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Pre-Celebration HYPE! Zero Company, Beyond Victory & A Fun Speedy Chat!

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Star Wars Celebration is just around the corner, and the hyperspace lanes are buzzing with pre-event news! The hype is reaching critical levels, so join your Escape Pod co-hosts as we blast through the biggest headlines and hottest topics you need to know before the main event. Get ready for our usual mix of insights, laughs, and maybe a few poorly-timed jokes!

  • New Star Wars Strategy Game: Ex-Firaxis developers at Bit Reactor, in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment, have unveiled "Star Wars: Zero Company". It's described as a single-player, turn-based tactics game set in the prequel era. More details are expected at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. (Source: Eurogamer)
  • LEGO Star Wars May 4th Reveals: Several new LEGO Star Wars sets have been announced for May the 4th, headlined by the Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship (75409). This 2,970-piece set depicts the ship from Attack of the Clones. Other new sets include Kylo Ren's shuttle and helmet, a Jango Fett helmet, a buildable Chopper droid, and more. Most sets are available from May 1st, with the UCS ship having early access for LEGO Insiders on May 1st and general release on May 4th. (Source: Jay's Brick Blog) (Source: Geek Culture)
  • YouTini News: Youtini covers a wide range of recent Star Wars news, including the new video game "Zero Company," upcoming books and comics (like a new Darth Vader book and Doctor Aphra series), merchandise reveals for May the 4th (including the LEGO sets and Baylan Skoll/Shin Hati lightsabers), and previews for Star Wars Celebration Japan. (Source: Youtini Articles) (Source: Youtini Merchandise)
  • Light & Magic Season 2: The second season of the ILM documentary series "Light & Magic" premieres today, April 18th, on Disney+. Directed by Joe Johnston, this season focuses on the digital era of the 90s, the making of the prequel trilogy, and ILM's technological advancements during that time, covering films like Twister, Casper, and Pirates of the Caribbean. (Source: Star Wars News Net)
  • Fortnite at Star Wars Celebration: Fortnite will have a presence at Star Wars Celebration Japan (April 18-20). A special announcement regarding upcoming Star Wars content is expected.
  • Star Wars: Beyond Victory (Meta Quest): ILM and Lucasfilm revealed more details about "Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset", an experience for Meta Quest headsets. Set around the time of Solo: A Star Wars Story, it focuses on podracing and features the character Sebulba. It includes Adventure (VR/MR story mode), Arcade (MR holotable podracing), and Playset (MR figures/vehicles) modes. Attendees at Star Wars Celebration Japan can get a first hands-on look. (Source: ILM) (Source: UploadVR)

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This is all good content Can I persuade you to join us for a drink? It's a tradition Here, here Jar Jar, homie, my main man Quick, before the separatists attack Get into the escape Hey, this is escape Then where's the pod?

This is escape Welcome back to Star Wars Escape Pod And another very short episode As we prep for Star Wars Celebration This weekend, we have your co-hosts In the Escape Pod, Blake and Kirk And we are just going to chat about Some preliminary Celebration news And things to look forward to Before we get into Celebration Stuff much later through the weekend So look out for those daily Lightspeed drops that I'll be putting together After the day in Japan As they are a full day

I think ahead or behind I don't know, whatever it is But we're going to be Doing some coverage on that And in the meantime Let's get into what we got Another happy landing Alright, we're back Kirk, I don't know if you know But this is going to be a very special opening To this podcast episode Because right before I hit record I heard you say This is all good content And then we just blasted in So I think I'm going to keep it in there It's permanent now If we got the whole thing

I think I'm going to keep it in there You probably cut off the last word Hell yeah, that's good But we are back And as we record this episode Celebration has started in Japan And the Twitter feeds are Going nuts with stuff A bunch of stuff has already happened And we're not going to touch it We're not going to talk about it I didn't even realize it was real All my dreams are coming true It's true Guess what everybody?

Kirk went to Japan a week ago And didn't stick around for celebration He planned to go But just got the week wrong The tide dilation got me I rocked up to the convention center And I thought it was that weekend They're setting up Yeah, they're setting up And then, yeah I arrived two weeks early I saw the AT-ATs driving in And the TIE fighters swooping over You said they're really promoting The heck out of Star Wars Over there right now, right?

