Review: Star Wars Black Series Boba Fett (Daimyo) from The Book of Boba Fett, Galaxy Collection Wave 24

"Jabba ruled with fear. I intend to rule with respect.”

Following Boba Fett’s dramatic return to the Star Wars saga in The Mandalorian and then onward into his own series, The Book of Boba Fett, we were quickly provided with new Black Series figures from Hasbro. These 2022 releases were all released in quick succession, giving us Fett in his Tusken gear, followed by two Deluxe releases of Fett in his armour. The first of these was as seen on Tython with the armour still damaged and heavily paintworn, and soon after this, the same figure was repainted and badged as the Throne Room version. This was Fett as seen in the last few episodes of Mando Season 2 and then the armour and costume he was wearing as he strode into Jabba’s old Throne Room and ‘replaced’ Bib Fortuna as Daimyo. These three releases did cause a bit of Fett-fatigue back in 2022, and all three figures pegwarmed for some time.

In 2026, some three and a bit years later, Hasbro are returning to bring us the next evolution of the New Republic-era Boba Fett as seen in the present-day events of The Book of Boba Fett. This figure, badged by Hasbro as the Daimyo release, is one of four figures in the first wave of Black Series for 2026, Wave 24 overall. The wave also contains Boba’s father, Jango, who himself gets a full makeover. The other two figures are a Bounty Hunter Asaaj Ventress, and a re-release in the squared box packaging for Darth Vader ‘Final Duel’ from the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.

The Daimyo Fett finally continues the Book of Boba Fett Galaxy Collection, with the deep green highlight colour on the black box across key text elements and the artwork to the side and back. Fett is number 09 in the collection, with the montage image on the side connecting into the last release from this line, the Glavis Ringworld release of The Mandalorian from 2023. This is the first Book of Boba release to come in the new collectors' squared packaging design of Phase 4. The back of the box carries some basic background text that talks about Boba being a clone of his father, Jango, and his career as a Bounty Hunter, but makes no reference to the events of The Book of Boba Fett. This text makes no reference to the ‘Daimyo’ title, and the term is not captured anywhere on the box, considering we were probably expecting this as a subtitle to the name to differentiate it from earlier releases. The internal cardback, also in a matching green, features an embedded image of the main buildings in Jabba’s Palace.

This ‘Daimyo’ release of Boba Fett represents his ‘final form’ from The Book of Boba Fett, after the Bacta healing and after he discards the Tusken robes for a more streamlined black undersuit, more in keeping with his Original Trilogy costume, although much darker. The torso is a sleeve over a basic chest piece and features a black base with a large, rolled and bunched collar as one final throwback to the Tusken desert gear. The front features deep green painted armour complete with the silver central panel and to the right-hand side, the white and blue wheat emblem, which remains a non-canonised sigil of the Mandalorians or Fett himself. This is too detailed to paint and is instead an applied decal. 

Like the main torso, the arms are also black, with fabric folds included in the sculpt to mirror the onscreen costume. These are covered at the shoulders with deep yellow Pauldron’s the left hand side of which carries another decal, this time of the Mythosaur skull. From the elbows downward, Fett is wearing burgundy bracers, with the left hand side cast with a wrist missile that is then painted in silver, with a bronze tip. The right arm also has three flexible cables that come out from under the shoulder pauldron and connect to the bracers, these are not attached to the elbow but snake over it. They represent the fuel supply for Fett’s wrist flame thrower. 

The legs, like the arms, are black and with stitched detail down a central seam and incorporate creasing and folds. The knee sections are ribbed like a combat suit, and then they are covered with a pair of deep yellow knee pads with sculpted, but unpainted, side weapon launchers. Fett’s boots are the same burgundy as the bracers, with a grey finish to the soles and toecap. The costume is finished with a soft plastic cast belt in burgundy with a bold and bright golden buckle, and paint ammo to one side in an included ammo bandoleer. A holster connects from the belt and then straps around the right leg, allowing Fett to holster his blaster. The belt is finished with a soft goods black skirt section that wraps the back of the legs and flows down to just over Boba’s ankles. 

