Star Wars fans build Mandalorian spaceship in Siberia
By AFP
19 March 2021 |
6:00 am
Star Wars fans in Russia have built a giant replica of a spaceship from the spinoff series "The Mandalorian" and installed it in a park in one of the world's coldest cities.
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