One question nobody expected to be asking themselves on Super Bowl Sunday 2026: Are Tauntauns indigenous to Hoth, or were they brought there by the Rebel Alliance? The reason for this question is fairly simple. In the truly unexpected new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the Star Wars brand seemed to homage Budweiser commercials featuring Clydesdale horses by busting out what is, apparently, the Clydesdale of the Star Wars galaxy, the Yaggle-Gakkling Tauntauns. In the new, truly odd Super Bowl trailer, Mando and Grogu are riding a kind of sleigh, being pulled by a pack of Tauntauns.
Is this an actual scene from the movie? Because if so, this would almost certainly confirm that for the first time since 1980, a live-action Star Wars project is returning to the Ice Planet Hoth. And if that’s true, there’s a very clear follow-up question: Why?
