Star Wars Escape Pod

Special guest Raph the director of "Star Wars: Brightstar", the star wars fan film, has entered the Escape Pod this week! Raph breaks down the short film for us from conceptual creation phase to the finished product and what it took to bring that dream to the screens. From film festivals to youtube at home and the changes made in between. It was such a pleasure to speak to Raph about his creation...

Happy Star Wars Podcast Day! Feb 7th 2024 celebrates the 25th anniversary of star wars podcasting, beginning with Jedi Talk. About 4 years podcasting and not once have we taken the time to run a chat focused on Star Wars Escape Pod, meta style. This is behind the blast doors, a small look behind the curtain of our very own podcast! Some of the challenges starting a podcast, subject matter, startin...

Molly Brizzell joins us this week for a chat about her job working aboard the legendary Walt Disney World - Galactic Starcruiser Star Wars experience. This experience was unlike any other, and Molly brings her stories along to share with us about her Star Wars fandom, her time aboard the Halcyon and what it was all like, how it worked, and finally the terrible sudden news on it's closure.  We want...

Between The Bad Batch S03 trailer, ventress possibly surviving her death scene, a fourth star wars movie announced, 3 more shows coming this year and Disney's holofloor tech revolutionizing VR, theme parks, and film production altogether this lightspeed is PACKED. Let's get into it! Also stay tuned for 2024 podcast updates towards the end! https://www.starwars.com/news/the-bad-batch-season-3-trail...

Lego Star Wars has been the most prominent merchandise for the Star Wars trademark in our lives. Today Eli, Shawna join us in the escape pod to reminice over vintage sets, guessing price incline, reviewing the history of Lego Star Wars and it's video games too. If you're a LEGO fan this one is for you! ———————————————————————— Star Wars Escape Pod 🖥️ Website:  https://swescapepodcast.wixsite.com/s...

Star Wars has had many impacts on the world including fan culture. This has led to fan groups, costume goups, mokumentaries, impact on aeronautics, parodies from Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Family Guy and more. Today we're gonna glaze over some of those things with our next special guest, Darian. Thanks again to Darian and be sure to check out the links below! Article ReadThrought - https://www.501st...

There was once a time fans referred to as "the dark times" just as Obi Wan Kenobi did to Luke when he spoke of the Empire. In this case, it was a large space of time where hardly to no Star Wars content was coming out. Long behold our saviour, Dark Horse Comics and Timothy Zahn. Special guest Adam joins us once again from our "Bucketheads" podcast episode to chat all about the 90's Star Wars conte...

Star Wars Books... Where To Begin?! There's SOO MANY. How does that all work and where are the good ones?! Today we got you covered! Join Josh, Blake, and Francis for a chat about the good, the meh, and the ugly. For those of you who want to skip to the bullet points, here's our summary list. The Good Darth Plagueis (Legends) Dark Disciple Brotherhood Darth Bane (Trilogy) (Legends) The Thrawn Tril...

Merry Christmas ya filthy Nerf herder's! The last time we released a Holiday Special Commentary it was December 29th 2021 - two years ago! It's not that we want to bore you, and this episode of our podcast should be skipped entirely if you don't want to watch along with us. But we realize perhaps some of you want to crack jokes or watch the worst piece of television history with company.. cause le...

Joing Josh, Blake and Kirk as we look ahead at what 2024 has in store for Star Wars Fans. SOME Star Wars podcasts, YouTube Channels and more have been circling around statements that "Star Wars Is Dead"... So we're here to set the record straight. Spoiler, you got lots to look forward to. As always we have a good laugh through the show on various subjects and stories. But highlights include a look...

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We played a fun game tonight. Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Kyle (ALKY Solutions) and Francis today as we breakdown Chat GPT's generated list of 20 Star Wars Gripes. We go one after the other providing examples and deciding weather or no we can move on from these gripes or not? What kind of star wars gripes do YOU still have? Let us know down below! ———————————————————————— Star Wars Escape Pod 🖥️ Webs...