Yeah, there's so much Especially the Visions series Whenever I was walking through The main streets in Tokyo Going past the Disney store They had all this Star Wars stuff Being played And a lot of merch available as well Versus not as much Marvel stuff As I was expecting But I definitely saw a lot more Star Wars material they were pushing Which is kind of cool to see I could see that Just because Star Wars has been In Japan for a long time Even the original movie Had a poster there Yeah

They're doing Star Wars Nights now too And What's the What's the city they have At Disneyland over there? Is it Tokyo? It's probably Tokyo Probably Tokyo, yeah Yeah, Disney Tokyo If that's the park that has it They're doing something called Star Wars Nights I think everyone just calls it Disney Japan Disney Japan, yeah Yeah, exactly Where is it, Kirk?

I think No, no, it is in Tokyo You're right I remember going Going past it I think Universal is in Osaka Like the one with Nintendo World That's what I'm thinking I always get confused Which one's in which part But yeah But like The lines are massive I've seen so many Yeah People With those things, yeah Right Yeah Yeah, Visions of course Being inspired by A lot of anime Well, it's It's created by a bunch of anime studios The first season Or volume Was done all with Japanese places

The second one went international And they kind of outsourced To other places around the world There's a volume Three coming later this year So, yeah It's been pretty successful I mean, people have thought It's been You know, it's It's been interesting enough To go three volumes So Yeah, it's true There's always been Really interesting content And I think When we've talked about it There's a handful Because it's all not canon There's a handful that I think were cool enough

And could fit in well enough That they should try to extend it And make it canonized Yeah, or adapt some of them Yeah, I think that'd be cool Yeah, that'd be Maybe that was the plan all along Because of them just getting Like Getting ideas Free ideas Free ideas Yeah, free concept ideas Yeah, yeah Well, we got some You know, I'm sure this weekend I'm sure we'll hear more about Visions Volume 3 So, you know Whether it's a teaser Or something I'm sure they'll talk about it So, you know

I'm sure we'll get to it In the meantime There is a few new things That, you know We have going into the weekend Some One big headline is X for Axis developers Are making a Star Wars strategy Game And I think I sent word To you guys about this The other day I shot you a text message With the link It's called Star Wars Zero Company And it's a collaboration With EA's Respawn Entertainment And Bit Reactor Which was a studio That was founded In 2022 By veterans of XCOM And Civilization

Which are two very Very big Strategy games Out there That, you know I play Civilization I know Our friends AJ plays XCOM Quite a bit XCOM 2 And they're making A Star Wars game So, pretty cool I don't know If you guys Looked up the leaks There were some leaks Of footage out there Of some gameplay And it looks Pretty cool I haven't seen any gameplay It's like a Squad based You know You can tell Your squad members What to do And it's like I think it'll be Turn based So you kind of Figure out

What you want to do And then The enemy takes their turn Your guys take your turn And then you see it Kind of like Unveil Very cinematically Sort of thing Is that more like A KOTOR style Or like a Pokemon style No, I think KOTOR KOTOR is not Turn based Because it's kind of You're always live It is turn based But it's Everything's happening Simultaneously So you can like Pause time Like line up What you want to do Or you can do it live But That doesn't work Very well Okay Yeah, the MMO Was not

Turn based No, the MMO Is more like Warcraft Because you can't Really do that Gotcha With everybody Doing like that Pausing time Yeah Alright, you This is a game That you're going to play, Kirk You're going to check this out Definitely Definitely Always keen to check out Some new stuff Yep Single player Turn based tactics game I know you're going to Try it at some point as well We'll see I'm not Super big Into RTSs these days Sometimes I break out The Stronghold Crusader Yeah

That's about my limit Well, the poster features A A , a crew Of, of Well, various characters There's a Jedi On there A Mandalorian A clone trooper And What era is this in?

