Skywalking Through Neverland: A Star Wars / Disney Podcast

Anthony Breznican, Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, is now the go-to guy for breaking Star Wars news, so we had to have him on as a special guest. You may have seen Anthony (@Breznican) moderating The Force Awakens panel at SWCA in 2015. Just last week he wrote several articles surrounding Rogue One characters and plot, plus 22 exclusive photos released by Lucasfilm. Our discussion spans Rogue One, Kathleen Kennedy, a tram tour with Steven Spielberg, Anthony's book Brutal Youth and the art of journalism. Come take a deep dive with us! (20:13) Our book analyst, Drew Kaplan (Jocasta Drew) is back to give a spoiler-free review the latest from Disney-Lucasfilm press - ABC-3PO! He even brought along a special guest, his 7-year-old daughter Sophie to give us her insight. Be warned there will be controversy! (1:47:05) Also on this episode: Movie Review - THE BFG. With a Spielberg/Williams/Mathison pedigree, does the film itself hold up? (7:33) Skywalker Shout-outs and Skywalker of the Week We Want YOU! We a

Adam Harris, director and producer of My Saga: A Star Wars Fan Documentary, decided to fulfill his destiny of making a Star Wars film after hearing from doctors that he had a brain tumor. Adam joins us to give us a behind-the-scenes look at his film. Star Wars Artist Jason Christman joins us to discuss his Exclusive Print for Star Wars Celebration Europe, “Escaping The Death Star”. We always love talking with artists on our show. How does he get his ideas? What medium does he use? And if you’re attending SWCE, you can pre-order his print here. We Want YOU! We are getting so many Skywalker Stories but need more… What story from your fandom gets you really excited or emotional as you tell it? What is the story you would love to share with the family of Skywalkers out there? We want to hear about the smaller moments too! Ever just want to share a random moment? Switch on voice memo and record it for us, then email in to share@skywalkingthroughneverland.com. Also on this episode: Skywalker Story - Patty Hammond

This week we get to know the Freemakers! Who? LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is the new Disney XD show premiering June 20 and features a new family in the Star Wars universe - Rowan, Kordi and Zander Freemaker. Kai Charles, our roving STN reporter, attended the press day held near Walt Disney Studios and gives us a first-hand account of her experience, as well as what to expect from this brand new edition to the Star Wars universe. Celebration Europe is one month away, and event organizers Martin Keeler and Jed Shepherd give us some insight on #Cantina - the concert/party that will kick off the convention. #Cantina features Skywalker friends David Collins, Mark Daniel and DJ Elliot, plus many more celebrity guests. You can purchase tickets here. Also on this episode: FINDING DORY Review and Recap of the Press Day with filmmakers and cast, including Director Andrew Stanton and Dory herself, Ellen DeGeneres. Skywalker Story - Dave Parfitt of Adventures By Daddy shares his “Father’s Day”-related story

Julie Andrews, Disney Cruises, and a Skywalking Soundtrack?? This episode is chock full of announcements in an Expanded Edition of Things We Want To Share!   Skywalker Lori Lezotte joins us to tell her Skywalker Story. But before we get into that, we announce last week’s Seen Unseen Giveaway WINNER! Who won this beautiful set of books by author Russell Flores? Things We Want To Share, Expanded Edition Julie Andrews will star in Netflix Original series “Julie’s Greenroom” for preschool kids! Not only will this star Julie Andrews, but it is co-created by Julie and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. The entire show is promoting the performing arts, which Sarah can really get behind. The Force Awakens has finally left the theaters, but it has left an indelible mark on the history of movies. Skywalking Disney Cruise! We are teaming up with Randy Crane of Stories Of The Magic podcast for an epic listener cruise, and y’all are invited!  We’ll be sailing on the Disney Wonder out of San Diego for a 5-night Baja Me

"At last! Beyond The Movie! Beyond the Galaxy!” reads the cover of each issue of the Marvel Star Wars comics from 1977 and beyond. Richard, Sarah and Star Wars artist Randy Martinez dive into these classic Marvel Star Wars comics from the 1970’s and 1980’s.   In this episode we look at Star Wars #9: ’Showdown on a Wasteland World!’ which was originally released December 13, 1977 and written by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, with Archie Goodwin acting as a consulting editor. Issue illustrated by Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer.   Title: "Showdown On a Wasteland World" Release Date: December 13, 1977 Writer: Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin Consulting Editor: Archie Goodwin Illustrator: Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer Synopsis: Han Solo, Chewbacca and the Star-Hoppers arrive at Ramiz’s village of Onacra, only to find it under attack by flying High-hounds. They repel the beasts, saving the life of a young girl named Merri to the great relief of her father Oncho, the village spokesman. But their relief is short-liv

