Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 3,396: Chalmun (Mos Eisley Set, The Vintage Collection)

CHALMUN Mos Eisley Set
The Vintage Collection Hasbro Pulse Exclusive
Item No.: No. G3210
Manufacturer: Hasbro
Number: n/a
Includes: Mug, blaster, Garindan, Labria, Arleil Schous
Action Feature: n/a
Retail: $74.99
Availability: October 2026
Appearances: Star Wars: The Mos Eisley Cantina Pop-Up Book

Bio: Bounty hunters, Hutt hirelings, and down-on-their-luck scoundrels of all descriptions roamed the spaceport city of Mos Eisley. (Taken from the box packaging.)

Image: Adam's photo lab.

Availability: Click here to buy it at eBay now!

Commentary: Effectively Chewbacca with new parts and a swell mustache, this figure brings a Ralph McQuarrie pop-up book painting to life. It really looks spectacular in the bar of your HasLab or cardboard Cantina.

The set with Chalmun is $75 in an era where one carded figure is $20. Hasbro no doubt saved more than a few bucks by packaging and shipping them together, and we got a slight discount as a result. It's by no means cheap and it doesn't feel like a screaming deal, but two of the four figures were never before made as Hasbro action figures in any scale or size. The other two haven't been made in roughly 20 years. (OK, a Labria repaint came out in 2007.) While I do grouse a fair bit, I don't have a reason to fault this set's character selection or pricing yet. I only say "yet" because I popped Chalmun out of the box first, and you'll be reading these reviews as I pop open and enjoy the figures.

This is a great figure. I'll go a step farther and say this is the kind of thing I want from Hasbro. I read Tales from Mos Eisley, but my first memory of seeing Chalmun is from a Ralph McQuarrie-painted cover to the Star Wars: The Mos Eisley Cantina Pop-Up Book. That's a core 1990s collecting memory, which means we have a new Cantina guy designed by old Star Wars talent in a pre-CGI, pre-Special Edition world. This is from that period of time where Kenner having figures on-shelf was not merely novel but was a life-changing nerd event, and we started to see things expanding our universe. Hasbro seemed to take few to no liberties here - they delivered a figure that looks like what you may remember from the book. The fur looks good. The vest texture is perfect. They even changed his hands so they don't look exactly like Chewie. I would absolutely love to tell you "you don't need this," but if you're anything like me you absolutely need this.

The reason I collected Star Wars was because the line ended before I was done with it, and I wanted to go back and get stuff I missed. Then I got new stuff, because I wanted more of the thing I already liked. Yes, we had new movies and comics and TV shows, but everything has to be connected to the original movie for me. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi count, and really so does anything building on what we had as kids is superbly welcome. This figure does for our Cantina what mini-rigs did for our figures - it gives us something that seems like an off-camera addition to our toybox. The only thing that would make me like this figure more is if Hasbro did it in Kenner style, even 1990s Kenner style.

Chalmun's a partial retool of 2025 Chewbacca [FOTD #3,299], who was a retool of a retool of a retool of Original Trilogy Collection Chewbacca from 2004-2005. That mold has been in circulation forever, and Hasbro has slowly replaced most of its parts. I think the only part of Chalmun that's a holdover from that 2004 release are the upper arms. Chalmun's head, hands, torso, and upper legs seem to be all new. The lower arms, lower legs, and feet seem recycled from 2025 Chewbacca. Looking back at the reference paintings, Hasbro understood the assignment.

The new face looks like Chewbacca in an unconvincing costume, not unlike Guy Incognito or Duckman N. Disguise. The head perfectly matches Ralph McQuarrie's seemingly late-19th century barkeep haircut, with an old thyme mustache. The book looks a little more gray, Hasbro's looks a little more brown. Most of the rest of the hair and face look a lot like Chewbacca, who no doubt served as the subject for the reference painting. The vest looks great, and it's puffy-looking while still being plastic. No notes, no complaints.

If you have the HasLab bar, Chalmun really has to hunch down to put his arms on it. This is easy because the legs have an excellent range of movement with thigh swivels and clicky knees. He even has rocker ankles. The figure lacks the numerous mid-torso joints that Chewbacca has, which improves his look. The waist pivot works well, and I don't like ugly joints above the waist.

The blaster is not new - it's a recolor of 2014 Ree-Yees [FOTD #2,097] and he's been repackaged twice in The Vintage Collection so far. The holster is new, as far as I can tell, and it fits like a glove. The tankard was previously used with Krrsantan [FOTD #3,053], so it probably looks familiar.

Chalmun has no problems holding his accessories, but you might have to pry his fingers a bit to get the tankard in there. It looks great, and was a really clever reuse of existing accessories. This is the kind of figure that feels like a reward for sticking around for so long, because it adds another set of hands behind the bar you might have bought without going in a direction that seems too far from the movie. Fans may bristle at having had to wait a year for more new Cantina guys, and for only two of the four being genuine debuts, but I think it works. I could use a Labria with knees, and as much as I love the previous Garindan figures they were all a little wrong in interesting ways. This set is a nice addition to all the "Return to Tatooine" stuff you picked up in 2025, or so it seems, I'll let you know when I open them. I can say Chalmun makes me glad I spent the money on this set, though, and I can't wait to see what new Cantina aliens we hopefully get next year. (Confidential to Hasbro: one or zero per year is depressing, but two or more per year feels like a good time.)

Collector's Notes: I got mine from Hasbro Pulse.

--Adam Pawlus

Day 3,396: November 10, 2025