Ep 028 : Shane Morrissey & Darren Maxwell – CLASSIC CLIP - Talking near 4 decades of Star Wars with the founders of the Star Walking fan club
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Shane Morrissey & Darren Maxwell are day 1 Star Wars fans who went on to found Australia's Star Wars club Star Walking Inc which has become the longest running in the world.
In this part 1 of 2 we talk about the initial Star Wars craze, riding speeder bikes in the Lucasfilm archives and what it's like to swear in front of George Lucas!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. |
| 0:02.7 | I am comedian Steel Saunders, and I do love Star Wars. |
| 0:07.5 | Please enjoy this classic clip, which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars. |
| 0:20.1 | From memory, you were there for the announcement of that the prequel was going to get made. |
| 0:25.3 | Yes, I was. It was at Skywalker Ranch. |
| 0:27.1 | Tell us about that. |
| 0:27.9 | That was the first Star Wars summit in November 94, and where Lucasfilm gathered all the licensees worldwide, |
| 0:39.0 | and it was about to talk about new product development and storyline development book development so there was authors anyone |
| 0:47.9 | connected with Star Wars was there and it was at the at the Skywalker Ranch Studios. |
| 0:55.8 | And they've got a... |
| 0:57.6 | Lucas has built a beautiful Art Deco cinema. |
| 1:00.4 | It's about 450 seed of cinema. |
| 1:02.5 | So we're all setting there. |
| 1:03.5 | And I was sitting right next to Rick McAllen too. |
| 1:06.0 | And Lucas made the announcement that he just started writing the prequels and also announced the special editions. |
| 1:17.5 | And so did you know he was going to make that announcement? |
| 1:19.1 | No, none of us. |
| 1:19.9 | This was total new news. |
| 1:22.0 | It was kept for the Star Wars Summit. |
| 1:23.7 | That was where it first came out. |
| 1:25.2 | So it was quite a moment to be there i was actually standing |
| 1:28.3 | three foot away from lucas when he talked about all this so it was like a wow moment a real wow |
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