Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Join Jason & Gabe as they unravel the mystery of the one and only COUNT DOOKU! Who was Dooku? Why was Dooku? Where was Dooku? What’s up with the Lost 20? How is he the Steven Seagal of Jedi? Tune in as we dig deep into the enigmatic distinguished gentleman Sith Lord! We look at the scene where interrogates Kenobi in AOTC as a perfect example of Sith lies/truth, riddles and wonder just what Dooku's deal was! PLUS: Clone Wars Saved!!! Solo blu ray bonus features, Lady Proxima at home & so much more! ‬ So shoot out some Sith lightning, tell someone the truth about Sidious and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk

Ever wish Spielberg would get the chance to direct a Star Wars movie? Well he's gotten pretty close & has had a ton of creative connections to the saga's past, present and future! This week Jason and Gabe explore the long and surprising influence George's buddy Steven Spielberg has had on all of the Star Wars. From the music, to the casting, to creative visions and all the way to Mustafar, Spielberg has had his fingers in the galaxy far far away more then you may know! PLUS: juicy Episode 9 maybe casting news, serious BeardWatch stuff & much more!! So put down your Grievous animatics & celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! It's gonna be great! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a

Jason and Gabe are back with an all episode where they celebrate the fallen hero of The First Order, the one and only Captain Canady! Which maybe they should have done five bloody minutes ago! Join them as they discuss his backstory, his motivation, how it is not the actor's first role in the Star Wars universe, and dissect EVERY single Canady line in the film and wonder about his very sensitive anger level. PLUS : the latest Episode 9 rumor talk and discussion of some Star Wars rumors that are too insane to ever believe! So what are you waiting for? Charge the auto-cannons, fire on the base, celebrate the Canady and listen today! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future epis

Jason & Gabe did TWO live shows in front of an audience in Seattle Washington at Ace Comic Con and now YOU can listen to both of them! Hear Saturday's "Best of the Weird" panel as they go through highlights from 40 years of the weirdest Star Wars stuff that ever happened. We were flown across the country to show people George Lucas Japanese commercials and clips from Turkish Star Wars and here is the audio proof! AND you can hear Sunday's LIVE Rusty Miller Jedi Master Trivia Challenge with the Guess The CommTech Chip bonus round! Can anyone remember Captain Tarpals' name? Listen and find out!!! PLUS : what movie they watched on the flight, where they had mind blowing pizza in Seattle and MORE! So call up Donny Osmond, celebrate the love & listen today! http://www.aceuniverse.com https://www.roccosseattle.com https://www.instagram.com/laurenmoran/ Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpoints

This week Jason and Gabe tear through the read along records for BOTH of the epic Ewok films! The fun of 1984's Ewok Adventure aka Caravan of Courage! The weird real life darkness drama of 1985's Battle for Endor! In all of their vinyl glory! Why would Ben Solo like them, why does Gabe want an Ewok yearbook and lots of Wilford Brimley talk! PLUS : The Lucas microbiotic saga talk, Count Dooku in Star Wars video games and more! Celebrate the love & listen today! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points leave feedback, comments or ideas for shows! also like Blast Points on Facebook for news on upcoming shows and

Join Jason and Gabe this week as they dive into the new book The Art of Solo by Phil Szostak! They go over everything from early design concepts, to the fascinating time table of production history, thematic and cinematic inspirations, visual metaphors in the film and insight into the continually fascinating Star Wars design process! (and dogs singing star wars, lots of guitar solos and they finally talk about CHiPs!!) PLUS: What's going on with Celebration selling out? & Epsidoe 9 speculation/excitement! So put on your spandex for Trixie and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS!! Buy the Art of Solo here: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Solo-Star-Wars-Story/dp/1419727451 Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review,

If you watched any of the SOLO : A STAR WARS STORY red carpet premiere, chances are you caught a glimpse of the amazing L3-37 cosplay going on in the crowd. If you were wondering who was in there, then we have the interview for you!! Join us as Jason talks with Darren Moser, the person inside the L3 about attending the premiere, building the suit and his K-2SO puppet, his future droid plans and so much more! PLUS! more Solo lister reviews! listen today & celebrate the love! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, i will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points leave feedback, comments or ideas for shows! also like Blast Points on Facebook for news on upc

