re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron

There is an animatronic ‘Yoda’ baby. Why did I not know this until now?

That was at the insistence of Werner Herzog. The plan was to use CGI for that character, but Herzog talked the folks behind The Mandalorian into using a full-scale animatronic instead; he believed (correctly, IMO) that it would look more realistic on the screen and give the actors an actual object to interact with.