Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

We’re in super Star Wars season and the temperature is rising with the latest chapters of Maul Shadow Lord! Join us as we look in the puddle reflection of these episodes and tell them that we love them! Plus - more REB talk! Celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and wSUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 BOBA FETT BEACH PARTY COMMENTARY! NEW ANDOR SEASON 2...

Chapters 5 and 6 of MAUL SHADOW LORD are here and we’re riding that Janix crazy train all the way to the end! Join us as we discuss the issue of trust in the show, Maul’s music taste and our favorite blonde beautiful space cop REB. Have a lightsaber fight in an apartment, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and wSUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 BOBA...

Chapters 3 and 4 of Maul Shadow Lord are here and we wish we were sipping on some Brisk Iced Tea because we love these two episodes so much. Join us as we go through every chunky bit from the episodes, discuss the conflict of good and evil, escaping the prison of the mind and the surprising connection between Dio, Dokken and Weezer. So get brisk, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST...

Maul Shadow Lord is out and we’re talking all about the fantastic first 2 chapters! Join us as we go over our overall first impressions, the interesting moral questions these episodes introduce, droids wearing boots, and the joy of seeing a little alien in a robot suit. So listen to Paul Maclunkey and Wings, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS O...

We all know Ben Burtt was out recording real world sounds that became the iconic audio of the galaxy far far away but did you know just how many of those sounds were made with help from a synthesizer borrowed from Francis Ford Coppola? Join us as we explore the unique role synths had in creating of the sound of Star Wars and the voice of R2-D2! So get out your ARP 2600, celebrate the love and list...

These days there’s only one question on everyone’s mind, WHO IS THE HOTTEST HUTT? Join us as we spend almost an hour addressing this very important question and examining all the on screen Hutts determining just who is the hottest. So get Kool and the Gang on Nal Hutta, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 BOBA FE...

This week we’re taking it back to 2012 as we examine the five fascinating “Future of Star Wars” videos. It’s George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm legend Lynne Hale discussing the then not announced sale to Disney and what the wild future of the galaxy far far away, now our past, could look like. So embrace change, celebrate the love and listen today! Watch all the videos here : https://you...

Sure we all love GREEDO, but have you ever tried to say each one of his lines in A New Hope? Join us this week as we go through the GREEDO scene and analyze each of his lines and attempt to say them back! And did you know his first use of Huttese is based on an actual Earth language? And just who did the Greedo voice?? So oocha goota, celebrate the love and listen today! Hear the entire conversati...

This week we are going back to when the number one source for information on a new Star Wars movie was the infamous Rick McCallum prequel updates in Star Wars Insider magazine! Join us as we track the Episode 1 hype from 1995 to 1999 and discuss how it evolved and much Star Wars wild fan anticipation has changed and stayed the same in the past 27 years. So look at a photo of 97 Jabba with one eye,...

The new trailer for THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU is finally here and it may just be Blast Points The Motion Picture. Join us as we discuss the creatures great and small, the character growth, the state of universe and how we may or may not survive this movie. So kiss a baby Rodian, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3...

Get out your cyborg kick legs as we’re having the first meeting of the Book of Boba Fett Mods Appreciation Society! Join us as we give these wild kids of Mos Espa a chance, talk their historical roots and so much more! So don’t hate, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 BOBA FETT BEACH PARTY COMMENTARY! NEW ANDOR...

This week we’re breaking on through to the other side as we take an up close look at THE DOORS OF THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! Listen along as we discuss well known Empire doors and discover new mind blowing doors that will light your fire! AND - hear how basically the whole movie is really about DOORS. The chances of you not loving it is 720 five to one, one in five, so celebrate the love and listen...

It’s Maul Madness as this week we’re talking all about the character that’s here to stay, Maul! We’re going over his history on and off the screen, our maybe complicated connection to him AND we’re breaking down that first look trailer to the upcoming Maul Shadow Lord show! So call up Master Dio Dokken, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PAT...

