New York Toy Fair is here, new products from The Mandalorian and Grogu have been announced and the galaxy is buzzing as the days tick down to the release of the film (98 days, to be precise). To help celebrate the launch of the new Star Wars: “Most Wanted” global campaign, Jon Favreau arrived onstage to talk about the toys, and a little bit about the film (but not too much).
“With Star Wars, we have to execute at that tech level, so the challenge becomes: Okay, we presented a cinematic experience on the small screen. We have to up our game now to the movie theater. That means taller aspect ratios for IMAX, building sets that take full advantage of that, making the visual effects of the quality and caliber that we have to notch everything up. And then the storytelling as well.”
“That adventure has to fill up the screen and has to be something — at this moment in time, when so much is competing for attention — that you’re going to stop what you’re doing, and you’re going to go to a movie theater, and you’re going to sit down in that movie theater, and you’re not going to be able to pause it, and you’re not going to be able to eat the food out of your refrigerator. You have to have such a good experience that you say, ‘This is worth my time. Let’s go again. I want to bring you. You should go see it.'”
“There’s some stuff that people may have gotten clues to. He’s in a Razor Crest now, which is the ship that he originally had. He’s in the same model of ship. Grogu has leveled up a bit. We saw that he trained with Luke, and time has passed. So he’s got a little of the Jedi influence. And then he’s also an apprentice Mandalorian. So now it’s time for dad to bring him on adventures. And pretty soon there will be a few more clues out there in the world.”
“I’ve been working on Star Wars now for seven years, and to be able to step up to doing it as a film feels like a culmination of what I’m working on.”
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Other outlets were there, posting clips from the talk including journalist Jake Krol.
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Stay tuned to Fantha Tracks as we cover all the news and reveals coming out of New York Toy Fair 2026.
