Review: Star Wars Black Series Grogu from The Mandalorian and Grogu, Galaxy Collection Special
- Mephitsu
- 5 days ago
- 6 min read
"Are you scared? You should be"
When Grogu, or rather The Child as he was known initially, burst onto the scene in The Mandalorian Season 1, he was quickly incorporated into the Star Wars Black Series. The first ever release was a special release where he was packed on his own in a small Black Series-style box. Multiple releases have followed, with Grogu in a variety of poses, with different accessories, and packed with either his hover pram, with Mando, or in one of the latest releases in his IG-12 suit from Season 3. With Grogu’s appearance in the 2026 movie The Mandalorian and Grogu, and his first substantial change in costume, Hasbro returned back to the spirit of that first release - giving us Grogu in packaging shrunk to his smaller statue and with accessories appropriate to some of his key scenes in the movie.
The new Grogu figure box mirrors the design of the wider Galaxy Collection, but reduced in size. Over the matt black box are the purple tones assigned to Mando & Grogu, with the colour scheme also used on the side art, which has Grogu in his armour and holding his staff on Nal Hutta. The set is not numbered and the artwork does not connect to any other release.
The back of the box is too small to allow the artwork and background text to be included like a standard release, so instead all we get on the reverse is the copyright and legal information.
Inside the box, Grogu is sitting in a small inner tray that is backed by a purple-hued cardboard scene featuring a clouded sky with a shooting star against a hilly foreground. While we assume this is Nal Hutta based on the context of the costume, it lacks any of the jungle features, so it may well be Nevarro where he kits himself out before heading to rescue Mando.
While we said earlier that this is the first significant costume change for Grogu, the figure is still sculpted with his sandy tan robes that run from a thick collar to trailing about his feet. Like prior releases, the collar is textured and a marginally different shade, while the front of the robes shows a central joint, and where the robes meet the floor, the sculpt has been bunched up and given a rougher edge.
This time round, the extras are Grogu’s armour and gear that he dons before heading to Nal Hutta. The robes are shaped to accommodate a leather brown strap and include a saddle bag. At the front of the strap is the Beskar armoured plate with Mudhorn sigil. To the back is a silver water canister, wrapped and secured in the strap. While this is an individual sculpted piece and not as I can see fixed to the figure, the way it sits does not allow it to be removed, even if you pop off the head.
The head and hands are cast in light green and plugged into the body. The head includes paint decor picking out Grogu’s eyes and colouring around the eyes, as well as the mouth and the inner ears. There is also very subtle grey/white hair on Grogu’s head.
Articulation is limited, just 7 points in total. The head can rotate in the neck socket, while the arms are on rotating pivots so the shoulders can raise up and extend outward. The hands are plugged in and rotate, with the same principle used on the feet, but these are tucked away under the robes and rotating them makes no difference to the look or pose of Grogu.
We have three included accessories, each tied to particular scenes in the final 3rd of the movie. The first is the dried fish he ‘borrows’ from the Fisherman on Nal Hutta. This is a simple enough piece, shaped like a fish with some visibility of scales that are enhanced by a slightly darker wash. There is a ‘bite’ out of the belly of the fish, and that is coloured white to reflect the cooked flesh. Grogu’s hands have some degree of grip to hold the fish, but getting it up in two hands as though being eaten is not quite possible as the fish needed to be a few mm longer. We got our picture by using some museum putty.
Next is Grogu’s pack of blue cookies that are returned to him by Rotta the Hutt. We have seen this part before, included in the 2021 Galaxy Collection release of Grogu with his hover pram. The design is again simplistic, a silver tube with the end painted a turquoise blue to show the exposed cookies. There is a ridge built in down the length that does give Grogu a gripping option to hold these up.
The final accessory is the key one for me: the knotted and knarled staff he picks up on Nal Hutta as he explores his surroundings while trying to allow Mando time to heal. This, of course, gives Yoda vibes, and it's great to have it in figure form. The stick, due to the size, has limited detail and is left in the base brown colour. It does have a great shape and is reflective of what we see on the screen.
In principle, Grogu should hold this in either hand, but I found the right hand just didn’t have enough grip to hold it. The left worked to a degree, but the softer plastic of the hands meant this left-hand grip was still very, very loose, and the staff does keep dropping out. Considering the size and scale of Grogu, designing this with hand included and then allowing the hand to be swapped in and out would have provided security.
This single release of Grogu has a UK RRP of £10.99, and you can potentially knock up to a quid off this at selected specialists. For your tenner you get a new version of Grogu that is considerably different to all the variations we’ve seen before. Hasbro has even reflected his growth, and this new 2026 version stands a few mm taller than prior releases from the Disney+ series.
The fish and cookies are ok, but it is the armour and the staff that make this figure, really showcasing Grogu’s scenes on Nal Hutta and his growth as a character. It's great to add that look to the display for The Mandalorian and Grogu, particularly as the only other Grogu option is the one that rides on Mando’s shoulder.
So is this good value for money? Probably not, considering Grogu is nothing more than an accessory. The small box is a novelty, but I wonder if going all in on a standard-size release would have been better. That would have allowed an approach to include wider contents such as the Anzellans, the tree stump on which he meditates as a diorama piece, or even the hut he builds for Mando. It will be interesting now in the wider collection for The Mandalorian and Grogu if this is the definitive Grogu, or if Hasbro are intending to give us further variants, although I am struggling to think what these could be.
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