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He drank space tea, rode in a space carriage, wore an oversize space jacket.

Early concept art for Baby Yoda.

He was the epitome of adorable.

Baby Yoda was shrouded in mystery.

Thats when it really became the baby, Favreau says.

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Its an amazingly difficult effort of coordination and timing.

One of the puppeteers describes the process as like a band jamming out.

Its really disconcerting and effective when you see it, director Taika Waititi says in theDisney Galleryepisode.

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It was just so real is the prevailing sentiment.

A testament to just how plausible the Baby Yoda puppet looked came from an unlikely source: Werner Herzog.

He doesnt realize the puppeteers are actually the ones.

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He fell in love with it.

(Later in theDisney Galleryepisode, Herzog describes the baby as heartbreakingly beautiful.)

Baby Yoda is just that universally beloved.

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