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at Lucas Film with Jim Hill and Dan Z.

Welcome to Looking at Lucas Film, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas

Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm

have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one the only, Dan Z, and I are recording the show on Wednesday, March 27th,

which is just a few days after Dan ventured to the Windy City on, let's call it a scouting mission. It was yes it was a

scouting mission you would tell me what it's a three or four hour drive and it's about

two and a half for me which isn't too bad at all really I've done it so many times that I could practically do it in my sleep although I don't recommend that.

Okay. You went to McCormick Place which is where celebration is going to be held this year or?

Yep, that's where celebration is going to be this.

I went last weekend because C2E2 was going on.

I was bringing my son back up to school. Anyway, because he goes up in Chicago, and I thought,

wait a minute. Why don't I just go to McCormick Place and I'll take some pictures? And I thought, well, no, I don't need to take pictures I can do more than that

because I can actually go inside the convention so I got a one day ticket and I spent

about eight hours walking around McCormick place so I get my lay of the land for

celebration I've my lay of the land for celebration.

I've done enough of the comicons and you know and especially the thing is at least you

have the benefit with San Diego Comic-Con is it it's staying in the same place now mind

you as the years go by you know it did begin to go with the satellite or the campus

concept so you know suddenly there were events outside of the actual convention center and there were

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