Star Wars Costume Spotlight: Evolution of Stormtroopers

Hey Star Wars fans! In my continuing series on Star Wars costumes, today will not only be about the Stormtroopers, but how they evolved over time!

At the museum they had an exhibit showing the evolution of the Stormtrooper models:

Here’s a photo of the original Imperial Stormtrooper form. As you can see the armor is beat up and dirty. It’s not very streamlined—note the sharper edges.

Here’s the next version of a Stormtrooper, this time from the First Order. You can see that the chest angle is not as blocky and sharp edges have been smoothed out. The blaster does look the same as the original blaster, but it’s now black and white instead of all black. The helmet looks more streamlined and more simpler than the original helmet. The shoulder pads are kind of rounded and shorter than the original shoulder pads.

Here’s the first version of an Imperial Snowtrooper from The Empire Strikes Back. As you can see the Snowtroopers wear helmets with goggles along with cloths that cover their nose, mouth, and necks. They have more substantial covering over their legs and the rest of their bodies for extra protection against the freezing cold.

Here’s the next version of a Snowtrooper but this time this one is from the First Order. The shoulder pads are now rounded and short like the ones from the First Order Stormtrooper except they have black stripes on them. The cloth is gone and has been replaced by an armored mask. This makes these improved Snowtroopers very capable of surviving in extreme cold.