The Jetpack is, of course, also included, fitting onto the rear of the figure by way of three sockets that correspond to pegs on the Jetpack. The fit is semi-secure and will hold in place while you pose (and play) with your new figure. The pack is cast in green with painted blue and burgundy detailing to the central section and the side thrusters. You also get a touch of silver on the large single rocket, and this can be detached if you wish. The two lower thrusters are articulated in that they can rotate, and both include a socket that would accept a pair of Thruster FX pieces, such as the ones from the Return of the Jedi Fett, or indeed from some Iron-Man figures in the Marvel Legends series. 

The headsculpt is probably the best Temura Morrison to date, either younger from the Prequels or older from the New Republic era shows. It includes scarring around the face and head, and has very intense eyes in the deep set brow. Facial printing adds realism to all of these features and gives Boba a stern and determined look. 

You do of course also get his helmet, and this is cast in green with a painted gloss black T-shaped visor, trimmed in the deep burgundy colour. This trim also continues back around the helmet, where it sits alongside some orange rectangular markings in a repeating pattern down the left-hand side. To the right is the range finder, a hinged piece with a silver shaft and a black lens, all set in a sand coloured fitting to the side of the helmet. The fit over Fett’s head is OK, but it is noted that from some angles, the chin remains visible. There is online noise and suggestions that the internal lining of the helmet can be removed to make the head sit lower. I was not concerned enough to do this at this stage. 

Hasbro did position this new Boba Fett as a brand new release, but there appears to be a handful of re-used parts, although not as many as I first thought. While I cannot say for certain, the head sculpt may be the same one used on the 2022 releases, but with a vastly overhauled facial print treatment. The basic facial structure, shaping and sculpted scars and features appear identical. 

Daimyo 2026 (left), Throne Room 2022 (middle), Tython 2022 (right)

While the torso sleeve looks the same, when you get into side by side detail we can see the shape is adjusted and the dings and dents on the first two are no longer visible. I suspect the base torso underneath is probably the same. The Pauldrons are smaller on the new figure, although the upper arms look to be the same, as is the cable loom that connects to the right arm. Both bracers again look similar, but there are differences, so both forearm pieces are new, while the hands seem to be the same across all three figures. From here, everything from the belt downward is new.

Daimyo 2026 (left), Throne Room 2022 (middle), Tython 2022 (right)

Jetpacks are the same across all three figures, apart from the paint job. The 2026 helmet is new and is smaller in terms of overall height, with the decor updated to the Daimyo release's repaired and repainted armour. It still sports the dent and quite possibly shares the range finder with the older figures.

Weaponry is reused from the older Fett figures and starts with his sidearm, the unclassified blaster with twin slim barrels and an open trigger. It is cast in a grey plastic, but has a metallic look to the main body, possibly an overpainted metallic hue or finish. The grip is painted brown, and this is less defined and also overpaints the two visible sculpted bolts down the grip section. It can be holstered into the belt holster, or held in the right hand, where Boba comes with the standard flexible trigger finger. 

The other weapon is his larger EE-3 Carbine Rifle. This is similarly coloured with a gun metal blastic but with a glossier finish to the barrel and sights. The stock is painted brown and still leaves a rear component on one side in the grey finish. While the weapon looks great, it is a stinker to get into Boba’s hands thanks to the shape of the enclosed grip and trigger. It takes a bit of manoeuvring and some stretching of the fingers, but it can be done. The problem once there is a lack of side-hinged wrist joints, so the weapon cannot be tilted away from the body.

This leaves the stock pressed hard against the forearm which causes it to bend. This has been an issue on nearly every Fett released since the line started, and it's still not engineered out. Assuming you accept the warping in the grip position, the left hand will come across and snugly grip and cradle the barrel. Once both hands are positioned, the blaster rifle is pretty much fixed in a position against Fett’s lower chest, aiming out to the side. There is insufficient arm articulation to raise it up, and firing in a natural stance that we are used to on the likes of our Storm and Clone Troopers. 

