Star Wars Black Series Starkiller Base

The Starkiller Base display covers the sequel trilogy’s First Order versus Resistance conflict — the new generation of characters, the First Order’s military apparatus, and the specific battle that destroys the Hosnian system and ends with Han Solo’s death at his son’s hand. It’s also the largest pre-Galaxy Collection production wave in the Black Series, with the majority of these figures coming from the 2015-2019 Red Line era before Photo Real face printing changed the line’s human character quality. Understanding that production context is important for building the strongest possible version of this display.

The Scene in Star Wars

Starkiller Base is the First Order’s answer to the Death Star — bigger, more powerful, capable of destroying an entire system rather than a single planet, built into a terrestrial body rather than constructed in space. Its destruction is The Force Awakens’ climactic battle, and the film frames it as both a tactical objective and a personal one: Han Solo returns to the base to attempt to bring his son back, fails, and dies there.

The Starkiller Base sequence is where The Force Awakens is most directly in dialogue with A New Hope. The trench run structure, the thermal oscillator as the vulnerable point, the X-wing assault — the film is consciously echoing the Death Star battle while updating its visual language. Whether this is satisfying homage or repetitive self-reference is the central critical argument about The Force Awakens, and it’s a debate that hasn’t fully resolved.

What’s less debated is that the film introduced an immediately compelling new cast. Rey’s scavenging life on Jakku, her force sensitivity, her connection to the story’s legacy characters — she’s the sequel trilogy’s most original creation and its most discussed. Kylo Ren’s conflicted relationship with both his heritage and the dark side makes him the most psychologically complex villain the franchise had produced since Vader, before the later films made different choices about his arc. Finn’s desertion from the First Order gives the stormtrooper mythology its first significant examination from the inside.

The Red Line Era Challenge

The majority of this display comes from the 2015-2019 Red Line production era — pre-Photo Real, with the limitations in human character face printing that characterised the line before the technology improved. The TFA Red Line releases were produced under film release conditions: fast, wide, covering the complete cast before audiences had fully absorbed the film.

The 2021-2022 Galaxy Collection TFA sub-line addressed this directly. Rey (Jakku), Kylo Ren, Finn, Poe Dameron, the First Order Stormtrooper, and BB-8 were all re-released with modern production quality — Photo Real face printing on the human characters, improved articulation, updated accessories. For display purposes, the Galaxy Collection versions are the strong recommendation for every human character they cover. The Red Line figures for alien and armoured characters — the First Order Stormtrooper variants, the TIE Pilot, the Snowtrooper — integrate well alongside them since the face printing gap doesn’t apply.

Rey

Rey has been produced in more configurations than almost any other sequel trilogy character — the Jakku scavenger, the Jedi training configuration from The Last Jedi, the Island Journey version, and the Galaxy Collection Jakku release that gives the character her definitive modern production. The Jakku Galaxy Collection figure is the display recommendation for a TFA-specific Starkiller display; the Jedi Training and Island Journey versions extend the display into The Last Jedi territory.

Her arc across the trilogy — from unknown scavenger to Force-sensitive to last Jedi to… whatever The Rise of Skywalker decided — is one of the more discussed character trajectories in recent Star Wars, and the multiple figure versions reflect both the franchise’s investment in her and the difficulty of a character whose story changed significantly between productions.

Kylo Ren

Kylo Ren has the deepest figure roster of any sequel trilogy character in the Black Series — multiple Red Line releases, the Archive reissue, the TFA Galaxy Collection version, the Last Jedi configuration, the Centerpiece. The Archive Kylo is the most accessible modern production version for collectors entering the display, and the TFA Galaxy Collection is the most accurate to the Starkiller Base sequences specifically.

His unmasked figure — the Red Line release from 2016 — is the first Black Series representation of Ben Solo’s face, produced before Photo Real made human likenesses more reliable. For the specific Starkiller Base moment where he removes the helmet, the TFA Galaxy Collection masked version paired with the unmasked Red Line is the closest the display can get to that scene’s specific beats.

The First Order Military

Captain Phasma, General Hux, the First Order Stormtrooper variants, the TIE Pilot, the Snowtrooper, and the Flametrooper are the display’s Imperial-equivalent military layer. Phasma is the First Order’s most visually distinctive officer — the chrome armour, the specific presence she carries — and her Red Line figure from 2015 remains her only Black Series representation.

The First Order Stormtrooper is the display’s primary army-building target. Multiple variants exist across the Red Line and Galaxy Collection eras; the TFA Galaxy Collection version is the modern production recommendation, and the Riot Baton variant adds visual variety with its specific weapon configuration. The First Order Snowtrooper covers the Starkiller Base winter environment specifically — the cold weather variant that makes the on-planet sequences visually distinct from standard First Order operations.

Finn and Poe

Finn and Poe anchor the Resistance side of the display alongside Rey. Both received Galaxy Collection TFA updates that significantly improved on their Red Line originals, and both are the display recommendations. Finn’s multiple configurations — Jakku, FN-2187, First Order Disguise — track his arc from deserter to Resistance fighter across the first two films. Poe’s configurations cover his X-wing pilot identity most directly, which is where the character is most himself.

All Figures for This Display

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