It’s the BLAST POINTS 10 year anniversary and we’re celebrating the only way we can by watching a Star Wars QVC special from October 1995! It’s a gigantic super sized bigggie episode as we’re basically watching 2 whole QVC specials and discussing all the magic that happens in them! Mark Hamill! 23K gold cards! Film cells! Nien Nunb mask and more! So get so excited, celebrate the love and listen to...

Ducks! They first appeared (twice) in the original novelization of Star Wars and have been floating around ever since … but why are there ducks in the galaxy far far away? And what about horses? Or ravens? Or rats? Listen as we explore the possible reason behind there being so many “earth animals” in Star Wars and the true behind the scenes historic role animals have played in the saga. So get tho...

Somehow it has been ten years since The Force Awakens and this new era of Star Wars began and this week we are looking back at that movie and all the new stories set in the galaxy far far away that it led to. Join us as we pick the one moment from the last decade that defines the era for us and we discuss where we hope Star Wars storytelling could go in the next ten years! So alert the Resistance,...

t’s the 40 year anniversary of Ewoks The Battle for Endor and we’re celebrating by inviting over some of our favorite people, Patrick Cotnoir from The George Lucas Talk Show and the wonderful Stephanie “StaxRebo” talking all about this wonderful dark chapter in the Ewok saga! Join us as we discuss topics like ducks, Cindel, Teek almost drowning, did Mace need to die, Wicket’s new look and more! So...

This week we are so happy to welcome back the great AMY RICHAU as we discuss 2005’s Star Wars Musical Journey DVD! It came with the Revenge of the Sith CD soundtrack back in the day and it’s pretty amazing. Listen as we discuss how it led to the Star Wars In Concert tour, our favorite Ian McDiarmid introductions, how Amy’s name is in the credits and more! So run across the theater to see TPM digit...

Star Wars Visions is back with 9 new animated short films that once again expand the galaxy far far away and this week we’re talking about them all! We loved this third installment of Visions shorts and we are getting loopy with a Nanny Jedi with a robot arm, a droid bear and discussing why “Black” is one of the best things that’s come out in the last ten years. So battle the Grand Master, celebra...

We’re dusting off the BP phone as we are once again joined by our friend from REGAL ROBOT, the one and only TOM SPINA talking about a subject only he can handle - THE PUPPETS OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. Join us as we ask the important questions like “what is a puppet” and “why is that droid so small?” So call up a man in a suit, celebrate the love and listen today! Keep up to date with everything Reg...

It's a 20 minute mini episode where we're joining the Hunt for The Hunt for Ben Solo! We're talking all about the news that shook fandom and why we want to see this movie! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! NEW ANDOR SEASON 2 EPISODE COMMENTARIES! COMMENTARIES FOR EVERY SKELETON CREW EPISODE! NEW EMPIRE STRIKES BACK COMMENTARY! Theme Music! downloadable tunes from epis...

The third season of Star Wars Visions is almost here so it’s about time we look back and talk about some of our favorite shorts from the previous seasons! There’s a lot to love in Visions 1 and 2 and we’re picking our top 5 from them all! Which ones do we agree on? Which picks surprised us? What does it have to do with Manowar? Listen and find out! So celebrate the love, put on some leather gloves...

It’s the episode you’ve all been waiting for as we are finally talking about the superstar from Ewoks season 2, THE LEAF QUEEN! She’s bringing autumn to us all and we’ve got a lot of questions about what she is and why she’s a force user made of leaves. If that wasn’t enough, we are doing commentaries for both of the two episodes of Ewoks she appears in! So go surfing with the Sun King, don’t get...

We all love J.W. Rinzler’s Making of Star Wars book but did you know that in 2013 there was an enhanced digital edition that contained 17 rare audio tracks? Don’t worry because this week we’re listening to and talking each one of them! From Ralph McQuarrie to Alec Guinness ADR sessions, these tracks have it all! So get that bag of rocks off your back, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE...

The first trailer for the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is here and we are doing what we do and going through it bit by bit and talking all about why we think this thing is going to be FUN FUN FUN. Plus, here why Disney is dumb, why you should eat a Fat Boy ice cream sandwich, why we're not too cool for school and why it's all about the puppets. So get that banana shake, call up Amanaman, listen tod...