Tech (Mercenary Gear) — Star Wars The Black Series #TBB 16
The Black Series Tech in Mercenary Gear — Phase 4 Bad Batch Collection #16, 2023. The tech specialist in later-series civilian gear with 9 accessories: blaster, helmet, removable visor, backpack, 2 antennas, 3 tools. 19 joints. Walmart exclusive $27.79.
Overview
Tech in Mercenary Gear at #TBB 16 closes the TBB Collection’s mercenary wave on the figure that carries the heaviest weight in the entire 18-figure run — the tech specialist in the later-series configuration, with 9 accessories matching the original Tech at #TBB 04, with the same removable visor and three distinct tools, but carrying the knowledge of what happens to him in season three. 19 joints. Walmart exclusive. $27.79. 2023. The figure that should be the hardest to display and somehow isn’t.
9 accessories. Removable visor. Walmart exclusive. The figure the collection needed.
Tech and the Weight This Figure Carries
We said of the original Tech at #TBB 04 that his nine accessories at $19.99 made him the Phase 4 Black Series’ best value figure. We stand by that. But the Mercenary Gear Tech at #TBB 16 exists in a different emotional register — the same character, the same accessory count, the same removable visor and three tools, but produced and purchased after the season three episode where Tech falls from the Marauder to save his squad.
Tech’s death is one of The Bad Batch’s most unexpected narrative decisions — the character who solved every technical problem the squad encountered, who communicated in data rather than feeling, who was alive and functional and then simply wasn’t. The Mercenary Gear figure covers the Tech who was still alive, still operating, still carrying those nine accessories into every mission. It is the later-series Tech before the fall. Buy it for that reason as much as any other.
Nine Accessories Again
The Mercenary Gear Tech matches the original’s nine-accessory count exactly: blaster, helmet, removable visor, backpack, two antennas on the backpack, three different tools. The mercenary configuration is not a reduced version of the tech specialist — it is the same operational capability in different gear. Every accessory serves the same character-communicating function: these are Tech’s tools, and Tech carries his tools.
The removable visor remains the display decision that matters most. Visor down: the tech specialist at active interface, the systems expert engaged with whatever system he’s accessing. Visor up: Tech the person, the member of Clone Force 99 who is more than his function even when his function defines him.
Verify all nine accessories on secondary market purchases. The antennas and tools are the highest loss-risk pieces.
The Two Tech Figures
The original Tech at #TBB 04 ($19.99 standard retail) and the Mercenary Gear Tech at #TBB 16 ($27.79 Walmart exclusive) are the TBB Collection’s most emotionally resonant second-configuration pair, for the specific reason that one of them comes after the season three knowledge and one comes before. Display the original first, the mercenary gear second, and the collection has placed the timeline correctly: early series Tech with the nine accessories and the standard retail accessibility, later series Tech with the nine accessories and the Walmart exclusivity and the grief the collector brings to it.
Both figures are worth having. The Mercenary Gear Tech specifically is worth having because the collection chose to give Tech a second slot, which means the collection chose to say that Tech mattered enough to appear twice. He did.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Walmart exclusive 2023. Verify all nine accessories. No production variants documented.
Our Verdict
Tech in Mercenary Gear at #TBB 16 is the TBB Collection’s most emotionally weighted figure — the nine accessories, the removable visor, the Walmart exclusive at $27.79, and the knowledge of what the series does with the character that makes this the figure you display with care. Buy him. He deserved the second slot.
The Nine-Accessory Parallel
The fact that the Mercenary Gear Tech has the same nine-accessory count as the original is not a coincidence. It is the production statement that Tech without his tools is not Tech. The clone-derived gear changes; the tools don’t. The backpack carries the same antennas. The removable visor is still there. The three distinct tools are still in the loadout.
This matters for display and for understanding what the figure communicates. The mercenary gear version doesn’t simplify Tech into a soldier with a blaster. It keeps him as the specialist he is, in the gear he now operates in, still carrying everything he needs to solve the problems the squad encounters. Nine accessories at Walmart exclusive pricing. The TBB Collection’s decision to maintain that count on the second configuration is the right call.
The TBB Collection’s Mercenary Gear Wave Complete
With Tech at #TBB 16 alongside Hunter (#TBB 15), Wrecker (#TBB 14), Echo (#TBB 17), and Omega (#TBB 18), the TBB Collection’s Mercenary Gear wave covers every core Bad Batch squad member in their later-series configuration. Five second configurations for five squad members — the complete parallel display of Clone Force 99 at two points in the series.
Display both waves side by side: the original five (Hunter, Crosshair, Elite Squad Trooper, Tech, Wrecker) and the mercenary five (Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Echo, Omega). The difference between those two rows is what three seasons of The Bad Batch looks like in plastic.
Tech Mercenary Gear at $27.79 Walmart exclusive is one of the hardest figures in the TBB Collection to write about without acknowledging what happens in season three. We’ve tried to write around it throughout this page and we’ll stop pretending: Tech dies. The Mercenary Gear figure is Tech before that. Nine accessories, the removable visor, the tools he used to save his squad over and over. Buy him. Display him with the original. The TBB Collection gave him two slots because he deserved two slots.
The Mercenary Gear Tech is the TBB Collection’s proof that a figure can earn its slot twice. The original at #TBB 04 earned it on value — nine accessories at $19.99 is the best deal in Phase 4. The Mercenary Gear at #TBB 16 earns it on character — the same nine accessories in the gear that covered the later-series Tech, the one who was still carrying his tools when the series ran out of time for him. Walmart exclusive. $27.79. Buy him.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Bad Batch Collection. Related: Tech P4-TBB-04 | Echo Mercenary Gear P4-TBB-17 | The Bad Batch.