Dean Takahashi is the Mandalorina.

I put my head on The Mandalorian and other UGC tales | The DeanBeat

I put my head on The Mandalorian, and it wasn’t such a hard thing to do. While at the recent CES 2023 tech trade show in Las Vegas, I stopped by the booth of 3D printer company Formlabs.

David Lakatos of Formlabs and Patrick Marr of Hasbro walked me through a demo of the Hasbro Selfie Series, where you can put your head on a 3D-printed action figure of your choice. This is another example of our future that will be filled with user-generated content (UGC).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.