Today we talk with THE MUPPET MOVIE and The Monkees TV series director - Mr. James Frawley! Richard has wanted to talk with this man ever since he could read the word “director" in the show credits, since he helped shape the person Richard is today. Needless to say, this is a very special interview. Outlaw Podcasters Return!! On May 27 the new Frozen Live at the Hyperion show premiered at DCA. Sarah and Richard scoped it out with Anthony Fox (Mousepire Podcast), Bekah Goodman (Bekah’s Buttons) and Dave Skale (Our Ghost Host) though Richard and I almost didn’t make it in to the Disneyland Resort - we’ll give you the scoop right before we go into our Frozen Live review. Just when you thought that was plenty show for one week, we have one more interview! Jeanie Gallo (ThePrincessPapers.com / Disney Dream Girls Podcast) attended a Walt Disney World Press Event and spoke with the director of Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular fireworks show at Disney Hollywood Studios that debuts on June 17. She’s also written a wo

Star Wars Celebration Orlando (SWCO) is less than a year away and Star Wars Celebration Europe (SWCE) is less than 2 months away! Tickets are on sale and excitement is in the air. What better time to look ahead than RIGHT NOW! Celebration veterans Tricia Barr (Fangirls Going Rogue, Star Wars Insider), Ric Peralta (Liningup.net) and Eliza Peralta (the Chopper secret keeper) join us to discuss tips, what we are looking forward to and what we’d like change, with the help of comments from Skywalkers in our Facebook Group. (when we record at Disney Springs bring your running shoes since we may need to outrun security). (30:47) Let’s keep the Celebration going with our favorite warm-up host at Star Wars Celebration, Mark Daniel! He now has a new gig, the co-host for Inside Disney Parks, a NEW Disney Parks Blog-sanctioned YouTube show. We get some inside info on that, as well as what we can look forward to at SWCE! (1:33:52) Drew Kaplan, the Skywalking book analyst, gives us his review on DK’s 2016 Star Wars Charact

May 10, 2016. A sad day for fans of Disney Infinity and the Toys to Life gaming industry. Sarah is a HUGE fan, as many of you know, and we had to talk through our grief with respected members of the Disney Infinity community - Will and Lem of the Inside Infinity podcast. Why was Disney Infinity cancelled? Where will we go from here? Is the gaming industry gone forever!!?? These questions and more on this week’s Skywalking Through Neverland. Point 5 Past Lightspeed is a segment that highlights what fans are doing with their fandom. Michael Corley of Vox Box Star Wars Comic Book Podcast is our guest and he tells us about his podcast about the Classic Marvel Comic series. WINNERS ANNOUNCED! The winner of our 2016 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia from DK Publishing is….listen and find out! We had a #secretgiveaway (or is it a #tangential giveaway?) in Episode 119 - and that winner is revealed as well. A lso on this episode: Things We Want To Share Skywalker Shout-outs and our Skywalker of the Week We have a NEW

Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee! That can only mean one thing… it’s time for BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS! The spell has been cast and Teresa Delgado of Fangirls Going Rogue and Disney Vault Talk joins us to talk about this much-loved 1971 film. Sherman Brother’s music, animation meeting live-action and some glorious 1970’s revolutionary effects make this film an instant classic. Sarah and Teresa grew up with Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Richard is now the newbie, just watching it for the very first time. If you’ve never seen it or haven’t watched in awhile, here’s a plot refresher: During the Battle of Britain in 1940, Miss Eglantine Price (played by future Mrs. Potts - Angela Lansbury), a cunning witch-in-training, wants to help the war efforts and use her supernatural powers to defeat the pending Nazi invasion. Miss Price sets out to accomplish this task with the aid of three orphaned children who have been evacuated from the London Blitz. However they need the last spell from magician/steet performer/Wit

#MayThe4thBeWithYou! #RevengeOfThe5th! In honor of these dates, Richard and Sarah discuss fan-made holidays with the help of our Skywalkers. We’ve enlisted our NEW Facebook Group to come up with creative holidays that may happen in the Star Wars or Disney universe. Remember those awesome “Create-Your-Own” storybooks? It’s a bit like that! We debut our new segment, Skywalker Stories, with Alison Berrios - CosplayForJedi! She has a tale of woe and a tale of joy, so tune in and find out. You can submit your own Skywalker Story here. Drew Kaplan is now our official book reviewer! This week he gives us a comprehensive review of "Star Wars: Tales From A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens, Volume I". He will be back periodically with reviews of more DK and Disney-Lucasfilm Press books. If you’d like to read more about "Tales From A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens", his written review can be found here. Also on this episode: Things We Want To Share - GIVEAWAY! You could win DK’s 2016 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia! Details