This new release doesn’t dramatically enhance the articulation from the prior releases except in one area, which we will explore in a moment. There are a total of 21 points of articulation on the figure, with further joints on the helmet range finder and on the jetpack thrusters. The head is twin-jointed, extending the head movement beyond a simple rotation to allow for head tilts and angled positions, with or without the helmet. The torso features a ball joint sitting just above the belt. This is more limited than we might prefer, with a relatively good level of back lean, but very limited and very springy ab-crunch which doesn’t want to hold and wants to spring back into the neutral position. 

The legs are well designed with a hip joint, knee joint, boot cut rotation and an ankle rocker. The loss of the thigh cut swivel removes that from an aesthetic perspective and allows the legs to flow, with the knee joints neatly disguised around the costume and the armour.  Boba Fett is also the first Black Series release with a toe joint! These are equally well disguised, and while not always useful, should you pose Fett walking, running or kneeling it is great to finally have that option. The question is, will this be a standard going forward. 

The arms are disappointing for a gun-toting figure like Fett. The shoulders are tucked too far into the toros sleeve, and with this alongside the armoured pauldrons and what seem to be very recessed butterfly joints, the movement is limited to the arms being raised to shoulder height only, and very little else. The left elbow is about on par with the standard range of new releases, achieving a 90-degree bend. The right is heavily restricted by that cable loom. The cables have to be spun and positioned with the elbow in the middle before it can bend, and when doing so it still stretches the cable and risks overall damage. There is some rotation in the forearm cut to help with arm movement, but as you reach the hands, these are pivot pegged to the bottom of the wrist and not the side, which really hurts weapon posing. I suspect these may be designed this way to have Fett hold his helmet under his arm. There is also a substantial flaw with the same right arm, where the inner bicep clashes with the sleeve of the torso, so while the left arm folds flat to the body, the right arm constantly sticks out.

We are quite deep now into Boba Fett releases, both for the Original Trilogy and the New Republic era. This latest version gets reasonably close to replicating everything we’d want for the Daimyo of Mos Espa, and it certainly captures the outline and proportions of Temura Morrison in full armour as well as his likeness to the head sculpt. There are grumblings over the helmet, and I can see the issue from angles where Fett’s chin is visible. There is a hack to remove the inner plate, but that will need to be done at your own risk. Another hack is for Fett to borrow the Throne Room helme,t which still fits the head and has a very similar paint finish. 

The bigger issues are in the arm articulation and a lack of movement in the shoulders and elbows, further compounded by the use of a set of three cables as an individual piece, but without enough flex to not break if the arm is bent when they are straddling the elbow. The wrists are also an odd choice to pivot at the base and not the side, making the EE-3 rifle in particular tricky to wield without having it bend and warp while in Fett’s grip.

There are positives too, with the very first toe articulation and a set of legs that work brilliantly, supported by a subtle and non-intrusive soft goods skirt. The two 2022 Fett’s in this configuration were both sold as Deluxe figures at an increased RRP on the back of paint complexity. While this new version is simpler in decor than say the Tython version, there is little difference and therefore the Daimyo release is very adequately priced as a standard release for the circa £25 UK price (now $27 in the US). Well worth an upgrade for fans of Boba Fett and the show, lining up perfectly with Fennec Shand and Krstantan, or facing off against Cad Bane and the Pykes. 

Keep Track of all the Star Wars Black Series figures from Hasbro at our comprehensive

Star Wars Black Series Collectors Database & Checklist

If you are reading this via a 3rd party website that is importing our newsfeed, please come and visit us directly and give us a follow on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Check out our direct news feed for more action figure news, reviews, and store reports

---

About Me : As a child of the 70's and 80's I grew up in a golden age for action figures and in my youth bought and sold myself through collections of Star Wars, G.I. Joe (Action Force) and M.A.S.K. while also dabbling in He-Man, Transformers and Ghostbusters. Roll forward and I am now reliving that Youth with the action figures of today and am a collector and fan of the larger 6-8 inch figures from my favourite movie and TV licences - including the ones mentioned above, but also the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Who and the Aliens. I launched The Mephitsu Archives in 2015 with a view of creating a UK focused site or these figures where fans can pick up the latest action figure news, read reviews and get information on where to buy their figures and what is currently on store shelves. I hope I am delivering that to you guys...

---