If We Can’t Get a Ben Solo Film, Can We at Least Get His Motion Determine?

Followers who expressed rage this week about the scrapping of a potential Ben Solo Star Wars movie starring Adam Driver and directed by Steven Soderbergh can get in line. For years, different followers—and by different followers I imply me—have been hoping to see Ben Solo return in one other kind, and we too have been denied. I’m speaking, in fact, about the toy shelf.

Star Wars is known for making toys of everybody and every part. Seemingly, each character that seems on display screen for a second has most likely had an motion determine made from them. You may get all of the creatures from the Mos Eisley Cantina, a stunning quantity of podracers, and extra Stormtrooper variants than you even knew existed. However in the case of main characters within the Sequel Trilogy, these have largely been absent. Characters corresponding to Ben Solo.

Up to now, Hasbro, which is primarily answerable for making motion figures for Star Wars, has but to make a single Ben Solo toy. Not within the Classic Assortment. Not within the Black Collection. Nothing. A Funko Pop exists, which you’ll see above, but it surely’s not the identical. The son of Solo deserves to face on the shelf subsequent to his household and associates. And but, he doesn’t.

We don’t know particularly why that’s, but it surely speaks to a bigger problem. Hasbro’s Black Collection hasn’t released any new figures from the Sequel Trilogy since 2021 (a Darkish Rey determine from The Rise of Skywalker; in 2022, it additionally reissued Pressure Awakens Han Solo). Within the Classic Assortment, Hasbro launched a Finn from The Pressure Awakens in 2024, which is nice, however he’s the second lead of that film and didn’t get an up to date determine within the assortment till nearly 10 years after it initially launched. (In fact, he had a primary line fundamental determine from the film when it got here out too, however even these type of went away by the third film, outdoors of the 5-inch “Galaxy of Journey” fundamental figures launched as a part of the initial wave of merchandise for Rise in 2019.)

So many characters from particularly The Final Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker by no means received the correct therapy. However you’d suppose Ben Solo is likely one of the extra apparent and straightforward ones. There are already tons of Kylo Ren figures. Take these head sculpts, put them on a less complicated physique, change the lightsaber colour, and increase. Ben Solo.

Why has Hasbro forsaken the Sequel Trilogy in its toys? We don’t know. Certainly there may be some market analysis that reveals collectors aren’t as enthusiastic about these characters as older ones. And sure, these motion pictures, greater than the others, have their detractors. However that is Star Wars. Should you’re going to make motion figures, give us figures who encourage motion. Figures with a grand legacy in Star Wars. Figures just like the son of Princess Leia and Han Solo, who educated along with his uncle Luke Skywalker, turned to the Darkish Aspect within the footsteps of his uncle Darth Vader, and was in a dyad with the granddaughter of Palpatine. Characters like Ben Solo. You don’t even want Steven Soderbergh.

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