Every Star Wars Trooper on VeVe, Explained
VeVe has released a range of Star Wars trooper collectibles, including the classic Stormtrooper, Death Trooper in two series, the Night Trooper, the Scout Trooper, Shadow, Crimson and Mimban Stormtrooper variants, the Imperial Royal Guard, plus helmet and blaster props. Troopers suit army building because the same design repeats with small variations, so collectors chase the full ranks rather than a single hero figure.
Every Star Wars collection has a hero problem. You get Vader, you get Luke, you get a Jedi or two, and then you are done, because there is only one of each. Troopers fix that. There is never only one trooper. That is the whole point of them, and it is why the trooper shelf is the part of a collection that keeps growing long after the heroes have stopped.
Why collectors build trooper armies in the first place
The habit is older than most people collecting today. When Kenner shipped the first Star Wars figures in 1978, after the famous Early Bird mail-away, the Stormtrooper was one of the twelve. It was also the one kids bought twice. A single Han Solo was a character. Two Stormtroopers were a scene, and six were a corridor.
Figure collectors gave this a name: army building. You buy multiples of the same generic trooper because the display only reads correctly at volume. One Stormtrooper on a shelf is a figure. Fifteen of them in rows is the Death Star. Nobody does this with Leia.
Digital collecting inherits the instinct cleanly, and in some ways it suits it better. Physical army building runs into shelf space and packaging fast. A digital army does not, and you can view the whole rank in AR without needing a spare room. If you are new to how any of this works, start with what VeVe actually is and then come back, because troopers are a much better second purchase than a first one.
The classic Stormtrooper
The plain white armour is the icon. It showed up in the opening minutes of the 1977 film boarding the Tantive IV, and it has been the visual shorthand for the Empire ever since. George Lucas and Ralph McQuarrie built it to read as faceless and identical, and that anonymity is exactly what makes it collectible in numbers.
The VeVe Stormtrooper figure is the anchor of a trooper collection. If you are going to own one trooper, own this one first. Everything else in this guide is a variation on it, and variations read better when the original is sitting next to them.
Death Trooper, Series 1 and Series 2
The Death Trooper came out of Rogue One in 2016 and immediately became a collector favourite, mostly because of the black armour. Imperial special forces, assigned to Director Krennic, with a voice modulator that turned their comms into static. They are the version of the Stormtrooper that actually felt dangerous.
VeVe has released Death Troopers across two series. That matters more than it sounds. A second series of the same character is a different sculpt and a different drop, not a reissue, so collectors chasing completeness need both rather than treating one as a substitute for the other. This is normal for VeVe lines and it is worth understanding before you assume you already have a character covered. The glossary is useful here if series and edition terms are new to you.
Night Trooper
The Night Trooper is the newest face in the group, from Ahsoka in 2023. Thrawn’s reanimated Great Mothers’ soldiers, stalking around Peridea in weathered, half-rotted armour. It is the closest Star Wars has come to putting a horror creature in Imperial gear, and it looks completely different on a shelf next to clean white plastic.
If your trooper display is starting to look samey, this is the one that breaks it up.
Scout Trooper
Endor, 1983, speeder bikes. The Scout Trooper wears lighter armour than a standard Stormtrooper because the job is mobility, and the helmet has that distinctive wide visor band. Return of the Jedi gave it one of the best action sequences in the trilogy, and the design has been quietly popular with collectors ever since.
The variant Stormtroopers: Shadow, Crimson and Mimban
Here is where army building gets interesting, because these three are all the same silhouette in different finishes.
The Shadow Stormtrooper is the black-armoured variant that came out of the expanded material and the older games, and it has been folded back into modern merchandising because it looks fantastic. The Crimson Stormtrooper is the red version, a straight colourway play, and it is the one that photographs best in a group shot. The Mimban Stormtrooper is the odd one out and the most fun to explain: it comes from Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018, mud-caked trench armour from the Battle of Mimban, with a rain hood and a filthy, worn finish. It is the only Stormtrooper that looks like it has actually been in a war.
Collecting all three next to the standard white figure is the cleanest version of army building that VeVe currently offers. Same shape, four reads. Keep an eye on the drop calendar for when Star Wars pieces surface, because variants tend to arrive in clusters rather than one at a time.
Imperial Royal Guard
The red robes outside the Emperor’s chamber. Two of them stood there in Return of the Jedi, said nothing, did nothing, and became one of the most requested Star Wars collectibles of the last forty years. The design is pure McQuarrie logic again: hide the face, make the colour do the work.
The Royal Guard sits at the top of a trooper display for a reason. It is the elite tier, narratively and visually, and one or two of them anchoring a rank of white Stormtroopers is the display shot everybody ends up taking.
Helmets and blaster props
VeVe has also released helmet and blaster prop pieces alongside the figures, and they fill a different slot in a collection. A figure is a character. A helmet is an object, and objects display differently in AR - you can put a Stormtrooper helmet on a real table at real scale in a way that a full figure does not quite match.
Props are also the easiest entry point if you want a Star Wars piece in your collection without committing to a whole army. Browse the full Star Wars franchise page to see what has surfaced.
How series and rarity tiers work for troopers
Two things to understand before you chase.
Series numbering means a character can appear more than once as genuinely distinct collectibles, as with the two Death Trooper series. Do not assume a name you own is a name you are finished with.
Rarity tiers set how many editions exist of each piece, running from Common up through the scarcer tiers. For troopers specifically, this creates a nice split in collecting styles: some people want one of every trooper at whatever tier they can get, and some people want the same trooper at several tiers. Both are legitimate. The rarity tiers guide explains how the ladder works so you can decide which game you are playing before you start.
My own opinion, for what it is worth: breadth beats depth with troopers. The display payoff comes from having different helmets in a row, not from stacking one.
Collecting Star Wars Troopers
If you want to start a trooper rank, the honest first move is to make an account and look at what is actually available right now rather than planning around a wish list. New collectors get US$10 in free credit with no card required, which is enough to see how the app and AR display work before you spend anything. Grab it on the free credit page, and the how to start guide walks through setup if you want the steps first.