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Looking at Lucasfilm Episode 38: Looking back at Star Wars Weekends

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dan Zehr & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking up “The Star Wars Book: Expand your knowledge of a galaxy far, far away” (which a certain podcaster co-wrote for DK with Pablo Hidalgo & Cole Horton). Then Jim talks about the role that the “Special Editions” of “A New Hope,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” & “Return of the Jedi” played in the creation of one of the more popular seasonal events ever to be staged at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas, Cathin Kennedy, and the rest of the team at the Lucas film have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

0:13.4

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one the only, Dan Z, are recording

0:18.0

on Wednesday, March 18th.

0:20.5

Look folks, I don't need to tell you if anyone who's been paying attention to the news,

0:25.6

what with all of this social distancing and possibly being housebound to, I guess we're all hoping, just at the beginning of April.

0:37.4

We could all use some good news right about now, again I have something to look forward to, which is why I am thrilled that as we're starting

0:46.7

tonight show we have something cool and new to talk about something that will be

0:50.6

arriving on source shelves in October of this year and that's the Star Wars book

0:56.1

which has been written by Pablo Hildago, Cole Horton and this name here seems very familiar for some reason.

1:06.0

Wait a minute, Dan, that's your name?

1:08.0

That is me.

1:10.0

Yes, I am one of the authors of the Star Wars book.

1:12.8

Thank you for asking about it.

1:14.6

Well, you know, that, and, you know, we were pre-Gaming for the show tonight.

1:19.9

And first of all, it's the Star Wars book that's no longer available, right?

1:24.7

Because it's already sold out.

1:26.8

It was, I mean, you got to reveal that you were doing this on Tuesday,

1:31.8

yesterday, on Twitter, right?

1:34.0

And it's clean.

1:36.0

And so now if you go to Amazon, at least the time of this recording,

1:40.0

it's currently unavailable because I guess all the pre-order copies that allocated are already gone which is

1:46.3

Well honestly insane and mind-blowing I can't believe it I cannot believe it

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