Review: Star Wars Black Series Luminara Unduli from Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Collection Fan Channel Wave
- Mephitsu
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
"We suffer a great many losses in these battles. Too many."
Heading into Spring 2025 and we had just two female Jedi released in the Star Wars Black Series from the Prequel Trilogy and the associated Clone Wars series, those being a single release of Aayla Secura and a number of Ahsoka Tano releases. That number was doubled in May of 2025 with the arrival of a three-figure Galaxy Collection Fan Channel wave comprising of Luminara Unduli and Shaak Ti, both as seen in Attack of the Clones, alongside a debut figure of Sebulba from The Phantom Menace.
Luminara is the 7th release in the Galaxy Collection Attack of the Clones Series, using a deep red secondary colour on top of the matt black of the main Black Series squared collector window box. The artwork for Luminara connects directly into the 2024 Super Battle Droid release and then onward into her fellow Jedi Master, Shaak Ti, from the same wave. This artwork is repeated around the back of the box alongside the usual brief background text, which confirms Luminara as a Mirialan and her role in the Jedi Order, although without specifically naming her as a Jedi Master. It also confirms her roles in the Battles of Geonosis and Kashyyyk, although the figure is specifically labelled as being based on her appearance in AOTC on Geonosis.
The same red colouring is now used for the background insert behind the figure, with this coloured insert also featuring an embedded backdrop that we assume is the Geonosis spires and the dust clouds of the battle.
Luminara is a new figure at its core, but is built on the lower half of the original Aayla Secura body, a body that originally came from Admiral Holdo. This re-use is sensible considering Luminara’s lower robes are entirely soft goods and therefore the legs and the boots are predominenly covered. The figure uses learnings from recent robed releases like the new Darth Sidious and combines soft goods with moulded sections in softer plastic. The upper torso is sculpted in a dark brown, with the arms using a voluminous upper sleeve in a dark purple hue. A similarly coloured soft goods cloak runs around these arms and is tailored to work with the body sculpt, including some stitched panels to keep it tucked in around the skirt as well as a false hood piece around the back.
The lower skirt also features soft goods, but now in a more textured black and held in check by a sculpted belt and full-length sash that holds the shirt in place. Luminara features some exquisite detailing around this dark brown and purple costume with ornate gold and bronze designs and colouring used on the sash, and also up on the belt, the wrist bracers and a hanging pendant on the chest section. These are as detailed as perhaps we’ve seen on the Black Series to date - certainly bettering the High Republic designs applied to the Dagan Gera releases.
Luminara’s head sculpt appears to be modelled after the AOTC actor Mary Oyaya, a strong likeness in the green-hued Mirialan skin tone with the facial chin tattoos, mouth and eye details added using face print tech. She is wearing her large headpiece, another component that is sculpted and designed to work with the soft goods, holding the robes in check around the back of the figure in particular. The headdress is brown plastic and while sculpted with textural detail, particularly on the seams, it has no further paint application.
Master Unduli comes with her lightsaber, a silver cylinder with a gold tapered end and a larger ringed emitter picked out in a darker silver. The hilt also features visible switches, with both red and black coloured switches visible. There is no belt hanging facility as has been the case with most other Jedi’s, Luminara is therefore only able to hold her saber in either of the two green-skinned gripping hands, the left of which also has a trigger finger. I am assuming these are the same hands as used on Aayla Secura, and that the left in particular may have originally come from a Rey figure from the Sequels, where she was seen wielding her saber in one hand and a blaster in the left.
The green translucent lightsaber blade clicks into place as is the usual design, and looks the part once engaged and when lit on display from overhead or back-lighting.
Luminara features 19 points of articulation, a hybrid of old and new styles but with a configuration that is perhaps the most wide-ranging, considering she features pinned double-jointed knees at the legs while also sporting pinless arms with a butterfly shoulder on top of the standard ball joint. The combo of soft goods and sculpted parts allows a reasonable range of motion from these joints, although the front sash doesn’t quite behave as naturally as the rest of the skirt when Luminara is kneeling or crouching. Despite looking obstructive, the headdress is engineered with enough give for the head to rotate on the dual joint neck, which was a surprise when posing the figure for display.
In summary, there is little to fault with the Black Series Luminara Undula release, a figure that is badged from Attack of the Clones, but that will comfortably sit alongside Yoda and Gree in a Revenge of the Sith display or with any of the Clone Wars figures. She is an almost perfect hybrid of soft goods and sculpted parts, recreating her complex robes while not sacrificing much in terms of articulation. The decor is gorgeous in its complexity and a stark contrast in its gold and bronze gloss finish to the darker brown and purple robes. The lightsaber works with the articulation for fighting stances, and one of the only negatives is the lack of a belt hanging option for the saber hilt.
The release of Luminara Unduli and Shaak Ti to show Hasbro’s desire to, where possible, go deeper on the Prequel Jedi Characters and while the build of our Black Series Jedi Character’s has been slow, it is stead and we now have a pretty impressive collection, with plenty of reason to hope that more will follow, perhaps eventually reuniting Luminara with her apprentice Barriss Offee.
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