The Mandalorian & Grogu Big Game Ad: Review and Speculation
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Join Children of the Watch as we discuss the ad spot for The Mandalorian & Grogu that premiered during the Bowl that is Super. We can't wait until Star Wars is back in theaters!
We talk about the spot's appeal to nostalgia, what the film could mean for capping off the last 50 years of Star Wars, if the snowy planet could be Hoth, or perhaps even Illum, alluding to connections to the First Order and Starkiller Base? All of this and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, you are joining Children of the Watch for a very special Super Bowl edition live stream. |
| 0:23.7 | We have gathered to discuss the Mandelorian and Grogu Super Bowl ad that we got. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, so welcome, welcome. |
| 0:32.3 | Alex, how are you feeling? |
| 0:34.8 | Okay. |
| 0:35.9 | Okay, so obviously, this was not what we were expecting at all. |
| 0:41.6 | Right. |
| 0:41.9 | We were expecting a full-length trailer. |
| 0:45.7 | Like maybe a 30-second new footage spot that actually plays as an ad and then trailer kind of coming online simultaneously maybe that's kind of that's what's been |
| 0:56.4 | done in the past occasionally uh but no we got uh i mean this is a it's it's genuinely just a nice |
| 1:04.7 | fun cute ad spot for the movie um and that's all it needed to be for the Super Bowl, to be clear. |
| 1:15.3 | Like, you know, we as Star Wars fans who are clamoring to learn as much as we can about this movie, of course, we were maybe hoping we'd get some plot details, some |
| 1:20.0 | things like that. |
| 1:20.6 | But I do think just from the immediate online buzz and everything, I do think it's working as an ad spot, particularly for |
| 1:31.6 | the general audience who they're not necessarily looking for plot details to speculate about |
| 1:36.6 | anyway and all of that kind of stuff. Not yet. Not yet. Like that will be closer to March and April that I think you really got to start turning that the heat up on that for a general audience. Now, for us, we've been clamoring for this ever since they announced that this movie was going to be made. We've been wondering, okay, what's it going to be about? What is this movie actually going to be? Who's the villain? What's the plot? We want to know all of those things, but that's us, right? And again, that's because we're, yeah, it's because we're excited about the movie. We just, we want to know. We want to know. Um, yeah, but, you know, um, we, the ad spot in end of itself, I think if you just take it as, you know, what it is, it's a really good spot. |
| 2:23.3 | I was absolutely. |
| 2:24.3 | Sam Elliott really right by surprise at first. |
| 2:28.3 | I was like, oh, okay, we're really leaning into like a Western voiceover. I was like, is this a, is this a, uh, |
| 2:36.3 | Picante sauce commercial? Uh, it's kind of what it, uh, but then, you know, as, as the spot goes on, |
| 2:43.7 | you kind of start to get the picture and it's, uh, it's a, you know, homage to the old, uh, |
| 2:48.3 | the Clydesdale commercial. Exactly. |
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