Today we join Josh, Blake and Kirk for final segment on what could have been with Episode IX. This week, it's Colin Trevorrow's episode 9 (leaked) script - bullet point style.  Now this information is public knowledge at this point, it was also leaked on reddit by someone way back in 2020. But assuming this could have been legit, let's take a look at the possible episode we will never see created....

Celebrating Star Wars Escape Pod for 300 episodes!!! Join Blake, Bryce and Josh as we read through a 10 page "fan fiction outline" by the recognized author of previous Star Wars novels - Alan Dean Foster. Join us as we laugh our way through this hilarious and interesting outline for Episode 9 if Alan had it his way. As we all know, Colin Trevorrow was supposed to write and direct Episode 9. After...

This brand new sub series is a space for us to dive deep into the behind the scenes of Star Wars archives. Paul Duncan's Star Wars Archives (XXL) format books deliver behind the scenes information in the form of excellence. Featuring intimate interviews with George Lucas, Doug Chiang, Rick Mccallum and so many more, these books cover just about everything you haven't heard about yet. Including tod...

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The life and transformation of a Jedi into an Inquisitor! Today we spill the secrets on the novel called Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade. Our spoiler free at first, then leading into full spoiler territory. This is an in-depth novel review for those of you who want to read it and also for those who don't and want to hear all about it.. you've come to the right place. There's things we liked abou...

You dont want to miss this podcast episode! There is hardly any fan film which stands out as much as "Bucketheads". A one of a kind fan web series featuring the grundgy battles starting with the battle of Endor and leading into the events which transpire in the galaxy around the "Aftermath" book series, no other fan film series has had the undertaking quite like this one. This week we have a numbe...

Catch some Star Wars news in under 15 minutes! Our headlines in this episode of lightspeed: KOTOR II Switch Edition Cancelled & KOTOR PS5 Remake Shelved? The Halcyon Legacy sets sail for the last time - Galactic Starcruiser at WDW Florida Tales of Light and Life Ahsoka Aftershows and Rebels Talk! Rise of the Red Blade - READ IT! Novel Review Coming Soon NYCC 2023 Announcements from the Lucasfi...

It's been a hot minute since Ahsoka ended, today we kick back in the escape pod with a few brews and look back at season 1 of Ahsoka. Things we liked, didn't like, missed out on - things that should have been done differently. And most importantly, how Baylan should be handled. Is this the best star wars show? Is Sabine becoming a Jedi too much? Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Darian and Francis on this...

Thrawn is back. Morgan is NIGHTed - Literally! Join us and dive head first into Part 8 "The Jedi, The Witch, and the Warlord" with Josh, Blake, Dan, Kirk, Nick, Shawna, Francis and Kyle (@ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow we make connections and more, speculate on what is to come, read out our POLL RESULTS, giving our pablo points / poodo's to rate this Ahsoka episode, give our li...

Ezra Bridger back in action... with no lightsaber - but let's talk about that! Join us and dive head first into Part 7 "Dreams & Madness" with Josh, Blake, Dan, Kirk and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear from you so shoot us a message at our social links down below a...

The Battle of Lothal, Ezra's ultimate sacrafice and Thrawn's dissapearance! This is the finale episodes for Star Wars Rebels! You've made it! Thank you to all our listeners for joining us for the series and all our Rebel Talk episodes, we so appreciate you guys. This story is among the greats in Star Wars animation and the saga in general. So let's do this one last time! This is Rebels Talk Part 2...

This week we saw the return of Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn! Join us and dive head first into Part 6 "Far, Far Away". Join Josh, Blake, Dan, and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear from you so shoot us a message at our social links down below and let us know your...

This week we saw Ahsoka Tano learn one last lesson from her master ANAKIN FRICKEN SKYWALKER!! Join us and dive head first into Part 5 "Shadow Warrior". Join Josh, Blake, AJ, Dan, Nick and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear from you so shoot us a message at our social link...