If, like me, you spent a bit too much of your childhood playing Star Wars: Jedi Knight II and its lightsaber-swinging multiplayer, you'll love to see who's leading the charge in the new batch of The Black Series action figures.
Kyle Katarn has finally seen a Hasbro make-over and is up for pre-order now, for the price of $27.99 at Hasbro Pulse. Don't expect to get it in time for Christmas, though, with an estimated ship date of April 1, 2026. For those of you who instead spent your childhood on James Bond 007: Nightfire (you could have one or the other, it seems, not both), Katarn is the protagonist of the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series of games from the late nineties and early noughties. That means it's high time he joined the best Star Wars toys as a high-detail Black Series action figure.
Hasbro's The Black Series imagining of Katarn sees him with a blue lightsaber and a blaster, and like most models in the series it measures 6 inches. It also comes with a moving saber effect so you can replicate my attempts (and failures) to deflect blaster bolts.
Kyle Katarn is one of several new additions to The Black Series that Hasbro has made, with several other TV show figures arriving too.
First up, from Tales of the Jedi, we've got Jedi Master Dooku, who's also wielding a blue saber. Star Wars Rebels sends us the Seventh Sister, donning a removable helmet and face mask and coming with a double-bladed lightsaber and small seeker droid. And finally, we've got Quinlan Vos from The Clone Wars who gets his own green saber.
All of these action figures will also cost you $27.99, are available to pre-order now, and will ship on April 1 of next year.
It's great to see Hasbro paying attention to the older tidbits of the Star Wars franchise, and after The Force Unleashed's Starkiller got his own action figure last year, it was about time Kyle Katarn got representation. Now it's time for them to do something for the other best Star Wars game: the original Battlefront II.
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