"After the baffling Mando trailer at the 2026 Super Bowl, this new full-length trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu starts off with a firm reminder that this is a Star Wars-y movie for old-school fans. We've got X-wings and Y-wings landing somewhere, and it looks like R2-D2 is rolling around, too. This isn't the gritty, sad world of Andor, the deep pre- Phantom Menace era of The Acolyte, or that new galaxy glimpsed in Ahsoka."
"This feels like the expanded universe Star Wars world of the New Republic, which The Mandalorian Season 2 explored in detail; one in which we could run into Luke Skywalker or Lando Calrissian at any time. We've got Hutts, Imperial warlords, and even some deep-cut characters from The Clone Wars. If there were a way to get fans pumped about exploring this rich part of the Star Wars timeline again, this is the way!"
"But beyond the timeline-specific aesthetics (we're still about five or six years after Return of the Jedi, technically), the trailer also jettisons the one choice that made aspects of The Mandalorian Season 3 so frustrating: there's not a huge emphasis on Mandalorian culture in this trailer, and finally (finally!), for the first time since the end of Season 2 (in 2020!), we get to see Din Djarin's face again!"
There hasn't been a Star Wars movie in theaters since 2019's The Rise of Skywalker. Rey's Force healing paralleled Grogu's Force healing on The Mandalorian, and audiences were eager for a new film. The new full-length trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu signals a return to a classic New Republic-era Star Wars tone with X-wings, Y-wings, and R2-D2 present. The trailer emphasizes nostalgia, Hutts, Imperial warlords, and deep-cut Clone Wars characters rather than the grittier tones of Andor, The Acolyte, or Ahsoka. The trailer reduces emphasis on Mandalorian culture and notably reveals Din Djarin's face for the first time since Season 2.
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