This, this era Like, okay To me, this looks like Dark times Like between Episode 3 and 4 There's an Umbaran Like, we saw Umbarans on the Umbara arc In the Clone Wars So he's chilling Out of the back There's Kind of like a smuggler Like rogue guy Like just front and center You know He's got a big trench Jacket on He's got a mustache He looks like So what you're saying is They got all the tropes For Star Wars Yeah, they got the Astromech in there The clone trooper A Mandalorian Yeah, they've got

You know, it's like It's like the whole array Of like You know, variety Yeah, and of course The Jedi is also like A crazy alien That we've Not seen in a long time He's the same species As Saw Gerrera's Like You know, like that guy Who like captures Bodhi Yeah, I think I know His face Because he had the cool tubes Yeah, yeah, yeah He's one of those guys I just have no idea What he's called Yeah, yeah Oh, Tubes That's his name Is it really?

Yeah, it is It is Oh my gosh I guess I can't be surprised When a character's named Pruneface How original Yeah, so EA says They will be sharing more This weekend Saturday On the 19th of April At 8.30 a.m. I don't think I don't know if that's Local time Or if that's In general Japan So That could be Saturday Could be our Friday So, you know Stay tuned We're gonna drop This episode tonight So, you know Stay tuned tomorrow If you're listening To this in time Yeah Cool, cool stuff Did you guys see

Those crazy new Lego announcements? For May 4th I just saw the Jango Fett Maybe you wanna Talk about that? I mean I just kinda Browsed it quickly I haven't looked at it Too in depth But they're gonna do A massive Jango Fett Slave 1 Which I don't know the exact scale But it looked ginormous Yeah And the last time They did this scale Was Boba's Slave 1 Like years ago Is it the same As that one?

Yeah, yeah Same scale Same size It's just the exact same They just changed the color The same parts There's some different parts Cause there's a Side by side There's some different parts Here and there And the plaque is different Of course And now they've done The whole stupid renaming Of the ship To Jango Fett's Starship Lame So Yeah But they've got Lego versions Of the Of the minifigures Of naturally You know Yeah Cause they haven't done Jango since the original Yeah Well actually Sorry No

They did do one I think they've done Like maybe one Maybe two Yeah But Very few Very very few Yeah Yeah Was there any other Cool ones? I didn't I only saw the big one So they have a little Battle pack What I stole them Called battle packs The Camino Training facilities Training facilities So you can get clones In their like Red garb Like with the patch On the shoulder Oh So they're not in armor?

They're like No They're like Yeah like It's a really Civvies I think they call it It's a really weird set You get three figures That is so weird Yeah you get three figures In there It's got some sort of Like training tower What the heck And like a pod That is on like a still I don't even know What's happening in this Yeah it's kind of weird Set art Yeah it's kind of weird But what's cool Is you get clones In their training garb So that's kind of It's neat But you're not gonna Make an army

Out of that Yeah I don't know If you're looking At these photos Kirk It's on the podcast Outline doc There's a link in there You can take a look For yourself if you want Is it so you can make The full Camino experience From Attack of the Clones? I think so But you know What would be really cool Is if like People did go ham On these things And like recreate that scene Like that would be That would be awesome Do they wear red in that? Or are they all wearing blue?

Yeah they do So like the cadets Are wearing blue But like when they get older They wear red So it's in that scene Where Obi-Wan's walking Through the hallway With Yeah Yeah And they're looking down To the Hallways Yes Where do I Where do I find that Outline doc again?

I want to have a look Just go to Google Docs And it should be Should be on there They should do Battle Pack next That's all them Like the Embryo Clones that are Not entirely born yet They're like in those Capsules Right That should be The next one Yeah yeah yeah Like infants Oh man Yeah So that's another cool one They're also I don't know if you saw Recently but they made Like a Marvel logo That just says Marvel It's just made of bricks The logo for Marvel Studios This is something

They're selling They've made one That just says Star Wars now And Oh wow they did Yeah wow Yeah Yeah I don't know why It's It's cool But like I don't I don't really know There's so many cool Ships and stuff They haven't done yet Yeah I don't really know Who this sets for Do you know what's kind of cool?

