Star Wars Black Series Jabba's Palace Throne Room

Jabba’s Palace is the centre of Tatooine’s criminal hierarchy and one of Return of the Jedi’s most densely populated environments — a throne room full of bounty hunters, criminals, courtiers, and creatures that established the galaxy’s underworld as a visual category in its own right. The Black Series display for this scene spans two distinct eras: the ROTJ rescue sequences that give the palace its Original Trilogy identity, and The Book of Boba Fett, which returns to the same walls with a completely different power dynamic.

The Scene in Star Wars

Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine serves two very different narrative functions across its Star Wars appearances. In Return of the Jedi it’s the obstacle — the place Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewie must penetrate to rescue Han Solo from carbonite. The infiltration sequence is one of the film’s most elaborate set pieces: Lando in disguise as a guard, Leia arriving as the bounty hunter Boushh with Chewbacca in fake captivity, Leia freeing Han in the night, Jabba catching them, and Luke arriving to negotiate before the whole thing collapses into the skiff battle over the Sarlacc.

The palace as a location is where the Original Trilogy’s criminal underworld density is highest. Bib Fortuna managing access, Gamorrean Guards enforcing order, Salacious B. Crumb providing commentary, the Max Rebo Band providing entertainment — it’s a setting that communicates an entire social ecosystem in background detail. The Lucasfilm design team created dozens of alien species specifically for Jabba’s court, most of whom appear for seconds and have been generating expanded universe material ever since.

The Book of Boba Fett returns to the palace with Boba Fett having killed Bib Fortuna — who had installed himself as the palace’s de facto ruler after Jabba’s death — and claimed the throne. The series makes a deliberate choice to examine what it means to rule the same space differently: Jabba governed through fear, Boba attempts to govern through respect, and the series spends considerable time exploring whether that distinction is viable in a criminal environment that has evolved to expect one approach.

The two eras of the palace sit in interesting tension in the display. The same walls. Different rules. Different results.

The ROTJ Cast

The ROTJ figures in this display represent the infiltration and rescue operation — the heroes operating undercover in a hostile environment.

Princess Leia Boushh is the display’s Original Trilogy anchor — Leia in the Ubese bounty hunter armour she uses to infiltrate the palace and deliver a fake Chewbacca bounty. It’s a disguise that required Leia to negotiate in Ubese with Jabba directly, and which she maintains through the early palace sequences before the plan unravels. Both the Blue Wave original and the Archive reissue cover this configuration; the Archive version is the recommended display choice.

Lando Calrissian (Skiff Guard) is Lando undercover as a palace guard — part of the longer infiltration plan that positions Rebel assets inside the palace before Luke arrives. His Skiff Guard configuration is the ROTJ Lando, and the 40th Anniversary version from 2023 is the recommended release.

Bib Fortuna — Jabba’s Twi’lek majordomo — exists in multiple releases covering both his ROTJ appearance and his brief Book of Boba Fett cameo as the palace’s interim ruler. Both the Galaxy Collection ROTJ figure and the 40th Anniversary version are tagged here.

Gamorrean Guards are the palace’s muscle — the porcine warriors in armour whose design became one of the Original Trilogy’s most recognisable alien types. Both the Red Line Target exclusive and the 40th Anniversary version cover this figure; the 40th Anniversary release is the more recent production.

The Book of Boba Fett

The BOBF figures represent the palace under new management — Boba Fett’s attempt to establish himself as a legitimate crime lord in the post-Empire vacuum.

Boba Fett (Throne Room - Deluxe) is the display’s centrepiece — the Daimyo of Mos Espa on his throne, with the specific accessories of his seat of power rather than his operational gear. It’s one of the more display-specific Boba releases the line has produced: designed for a shelf rather than a conflict.

Fennec Shand is Boba’s second-in-command throughout the series — the assassin who becomes his most trusted ally after he saves her life in The Mandalorian. Her figure connects this display to the broader Mandalorian-era cast.

Krrsantan begins the series as a Hutt cartel enforcer sent to kill Boba and ends it as an uneasy member of his retinue — one of the palace’s most physically imposing presences and a character whose comic book origins add depth the series doesn’t fully explain.

The Mandalorian (Glavis Ringworld) connects the palace display to The Book of Boba Fett’s mid-series episodes, when Din Djarin visits with Grogu in tow. The Luke Skywalker & Grogu two-pack covers the same storyline from a different angle — Luke training Grogu before Grogu chooses to return to his adoptive father.

Building the Display

For a ROTJ-specific palace display, the priority figures are Princess Leia Boushh, Lando Skiff Guard, Bib Fortuna, and the Gamorrean Guard. These are the characters physically present in the palace during the rescue sequences.

For a Book of Boba Fett display, the Boba Fett (Throne Room - Deluxe) anchors everything. Fennec Shand, Krrsantan, and the Mandalorian complete the inner circle.

The two eras work together on a single shelf because the setting is identical — same throne, same walls, different occupant and different mood.

All Figures for This Display

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Scenes. Related: Great Forge Battle | Bounty Hunter Lineup | Tatooine Desert | Collector Guide.