The Blockade Runner Star Wars Podcast

After looking back at Palpatine's origins in episode #103, we dedicate this episode to exploring Star Wars's villainous mastermind as he appears in the original trilogy and to guessing at how he may be manipulating Kylo Ren, Snoke, and the events of the sequel trilogy. Episode Links: Palpatine's Contingency Plan (Wookieepedia ) Show Links: Email = blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com Twitte...

This week's episode features our break down of Vanity Fair's photos and behind the scenes look at The Rise of Skywalker. As we wrap up the show we touch briefly on the recent rumors and news about future Star Wars films. Episode Links: Variety's  The Rise of Skywalker Coverage Blast Points Figures Out That Rey and Kylo Are Likely Battling *ON TOP OF* the Death Star Remnants Force Mater...

We love  The Phantom Menace and couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate its 20th birthday. This episode is all  TPM , so join us as we look back at the movie's marketing and merchandise, our favorite  TPM  moments, and the film's legacy.  Show Links: Email = blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com Twitter Instagram Anchor YouTube New Blockade Runner Podcast Shirt Designs!

Ryan went to the mall on Star Wars Day and he tells us all about the exclusives, deals, and mall-walkers he encountered. After that we jump into the Journey to The Rise of Skywalker publishing campaign and the updated release schedule for future Star Wars films. Episode Links: Brands: Waffle House Green Peace Busch Beer Durex India Integrity Global Solutions! Canibismo Announcements: Star Wars Off...

This episode is dedicated entirely to remembering Peter Mayhew's immeasurable contributions to the  Star Wars  films and their fans. We start out by looking back at Peter's life and career before recalling some of our favorite Chewbacca moments. We conclude the show by looking at some of the many tributes to Peter that came in last week from his castmates, fans, and friends. Episode Links:...

We planned on doing one show covering Palpatine's machinations, but in typical us fashion we recorded for almost two hours and only made it through the prequels. Whoops. We'll be back next week with a second chapter in our look at Palpatine's orchestration of the events of the original and sequel trilogies, but for now enjoy our rundown of the quintessential Sith Lord's evil plans,...

Author Alex Kane returns to the show to talk to Ryan about his Celebration 2019 coverage for StarWars.com, his top 10 Star Wars games article for Variety, the Jedi Fallen Order reveal, and some more KOTOR. Episode Links: Alex's Celebration Coverage for the Official Star Wars Site Ranking the All-Time Best ‘Star Wars’ Video Games Episode Art Photo Courtesy of Michelle Paul (@Keyaroscuro) Show L...

John, Chris, Ryan, and Dan once again convene in our spacious Air BNB studio to discuss highlights from Saturday and Sunday at Celebration 2019. We talk books, comics, Star Wars Archives, and most importantly, the incredible Mandalorian panel. Show Links: Email = blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com Twitter Instagram Anchor YouTube New Blockade Runner Podcast Shirt Designs!

We celebrate 100 episodes at Celebration by breaking down the  Rise of Skywalker trailer! Highlights include Ryan being obsessed with Palpatine cloning himself on Kamino, Ian McDiarmid playing Darth Maul in the prequels or something, and whether or not Rey is trying to slice Kylo's TIE in half or take it for a ride.  Having done 100 episodes over the past almost four years has been a lot of fu...

In this brief episode, Dan, Kevin, and John discuss their experiences at Star Wars Celebration Chicago day one.  Show Links: Email = blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com Twitter Instagram Anchor YouTube New Blockade Runner Podcast Shirt Designs!

Dan and Chris join Ryan and John to preview Star Wars Celebration Chicago. We share our picks for panels we hope to attend day by day (use chapter links to jump to specific days) and a few favorite memories from Celebrations past. Episode Links: Blast Points Episode 164 – Steve Sansweet and the Amazing Story of Celebration 1 The Forcecast Special Report: 20 Years Of Celebration Show Links: Email =...

This week's episode features an interview with Alex Kane, author of the upcoming book  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic . Ryan talks to Alex about KOTOR,  the book, and Alex's other writing on games in the show's first segment. John joins for the second half of the show to talk with Ryan about how much he enjoyed the book (even though he's never played the game), the impact o...

