{"id":287722,"date":"2026-02-08T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287722\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:23:07","slug":"the-new-star-wars-black-figure-unleashes-lord-starkiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287722\/","title":{"rendered":"The New ‘Star Wars’ Black Figure Unleashes Lord Starkiller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rejoice, fans of the Star Wars: Force Unleashed<\/a>\u00a0games: Sam Witwer\u2019s Starkiller is gracing the Black Series toy line<\/a> in a few months.<\/p>\n

Hasbro recently released new pics<\/a> of the figure inspired by Darth Vader\u2019s ex-apprentice in his \u201cLord Starkiller\u201d form. In the original Unleashed, players got this outfit by choosing the Dark Side ending and killing Vader, only to become Palpatine\u2019s new assassin. DLC would later spin this off into a short AU that showed what happens when he enters the story of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, and spoiler: it doesn\u2019t end well for the OT characters.<\/p>\n

Along with multiple points of articulation for posing purposes, the \u201cLord Starkiller\u201d figure comes with two sets of hands\u2014one open, one closed\u2014and six different red lightsabers and different hilts that can attach to his belt. The figure makes a surprising return to Force Unleashed after Hasbro last brought the standard Galen Marek to the Black Line, which came hot off the heels of other recent standout additions to the \u201cGaming Great\u201d series, namely last year\u2019s Kyle Katarn<\/a> (of\u00a0Star Wars:\u00a0Dark Forces fame) and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire lead Dash Rendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s currently sold out on the Hasbro website, the \u201cLord Starkiller\u201d figure will officially release on July 1 for $43.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rejoice, fans of the Star Wars: Force Unleashed\u00a0games: Sam Witwer\u2019s Starkiller is gracing the Black Series toy line…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,60092,61,60,270,138114,2140],"class_list":{"0":"post-287722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hasbro","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-sam-witwer","14":"tag-star-wars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}