George Lucas Meets Baby Yoda And The Internet’s Collective Heart Melts

By Corey Atad. 17 Jan 2020 11:35 AM

George Lucas. Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock

Nobody is immune to the charms of Baby Yoda.

This week, “The Mandalorian” producer Jon Favreau shared a photo on Twitter of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas meeting the adorable green alien puppet on the set of the second season.

pic.twitter.com/y121exIBtZ

— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) January 17, 2020

The photo of the creative mind behind the series cradling Baby Yoda in his arms quickly got a huge reaction from “Star Wars” fans online.

*gets in car and drives off into the sunset*

— |Blake| Anthony (@Deep_Fried_Kiev) January 17, 2020

viewed in this order it looks like george lucas sucked the life force out of yoda to become young again and now yoda is a baby trapped in the body of an old yoda pic.twitter.com/8gO2VuTWS1

— Mike Migdall (@ItsMigdallTime) January 17, 2020

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i sent my dad the pic of george lucas meeting baby yoda and his first question was "did he punch him" like no!!!! he loves baby yoda pic.twitter.com/3S7V23kFgZ

— baby yoda stan account | ⁷ (@teenytwt) January 17, 2020

George Lucas holding baby Yoda means a lot to me pic.twitter.com/NxcHQMRvQk

— Tiphany ⎊✵ (@BrieisTea) January 17, 2020