Ok, I just rewatched the puppet scene in the movie proper.

So, I’m obviously very much down for pulling an Adywan and going all out with comping in live action puppets and all that (which BTW Chase, I’m hoping you might have some of the wooden puppets they sell at Galaxy’s Edge. That could be a nice tie in.)

HOWEVER…

I do have two alternate ideas of how we could possibly approach this scene and make it easier on those who are willing to do it. Unfortunately, I’m one of those guys who only has ideas and can’t really do them. So, I apologize in advance. Here’s what I’m thinking:

We just comp in a Luke Skywalker puppet to the scene that’s already there. Meaning we don’t comp in a walker puppet and not make it explicitly about Luke facing off against the First Order in the last film. It could just be a “Legend of Skywalker”, that may or may not be real. I think of it kind like that book that came out around the time TLJ was released, detailing different far-fetched stories about Luke.
We do it in Blender. Now, I have no idea how Blender works or if anyone around these parts know how to use it. However, there have been some AMAZING things I’ve seen that could be done with this software. The thing that made me realize we could possibly use this is this short where someone perfectly replicated the Rankin-Bass stop motion specials with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EuDkPD5x8. IDK, I feel like standard puppetry could be replicated good enough through it as well.

Anyways, those are my ideas. Again, sorry that I’m just putting ideas out there rather than helping along with them.