The Star Wars Black Series Holiday figures are a variety of Black Series releases, reimagined into a Holiday theme - usually Christmas, but we have seen some Halloween figures over the years. Our festive pick this year for review is the 2022 Holiday Scout Trooper, released as part of the 2nd full wave of Holiday figures and exclusive to Walmart in the US. The Christmas-themed figures are packed into a light-coloured giftwrap inspired box with red trim and snowflake detailing using the helmet design of the Scout Trooper figure.
The Holiday Scout Trooper is a repaint of the existing Black Series Imperial Scout Trooper with a focus on the festive combination of red and green. The undersuit is coloured in a deeper red, while bright red is used on the knee and groin panels and green on the shoulder, elbow and wrist panels. The boots also feature green but with white stripes. The body is concluded with a printed ‘Christmas Jumper’ inspired design on the chest which features Grogu.
The Scout Trooper helmet is cast in red, with a green visor and with some component details picked out on the mouthpiece and at either side of the cowled visor.
A holster on the right shin carries the Scout Trooper hold-out blaster. These holiday edition accessories are often painted up like Hasbro Nerf weapons with the hold-out blaster having a white body with an orange barrel and grey grip. It fits into the Scout Trooper’s right hand when not holstered, with the right hand having the top two fingers split from the bottom two to sit into the grip of the blaster.
The Holiday Troopers nearly always feature a Christmas-themed creature of sorts, and for the Scout Trooper, the Hasbro team has taken the saddle bag with Grogu from the 2019 Imperial Remnant Scout Trooper and given it a festive makeover. The bag is now bright red, with white trim and a black strap. It sits over either shoulder of the Trooper, with the flap able to be opened to reveal Grogu’s head within. Grogu is not given any Xmas decor and is the same green-painted head as seen on the main releases. The flap can be closed if you want to hide Grogu away, with twin straps slotting into sockets on the main bag and holding the piece closed.
The Scout Trooper has 20 points of articulation, including double joints on the knees and elbows. Designed originally to ride a Speeder Bike, there are plenty of posing options available with the joints tight and secure and able to hold in a number of posing options with or without the two accessories.
The Holiday Edition figures are certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, but do follow a theme that pre-dates the Black Series with Hasbro Holiday Editions from across the years. I find them a bit of fun for the Festive period and am trying to pick up a new one each Christmas to expand my display, sitting alongside some of our Chrimbo decorations for a broader display.
Decorations not included Shown with the 2022 Mandalorian Holiday Trooper (left)
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