No. 23: ILM Creature Shop Technician Kirk Thatcher
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Mousetalgia's Best Ear Ever #23: ILM Creature Shop Technician Kirk Thatcher
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In this special episode recorded live from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim on April 17, 2015, Mousetalgia welcomes writer/director/puppeteer/creature artist Kirk Thatcher (who went on to direct "Muppets Haunted Mansion") to the show to talk about his work for ILM on Return of the Jedi creating creatures and aliens, and then bringing them to life for the film. Television producer Joseph Freed also joins our roundtable to discuss living la vida Star Wars as we share memories, stories, and opinions about Star Wars past, present and future, including the newly-released teaser trailer for "The Force Awakens." Join us at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim for this very special episode of Mousetalgia!
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| 0:00.0 | Remain listening, please. |
| 0:04.6 | Permaneseer Escuchando, for favor. |
| 0:07.4 | You're listening to Mousetalgia's best year ever. |
| 0:10.3 | An encore presentation of the top 52 episodes of the Mousalgia podcast curated by Team Mousalja. |
| 0:16.2 | Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated. |
| 0:18.9 | Now sit back, hold on, and enjoy Moustalja's best ear ever. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello, Mousalja friends. |
| 0:29.9 | This is Dave, and I'm here to introduce you to this week's episode of Mousalja's |
| 0:33.4 | best year ever. |
| 0:35.1 | This week we'll be revisiting episode 340 that originally aired in April of 2015. |
| 0:42.6 | I loved this episode. It was at live, recorded live at the Star Wars celebration on their podcast stage. |
| 0:51.1 | So it just was another one of those really funny, at least for me, I really enjoyed, |
| 0:57.3 | thought it was some amazingly fun stories and having the energy of live people in the room |
| 1:02.9 | really added to it. Combined with being around all these people that loved Star Wars is, |
| 1:08.5 | you know, just always amazing kind of thing to be part of so we were able to |
| 1:13.9 | talk to Kirk Thatcher who was from the ILM creature creature shop and we've talked to him many |
| 1:21.9 | times since as well but this was one of the early times we were able to talk to him and being able to |
| 1:27.0 | hear his stories about working on Star Wars and some some of the early times we were able to talk to him and being able to hear his stories |
| 1:27.8 | about working on Star Wars and some some of the crazy antics that went along with it. |
| 1:33.8 | I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. |
| 1:36.1 | So join me and my co-hosts as we revisit episode 340 for this week's Mousalja's best year ever. |
| 1:43.3 | You are listening to Mousalalgia for April 27, 2015. the wildest podcast in the wheelbase. |
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