Skywalking Through Neverland

Tim Donaldson is the youngest actor in Star Wars: A New Hope - at 5 years old he played a Jawa! He was in the right place, right time - elementary school in Death Valley, CA in 1976 - when George Lucas needed pick-up shots for the Tatooine desert. It’s a fascinating story!  Things We Want To Share: BREAKING NEWS: Skywalking Through Neverland will be on the official Star Wars Celebration Chicago Podcast Stage ! Richard shares a touching tribute to Peter Tork of The Monkees. He passed away on 2/21/19 at the age of 77. We all share a big wookiee hug. What’s it like to meet a famous cat? Awesome and cuddly, that’s what! We share the story of how we met Goose (aka Reggie) from Captain Marvel, and also a short, spoiler-free review of this awesome film. Marvel continues its series of entertaining slam-dunks. DARE TO DREAM with us! You can join in our music video with music by Eric Walker (Mace Towani of The Ewok Adventure films). Check out this YouTube video of the simple dance

Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood writer, has so many credits we can’t list them all! He’s written for the Academy Awards, Grammy’s, Tony’s and People’s Choice Awards. Bruce is also a 6x Emmy Winner, has played Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, been a square in Hollywood Squares, was in the film Ice Pirates, wrote The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, has had major contributions in the Comic Relief charities, and was a writer for The Star Wars Holiday Special! Now he’s skywalking through Neverland to tell us amazing stories about his experience! On Valentine’s week we also celebrate our LOVE of JOHN WILLIAMS. If you were program director at a concert of John Williams’ music, which 10 tracks would you choose? We asked ourselves and our Skywalkers this question. Things We Want To Share: Walt Disney Studios gave us a sneak peak of the live-action Aladdin, and a blue Will Smith...uh...I mean, a Genie….I think. So we talk about that. And Howard the Duck is BACK and animated! Marvel is dropping 4 new adult

We continue our exclusive, deep-dive discussion with Bryce Eller! This week he tells amazing stories of being Darth Vader at the 1978 Academy Awards, putting his footprints in cement at the famous Mann’s Chinese Theater, and so much more. Bryce (who used to go by Kermit Eller) was also on the Donny and Marie show and shares his experience. Things We Want To Share   GALAXY’S EDGE NEWS!  Did you know there will be several tie-in publications to Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Walt Disney World? We discuss the new Marvel comic, several books and even a Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook! Blue milk, anyone? 2018 Oscar nominations have been announced, and we discuss any noms related to Star Wars, Disney or Marvel.  Shanghai Disneyland is getting ZOOTOPIA!  Time to start trip-planning... Another week, another awesome episode!