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The Mandalorian & Grogu’s New Razor Crest Explained (And What Happened To The N-1)

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The Mandalorian & Grogu’s New Razor Crest Explained (And What Happened To The N-1)

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian & Grogu One of the biggest surprises in The Mandalorian & Grogu is the return of a Razor Crest for Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin....

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May 23, 2026 10 Mins Read
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Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for The Mandalorian & Grogu

One of the biggest surprises in The Mandalorian & Grogu is the return of a Razor Crest for Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin. Ever since the bounty hunter’s original ship was obliterated by Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian season 2, Djarin and his adopted son had largely been using a custom N-1 Naboo Starfighter. However, there are actually some pretty good reasons why a new Razor Crest has been brought back to the franchise.

Following the original Razor Crest’s demise, the shift to a smaller starfighter made sense. When Djarin custom-built the N-1 on Tatooine as seen in The Book of Boba Fett, Grogu was training with Luke Skywalker at the time. Likewise, Djarin had gradually been drifting away from collecting bounties in favor of more personal missions like redeeming himself in the eyes of his clan and helping his fellow Mandalorians liberate their homeworld in The Mandalorian season 3.

However, Djarin and Grogu are now working for the New Republic hunting down Imperial Remnant warlords, meaning the N-1 would be somewhat impractical if he were to try to take any of them alive (The New Republic’s preference to gain new intel). Now, The Mandalorian & Grogu solves the issue in a pretty satisfying way across the board. Here’s how Djarin gets his new Razor Crest, and what ultimately happens to his N-1 Naboo Starfighter in the new Star Wars movie.

The New Republic Gave Din Djarin A Brand-New Razor Crest

The new Razor Crest flies above the water and the shore of an unidentified planet.
The new Razor Crest flies above the water and the shore of an unidentified planet.

Early on in The Mandalorian & Grogu’s first act, Din Djarin receives his brand-new ship courtesy of the New Republic itself.

After successfully taking out the Imperial warlord Commander Barro in the movie’s opening action sequence, Din meets with Sigourney Weaver’s Colonel Ward to debrief. She then offers Djarin both his payment and an advance for his next job: a shiny new Razor Crest with yellow accents.

Unlike Djarin’s original ship from the Disney+ series, which was pretty worn down by The Mandalorian season 2, this version is noticeably cleaner and newer despite being a pre-Empire craft. Ward explains that the New Republic recovered this stock Razor Crest model from the private collection of a captured Imperial commandant who hoarded several vintage ships that remained largely untouched.

Honestly, it’s a pretty solid explanation for the Razor Crest’s return. Agreeing to take on the new mission involving the rescue of Jabba the Hutt’s son Rotta in exchange for information from the Hutt Syndicate about the mysterious Imperial Commander Coin, Djarin and Grogu take off in their new Razor Crest alongside Star Wars Rebels’ Zeb Orellios, who helped convince Djarin to take the job (and ship).

Why Star Wars Brought Back The Razor Crest For The Mandalorian & Grogu

Din Djarin Mandalorian & Grogu And Razor Crest Return Star Wars Image Custom Image by Kevin Erdmann

From a storytelling perspective, giving a Razor Crest back to Din Djarin was honestly the right move. After all, the original ship became pretty iconic during the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, having been on-screen just as much as Djarin and Grogu themselves during their first adventures traveling from world to world.

















A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away · Eight Questions
How Well Do You Know Star Wars?
“The Force will be with you. Always.”

🗡️Jedi OrderLight-side guardians

⚡The SithRule of two

⚙️The RebellionA new hope

🪓Bounty HuntersThis is the way

👑The EmpireOrder 66

01

The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?




✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.

✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.

02

A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.




✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.

✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.

03

In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?




✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.

✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.

04

Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.




✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.

05

In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?




✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.

✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.

06

The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?




✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.

07

Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?




✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.

08

Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.




✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).

✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.

The Force Has Spoken · Final Tally
Your Galactic Standing

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Jedi Master — or moisture farmer on Tatooine?

Beyond the nostalgia factor, there’s also the simple fact that, as cool as the N-1 is, it’s still pretty small and cramped. The Mandalorian & Grogu’s plot and bigger scope absolutely required a bigger ship to be used, especially considering just how large (and jacked) Rotta the Hutt is in his brand-new appearance. Likewise, Zeb is essentially Djarin’s New Republic assigned partner/handler in this movie. There’s no realistic way he was ever fitting inside the N-1 alongside Din and Grogu (though that is pretty funny to imagine). It’s why they used a Rebel U-Wing in the movie’s opening action sequence.

Don’t Worry, The Mandalorian Still Has His Custom N-1 Starfighter

New Razor Crest Parked Next To N-1 in Mandalorian & Grogu

Thankfully, Star Wars fans don’t need to worry about the N-1’s fate. Despite the return of a Razor Crest, The Mandalorian & Grogu quietly confirms that Djarin still has the custom Naboo starfighter he built during The Book of Boba Fett.

During the movie’s second act, the N-1 can briefly be spotted parked beside the Razor Crest when Din and Grogu return to their homestead on Nevarro. Without a doubt, The Mandalorian’s N-1 Naboo starfighter is objectively one of the coolest (and fastest) starfighters the Star Wars franchise has ever introduced. As such, completely abandoning the N-1 after The Mandalorian season 3 would have been a tragically huge waste.

The Book of Boba Fett's Naboo N-1 Starfighter

Thankfully, The Mandalorian & Grogu keeps both ships in play moving forward for future Star Wars projects involving Din Djarin and Grogu. After all, who says a guy can’t have two awesome ships? Basically, Star Wars’ resident space dad now has the galactic equivalent of a minivan and a sports car (which is pretty dang fun all things considered).

The Mandalorian & Grogu is now playing in theaters from Lucasfilm.


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Release Date

May 22, 2026

Runtime

132 Minutes


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