Tosche Station Radio at Celebration: Interview with Ashley Eckstein

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We were fortunate to be able to sit down with Ashley Eckstein at Celebration Day One! This interview contains questions from multiple blog/podcast outlets discussing The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Her Universe.

Tosche Station Radio #109: Schedule Madness

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Bria and Sho join the hosts today for one last Celebration preview!

Kicking off the show, the hosts highlight What’s New on the Blog. Nanci finally wrote about her and Brian’s visit to Rebel, Princess, Jedi, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Bria reviewed Darth Vader #4. Sho gave us some more recs of all-ages comics with queer representation. Nanci did a go/no-go for Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks by Jason Fry

After going around the horn in Fixer’s Flash, the crew jumps into Deak’s Dirt and starts with film news. The Star Wars saga has gone digital! Outside of Star Wars, The Hugo award nominees were announced. In theme park related news, Star Wars Weekend guests announced.

Biggs’ Bull$&#* starts with Oscar Isaac getting some advice from Harrison Ford on the set of TFA. Meanwhile, when will see see The Force Awakens novelization? Finally, According to Jedi Bibliothek, the Shattered Empire author is Greg Rucka.

With the Celebration schedule more or less finalized, this week’s Camie’s Concerns is devoted to discussing what to do at the con! We tell you where we’ll be, things we’re excited about, and stuff you should look out for.

Tosche Station Radio is the official podcast of Tosche-Station.net and a part of Majestic Giraffe Productions. If you like what you hear, please leave a review on the iTunes Music Store. We can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Nanci and Brian are the co-founders and writers of Tosche-Station.net. You can find Nanci on Twitter with the handle @Nancipants and you can find Brian with @LaneWinree.

This podcast has been brought to you in part by Her Universe and Audible.com.

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Fabulous Prizes at Tosche Station Radio’s Live Podcast

celebration_keyart_wideIn addition to giving you a chance to be a part of the podcast, we’ve got a few more reasons you might want to show up to the live recording of Tosche Station Radio at the Celebration podcast stage at 10:30AM  on Sunday. Fabulous prizes!

By showing up, you’ll receive a raffle ticket and may just win one of these awesome giveaways:

  • A hardback cover of Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp (win it before the street date!)
  • A Hera action figure
  • A copy of The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry
  • A copy of The Essential Atlas by Dan Wallace and Jason Fry
  • A copy of Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
  • A copy of Honor Among Thieves by James S.A. Corey
  • An amazing mystery prize!

Again, all you have to do win one of these prizes is show up at room 208A at 10:30AM on Sunday. We look forward to seeing you!

“It’s Like Asking Me to Pick My Favorite Child”

Star_Wars_logoEver ask a Star Wars fan to rank their favorite Star Wars movies? If you have, you’ve probably gotten a variation of the above response. And then you’ve probably tried to rank them yourself and kept changing your answer depending on your mood, or because you just saw one of the movies on TV, or read a certain book, or whatever.

Star Wars Celebration is next week and we’re all pumped and ready to go and frankly out of brain space for intelligent column ideas. Not to mention the entire six movies were just released digitally for the first time ever. So I thought it would be a great idea to do the impossible and rank our favorite Star Wars movies! And not just rank them, but explain the rankings, too.

Okay, maybe this won’t be as brainless as I thought…

Mental hand-wringing under the cut! (Soon to be made null and void with the release of The Force Awakens.)

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Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Updates!

celebration_keyart_wideWe’re less than a week until the start of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, and we’ve been getting a bunch of updates just in time to finalize all your plans.

From starwars.com:

From Her Universe, a sneak peek of exclusives coming to Celebration, including dresses, cardigans, and t-shirts for women and girls.

Think Geek exclusives, including:

  • Star Wars Celebration Pin Trading Exclusive – Lando Calrissian
  • Star Wars Celebration Exclusive ThinkGeek Pin
  • Russell Walks Retro Star Wars Poster Set (only 250 made)
  • Russell Walk 8×10 Propaganda Prints, featuring the 501st – Vader’s Fist
  • Limited-edition Star Wars Celebration Patch with purchase of Con Bag of Holding

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Finally, Amy Ratcliffe has tips and tricks regarding general convention-going, Celebration, and the Anaheim Convention Center.