The stick first appeared in the ninth episode of the series The Mandalorian, written and directed by Jon Favreau. Temuera Morrison, who portrayed Boba Fett in the series, is fluent in the Māori art of stick fighting. He specifically asked props master Josh Roth to make a longer and more slender gaffi stick compared to the sticks from . A thicker and wider stick, as was shown in the previous Star Wars films, did not lend itself to the choreography that Morrison wanted for his fight in "Chapter 14: The Tragedy".