We did it! We’re outlaws! And we ran 22.4 miles in the Inaugural Star Wars Half Marathon - Dark Side Weekend at Walt Disney World Resort. Richard and Sarah capped off the weekend with an (illegal) roundtable of Skywalkers from near and far to share our runDisney experiences. Have no idea what we’re talking about? Listen in and you’ll understand why we’re wanted podcasters.... NEW STN Live Podcast Stage Show on May 29th for Star Wars Reads Day at Rancho Cucamonga Library! Special Guests Billy Dee Williams, Randy Martinez and Denise Vasquez will grace the main stage as well! Event details here. We dive into the last of the Bonus Features (for now) of The Force Awakens with Drew Kaplan. This time it’s the hour-long documentary: The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey. Also on this episode: Things We Want To Share - What’s a trip to Orlando without a side trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter? We experienced Diagon Alley for the first time, and it was incredible. Skywalker Shout-outs and our Skywalker of th

Some Star Wars fans grew up with the original trilogy, some jumped in during the dark times; then there’s the prequel generation, and even those who came in during Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series and the Disney acquisition. Which Generation fan are you? Where do you fit in? Richard and Sarah join in a heated TikiCantina discussion with special guests Johnamarie Macias (The Wookiee Gunner, Galactic Fashion) and Jeff Roney (Once Upon A Time Fan Podcast, 1st Generation Star Wars Fan). Rey’s Story Review! Disney Lucasfilm Press has released the junior novel - Star Wars The Force Awakens: Rey's Story written by Elizabeth Schaffer. Sarah and 8-year-old Dani Franklin (Super Mates Podcast) join in reviewing this illustrated novel. Join us for Part Two of The Force Awakens Blu-Ray with Special Features review with Drew Kaplan. This week we talk about the documentary featurettes. Also on this episode: Things We Want To Share - The Jungle Book Press Conference runDisney Star Wars Half Marathon WDW Meet-Up Skywalker

Our special guest Craig Miller was the Publicist and Director of Fan Relations for Lucasfilm during the hey-day of the 70’s and 80’s. Ever wonder how fans knew what was going on in fandom before social media? Whose job was it to tell the world about this new movie called Star Wars? Craig shares some awesome stories. Now speaking of social media… SO MUCH STAR WARS this week! Rogue One Teaser Trailer dropped as well as The Force Awakens Blu-Ray with Special Features. We review some of the bonus features with Skywalker and blogger, Drew Kaplan. Then, Richard and Sarah dive in to the ROGUE ONE TEASER TRAILER. The music! The plot! AT-ATs! Next week we’ll take a deep dive into the documentaries including A Cinematic Journey, Crafting Creatures and Building BB-8.  Also on this episode: Things We Want To Share Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival Superheroes Half Marathon - all signed up! THE JUNGLE BOOK mini-Movie Review Ode to Erik Bauersfeld Skywalker Shout-Outs and Skywalker of the Week. We hav

In true Disney fashion, Disney Channel PR and Lucasfilm put on a genuine Red Carpet bash at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA for the finale of Star Wars: Rebels, Season 2. In this episode, Richard and Sarah take you to the Red Carpet, inside the Main Theater with Q&A on "Twilight of the Apprentice" from cast and crew, and further to one-on-one interviews with Dave Filoni, Ashley Eckstein, Vanessa Marshall and Kevin Kiner. *SPOILER ALERT* If you have NOT seen this finale - turn back now! Not only was the Q&A held after we all saw “Twilight of the Apprentice” together, but we also give our thoughts on spoiler-heavy moments. The Q&A was moderated by Amy Ratcliffe, and we heard from writer and creator Dave Filoni, creator Simon Kinberg, Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano) and Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger). Since we bring our recorder everywhere, we had a short roundtable with fans right after the screening. FURTHER EXPLORATION: Check out Adventures By Daddy for a complete rundown of the Red Carpet, including

In this episode we are diving into Classic Marvel Star Wars Comic #8: "Eight For Aduba” or Magnificent 7 in space. You may recognize this comic as the introduction to several iconic characters, including Jaxxon and Serji-X. We have our usual top trio to discuss the issue. Star Wars artist Randy Martinez lends his artistic and nostalgic wisdom to the discussion. Richard also remembers reading these comics as a kid, but Sarah is younger than the comics themselves, and is the voice of the newbie. All three create a fun dynamic as we discuss word such as “FORP!” “SCHINK!” and “Begone, Defilers of the Sacred Way!" Title: "Eight For Aduba" Release Date: November 8, 1977 Writer / Editor: Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin Illustrator: Howard Chaykin Synopsis: Han Solo and Chewbacca are hired by a local moisture farmer on Aduba-3, to protect his village from a band of local thugs known as the Cloud-Riders led by Serji-X. Han and Chewbacca hire six misfit spacers to help them with the task, including a rogue Jedi, a bikini