We kick the show off by breaking down the recent panel lottery and reservations system announcements for Star Wars Celebration before jumping into our discussion of the  Resistance two-part finale, "No Escape." Let us know what you think about Resistance  or the show in general at blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @blockaderun . Episode Links: Full Details on New Panel Reser...

We kick off the show by covering the recent Episode IX panel announcement for Star Wars Celebration 2019 before jumping into our featured discussion on E.K. Johnston's Padme novel  Queen's Shadow . If you haven't read the book yet, we discuss it in broad terms before jumping into spoilers, so you're save for the first part.  Let us know what you think about Queen's Shadow  or t...

Ryan and John look back at episodes 14 through 19 of Star Wars Resistance season one and share a few predictions for season two. Also, more Sad Kylo Ren talk. Don’t forget that the audio podcast features chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific section. As always, we welcome feedback at blockaderunnerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @blockaderun . Show Links: Email = blockaderunnerpodca...

Our recording session this week went too long again, so we're splitting it up into two episodes, the first of which features our discussion of the  Episode IX footage shown at the Disney shareholder's meeting earlier this week. Shout out to newly minted RESISTANCE HERO @Ladewig  for his tweets that made the pain of having to wait until Celebration Chicago to see any footage sting just a li...

We start this week's episode out by sharing our appreciation for Topher Grace and Jeff Yorke's  Star Wars: Always before moving onto breaking down last week's Galaxy's Edge impressions and updates (via Anthony Breznican and EW). We wrap up this (long) show by discussing the recent panels and guests announced for Star Wars Celebration Chicago. Also, John takes a weird heel turn duri...

We're back with part two of our discussion of all things Star Wars in 1997. Episode #91 features our look back at the books and toys released in '97 as well as notable events like the founding of the 501st and the debut of the  Star Wars: The Magic of Myth museum exhibit (plus some pretty sweet Taco Bell ads in the audio podcast). Don't forget that the audio podcast features chapter ma...

1997 was a HUGE year in Star Wars; so huge in fact that we've ended up breaking our Power of the 90s episode for '97 into two parts. Episode 90 features our discussion of the Special Editions' theatrical and home video releases,  The Phantom Menace beginning filming, and the video games and comics released that year as well. Also, we're using chapters in our audio files now, so you...

It's not a title, but the news that  Episode IX has wrapped filming is super-exciting nonetheless. We spend the first half of the show discussing J.J.'s tweet and photo before looking at the many Star Wars announcements coming out of NY Toy Fair 2019. Episode Links: Episode IX and  The Mandalorian Are Wrapped J.J. Abrams's Tweet Announcing  Episode IX is wrapped! John Boyega's Twee...

This week we kick off our Power of the 90s shows covering 1999 (weirdly before we've done 1997 and 1998...whoops) by taking a look back at the incredible Phantom Menace documentary  The Beginning . Join us for Jar Jar puppets in the back of Toyota pickups, Rick McCallum's charismatic cursing, heavy Jake Lloyd and George Lucas appreciation, and a whole lot of discussion of the podrace seque...

We start this week's show off with some chat about recent tweets signaling an end to Episode IX's filming, a discussion of the just-announced Galaxy's Edge books coming later this year, and a voicemail from The Rural Farmboy (@aRuralFarmboy). The rest of the show is devoted to an in-depth look at Electronic Arts's exclusive deal for publishing Star Wars games. We run through the hi...

Resistance is back from it's mid-season hiatus and Ryan is all caught up after taking a bit of a break from the show himself, so we've dedicated this episode to reviewing and discussing the show from episode #5 ("The High Tower") all the way through the most recent episode, #13 ("Dangerous Business"). We also chat about the mid-season trailer, "Buff Salacious Crumb,&#34...

Ryan is back from Japan and we open this week's episode with a bit of chat about the Japanese Star Wars collectibles scene. From there we turn to some comics, Galaxy's Edge, and Episode IX news before jumping into our break down of the recently released  Age of Republic series from Marvel. We wrap up the show with Ryan's endorsement of the  Flight of the Falcon book series and our  Epi...

John does a brief solo show covering possible links between TFA's early concept art and Episode IX for our final episode of 2018. We're mostly just using Peter Sciretta's Twitter comments from a few days ago as an excuse to pull down and pour over Phil Szostak's incredible Art Of books for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. Follow along if you have the books (or check out the ima...