Star Wars Black Series Gaming Greats Display

The Gaming Greats display is the Black Series’ acknowledgement that Star Wars games have produced characters and designs worth preserving in plastic at 6-inch scale. The sub-line has been almost exclusively a GameStop exclusive programme, which shapes how it’s built and how it’s sourced — a coherent body of game-adjacent figures that rewards the specific collector who grew up with these titles.

The Gaming Greats Programme

The Gaming Greats sub-line launched in 2019 alongside Jedi: Fallen Order and has expanded continuously since, covering games from 1995’s Dark Forces through to Jedi: Survivor in 2023. The programme’s focus on GameStop exclusives is both a commercial strategy and a practical one — game-specific characters have a narrower collector audience than film figures, and the GameStop channel reaches that audience more efficiently than mass retail.

The sub-line’s scope has grown significantly. Early releases were tied to current titles — Fallen Order troopers, Battlefront II variants. Later waves went back into Star Wars gaming history: Republic Commando’s Delta Squad, KOTOR’s Darth Malak and Bastila Shan, The Force Unleashed’s Starkiller, and eventually Kyle Katarn from the 1995 Dark Forces — one of the oldest Star Wars gaming characters ever produced in Black Series format.

The Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor Line

Cal Kestis is the Gaming Greats display’s most prominent character — a Jedi Padawan who survived Order 66 by hiding his Force sensitivity, then spends two games recovering his training and confronting what the Empire has made of the galaxy. His Deluxe Fallen Order release from 2021 is the most accessory-complete figure in the Gaming Greats sub-line, including the poncho, BD-1, and multiple lightsaber configurations. The Jedi: Survivor Cal from 2023 updates the character to his second-game appearance with different hair and different scars.

Nightsister Merrin — the Dathomirian who becomes Cal’s ally in Fallen Order and partner in Survivor — is one of the sub-line’s strongest figures, with her distinctive green witch-magic effects and a character arc across two games that makes her one of the better-developed companions in Star Wars gaming. Dagan Gera, the Survivor antagonist, provides the display’s most recent major villain: a Jedi who survived Order 66 in a different way to Cal, with different consequences.

The trooper variants from both games — the Purge Trooper, Electrostaff Purge Trooper, Riot Scout Trooper, Rocket Launcher Trooper, and the 13th Battalion Trooper — are army-building targets specific to the Fallen Order visual language, with modifications to the standard Imperial trooper design that reflect the games’ specific aesthetic. The KX Security Droid and B1 Battle Droid Jedi: Survivor variants extend the droid side of the display.

Republic Commando

The Republic Commando figures — Boss, Sev, Fixer, and Scorch, representing all four members of Delta Squad — are among the most requested Gaming Greats releases the sub-line eventually delivered. Republic Commando (2004) has a passionate and persistent fanbase for a game that was commercially mid-tier but critically respected for its squad mechanics and its treatment of the clone trooper experience as something approaching genuine military fiction.

Delta Squad’s armour — bulkier, more heavily modified than standard clone armour, with the distinctive visor — makes each figure immediately recognisable as a Commando rather than a trooper, and the four-figure set is one of the Gaming Greats display’s most cohesive sub-groups. The Battle Droid (Republic Commando) in the game’s specific visual style completes the opposed side.

Knights of the Old Republic

Darth Revan, Darth Malak, Bastila Shan, Darth Nihilus, and Zaalbar cover the KOTOR display comprehensively. The Red Line Darth Revan from 2016 predates the Gaming Greats programme and is the oldest gaming figure in the display. Darth Malak and Bastila Shan from the 2023 Gaming Greats wave are the line’s first dedicated KOTOR figures beyond Revan — the villain and the Jedi at the centre of the game’s story.

Darth Nihilus — from Knights of the Old Republic II, Revan’s spiritual successor — has a mask design that became genuinely iconic in the years since the game’s release. His GameStop exclusive release was widely anticipated and delivers on the design. Zaalbar, the Wookiee companion from the first KOTOR, is the display’s most unlikely inclusion — a supporting character whose presence signals how deeply the sub-line was willing to go into the games’ rosters.

The Force Unleashed

Starkiller — Darth Vader’s secret apprentice and the protagonist of The Force Unleashed — is one of the most requested gaming characters in the Black Series, and his mainline release alongside Lord Starkiller, the dark side variant, covers the game’s central character duality. Both figures reflect a game that was significant enough in the expanded universe of its era that its protagonist’s Force powers briefly entered the cultural conversation about what the franchise could do.

Dark Forces and Kyle Katarn

Kyle Katarn is the oldest character in the Gaming Greats display — the mercenary-turned-Jedi who starred in Dark Forces in 1995, the game that established the Dark Trooper project as a significant element of the Imperial military. His 2026 release is a genuine statement about the sub-line’s ambitions: reaching back thirty years to produce a figure for a character whose game predates most of the collector base’s childhood.

All Figures for This Display

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