Maybe if you have Like a display case Yeah Like all these Star Wars legos And you put that there I kind of see that Yeah Yeah I can see that Being kind of neat Maybe they realize All these YouTubers And stuff for the back Of their camera Yeah yeah It'll make money I mean what the heck Like they can do anything They'll make money Yeah Okay they've got A big chopper Kind of like how they did Like a big R2D2 So just like The R2D2 You can get a little Chopper with the big chopper

And it has the plaque So you know It's in that lineup Of sort of Ultimate collector series Characters that you can build So it's kind of neat To see chopper in there The next helmet They're doing Is Kylo Ren's helmet Yeah the chopper Yeah Are you going to get that? I don't know Do you buy a lego?

I haven't bought I haven't bought a lego set In years But someone just gifted me A Grogu lego set Like the budget one Not the Not like the really expensive one Oh yeah And it's It's the thing I looked at it And it's kind of like The thing of nightmares Yeah I don't know It just It doesn't look like Grogu It just looks It's just like It's still in the box I don't think he's going to Listen to this podcast But I don't know If I want to build it It's too scary I've seen that Maybe that's the source

Of the red lightsaber At night It gets out of the box Goes under your bed Turns on your saber The spirit of block Grogu That's what happened That's what That must have been it I think that was it I haven't built it yet It Like I mean It'll put a A photo of it In the chat here But it's not It's not the one With the cradle It's the one Where he's kind of Standing on his own And it just looks It just looks Like atrocious I don't know What they were doing When they were Designing Designing that

But it's like The budget one I think it's like A hundred dollars here But that's the only Star I mean That's a budget Lego That's crazy Yeah Budget one's A hundred bucks All right The next helmet They're doing Is Kylo Ren And Jango Fett So those are Neat Oh man Means it might do A Jango Black series helmet I really hope so That would be cool They're getting back Into clones now With the release of You know Slave 1 again But Jango's version They got the Jango helmet now I like

I like the love for Jango Yeah Yeah It's cool right I love how Like You know How pop the blue is The blue looks really good On Jango's helmet Yeah it does They've got Kylo Ren's command shuttle Which is Which is like A miniaturized version of it On a little stand So Okay Because the original came out Back when Force Awakens came out I think Yeah I don't know if this is Maybe a new I don't know if there's Like a new series That they're doing Or what But to me it seems like

That one looks quite good too Yeah Like it's like A mini version Like I don't It's 386 pieces It's like They've done this I feel like they've done This ship before Like when Force Awakens Came out But like a Like a play set version This one's Like I thought it was pretty big This one's very small Yeah the original one was Oh yeah You know what They had one from episode 8 And I think that one was That's the one I'm thinking of Is that one And they got a new play set For the U-Wing Which features

Characters from Andor season 2 They've got Dedra Miro As well as an ISB tactical agent They've got Cassian Andor In a costume From season 2 As well as K2SO Now being I think the only Second set That you can buy him in So So that's kind of cool Like anyone who missed The U-Wing When Rogue One came out You can You can buy it again So So that's That's all very exciting That's me And you know For all the losers out there That buy brick heads They're doing Don't insult our audience I know

I'm just kidding So they're doing They're doing more brick heads They're doing the Luke Skywalker pilot As well as Leggo the Shire A box set Of a bunch of characters In there I don't Honestly these look creepy Is that like a pack Of five of them I think so I think so That's such an odd That's such an odd selection Like Rey Anakin Grievous Palpatine And Mace Windu What an What an odd bunch Of people Yeah Oh no it's Amidala No no it's Padme I was about to say Is that Rey It looks

It looks like Rey to me Oh it's Padme In her Pregnant dress Padme Yeah The dress that she Like chats to I think It's just the one That you see The baby bump I've always wanted To have that As a Leggo brick head Heck yeah Those brick heads Are kind of Kind of I think they're like Legos version of Funkos You know what I mean 100% That's exactly what it is And it looks like You can change the eyes Out on Anakin And you can make him look You know Give him his Sith eyes Yeah 100% That's true

