Ithorian

Ithorians are one of Star Wars’ most visually recognisable alien designs — the curved, hammer-shaped head, the two mouths on opposite sides of the neck, the large dark eyes, the tall and gentle bearing that communicates something entirely different from the dangerous species the cantina is populated with. They’re present in the Mos Eisley Cantina background and in Galaxy’s Edge, and the Black Series has given them two of its more considered alien figure releases: the Momaw Nadon Deluxe from the ANH Galaxy Collection and the Dok-Ondar Galaxy’s Edge exclusive. Together they represent the Ithorian across two very different Star Wars contexts separated by forty years of franchise history.

Ithorians in Star Wars

Ithorians are native to Ithor, a lush jungle world whose surface the species treats as sacred — they live in floating herd cities above the planet rather than on it, tending and observing the jungle below but never disturbing it. The Ithorian relationship with their homeworld is the species’ defining cultural characteristic: a deep ecological reverence that has shaped their technology, their values, and their reputation across the galaxy.

The two-mouthed physiology isn’t incidental. Ithorians speak in stereo — both mouths producing sound simultaneously, creating a resonant bellow that other species find impressive and that the Ithorian vocal tradition has turned into an art form. Non-Ithorians can’t replicate the sound; translator technology handles the conversion. The mouths are on opposite sides of the neck, facing perpendicular directions, which gives the Ithorian head its specific T-shape that makes them immediately recognisable at any distance.

They’re not warriors. They’re not politicians in the conventional sense. Ithorians in Star Wars tend to appear as merchants, naturalists, diplomats, and the kind of background figures whose presence communicates that the galaxy is populated by peaceful species going about their lives as much as by fighters and soldiers. Momaw Nadon sitting in the Mos Eisley Cantina is doing exactly that — a botanist in a bar, waiting for something, part of the environment rather than the plot.

Momaw Nadon and the Hammerhead Legacy

Momaw Nadon is the canonical name for the Ithorian in the Mos Eisley Cantina — a character whose screen time amounts to a few seconds and whose expanded universe biography runs to thousands of words. His story involves betraying Ithorian secrets to the Empire under duress, exile from his homeworld, and a decade of penance on Tatooine cultivating a garden and waiting. He’s in the cantina the day the droids arrive on Tatooine. He’s in the background of a franchise-defining scene.

What makes Momaw Nadon culturally significant beyond his own biography is the 1978 Kenner action figure. The original Star Wars toy line produced him as “Hammerhead” — no canonical name, just the visual nickname for the T-shaped head — and it was one of the more distinctive figures in a line that introduced millions of children to the idea that Star Wars’ background characters were as interesting as its heroes. The Hammerhead figure was everywhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s, becoming one of those specific toys whose visual identity persists in cultural memory regardless of whether the owner knew anything about the character.

The Galaxy Collection ANH Momaw Nadon Deluxe from 2024 is the Black Series’ first dedicated Ithorian release at modern production quality. The Deluxe format gives him the scale his physical design requires — Ithorians are taller than most humanoids — and the accessories that reflect his expanded universe botanical expertise. It’s a figure that acknowledges the forty-year journey from the Kenner Hammerhead to a fully realised 6-inch collector figure with accurate design and modern production standards.

For collectors with the Kenner connection, the Momaw Nadon Deluxe is one of the line’s more emotionally resonant purchases — the childhood figure finally given the treatment it deserved. For collectors without that history, it’s simply one of the more physically accurate and visually distinctive alien figures in the ANH Galaxy Collection wave.

Dok-Ondar

Dok-Ondar is the Ithorian proprietor of Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities in Galaxy’s Edge — the in-park shop that sells Star Wars collectibles and props within the Black Spire Outpost setting. He’s a character created specifically for the theme park experience: the ancient, scarred dealer of rare artefacts whose inventory includes Jedi and Sith relics, whose past is deliberately vague, and whose presence as a large, physically imposing Ithorian gives the shop its specific character.

His Galaxy’s Edge exclusive figure is one of the more unusual releases in the Black Series — a character who exists primarily as a retail environment rather than a narrative one, produced for an audience who has visited the park and wants a figure of someone they’ve encountered there. His design departs from the standard Ithorian template: darker colouring, battle damage, a bearing that suggests a more complicated history than Momaw Nadon’s botanist exile. Where Momaw Nadon is the gentle Ithorian of cantina background character tradition, Dok-Ondar is the Ithorian as something older and more ambiguous.

The two figures together cover the species’ range in the Black Series — the cantina background figure with deep Kenner history and the park-exclusive merchant with no film appearances. Neither is a warrior or a Jedi or a soldier. Both are the kinds of figures the line produces when it’s most interested in communicating the texture of the galaxy rather than its conflicts.

All Ithorian Figures in the Black Series

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Species Index. Related: Mos Eisley | Galaxy’s Edge | Cantina Confrontation | Species Index.