Funko is announcing three Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Pops for January 2027: Edward Kenway, Blackbeard and Adéwalé. The Black Flag Resynced remake pushed the 2013 game back into the spotlight this summer, and this wave fills a hole in the catalog. The Jackdaw's quartermaster had never had a figure, and Kenway had been waiting thirteen years for his second Pop.
Resynced put the Caribbean back at the center
Released July 9, 2026, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a full remake led by Ubisoft Singapore. Ubisoft reported more than three million copies sold in a week, two million of them on day one. On October 27, title update 1.0.8, billed as the last major content update, added New Game+ and a Nightmare mode. The game still has an active crowd as Funko sets sail.
The remake also got attention for what it leaves out. The Freedom Cry DLC, released in 2013 and built around Adéwalé, wasn't remade. In May, creative director Paul Fu told Kotaku the team had considered it before deciding to focus on the main game.
Adéwalé, finally on the shelf
Born in Trinidad, an escaped slave, Adéwalé becomes Edward's quartermaster aboard the Jackdaw. He's also the one who joins the Brotherhood long before his captain does. Ubisoft knows what it has: Freedom Cry, which follows him fifteen years later in Saint-Domingue, fighting the slave trade, came out as a standalone game in 2014. For Resynced, game director Richard Knight called him "non-negotiable": new scenes, new motion capture, and his original voice actor back.
Adéwalé (#1360) is his first Pop. It took thirteen years, a remake and the loss of his own DLC to get him into the catalog. He's the historic piece of the wave.
Thatch, Teach, and Blackbeard's name
Funko writes Edward Thatch (#1359), and it isn't a typo. The Caribbean's most famous pirate went down in history as Edward Teach, but records from the period spell his name several ways, Thatch among them. Ubisoft picked that variant in 2013, and Funko follows the game rather than the history books.
This Blackbeard is a mentor: he introduces Edward to Nassau's pirate life before dying in 1718, as he did in real history, fighting the Royal Navy. The catalog already had a Blackbeard, sideways: Marshall D. Teach (#1921), the One Piece pirate who owes him his name.
Kenway, from Pop #23 to Premium
Edward Kenway was part of Funko's very first Assassin's Creed wave in 2013, with Pop #23, alongside Altaïr, Ezio and his grandson Connor. He returns as a Pop! Premium (#1361), the line with more elaborate finishes, and he's the only one of the three to get it. The pecking order makes sense: the remake puts his face on every poster.
Our take: Adéwalé, and a missing ship
I'm taking Adéwalé. The Premium Kenway will be the most visible piece, but it's a second version of the hero. Adéwalé is a first, and the most interesting character in the game: the only crew member who knows what he's fighting for before Edward does. I'd rather have a figure that fixes an oversight than one that dresses up a hero who's already been served.
The gap is elsewhere, and it's huge: the Jackdaw. Black Flag is the game of sailing, boarding and sea shanties, and Funko releases three pirates without a ship. This wave was crying out for a Pop! Rides with Edward at the helm. Mary Read, the other major figure of the story, is missing too.
All three figures are up for preorder, with release announced for January 2027.