Little things Yeah Crazy Alright Cool I know we're Blasting through here But we only got a few Minutes left Alright so I got an email From UT&E Which is a great Spot to hit On the web UT&E Yeah you can read All about The books You can find Anything you need to know About comic books Novels Reviews Anything like that They've got good Reading guides in there For people who are Interested and jumping in So you know I have subscribed To their Monthly Newsletter And they just had A bunch of

Interesting things to say But one of the Biggest things That stuck out to me Was Delray Slash Random House World's New announcement Of Adam Christopher's Next Star Wars novel It's called Master of Evil He is the author For those of you Who don't know That wrote What's that book We've read with Luke and Lando And the weird Sith character I always forget The name of Yeah Because I know What one you're Talking about Anyway Yeah That one I think it had Like an obscure name Yeah it was It was like

It was something weird It's pretty recent though So this one though Features Features a crazy Looking cover Of Darth Vader's Helmet And It will cover Vader's descent Into evil Immediately after The events of Revenge of the Sith As he tries Shadow of the Sith Shadow of the Sith That's the one Yeah As he tries to Uncover the secrets Of the Sith's ability To elude death So yeah It just dives right into The reason that he Turned to the dark In the first place This is the book To follow up on that

Story thread Which is Kind of neat Still chasing after Plagueis then Yeah Yeah yeah yeah Exactly So this hits Shells November 11th This year Also I don't know if you guys saw But Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith Novelization Is getting this Crazy new Like luxury edition With like this Slugger Slipcase cover And it looks Insanely awesome So you know Just a heads up there Do you think it's Appropriate to launch A Descent into Evil Novel on Remembrance Day?

It's like our Veterans Day in Canada Oh shoot Yeah Oh man Well it isn't In Australia So you know There you go Kirk Happy days Happy readings I remember it was Like a big thing Because they launched Like a Call of Duty game On 11-11-11 Which was Remembrance Day Yeah I remember that That was awful You guys liked Light and Magic The Disney show Disney Plus show Kirk you saw Documentary Yeah documentary About Industrial Light and Magic The six part one Yeah Yeah it was good It was good Yeah yeah

Awesome Season two is coming out This year Almond Best returns And they're gonna be Getting into the 90s The rise of the Digital era Digital effects Modern VFX Specialities And season two Starts off I think they kick things off With Jurassic Park And they kind of go from there They get into things Probably the likes of When did season one Finish up? Oh season one came out Like two years ago I think No but like What time period Did it finish up?

So I For some reason I thought that it covered Like up until today But obviously it didn't I actually don't know I don't think they had Like a designated area But it was very much Covering The old Kind of Analog Like Visual effects Department Which was Industrial light and magic I think that was Their main focus Of that season So with this season They're kind of They're focusing on A different Phase of the company And a lot of the Innovation that went into Those very early Things like You know

With like Motion capture Jar Jar You know Like no one had ever Done a Character like that before In such a scale You know Across a whole movie So Yeah There's gonna be Some Probably some footage Of you know George in there And You know We should do You should reach out To Mark Anthony Austin And get him back Back on here Yeah Actually yeah Actually yeah That's a good point They might even Feature the special Editions in there As part of the Experimenting I mean I hope They talk about it Because

You know That'd be cool I also read Somewhere Somewhere I think in London I think One of the film festivals I'll have to find which one But they're Doing like Original screenings Of the Of the Um Uh Original trilogy Not the special edition ones But like the Oh the theatrical Release I saw that Yeah Yeah And apparently It was like Officially endorsed as well By um Uh By Lucasfilm Which I thought was I didn't expect I have to find out Where it was But I did read up on that Oh that's cool

That's awesome This is very surprising I guess I mean George was really The one who made that decision Yeah Yeah So The grip is getting Loosened I guess Right Yeah Yeah Well uh Season 2 premieres On Disney Plus On April 18th Uh I believe Well that is uh This weekend So Make sure you Yeah Check it out Today for me Alright Uh We got uh Let's see Two more things Um I don't know if anyone Plays Fortnite out there I know a few people Listening probably do Uh Fortnite is gonna be

