Last night’s Chapter 3 of The Mandalorian Disney+ series saw the official re-purposing of an item seen briefly on screen in The Empire Strikes Back that Star Wars fans have grown quite fond of over the decades. If you haven’t seen Chapter 3 yet, continue reading at your own potential spoiler-filled discretion.
We’re talking of course about the off-white colored ice cream maker that was first seen in the arms of Willrow Hood as he scrambled to make his way off Cloud City in Episode V.
Jon Favreau teased us with a photo of the prop on social media during the production of The Mandalorian Season 1. And with the release of Chapter 3, the circle is now complete as the prop was seen being used by Werner Herzog’s character The Client as a holding container for several pieces of beskar. The pieces of beskar were payment for the titular character’s successful delivery of The Child as negotiated, but…
