George Lucas Is a Star Wars Toy (Again)

George Lucas has joined the Galactic Empire. It’s tragic, however it have to be true, since he’s the most recent determine in Hasbro’s beloved Star Wars: The Black Series toyline, sporting Stormtrooper armor and a E-11 Blaster Rifle, the standard-issue weapon for the Emperor’s troopers. I doubt this flip to the Dark Side will forestall collectors from choosing the determine up, although.

Lucas’ latest plastic incarnation will arrive subsequent 12 months, simply in time for Lucasfilm’s fiftieth anniversary, in commemoration of the founding father of the corporate that gave us Star Wars. In addition to the blaster, he comes with a detachable helmet and a likeness that’s not notably flattering, however what are you able to do. (Spoiler: He’s solely disguised as a Stormtrooper. Phew!)

This isn’t the director’s first motion determine, nonetheless! That honor goes to a 3.75-inch toy launched as an unique on the 2002 Star Wars Celebration, making it fairly the sought-after determine. Weirdly and/or delightfully, he was labeled as X-Wing pilot Jorg Sacul, who was stated to have grown up on Tatooine, almost died in a T-16 Skyhopper crash (a lot as Lucas almost did in a automotive crash in his youth), joined the Imperial navy, turned prime of his class, defected to the Rebels, and have become a famend flight commander and teacher. Oh, and he was “probably” Force-sensitive, too.

There have been different figures after that, though not almost so splendidly accompanied by biographies. He was equally decked out in Stormtrooper armor for the Saga Collection collection in 2006, which was solely obtainable as a Hasbro mail-in. He had a mainstream launch when Hasbro made a determine of Baron Papanoida, the alien Lucas himself performed in Revenge of the Sith as his solely cameo within the movies. But for those who ever wished a determine of George in his common garments, you’d want to return to 2002, when Hot Toys—sure, that Hot Toys—made an especially unlicensed determine of Lucas, calling him solely “The Director.”

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You received’t have the simplest (or least expensive) time monitoring that toy down, however the brand new Black Series determine is a unique story. Pre-orders open tomorrow, September 29, at 1:oo p.m. ET on Amazon.

[Via StarWars.com]

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