The Mandalorian's first official Baby Yoda merchandise is disappointing

Vulture

"Baby Yoda, the breakout icon of the moment, is simply not getting the merchandising attention it deserves," says Jackson McHenry. "Disney kept the li’l green guy — who, to be clear, is not actually a baby version of Yoda, but is a baby of the same species — a secret before it appeared in The Mandalorian, and apparently they were either so committed to secrecy or so unprepared for how much of a breakout star Baby Yoda would be that they didn’t prepare any good official Baby Yoda merch. On the Star Wars website, Disney has posted a first batch of official merch for 'the Child' (the name they’re insisting on using for Baby Yoda), and it’s … extremely meh. It all uses the one official piece of concept art, and looks like cheap tour shirts from a band listed at the very bottom of a Coachella poster..."

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