Jason and Gabe are back and this week they are taking a look at that time in 1997 when everyone was super pumped for a Star Wars fighting game, MASTERS OF TERAS KASI! It's a game almost nobody loved upon it's release but continues to pop up over and over across the galaxy. Qi'ra knows how to do it, but where did it come from? How did the tech of the game relate to the prequels? Who came up with Arden Lyn and does she know Snoke? And most important of all, what's the story with the Ultimate Tusken Raider, HOAR? PLUS: our latest thoughts on Solo, the mystery of Han's father and more! BLAST POINTS VS. MASTERS OF TERAS KASI.... Ready..... LISTEN! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on

You heard us talk about SOLO, now it's YOUR turn!! listen in as we share all of the Solo : A Star Wars Story reviews YOU, the listeners sent in! What shocked people? What did they love? Does anyone mention SAGWA? listen and find out! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, i will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points leave feedback, comments or ideas for shows! also like Blast Points on Facebook for news on upcoming shows and links to some of the stuff we talk about in the show!! we are also on Instagram! Wow! your hosts are Jason Gibner & Gabe Bott! contact BLAST POINTS at contact@blastpointspodcast.com send us show ideas, feedback, voice messages or w

The movie about Kylo Ren's dad is finally here and so is the Blast Points review/breakdown/freakout episode!! Join us as we go through our initial thoughts on the film (which some might surprise you), and proceed into a heavy duty scene by scene, moment by moment discussion of whole thing! Lady Proxima! The score! The deep cut references! Watto! Han! Lando! Singing Frog Man! Sagwa the Wookiee love! How L3-37's voice was actually first heard in 1984 and so, so much more! So burn your plaid shirts, join the Cloud Riders Gang and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points l

Join Blast Points for this LIVE recording from the Detroit Institute of Arts as they see a preview of the amazing Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit! This spectacular exhibit showcases a wide range of star wars costumes and a surprising amount of original concept art. Hear Jason and Gabe lose their minds as they freak out over the fan favorites and dig into the deep cuts the exhibit had to offer. The fun begins some fascinating opening remarks from Myriam Springuel, director of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services and Elliot Wilhelm, curator of film programs and exhibitions for the DIA. After that, join Blast Points along with their DIA guide Jordan Szaroletta as they take you on their audio tour of the entire exhibit! From BB-8 to Bail Organa, they barely make it past Watto's chance cubes and try to keep it together as they take in everything The Power of Costume has to offer! They talk to Jennifer Schommer, an Assistant Director of Public Relation in the Smithsonian's

We are just weeks away from the long awaited big release of Solo : A Star Wars Story and Blast Points is wondering if this the movie nobody wanted or actually the movie EVERYONE wanted! Join them as go over the film's long history, the state of the "Star Wars Story" films, what they are looking forward to and why folks shouldn't be so quick to ignore Lord & Miller's contributions. PLUS! The Kenobi movie rumor strikes back and this time Obi-Wan is arm wrestling! George Lucas spotted at the Solo premiere wearing new shoes! Star Wars TV speculation! Our idea of what the song "Lando's Closet" sounds like! News on TWO upcoming Blast Points road trips and more! So get on your Nike Monarchs and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on

This week Jason and Gabe look at the history of one of the first great Star Wars video games, 1983's Atari Star Wars : The Arcade Game. Made in a time when the arcade market was dwindling and Atari desperately needed a hit, this Star Wars game was one of their only hopes. Take a trip back into the world of vector graphics as Blast Points explores how the awesome game got made and how it helped usher in a new era of Star Wars games all while home video games crumbled around it. PLUS : Star Wars Resistance! Forces of Destiny featuring The Gorax! YES, THE GORAX! We are just weeks from Solo : A Star Wars Story and SoloMania is running wild with clips, giant worms, 360 videos and more!! Can Blast Points survive SoloMania?! So join Golden Squadron, deposit 50 cents and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS!! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articl

