According to a report that originated with The Verge, Disney is telling Etsy shops and other indie sellers that they have to shut down their faux-Baby Yoda productions ASAP. This is slightly weird considering that on some level, Disney created the scarcity for Baby Yoda junk in the first place. In order to preserve the surprise reveal of The Child in the first episode of The Mandalorian, Disney, and Lucasfilm did not produce any Baby Yoda toys and dolls ahead of time. The idea was that even if prototypes of the toys hit toy fairs in the fall they could ruin the surprise. So in the interim fans created all sorts of their own versions of Baby Yoda on Etsy and other marketplaces. This is totally appropriate and fitting with the philosophy of The Mandalorian. In the series, Mando rescues Baby Yoda from his evil handlers within the Empire. In a sense, people making their own Baby Yodas is the same thing: They adopted the adorable child as their own, which, when it comes to the history of Star Wars fandom is totally normal. Sure, there have been official lightsaber toys since 1978, but who among us didn’t turn their flashlight into an even better bespoke Jedi weapon? By banning DIY Baby Yoda makes Disney seem like the Empire. This is not the way.