Review: Star Wars Black Series Seventh Sister Inquisitor from Star Wars: Rebels, Galaxy Collection Fan Channel Wave
- Mephitsu
- 11 hours ago
- 8 min read
"If it isn't the young wannabe Jedi and his so-called Master."
Despite running for four seasons, the Star Wars Black Series collection for Star Wars: Rebels has been limited to the main crew, Ahsoka, and a release of Grand Admiral Thrawn, with the last Rebels release coming in 2023 with a re-pack of Chopper, more aligned to the Ahsoka Disney+ releases at the same time. The collection is finally expanding beyond its 8-figure Galaxy Collection in 2026 with the release of the Seventh Sister Inquisitor.
The Seventh Sister is part of the first Fan Channel Wave of 2026 alongside Jedi Master Dooku from Tales of the Jedi, Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces video game series, and Quinlon Vos from The Clone Wars.
The latest Inquisitor to join the Black Series is packed in the usual box, and as stated, is part of the Star Wars: Rebels Galaxy Collection and therefore sports the purple accent colour on the text and artwork. The Seventh Sister is number 09 in the collection, and her side artwork connects to that of the 2023 Chopper release. This illustration features the fully masked Seventh Sister with her ID9 Seeker Droid sitting on her extended arm.
This image is repeated on the back of the box, where the background text describes her as “quick, agile, and deadly’ and her mission for The Empire to hunt down “Ahsoka Tano and her rebel friends”. Inside the box, the Inquisitor sits in an inner tray off set to the right as you view it, with her various lightsaber parts to the side of her. When unpacking, make sure you collect the smaller mask piece and the ID9 droid. Behind the inner tray is the colour-coordinated backing card, featuring an embedded image that is most likely Malachor.
While there have already been three female Inquisitor releases in the line to date with the Second, Third/Reva, and Fourth Sisters, this latest edition has no obvious re-use and is new from the ground up to replicate the Seventh Sister as she appears in Rebels, but converted as though a live action character.
The Inquisitor suit and armour pieces are all cast in black, with a plain torso section over which is the glossy black armoured chest piece with silver and red painted components. The rear of the chest armour includes a circular panel, but unlike the other Inquisitors, this is not where the Seventh Sister holsters her lightsaber and in the show, this is a deployment port for one of her droids. The arms feature a silver Imperial decal logo on each shoulder and painted controls in silver and red on each wrist. The Seventh Sister’s gloves are also painted with a red inner palm.
A softer plastic skirt piece and belt transition the upper body to the lower legs at the waist. This again is black in colour with a bold silver buckle and more controls in silver to the side. A loop strap is sculpted coming off the belt to the right, and at the base of the loop is a socket for the lightsaber hilt to be slung. The skirt is finished off with two silver bands and two smaller silver circular pins on each side. The legs are sculpted to be a material finish with creasing, and end in a pair of knee high boots. The trousers feature red trim on the outside, sculpted as part of the leg and painted. The boots, too, have red trim, added around the foot section, and on our figure, this final finish is a bit messy.
The headsculpt is wrapped in the black hood we see the Seventh Sister wearing in Rebels, leaving only her face visible. Like the proportions of the body, the face is translated as though a live action character, and while there is no direct likeness to Sarah Michelle Geller who voices her in Rebels, you can see aspects of her features in the sculpt. The face is a sickly yellow as seen on screen for the Mirialan, complete with facial print to add the subtle facial markings and the dark lips and dark set eyes with black eye brows and the yellow pupils looking out. The look is impressive considering there is no actor or real world images to scan. Collectors will be torn between the unmasked head and having to cover this up with the included helmet.
The helmet itself is two-part, engineered a bit like the recent Asaaj Ventress Bounty Hunter figure, but much easier to use and more secure. The main piece is gloss black, with red markings, and works from a flared base up and around the head socket and ending in a spike at the rear. Internally, there is a shaped section to fit with the rounded hood of the head. Once engaged and positioned, it holds in place and replicates the Seventh Sister’s ability to retract her mask and reveal herself.