What do Tangled and Trials of the Temple have in common? Turns out Kylo Ren and Rapunzel are best friends! That’s not true. All of it. But it IS true that the Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Magic has a NEW Tangled: The Musical show! Chickaphant’s parents tell us all about it. New music composed by Alan Menken! Ruffians! Thugs! And a light-up Pascal with Snuggly Duckling mug? Sign me up! March 10th was Sarah’s birthday! She made it an excuse to do a Disney day and FINALLY complete a Disneyland Easter Egg Hunt 3 years in the making. Richard and Sarah were able to ride the NEW Luigi’s Rollicking Roadsters and we also saw a NEW chilling addition to Jedi Training: Trials Of The Temple. Now where does this fit in the new Star Wars Canon? At dinner we got into a heavy debate with friends and Skywalkers Anthony Fox, Rebecca Goodman, Georgia Peach & Jeff Peterson. If you want to weigh in, please tweet at us @SkywalkingPod! Also on this episode: Things We Want To Share - Sarah’s Zootopia Disney Infinity Figure Review

STEP IN TIME: Remembering Disney’s Matinee Movies is back and this time we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1975 classic film - Walt Disney’s THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG! J oining us on this journey to the old west are special guests Steve Glosson and Teresa Delgado of Disney Vault Talk. They bring their brand of fun and fond memories to the conversation while Richard reminisces about his first childhood crush, Celia (Stacy Manning), and Sarah watches the film for the first time in her life. For anyone else who has not seen this film yet or hasn’t seen it in a while, here is a refresher on THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG. Bill Bixby (The Incredible Hulk) plays Russell Donovan, a slick gambler duped into taking care of a trio of mischievous orphans named Bobby, Cloves and Celia. Meanwhile, outlaw wanna-be’s Tim Conway (The Carol Burnett Show) and Don Knotts (Andy Griffith Show, The Incredible Mr. Limpet) are out to rob anyone they think has anything worth stealing. Set in the Old West during The California Gold

With the imminent release of Disney’s ZOOTOPIA on March 4th, it's the perfect time to bring you Behind-The-Scenes stories from the Press Day Sarah attended at Walt Disney Animation Studios. We had press roundtables with the Directors, Writers, Production Designers and Character Designers/Animators of ZOOTOPIA. She’ll go into some amazing stories, fun facts and we’ll hear audio from the filmmakers themselves. Sarah was able to see ZOOTOPIA at a special #DisneyInfinityNEXT early screening, so she will give her Spoiler-Free review. She also got to meet Allison Petreck of Disney Infinity Toy Box TV. And then let’s get into NEW Disney Infinity characters, Marvel Battlegrounds Playset and more! Richard takes on the farce that was the Oscars. No awards for The Force Awakens?? What is this world coming to? Host Chris Rock had to tap-dance around #OscarsSoWhite and he really did a quick step. As always we have enlightening clips from The Oscars as well as media surrounding the event. We also have shout outs, and the S

Welcome to Skywalking Through Neverland's 1st Annual ALL-TIME AWARDS Show! You nominated, you voted, and now it’s time to reveal the WINNERS of Disney, Star Wars and Marvel All-Time Awards. These are not just any categories, and we have some very distinguished Presenters to reveal your winners. Joining us in studio are: Star Wars Oxygen - David Collins TechnoRetro Dads - JediShua and Shazbazzar Brews and Blasters - Joe Tavano and Chris Salton Fangirls Going Rogue / Hyperspace Theories - Tricia Barr Disney Vault Talk - Teresa Delgado and Steve Glosson Once Upon A Time Fan Podcast - Jeff and Colleen Roney Star Wars Artist / Classic Marvel Star Wars Comics - Randy Martinez JediNews Network - Mark Newbold and James Burns Author and Comic Book Creator - Michael Kogge The Deucecast Movie Show - David Dollar and Michael Nipp Talking Apes TV - Mark Oguschewitz They will reveal your chosen WINNERS of these categories: Best Kiss Best Bromance Best Musical Moment Best Battle Favorite Climactic Moment Best Catch-Phrase F

Have you gone back to watch the 6 films of the Star Wars Saga after seeing The Force Awakens? What did you think? What did you feel? With all the new movies, comics, novels and TV shows that fill in gaps or show a different POV, it can change the way we look at the films. Richard and Sarah explore those changes with special guests Bryan Young (Full of Sith, Starwars.com) and Chris Salton (Brews and Blasters, The Collector's Hutt). You’ll never watch Han and Leia’s love scene the same way again! (30:37) Next up, Impressions: The Music of Star Wars Rebels, where we analyze Kevin Kiner's score. On this episode we analyze "Legends of the Lasat" with our special guest, Tricia Barr (Fangirls Going Rogue, FANgirl Blog). This was the episode where our Ghost crew encountered an anomaly on the edge of known space, and had to use Zeb’s leadership to get through. The music was so unusual and engaging, with those bare strings, we HAD to talk about it. (1:37:15) Also on this episode: The ALL-TIME AWARDS! It’s time to get