically imposing. The breathing apparatus in hand, the blaster rifle ready, the Forest Whitaker portrait at Phase 4 quality. The deluxe premium is justified. The collection ends correctly.

The R1 Collection complete at ten figures is one of Phase 4’s most thematically consistent single-film runs. Every figure earns its slot. The moral complexity that Rogue One brings to the franchise — defectors, scientists, extremists, ordinary soldiers doing extraordinary things — is present in the ten figures from Jyn Erso to Saw Gerrera. Saw closes it correctly.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Rogue One Collection. Related: Stormtrooper Jedha Patrol P4-R1-09 | Jyn Erso P4-R1-01 | Rogue One.