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We unashamedly love these Baby Yoda (or The Child) toys! We give you a gander at the whole line plus tell you were you can order the whole set!

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I am a 46-year-old man and I just purchased 6 “Baby Yoda” toys, a sentence I wasn’t expecting to type but one I won’t apologize for. The reason? They are super cute!

Ah. You are stuck on the headline. Some of you are already screaming, “NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE!” because that’s what you reflexively do. Others are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and saying, “Eh, whatever, let’s get weird.”

Maybe you are using cur$e words or maybe you are wildly positive, but there is no in between, no chance at us pulling together. This is the Internet and it’s a polarizing hellscape.

the whole line of baby Yoda toys
All 6 Baby Yoda toys in their packaging.

But wait: This is Baby Yoda The Child we’re talking about, the one thing that has seemed to bring anyone and everyone together, sprinkling joy and happiness around like ground up beskar fired out of a confetti cannon!

And when the toys are this cute, it only adds more joy. Let’s look at the pictures!

I can 110% confirm: They are indeed cute.

Even though each of them is pretty much a 2 inch blob of hard plastic, the sculpting, painting, and styling is designed to illicit maximum “ahhhhh”s and “oooooh”s. They are absolutely delightful.

So, get weird. Buy some Baby Yoda toys that look like they were made for toddlers. Have some joy in your life, for heaven’s sake. They are sold in 2 packs that run about $15 per pack. They are all so cute you’ll want all three packs in order to get each of the 6 figures.


I want to close this by talking about where I got these Baby Yoda action figures: Big Bad Toy Store (BBTS). BBTS specializes in stuff that might be a fairly deep cut. Although these Baby Yoda toys are made by Hasbro, I don’t know if you can grab them at Target or whatever. As with many things like this, they are made for enthusiasts and collectors. You know, nerds like us.

BBTS caters to enthusiasts and collectors. They stock the deep cuts. Masters of the Universe (MotU) ain’t a big deal in Target, but I loved it as a kid, so it’s a big deal to me. And BBTS has hundreds of MotU figures, from several different lines.

BBTS also has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, Transformers, DC, Dragon Ball, Star Wars, oodles of Marvel, and a whole bunch of japanime, horror, and manga stuff that I don’t understand, but I’m happy it exists for folks who love it.

BBTS caters to collectors, so while they don’t have the insta-teleporting shipping of Amazon, they have a rock-solid inventory system. That means if you are looking to pre-order a deep cut collectible figure that has a limited run off 100 figures, you can guarantee you’ll get exactly what you ask for if you grab it from BBTS.

I’ve now ordered a dozen times from BBTS, so I’m confident in recommending them. My favorite feature is the “Pile of Loot,” which is essentially a way where you can preorder figures and they’ll place them on hold for you and ship them all at once when you choose.

So, two things:

  1. Get these Baby Yoda toys. You’ll be glad you did! Here are the 3 sets: Froggy Snack | Don’t Leave | Sipping Soup
  2. Consider giving Big Bad Toy Store a look. If you are a collector, you’ll be glad you did!

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Baby Yoda is Coming to Eat You! (Let’s Talk about Frogs.) https://nerdsonearth.com/2020/01/baby-yoda-frog/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://nerdsonearth.com/?p=28264

Is Baby Yoda eating a frog all that shocking or grotesque? Not if we have something to say about it!

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Not much is known about Yoda’s species, despite decades of Star Wars lore. We learn what’s on screen but little more, despite hundreds upon hundreds of books and comics. Like the Force, Yoda a mystery is.

But we learned something key about Yoda’s species in the 8 episodes of The Mandalorian. They eat frogs.

baby Yoda frog

Lots of earth cultures feature frogs on the menu. Frog legs, for example are a delicacy of French cuisine. In southeastern France, cuisses de grenouille are a traditional dish that uses the hind legs with the lower part of the spine, prepared with butter, flour, garlic, and parsley, giving the frog legs a taste and texture similar to that of a young chicken.

Aztecs were known to be partial to frog legs and they aren’t uncommon in areas of the United States, like Louisiana. They were a common foodstuff in southern China as early as the first century AD. Bullfrogs are farmed in certain regions of China, where they are usually stir fried and mixed with light spices.

There was even a brief period where frog legs were considered a delicacy in Britain. They were imported in 1908 by the renowned French chef Auguste Escoffier at a grande soirée in honor of the Prince of Wales, who served up a dish he called Cuisses de Nymphe a l’Aurore, which roughly translates to Thighs of the Dawn Nymphs.

The “Nymph Thighs,” which Escoffier cooked in a bouillon with aromatic herbs, cooled, then doused with a paprika sauce and decorated with taragon leaves before being covered with chicken jelly, became a surprise culinary hit. But frog legs quickly fell out of favor with the British, who now insult the French by calling them frog-eaters.

Baby Yoda likes his frogs bone-in.

The Mandalorian depicted Baby Yoda eating his frogs whole, bone and all. It was even implied that to fetch him some food meant fetching him something with bones in it.

There are earth analogues for this as well. In fact, live-food connoisseurs actually believe meat tastes better if the animal is still alive. Hey, it’s gross to me, but for some there is no such thing as too fresh.

From chilled ants, jumping shrimp, wormy cheese, or fruit bat soup, many cultures have dishes that are served not long after the animal gasped its last breaths. Relevant to our particular culinary conversation is frog sashimi, a dish of live frogs served up filleted with their hearts still beating, and occasionally while their limbs are still moving. Sounds like a dish for Baby Yoda.

Whole Animal, Whole Meal

I’m sure there were froggy things in the swamps of Dagabah, so ate a frog, Yoda most certainly did. We’ve canonically seen Yoda’s teeth, so we can deduce that a bone-in frog isn’t a problem for Yoda’s species.

Paleontologists deduce the eating habits of extinct animals by analyzing the shape of their teeth. Consider how us humans use our own teeth: Our front incisors are knifelike and used to tear large pieces of food, while our canines act like stabbing knives. Our back molars are relatively flat and used to crush and grind chunks of food.

Humans are omnivores with a versatile set of teeth. Predators tend to have more prominent incisors and canines than we do, while herbivores tend to have more prominent molars that allow extensive grinding to release nutrients from tough plant matter.

Yoda’s teeth in the movies look quite human, if well worn, with visible incisors and canines. So, Yoda is likely an omnivore, assuming his species has molars in the back. We saw him chew his glimmer stick and make vegetable stew on Dagaboh, but frogs and snakes could have been a possibility.

Baby Yoda Ate a Frog

So, what did we learn here? Well, Baby Yoda eating a frog isn’t that weird after all. Before we call it gross and shame him into spitting it out, let’s remember that it’s a big galaxy with lots of cultures. And, yes, many of them eat frogs.

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