Grand Admiral Thrawn was first introduced in the early 90s as part of Timothy Zahn's original trilogy of books that at the time were an officially licensed continuation of the Star Wars saga. Taking place 5 years after the second Death Star was destroyed, Grand Admiral Thrawn has been gathering the remnants of the Imperial forces together. His strategy to rebuild the Empire is largely dependent on finding a secret storehouse where the Emperor stored technology he didn't want anyone else to know about. In this storehouse is cloning technology--and the crazy clone of a former Jedi Master. Thrawn uses the Jedi Master to help build an army of clones. Then he finds a fleet of Old Republic dreadnoughts that had disappeared a long time ago. Thrawn is on the brink of dealing the New Republic a crippling blow when he's assassinated by his own bodyguard, Rukh.
In the late 90s, Thrawn was one of the Expanded Universe characters who was made into a figure, along with Mara Jade and some others. I have both of those figures.
After Disney bought the rights to Star Wars, they declared Zahn's books (and the others) to be non-canon, but they threw fans a bone by adding Grand Admiral Thrawn to the third season of Rebels as a recurring villain. To go along with this, Zahn also wrote a new trilogy that detailed Thrawn's rise through the Imperial ranks to his attempts to get the elite TIE Defender into mass service.
Along with the other Rebels characters, they also made a Grand Admiral Thrawn figure that my brother gave me for Christmas a few years ago. The figure is a good likeness and it's cool to have even if it only came with a pistol.
I think along with the characters from Rebels they recently reissued the Thrawn figure. It's pretty much the same, only in different packaging.
At the present Timothy Zahn is writing another Thrawn trilogy, this time going back to when he was part of the Chiss Ascendency, the alien empire he originally came from. I haven't read any of those yet, but maybe someday. And with a Thrawn mention on The Mandalorian, there's the chance he might get a live action version that could lead to another figure.
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It will be cool to see Thrawn in live action...it has to happen at this point lol. And yes, they reissued the Thrawn figure only in the blister package instead of the box. It would have been cool to give him more accessories or something. I wish when they "wiped out" the canon after the Mouse takeover, they really had left the initial Thrawn trilogy in place and then worked from there...it would have given such a good foundation for storytelling and made many fans much more receptive to the new material...but what do I know
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