Baby Yoda busting out at Toy Fair New York
What’s cute, green and everywhere you look at ?
Adorable little Baby Yoda — the breakout star of the Disney+ streamer “,” has stolen the hearts of “Star Wars” fans across the galaxy and soon will bombard those fans with countless products.
opened its doors Saturday at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, playing host to thousands of industry executives, taste makers and journalists who will eye the hottest products before they hit store shelve꧒s.
Everything “Star Wars” is bound to rocket to success, but there’s no doubt that the numerous products featuring “The Child,” aka cute-as-a-button “Baby Yoda,” will be in big demand.
Baby Yoda Build-A-Bear plush toys. Baby Yoda Funko 𝔉Pop! figures and Baby Yoda Pillow Pets. Baby Yoda Lego, Baby Yoda puzzles. Even a Baby Yoda backpa❀ck.
For the mere price of $60, Yoda fanatics can score an animatronic “Baby” by Hasbro that giggles and blinks and disarms you with his cooing.
Since Baby Yoda made his surprise debut in November, fans have been clamoring for any kind of products. But “The Mandalorian” producer Jon Favreau wanted the little guy to be a surprise, so he and Disney execs kept him completely under wraps, meaning that when the when Christmas season rolled around the next month, Baby Yoda was noticeably absent. And fans were not happy about it.
“The way the cat usually gets out of the bag with that stuff is merchandising and toy catalogues and things like that,” Favreau .
The toys are still not available, but will be rolling out during the year, with products coming out as soon as the spring, such as Mattel’s 11-inch plush doll complete with his hover crib.
At Midtown Comics in Timeꦺs Square Saturday,ಌ fans were revved up about the big reveal.
“I love Baby Yoda!” gushed Harrison Womack, an actor from Brooklyn. “It’s been the voice of this generation, a re-emergence into ‘Star Wars’ as a visual medium. The dynamic between Baby Yoda and the Mandalorian ties the show together. I will definitely buy some Baby Yoda stuff,” he said.
Connecticut’s Courtney Zam, 31, said she digs Baby Yoda and will probably purchase a Build-a-Yoda because “snuggling with Yoda would be nice.”
Roy Cruz, 18, who was in town from Maryland, will fork over his hard-earned money for the Yoda Lego because he’s been a Lego fan since he was a kid and wants “to learn about Baby Yoda and his history through the merchandise.”
Upper West Side resident Nati Charney, 20, who has been watching the Disney+series “The Mandalorian” with his twin brother, called Baby Yoda “the most adorable thing in the entire universe, and he is changing the entire ‘Star Wars’ series.” Charney noted he relishes the relationship Baby Yoda has with the Mandalorian. “The bounty hunter is like a single dad trying to navigate the world. I am getting the plush toy and then cuddling with it,” Charney vowed.