The 10 Best Baby Yoda Gifts for Star Wars Fans

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Legendary German director Werner Herzog bristled with fury when he heard that the crew of The Mandalorian was considering replacing the show’s small, green, animatronic puppet with CGI. “You are cowards,” Herzog said. “Leave it.” When he first looked upon the tiny green fellow, while playing an irascible Imperial agent named The Client in the show’s first season, Herzog reportedly burst into tears.

The crew listened. You know what happened next. The Child became Baby Yoda. Baby Yoda became an intergalactic phenomenon. Last November, as The Mandalorian took highest-streaming show baton from Game of Thrones, Vanity Fair headlined an article: “Baby Yoda Has Conquered the World.”

He’s more or less a bowling ball with ears who waddles around extremely dangerous planets in a beige bath robe. He can’t speak, he’s always hungry, and once in a while if he’s really feeling up to it, he’ll summon the Force. Mando, meanwhile, a Jason Bourne space cowboy-type, has spent 13 episodes protecting him from bounty hunters and teaching him electrical engineering.

Baby Yoda — now known officially as Grogu — is the most exciting thing to happen to a bloated, flailing franchise in decades. For the time being he owns Friday nights, but he’s clearly the future of Star Wars, and will likely be featured in a theater near you one day. More important than that, though, he’s a goddamn GIF lord. Grogu is possibly the cutest, least contentious thing to ever happen to the dark, unforgiving pit that is the internet. Everybody loves the guy. Talk about restoring the soul of a nation.

Little wonder that there was some controversy last year when rabid fans discovered there was zero licensed Baby Yoda merch on the market. Acting on a marketing brainwave from Donald Glover, creator and showrunner Jon Favreau decided not spoil the character’s existence. The ploy worked, but apparel distributors and toymakers didn’t have enough time to pump out product ahead of the holidays. Diehards had to wade through the “Baby Yoda Black Markets” of independent product sites like Etsy.

Not this year. The big boys, from LEGO, to Build-A-Bear, to even Polaroid, have been ready for months now. Everything seems pretty well-stocked, too, all things considered. (Mattel’s Plush Toy is the #1 Bestseller on Amazon right now.) So that you don’t have to sift through a mess of links to find a Baby Yoda-specific gift this year, we’ve compiled the 10 best right here. From the plush toys that’ll make you a hero with the kids, to the prints, socks and dishwasher magnets (?!) for repping Baby Yoda vibes all year-long, we’ve got you covered.