Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 trailer breakdown

The brand new Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 trailer is filled with new and familiar ships, characters and locations, and we’re breaking it down one frame at a time.

The third season of the first live-action Star Wars show premieres on March 1 on Disney+, and the marketing campaign is now kicking into full gear with a brand new trailer. Alongside our first glimpse at a rumoured LEGO Star Wars set, the one-minute and 42-second clip includes plenty of new and returning characters, planets and vehicles.

In anticipation of what’s to come, we’ve pulled apart every frame of the new The Mandalorian Season 3 trailer to pick out the most intriguing moments.

The trailer opens with a group of Mandalorians hiking across an unknown planet (could it be Mandalore?), as Din Djarin tells how his people are ‘scattered like stars in a galaxy’. You’ll recognise several of these colourful characters from the now-retired 75267 Mandalorian Battle Pack.

Following the events of The Book of Boba Fett, Mando and Grogu are reunited – and flying the bounty hunter’s new ship, 75325 The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter. Expect to see plenty of this speedy starfighter across the new season. Din can be heard here teaching Grogu the Way of the Mandalore.

We’re back on Navarro, which looks much more colourful than in previous seasons (and is now also home to a Kowakian monkey-lizard). We’d love to see a new white protocol droid in LEGO, but we’re not holding our breath.

Greef Karga – portrayed once again by Carl Weathers, who’s also in the director’s chair for at least one episode this season – is in yet another new outfit, so we’re looking forward to seeing that inevitable LEGO minifigure.

The Armorer is also back in action, presumably to make more new gear for Mando (or maybe a tiny little helmet for Grogu? Except you can’t cover up that face, surely). 75319 The Armorer’s Mandalorian Forge has now retired, so you’ll need to turn to the aftermarket to grab her minifigure (unless she shows up in a future LEGO Star Wars set).

Din tells the Armorer that he’s ‘going to Mandalore, so that I may be forgiven for my transgressions’, and thus sets up the main arc for The Mandalorian Season 3. We also get a glimpse of what’s definitely Mandalore…

Peli Motto – who’s also included in 75325 The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter – waves him off. That set really looks to be a must-buy for The Mandalorian Season 3, regardless of your thoughts on The Book of Boba Fett.

Fireworks! Din and Grogu jet off in their space equivalent of a hot rod, leaving a city-like planet in their wake. There’s no confirmation yet on exactly which planet that is, but subsequent scenes suggest it could be Coruscant. Other contenders include Daiyu, which first appeared in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, or a brand new location.

Speaking of those subsequent scenes: one quick shot includes Pershing, the clone engineer who was pursuing Grogu in the first season of The Mandalorian. He eventually betrayed Moff Gideon at the end of the second season, offering valuable intel to Mando, Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves on their mission to rescue Grogu from the Empire’s clutches.

Perhaps somewhere deep in the bowels of Mandalore itself, a mysterious character uncovers a mysterious, presumably ancient helmet. Fingers crossed this is teasing a deeper dive into Mandalore’s history, perhaps through flashbacks, because…

…the next frame features a tantalising clip of four Jedi, lightsabers drawn, in what looks like the temple on Coruscant. Could we be about to see yet another flashback to Order 66, following Obi-Wan Kenobi’s opening scenes?

Smash cut to present day, and Din and Grogu are apparently being pursued in a Mandalorian Fang Fighter by a squadron of TIE Interceptors. If that pairing of ship names sounds familiar, it’s because a LEGO Star Wars double-pack with both vehicles is rumoured to be on the way in May, with 957 pieces for €99.99.

At some point in The Mandalorian Season 3, our hero will find himself in a droid workshop (that’s character growth for you). New and familiar robots inhabit this space, from astromech and protocol droids to full and partial B-1 Battle Droids. You can never have too many LEGO Battle Droids…

In a clip reused from the first Season 3 trailer, a group of Mandos – among whom appears to be Paz Vizsla – drop from a ship on to what could well be Mandalore. Quite how heavily the planet will feature in The Mandalorian Season 3 remains to be seen, but we reckon it will be somewhere along the lines of ‘a lot’.

New footage then shows the ragtag team of Mandos fighting their way through the streets of whatever planet they’re on, before one of the crew fells a Nikto next to an open window. The camera cuts to reveal two cute characters of the same species as The Rise of Skywalker’s best new addition to the franchise, Babu Frik.

Finally, Grogu gets a moment in the spotlight. Retreating into a cave in his pod, he’s confronted by a hulking monster of a character – species unknown – and the screen cuts to black. Is this the end for poor Baby Yoda?

No, of course not. Mando deadpans ‘this is the way’, before the monster comes flying out of the cave – followed by Grogu, hand raised, having just used the Force to save himself from certain doom. Looks like Luke Skywalker’s training in The Book of Boba Fett has paid off – and if the finale of Season 2 taught us anything, it’s that this show isn’t afraid to indulge in power fantasies for its main characters.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 debuts on Disney+ on March 1, 2023. Check out the trailer in full below, along with a breakdown of both LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian sets rumoured for 2023.

Every LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian set rumoured for 2023

LEGO set	Price	Pieces	Release date
75346 Pirate Snubfighter	€34.99	285	May 2023
75348 Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs. TIE Interceptor	€99.99	957	May 2023

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