Review: Star Wars Black Series Galaxy's Edge Jedi Temple Guards 2-Pack Disney Exclusive
- Mephitsu
- Aug 3
- 7 min read
“You will never be strong enough to protect your pupil, and you will perish for your failure.”
It was 2023 when the last Star Wars Black Series release packaged for and sold at Disney Parks and Disney Stores as an exclusive was released: the Dok Ondar figure from Black Spire Outpost. Now, some three years later, the Black Series is heading back to Disney Parks with a new 2-pack release of the Jedi Temple Guards, as seen in the animated series Clone Wars and Rebels.
The new Jedi Guards pack is a closed-box design, like Ondar, with an opening front cover, which, unlike Ondar (who arrived during the plastic-free era), reveals a window and the figures underneath. The box is the same profile in terms of height, depth, and width as a standard Black Series 2-Pack but uses the Disney Parks branding with a grey outer border around a hexagon-shaped ‘door’ in which we have an illustration of the two included Jedi Temple Guards in grey-scale art. Above them, and in a deep red band is the name of the set. To the bottom right of the front cover is the foil Dok Ondar merchandise sticker.
The back of the box has two further greyscale images of the two guards and some background text that talks about the Jedi Temple Guards' role as ‘anonymous sentinels’. The front, once open, features more text that goes into detail about their ‘formal robes and identity-concealing masks’ and their dual-bladed weapons. This sits alongside an identical version of the artwork used on the back of the box
Inside the box and set into an inner tray are our two Jedi Temple Guards and their lightsaber weapons, with the tray then framed at the sides and behind with a deep red cardback that matches the wider colour scheme of the box.
The first Jedi Temple Guard is the same design, from The Clone Wars, as released in 2025 as a single figure in the Galaxy Collection, part of the 3rd Fan Channel Wave of that year.
He is wearing the more ornate robes, which are applied over the base body as softer rubber sleeves to create the cross-robe tunic in white with golden painted Jedi symbols on the chest and over the shoulders. This runs down to a two-piece skirt, the outer skirt being plastic while the inner skirt is a soft goods piece in beige with a lighter cream trim.
Around the Guards' waist is a belt, part of the skirt piece itself, painted in browns and with several ornate keys hanging around its width. These are each painted in gold or silver. Under the robes there is a basic torso in tan brown, with matching arms that then include darker beige bracers and gloves. The legs are a grey colour, again plain in design with the outfit concluded by a pair of knee-high boots with a more ornate knee guard and visible clasps and straps that are left unpainted.
The Guard’s hood is also a softer plastic, white in colour with beige trim and shaped to frame the head naturally and to line up with the main tunic so they appear on first glance as the same piece. Under the hood is an individual headpiece sitting on a neck piece. The facemask is the brightest white of the whole figure, with the sculptural markings each picked out in gold.
vs 2025 Galaxy Collection Single Release (right)
Comparing this new 2-pack release with the original 2025 single figure shows no changes physically and only very minor paint variations that we might expect from different factory runs.
Our Jedi Temple Guard is armed with a dual-lightsaber pike that comes in a gold and silver hilt with a peg to one end that can be used to holster it on the Guard’s belt. The central silver grip fits into either of the Guard’s gripping hands and can be displayed as it stands, or ignited with two translucent yellow blades included - shorter than the usual saber blades - that can clip into place.
The second Jedi Temple Guard is new to this set, and is based on a different outfit worn by the Jedi Temple Guards in flashback scenes from Star Wars: Rebels Season 2, Shroud of Darkness. These Guards are without their outer robes and hoods.
The main suit of the second guard is a simple set of grey trousers and a varying grey-sleeved tunic. Over this sits a white set of shoulder and chest armour, sculpted with the ornate gold scrollwork and Jedi symbols that are then painted in white. The arms sit under the shoulder pauldrons and are the exact same ones used on the first Jedi Temple Guard, including the bracers and gloves in two tones of light tan brown.
The waist has a simpler belt in dark brown with gunmetal clasps and a pair of hip-protecting panels sitting on either side in the same white as the armour and with flashes of gold trim at each corner. The legs underneath are the same upper legs as the first Guard, but the boot design has been changed to remove the ornate knee design to better match the visuals from the episode of Rebels.
The second guard has the same head as the first, just this time it's not enshrouded in a hood and is fully visible. The main mask is white, with gold painted sculpted scrollwork across the front section. At the back, we have a plain grey panel that lines up with the mask to complete a fully enclosed helmet. The neck piece is the same as the original figure, but painted up differently in two tones of grey to tie it to the main outfit.
This Guard also features a twin-bladed lightsaber pike, but this is a variation on the other Guard’s weapon and features a folding ability similar to the one we see Rey wield in her Dark Side Vision in Rise of Skywalker. Like the other Guards' hilt, this is silver and gold in colour with each half also including a ribbed collar painted in black. The folded weapon can be holstered by way of a peg and corresponding socket on the belt. Otherwise, it can be gripped in either or both hands. There are two further translucent yellow blades for this saber, allowing an ignited look for display.
As both figures share most of the articulated parts, articulation is the same overall, with 17 points of articulation in total on each figure. The legs see the removal of the thigh swivel, and the rotation now sits within the knee joint. The fully robed guard has some level of restriction with the longer skirt piece, while the second guard is more poseable in terms of kneeling or combat positions.
The upper torso is jointed at the waist with a ball joint, and above it the neck has joints at the top and bottom. Again, the robed Guard has reduced movement in the neck/head thanks to the hood, while the second guard has a full range open to him. The arms include butterfly shoulders, elbow joints and wrist pivots, and both guards can achieve two-handed weapon positions for their lightsaber staffs, either guarding their post or in battle against an enemy of the Jedi.
This Jedi Temple Guards set is beautifully packaged, but in packaging that aligns with Disney Parks collectibles and not the wider Black Series, where figures in this style of box are a minority if you are a boxed collector. Its also one of the first Disney Parks pieces to not be directly tied into Galaxy’s Edge or the Black Spire Outpost. The price tag is higher than usual, with Disney charging $59.99 in the US. The UK availability has been difficult to say the least, with an early listing on Hasbro Pulse now ‘disappeared’ and no Disney Store pages. There are, however, some options for import stock from the Far East through UK etailers, which is how our set was sourced.
With this set is not being brilliantly handled by Hasbro/Disney/Distributors, so this could go either way. It may become super hard to find and therefore shoot up in price, or it could just as easily be plentiful and even on clearance in the next few months. With the UK having no solid Disney Store apart from London, and no Parks, this is one you will need to source online.
In terms of value for money, the set offers nothing extra considering the price equates to £30 per figure. The same robed Guard was a £25 RRP less than a year ago, and while the new figure is impressive and aligned to Rebels rather than The Clone Wars, it should really have been a single Galaxy Collection Rebels release rather than making it exclusive to this set. Overall, while the figures are well executed and welcome additions to a collection, there isn’t enough to warrant the increased price other than the box and artwork. The set is perhaps missing a few added extras such as a Pau’un head for the Jedi Temple Guard that would become the Grand Inquisitor.
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