For the fully masked version, the second part of the helmet is a gun metal silver shaped piece with two brackets on the side, and one above the faceplate. These brackets line up to sockets on the internal helmet, and while they don’t quite lock in place, they secure the faceplate over the face for the final look. Enabling the helmet to connect in this way gives you a number of different options with only one head sculpt, including the ability to hold the helmet as a full piece if needed, allowing both headsculpt and helmet to be displayed at the same time.
Our Inquisitor comes with her dual-bladed lightsaber, the hilt of which is also new and, like the other Inquisitors, is cast in black with gun metal silver detailing around its barbed circular edge and on each emitter. As mentioned earlier, the socket on the Seventh Sister’s belt lines up to a subtle plug on the saber hilt, allowing a holstered look.
There are four blades included, starting with the standard red translucent blades with an end peg that slots into the hilt. This allows the saber to be wielded ingnited as either a single or double-bladed. The hilt is a bit easier to locate in the hands than some of those that have gone before, as the holstering plug is smaller and to the side, so it does not interfere with the figure's grip. The Seventh Sister can hold the saber in either hand, with sufficient articulation for a two-handed grip as well.
The other two blades are the effect ‘swoosh’ blades, a theme with this four-figure wave. You get a pair of these, and they slot in just as easily as the standard blades. While they are heavier, the more robust Inquisitor blade holds them pretty well, and once orientated, they do a good job in particular of the notable rotating blade attack the Inquisitors often deploy.
Articulation overall is 17 points in total. This is one of the newest configurations, so the thigh swivel is gone, and rotation has been added instead at both the hip and the knees. This still presents sufficient leg movement, but the skirt piece is such a tight wrap around the waist with no splits, it is difficult to achieving kneeling or sitting positions.
There is no waist joint as such; the torso movement is built into the gap between the stomach and chest armour and provides a relatively good level of backwards lean, but very limited forward motion. The arms are butterfly shoulders with elbows that bend slightly past 90 degrees. There is no wrist pivot as such, with the hands plugged in with a ball joint that allows rotation and some sideways movement all the way round, but no significant pivot. The head sits on a duel jointed neck and really helps exenuate the Inquisitors sinister look as the head is cocked to the side, or is looking down on an opponent.
There is a final accessory of one of the ID9 Seeker Droids that the Seventh Sister deploys. This is scaled accordingly, making it the smallest Black Series Droid to date as far as I know. It is cast in black gloss with the circular head, including a painted red eye section. There are four legs, each fixed and ending in a basic claw.
There is no definitie way of posing the droid with the Seventh Sister, and while they will sit in her hand and can be propped on her shoulder, a better engineered solution would have been preferred. What is interesting, and not covered anywhere in the promo blurb for the figure, is the ability to mount the dormant droid on the back socket from where they deploy in the show. This is done by splitting the head, carefully, from the body and legs.
This leaves the top section inclusive of a small socket that corresponds exactly to the plug and shape of the back piece. While this is a very neat move by Hasbro, it is at the back of the figure, and I’d have still preferred the look of a shoulder-mounted droid, perhaps even a second droid head to mount on the back at the same time.
When the wave was first announced, the addition of the Seventh Sister was a welcome one to extend the Rebels line after so long, while fans probably didn’t expect too much considering the Inquisitor figures we’ve had to date all being underwhelming in some fashion. In hand, the Seventh Sister is very impressive, notably that head sculpt and facial printed likeness that brings her to life from the animated screen to a real-world setting, allowing her to be sat perfectly comfortably alongside the live-action ‘Kenobi’ Inquisitors and, in particular, her Rebels ‘partner, the Fifth Brother.
Articulation is sufficient across the figure, with some lack of movement in the torso and the hips, the key concern. None of this stops you from achieving a number of positions for display, both with or without her lightsaber. The divisive ‘swoosh’ blades also work really well on this figure, replicating the spinning blade attack really well. Engineering is impressive too, with the two-part helmet as well as the droid and that rear socket, although I’d still have liked a secure shoulder mounting solution.
While Quinlon Vos and Kyle Katarn might have been seen as headliners for the wave, the Seventh Sister is certainly the dark horse of the set and will certainly impress more in hand than might originally be thought.
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