Stormtrooper

Getting into the spirit early this year, I see! Celebrate the season with specially designed Star Wars figures from The Black Series. You don't say! The packaging this year has been changed from all the previous years - they're just normal flat boxes, rather than having an angled panel like we saw before. So the "Holiday Edition" figures ignored the windowless packaging when that was the thing, but they'll change now for this? Okay, Jan. And despite changing style, they still only have the generic text on the back. Which is a shame, because you don't know who or what a Stormtooper is: Stormtroopers are elite shock troops fanatically loyal to the Empire and impossible to sway from the Imperial cause. They wear imposing white armor, which offers a wide range of survival equipment. Such obscure characters! This isn't the first Holiday Edition Stormtrooper - Amazon had an exclusive one in 2020, the first year they were done, but this is the first time it's returned since. There hasn't even been a Halloween version! But don't worry, this definitely isn't a duplicate, no matter how you choose to look at it - neither paint nor sculpt! The 2025 Holiday Edition Stormtrooper is a reindeer - his armor is a soft brown with white on the stomach and the mouth area of the helmet, and for some reason a gold medal on a red ribbon around his neck. I'm not sure what that's supposed to be about, because there's no Giftsmas-y reindeer story about winning a gold medal. Unless it's not supposed to be a medal, and is instead a jingle bell? Like, we're not meant to look at it as something flat, but a 2D view of a 3D object? After all, the paint is designed to look like the Death Star, so maybe that's what they were going for. Turning the helmet's voicebox/air intake into a cartoony reindeer snout is clever, though! To further the comparison, the Stormtrooper gets a new piece. Just like this year's ghost, mummy, and witch, the Stormtooper has a unique add-on. It's just softgoods, which is disappointing, but stamping a piece of felt is probably way way cheaper than molding new plastic. It's a pair of antlers, glued onto the back of the helmet, done in a darker brown than the rest of the toy so they won't blend in and get lost. Like we said, the body is not the same used for the 2020 "Ugly Sweater" Stormtrooper. That one used the first Black Series Stormtrooper mold, the one they'd been using since 2013, while this is an update originally introduced in Mandalorian packaging. The codpiece is wider and straighter, the chest armor has a gentler curve, and there are just generally a bunch of tiny changes to make it look better. This one has pectoral hinges, and the kind of pauldron that moves with the arm. Very nice! His accessory is the standard E-11 blaster, done in solid blue with an orange tip. There doesn't seem to be an official Nerf gun that matches this design, but there was a Clone Trooper rifle that was sort of in these colors, so that may be what they were aiming to match. All the Black Series Holiday Edition figures come with a pack-in, to help up the value. But the Stormtrooper does that one better, by being the first figure to include two! What makes him so special? Both minis are porgs, and they're both the "standing" mold, with actual feet and balljointed wings. One design is obvious: it's entirely white, with black eyes, three black dots down the center of the chest, and a red-orange nose; it's a little snowman! The other also gets black eyes, but is otherwise entirely done in translucent dark blue plastic; an ice sculpture, maybe? The Reindeer Stormtrooper is a Target exclusive, just like the Imperial Beard Trooper was. And just like that figure, it showed up surprisingly early. Plastic antlers would have been nicer than softgoods, but getting twice as much porg as any other release does make this one feel special. -- 11/15/25 Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.