Review: Star Wars Black Series Aayla Secura, Revenge of the Sith Anniversary
- Mephitsu
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"Sometimes it takes courage to stick to one's beliefs, young Padawan."
As with most Anniversary series releases before them, the 2025 Revenge of the Sith anniversary wave was made up of existing figures, some with tweaks, released on retro-inspired cardbacks. For Revenge of the Sith, the figures were picked to mimic the original 2005 3.75 inch releases, rather than absolute movie accuracy. The set featuring 7 different figures, released in the Summer of 2025, was a Fan Channel release here in the UK, while it was sold through Walmart in the US.
Aayla Secura is packed onto the shaped retro card, mirroring the figures of 2005 but at the larger 6-inch scale. The cardback features the image of Vader’s helmet, overlaid with the battle on Mustafar between Anakin and Obi-Wan and the lava plains on which they fight. The figure, in its blister, is wrapped at the bottom by an additional insert that shows the character’s image, confirming the name as Aayla Secura as it was in 2005, with no mention of her status within the Jedi order as we have seen on some other Jedi figures. The slip in insert also carries the Revenge of the Sith logo in its golden hue.
The cardback includes further yellow tones with a picture of Aayla Secura, a second image of the posed figure and some short background text. Here we also find the only reference to the Star Wars Black Series. The blister is stuck to the card, and the figure can only be opened with some level of damage to the card or the blister. While you can be careful in cutting the blister and therefore enable some level of repacking afterwards, the process will cause visible damage to some extent.
Aayla Secura appeared briefly in both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, as well as making appearances in The Clone Wars animated series. In all of these, she retained the same outfit, in keeping with her Twi’lek heritage with a brown vest top, brown trousers and boots. On the figure, this outfit is recreated in full, with the vest being a sleeve applied over the blue-skinned torso, leaving the midriff and right arm visible.
The left arm features a sleeve that connects to the vest. The legs are cast in a red/brown with the boots a darker brow. The outfit concludes with a belt of sorts featuring a front sash with a crosshatched design, and at either side on the hips a pair of flexible strands or ropes that hang to her knees. This belt also features a socket for her lightsaber.
The headsculpt captures the basic likeness of Secura, but more so as she appeared in the Clone Wars and not particularly a strong likeness to Amy Allen, who played her in live action. The head is wrapped in a brown head piece that goes around the forehead and around the sides of the head. From this protrude her two Lekku, which are cast to be wrapped in the brown material of the headpiece, so the pieces are cast in blue with the wraps painted in brown.
Even with the facial printing tech, the features of the face look more stylised than most black series and hark back and this is not necessarily deliberate to pay homage to the 2005 3.75 figures, as this likeness and face decor was the same on her earlier release.
The 2025 release is virtually identical to the 2022 version, where Aayla Secura was part of Wave 9 of the Galaxy Collection and the 3rd release for Attack of the Clones. Comparing the two releases side by side, there are variations only in the colouring. The 2025 version does feature a more vibrant blue for the skin tone and a deeper brown on the costume.
Aayla comes with her lightsaber, the same as included in 2022, and made up of a silver hilt with plenty of cast detail but no additional paintwork save one painted gold button. The hilt can fit in either hand or be hung on Aayla’s belt via a plug on the saber hilt that sits into the socket on the belt.
The new version for 2025 comes with the usual translucent blue blade. It also features a swooshing blade version, a piece that is exclusive to this set and that previously had only been used in the Count Dooku 2020 release and in a handful of special releases such as the Starkiller release for Hasbro Pulse Con 2023 and, most recently, the SDCC 2025 Battle on Mustafar exclusive. Both blades fit securely into Aayla’s hilt for activated posing. The heavier sweeping blade can have an effect on posing and can drag down the slimmer arms of Secura, as well as bending its own peg within the saber hilt in some positions.
Aayla Secura has 18 points of articulation, all carried over from the 2022 release and that includes the older pinned articulation on the legs from her 2022 release thanks to those being donated from the even earlier Admiral Holdo release. These legs bring with them double jointed knees, which are a good trade-off to the visible pins with a wider range of movement available. You also get bonus boot cut swivels as extra movement, thanks to the tweak to replace Holdo’s boots with Secura’s. I am pleased the weak ankles on the earlier release are better on this new figure, but still not ratcheted, so there remains a level of instability.
The upper movement is more restricted, and some of this was also carried over from other figures, with the right arm a re-use from Auura Sing, meaning Secura’s arms have a different range of motion at either side. While the joints are the same, the left arm has a better level of elbow bend. With no butterfly shoulders either, the lightsaber positioning in two hands is more limited, as are the single-handed strike poses. This is a pity considering the sweeping blad,e which is best employed in more dynamic striking attack positions that are more difficult with limited arm movement.
The Revenge of the Sith Anniversary figures varied from some impressive updates like Commander Cody on the new Clone body with the Order 66 hologram, R2-D2 with his booster rockets, and the repainted movie version of the Magna Guard. The other half of the set were more mundane repacks. While Aayla Secura does a little better than Count Dooku and Kit Fisto with the inclusion of a new swoosh lightsaber accessory, she does little to enhance a figure we already had.
Pictured with Clone Commander Bly and Lieutenant Galle
This 2022 figure remains widely available and with little to split them on aesthetics, the point of difference remains the card for packaged collectors or the extra lightsaber option. Side by side, there is no enhancement of facial printing or likeness we might have expected having seen some of the other more recent improvements of figures vs their older versions. At the time of writing, Aayla Secura is still available widely in the ROTS packaging and with a discount at most retailers.
Figure Hack: Soft Goods Jedi Robes
While Aayla Secura’s outfit remains the same across all of her onscreen appearances, there have been figure releases that give her a more traditional Jedi outer robe in both the Hasbro 3.75-inch series and from Sideshow.
To that end, you can mirror this look by borrowing a female Jedi soft-goods robe from the Black Series Acolyte figures. In our example here, it is from Jedi Master Indara, but the one from Jecki Lon will also work.
The robes have to be fitted up and under Aayla Secura’s Leku, but once installed, they are a good match to her body frame and the colour of her main outfit. This robed version, which we have to assume she would wear for more formal Jedi occasions, is a good look alongside other robed Jedi Masters like Plo Koon and Mace Windu.
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