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Game Rant can exclusively reveal a behind-the-scenes video documenting the making of the droid bar scene fromThe MandalorianSeason 3. The clip is part of the bonus features from the upcoming Blu-ray set containingThe Mandalorian’s latest season.
A droid bar called The Resistor was featured in thesixth episode ofThe MandalorianSeason 3,Guns for Hire, which premiered on Jul 15, 2025. While The Resistor scene is brief, it helps move the plot forward, lightens the mood with some humor, and serves to establish a few additional lore tidbits about Plazir-15, the planet where the episode takes place.
Ahead of the release ofThe Mandalorian: The Complete Third Season, Disney shared a video from the 4K Blu-ray set’s bonus features, which Game Rant can now exclusively reveal. The 91-second clip offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the droid bar scene was filmed, including some remarks from property master Josh Roth, who calls this segment “a total flip-flop” of theMos Eisley Cantina fromStar Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope. Namely, while the Tatooine establishment depicted in the 1977 film has a strict no-droid policy—which results in C-3PO getting kicked out—The Resistor has an all-droid policy.
The Mandalorian’s The Resistor Scene Featured 34 Droids and Was Difficult to Film
The scene featured 34 droids in total, which key mechanical artist Rick Galinson says was a record forThe Mandalorian. Some of the larger droids were played by costumed humans, while the smaller ones were remote-controlled. The part where the entire bar turns towardthe Mandalorian and Bo-Katanin disbelief was particularly challenging to film, as the crew didn’t have enough operators to handle all of the puppets. “We each had two or three radios in front of us and had to stretch our fingers and do what we could on each one,” Galinson recalled.
Legacy effects special costume manufacturer Dawn Dininger substantiates this account later on during the video, explaining that she was moving around one of the smaller R2 puppets with one hand while controlling the head of a drunk droid with another. In spite of these challenges,The Mandaloriandirector Bryce Dallas Howardlabeled this scene as her favorite part of the entire episode.
This behind-the-scenes look atGuns for Hireis part ofGalactic Legacy: The Creatures and Droids of The Mandalorian, one of the bonus features fromThe Mandalorian: The Complete Third Season. The 4K Blu-ray set has beenavailable for pre-ordersince October 31.Loki Season Two,Hawkeye Season One,Ahsoka Season One, andTheMandalorian Season Threewill be released on 4K UHD Blu-ray for the first time on December 3.