At Star Wars Celebration This weekend And they have got A big announcement to make So I assume that means Another Star Wars season The last Fortnite Star Wars season That came around You could get skins For like Anakin Clone Troopers Padme Um I think Is it pregnant I think Mandalorian No it wasn't I hope they do Uh That would have been Really funny though Old fat Rex Yeah That would be cool Uh Yeah so I don't know What they have in store But um But yeah You Probably more Skins More Themed stuff

You know Yeah So More things like that Um Okay Pre-Celebration news here Um Check out Star Wars Launchpad Uh AI show And you want to talk about that Very briefly Uh We just put our new episode Definitely worth checking out Yep Pretty cool If you just want Some streamlined news To listen to While you're In the car Some Star Wars news It's the It's the place to be That's right And we'll be uh Piping those But make sure to listen to this podcast first Yeah Yeah You are listening to this podcast

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To the Discord server Uh We had a few of you reply And And want to Stick around Which was really cool And so you guys Have a special role Called uh VIP Or Legacy Or one of the two And um We appreciate the feedback Uh They gave us For For Launchpad So Um You know It's not going to replace The main show Uh But uh It's just something We're doing on the side As a bit of an experiment And you know We'll see it improve As time goes by As AI gets better And creepier And all those things So uh You know

You can let it bring you Some Star Wars joy On every uh Every two or three weeks You know We'll pipe some Headlines in there And don't forget To check the sources You're going to have A lot to cover In the next few days Yeah There is There is going to be And that's why That's why it's going to be great You know Putting in all those headlines Boom Just let the robots Do the talking And it doesn't sound As bad as you think So Yeah Part of me still thinks You did this side project

Just so you can listen To your own news In the car No I much prefer The sound of my own voice Uh Okay Last thing I got On the menu here Is Beyond Victory Um You guys don't really do VR do you? Mixed reality? Uh Just when You get a new Star Wars game Yeah Kirk you done VR before?

I think the only Star Wars VR experience I've done Was like that Old Lenovo Like collaboration Thing with um Star Wars Like the We could We could attach it To your phone And then Oh wow Different heroes and stuff Yeah dang That's the only thing I've ever done Yeah Oh man I should have Should have brought My VR headset When I came over To see you Uh Yeah I um Uh I saw another announcement Um From The uh The masters behind Vader Immortal And Tales from the Galaxy's Edge Uh They're working on

Another Uh Quest Uh Exclusive VR Game Called Beyond Victory And this is a Uh I think it takes place Between Episode 3 and 4 Or something like that Uh This is a Pod racing VR game It's what That sounds cool But it's not what We've always wanted Um It's It's very It's very unique Uh It's You're not It's mixed reality It's designed to Kind of cater to the Mixed reality headsets Which have good Cameras that you can see Your room around you So like So you put it on When you're in the car

So I'm saying When characters talk to you When you have the cutscenes And everything You're kind of In the cutscene And these characters Form around you In your existing environment Um Weird Yeah It kind of makes you Think floating heads Well it's the full character But like it knows Where the floor is It knows where the walls You call that driving Yeah I don't know how good It's going to be But from what I saw In the cutscenes And you can look it up Right now There's like a trailer

For Beyond Victory And um I think this was done By Uh I think it was the ILM X Labs YouTube channel You can find on IGN has it as well There's a trailer for Beyond Victory Mixed in with the other VR games That this studio has done Um But you can get some footage Of what it looks like And When you race The pod racers You're kind of Top down views You're looking on it As if it's like A tilted off Map of Mario Kart Or I guess you can kind of Stand wherever you want But it's basically like

Mario Kart But you only see like You know Maybe A hundred meters Down the road And it's a bit like Playing one of those Classic arcade games Where you're like Steering the bike You know Down the You know And you're just avoiding The obstacles And stuff like that Oh okay yeah It looks like it could be Something like that Or Or it looks like Or like a Crash Bandicoot Some level You just gotta jump Yeah something Something like that Yeah so it's not What I would envision For a VR pod racing game

