The film takes place between the events of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

Do the Ewok movies take place before or after Return of the Jedi?

Expansion of the Star Wars universe

And the wee Ewok Wicket, portrayed by Warwick Davis, was the direct tie between the original trilogy and these films, which were said to have taken place a few years before the events of Return of the Jedi.

Where do the Ewok movies take place in the timeline?

Producer Thomas G. Smith claimed that the film shows a young Ewok playing with a toy AT-AT, which would indicate that the Galactic Empire had been on Endor by that point. Eric Walker has said that Smith told him that the crew saw the film as being set 150 years after Return of the Jedi, setting it around 154 ABY.