This week Jason & Gabe are joined by a very special guest, the one & only mastermind of Regal Robot, Tom Spina Designs and the Keeper of The Cantina Aliens, TOM SPINA! Together they have an epic laughter filled talk about all the exciting stuff that's new with Tom and share an EXCLUSIVE REGAL ROBOT COUPON CODE FOR MAY THE 4th! After that, they go over some of the finer details of the Cantina, the UK Uglies, Little Aunt Beru, the mysterious humans of Jabba's Palace, how to keep it together in the Lucasfilm Archives, and yes, MUFFTAK IN PANTS! PLUS : there is a wild round of rapid fire questions that delves into talk of the first two Motley Crue albums and naturally the "backwards and forwards" guy in Jabba's tail!! So go get your magic fountain, put on KISS makeup and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Tom Spina Designs : http://www.tomspinadesigns.com Regal Robot : http://www.regalrobot.com Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visi

Join Jason and Gabe as they take a trip back to the simpler time of 2015 when Force Awakens rumors ran free across the land! Is Luke Skywalker an evil CYBORG?! Is Kylo Ren actually LUKE? Who are the Jedi Killers? Will Chewbacca die?!? And what about that new Jedi hero / ex stormtrooper and his trusty pal Kira? Is Max Von Sydow really playing Boba Fett?! Listen along as they go over what was true, what was just weird & what could still possibly happen! PLUS: Solo tv spots, Rio Durant asks about a "Wooookiee", Kasdan & son talking Enfys Nest & more! Celebrate the love & listen today ! ‬ Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at

This week Jason and Gabe are talking about the greatest gamble of The Empire Strikes Back, the Yoda puppet!! With the sequel to the most successful movie ever made going way over schedule and over budget, the extremely important Yoda was not figured until the very last minute. The fate of the entire future of Star Wars rested on the little green shoulders of that puppet! We go into Yoda's creation, filming and how the puppet changed with ROTJ, TPM and TLJ! PLUS : some news with Therm Scissorpunch love and general SOLO madness! So head to the Bog Planet and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, i will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on

Buckle up baby because this week Jason and Gabe are going totally nuts about that Solo trailer!! They're talking all about how the movie looks and going over the whole thing scene by scene and line by line. Space mice, space yaks, Therm Scissorpunch, Vegetable Man, Walnut Head, Chewie shredding guitar, tender Wookiee love and so so much more. PLUS : Howard the Duck and Radioland Murders even come up! Imagine that. So grab that flying V guitar, magnetize your boots, get pumped for SOLO and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS!! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, i will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points leave feedback, comments or ideas for show

Join Jason & Gabe as they go through the first ever Blast Points Academy Star Wars Awards (Star Awards)! You listeners of the show voted and we’ve got the results! Who did YOU choose for the best Gungan? What movie has the best score? Who is the best new TLJ character, what's the top animated series, lightsaber form and what won the the important best picture? Listen and find out! You may laugh a little, you may learn a little, and you'll definitely love this action packed episode! PLUS : the start of Solo madness at Denny’s, Rain Johnson's love of The Young Ones and how a Cliff Richard reference snuck into Last Jedi, a deleted scene we haven't seen yet and so much more! So get out those Better Then Erpham records and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Hollywood Announcer : Jeremy Wheeler Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons mo

The Last Jedi blu ray is here and Blast Points is going all out with an in-depth look at just about everything it has to offer! The Director and The Jedi documentary is everything we've hoped for in a Star Wars look behind the scenes in a while and we are breaking it all down! We are talking everything from space cows, Mark Hamill's fundamental disagreements, Yoda puppets, the beauty of Ram Bergman's hair to why we still can't stop loving TLJ! And if that wasn't enough, we go through all the Last Jedi deleted scenes! Silly stormtroopers & rocking' Caretaker parties all night long! So put those action figures back on the shelf, look for Old Man Snoke and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If

This week we are talking about all about the fascinating history of STAR TOURS! It's the Disneyland ride that was not only set new trends for the park, it started Star Wars on it's eventual future! How the marriage of Lucasfilm and Disney possibly begin? Just how much of a Disney fan is Lucas? What planets were considered for the 2011 version? How did Star Tours influence a young Rian Johnson and directly inspire The Last Jedi? It's an action packed episode headed to beautiful forest moon of Endor and beyond! PLUS: What's going to be in the gift shop and on the menus at the Lucas Museum? What's going on with an oozing Master Codebreaker in the Last Jedi novel & so much more! So fill in every seat, pull your safety restraint from the right to left & celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more!