Like I want to set up A fan on a table In front of me Sitting in a chair Wind blowing In my face Yeah yeah Full max You know Just go full on You know Like full sand You know what would be cool If they actually You know how people Get really into Like their Formula 1 Simulators and stuff Like if Like someone made Like a Like a Like a Seat thing That has Moved on hydraulics And everything That was specific To like A Star Wars Star Wars pod racing game That'd be That'd be good fun Yes

I'm sure you could like Retrofit a racing sim And do something like that Oh well I mean like And you can get your fan as well You can get flight You can get flight controls Like as it is For a lot of the You know the flight Flight games out there Like you know Some people have wicked Like virtual Pod racers Plane setups Oh okay But if you were to like Actually Do it in a way That those could work Like that would be That would be crazy Yeah That would be cool In Japan Like I can't

You probably know What game it is But I stumbled across Like this They have like These massive arcade centers Battle pod Six stories high Whatever It's called Star Wars Battle Pod Right Star Wars Battle Pod Yeah It was like this Like VR But it was kind of like From like the 2000s Yeah Oh cool So you know what's a choker Is I recently went on a cruise And they had one In the arcade Oh man And it was busted Someone was playing too hard Well Yeah I couldn't play it I was like

I've seen pictures of these Like there's like I've seen like YouTube shorts Where someone like Buys one for like 10 grand For their Star Wars collection And I'm like Oh my god And it's like Those things look insane Like I'd love to try one And I'm standing right next to one And it's broken It's like the only thing That was broken Couldn't believe it Oh you missed out Security It was actually a lot of fun Yeah It was actually You tried it But I just Yeah I tried it It was great

And it was like working And like It kind of felt like It was something that was made Like a long time ago But like it wasn't made A long time ago as well Right Just because the graphics Were so bad Yeah Like the projection Was like really Like kind of dimly lit But like the gameplay Was still good fun And like Had a good time There was a bit of a line To actually get into it as well But then I just waited around And then And had some fun But it was also In Japanese as well

That's what I was wondering Text and everything Because you have no idea What the What's going on Or what you're supposed to do Just clicking random buttons Just pressing a bunch of stuff Yeah Alright We are running short on time And also we got a pizza That's going to knock at the door In five minutes So we should probably Wrap things up Celebration stream pizza Celebration pizza Kirk you got any Last minute things You want to bring up Before we close here I don't think so I'm just looking

Through all of the Twitter feed now But I think we're saving that For a future episode So I don't think There's anything else That needs to be said Alrighty Blake any Anything Anything to fill The last 30 seconds Anything you're looking forward to Stay tuned Apologies for listening To this podcast If you want to listen To the celebration That's the next one That's right Because this is coming out After celebration has started For some reason You have been deceived

That we'll title this accordingly The deceived trailer We'll call this Random stuff No maybe not No one's going to click on that Alright So yeah So stay tuned For those recaps I don't know if we're going to Make a big thing out of them But you know If anyone does want to join Those recaps We can totally do that Last year And the year before I think I just Didn't buy myself Because I came on for some You did come for That's right Yeah yeah you did So but definitely 100% After celebration's over

Next week We're going to do A full Sort of sit down Everything that was You know announced We'll just kind of Have a heyday with Whoever wants to join us You know Kirk and Maybe Darian Or Kyle Or whoever I don't know I don't know who's going to be here But we'll do a chat And I'm sure everyone's Going to have a lot to say About the new announcements There's going to be a lot To talk about There will be There will be This is the busiest Star Wars weekend of the year It is Yeah Yeah it's crazy

And then in a week's time I think it's Andor season 2 Coming out on Disney Plus Oh dang So yeah That's so soon That's awesome Yeah I lost track of time It's crazy man This is going to be a blur And then May 4th Star Wars Begin Alright We'll catch you later See you out there Keep flying Alright thank you so much To our audience for tuning in As always we love Having you share the show With your friends out there And so many things Like and subscribe And thank you so much To Kirk for joining in

And we got Blake Our co-host Thank you so much to him And thank you so much For myself Being such a great host For you You're welcome So We will catch you In the next one And don't forget To catch up on Andor Revenge of the Sith Comes back in the theaters Next week Pick up your tickets If they're not already gone That's in 4DX That'll be cool Alright May the force be with you

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