After a theatrical run and a spin through the home-video machine, The Mandalorian and Grogu is landing where it was always destined to end up: Disney Plus. Lucasfilm and Disney confirmed the streaming date alongside the kickoff of D23, and it’s a short wait — the film starts streaming on September 2, 2026.
That puts the streaming debut roughly 100 days after the movie’s theatrical premiere on May 22, 2026. Din Djarin and his tiny green sidekick pulled in $345 million at the global box office — a respectable haul, though well short of the last big-screen Star Wars outing, The Rise of Skywalker, which crossed the $1 billion mark back in 2020.
If you’d rather own it outright than rent Disney’s algorithm, the film has already been available to buy digitally on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango since July. Physical-media collectors get their turn on August 25, 2026, with a 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release rolling out alongside a SteelBook edition, a Beskar Collector’s Edition, and the standard Blu-ray and DVD versions.
Critical reaction landed somewhere between polite and warm. In Polygon’s review, Jake Kleinman argued that Jon Favreau’s film “isn’t a movie for long-time Star Wars fans; it’s a desperate attempt to cultivate a new generation before it’s too late.” His verdict was more admiring than that line suggests — he credited Favreau with understanding that “Baby Yoda was a once-in-a-generation character whose appeal has more to do with his visual design than the canon and lore that surrounds him.” The trade-off, Kleinman wrote, is that a film built around “cute cutaways to Grogu” ends up as an impressive feat that “probably never should have been made” as a proper Star Wars movie.
Whatever your camp — prequel-era grump or wide-eyed newcomer — the September 2 date means the whole thing is about to be a couch-and-blanket affair for anyone with a Disney Plus subscription.
And for those who want a piece of Grogu that doesn’t live on a screen, Hasbro has you covered — for a price. The company is selling a hyper-realistic animatronic Grogu at $599.99. It’s a 1:1 scale, first-of-its-kind premium build aimed squarely at collectors, cosplayers and anyone who has ever wanted to feed the little guy his “nummies” at home. It’s an unabashedly pricey bit of merchandise, but then again, Baby Yoda has always traded on the fact that resistance is basically futile.
