STAR WARS: The Expanded Fandomverse

The wait is FINALLY over, The Last Jedi is here. Jason is joined by show creator Tim McMahon to discuss what we did and didn't like about the Last Jedi, and hypothesize on where we're heading in Episode IX.

This show contains Spoilers, so listen with discretion.

If you have a comment on the film, leave us a message at 205-383-3663. Our voicemail message has been removed, but that's our number so make sure you leave your message after the beep.

2 months away from its opening, Jason and Jim dive head first the full trailer Trailer for The Last Jedi with insight, speculation and perhaps some spoilers. Due to the spoiler nature of this podcast listener discretion is advised.

What did you think of the trailer? Post on our Twitter or Facebook pages or call us at 205-383-3663 and leave a recorded message review.

Ah yes, Summer! That time of procrastination and sloth. All that basically means that we here at the Fandomverse have been laying around the pool more than doing podcasts. Now that the sun has done "murder to meesa skin", it's time to get back in the groove.

But, before we do, here's a clip show of some of our funnest games we've played on our show. 

Indiana Jim - "Can You Identify These Star Wars Sounds? -2:08

Adywan - "Disease or Star Wars Delicacy" -16:58

Ed Dolista - "Indiana Jones Temple of Doom Challenge" -24:52

Palette Swap Ninja "Star Wars Term, Beetle or Both" -43:00

Plea for help! -1:06:00

Everyone has their favorite Star Wars character. Mark Schnack has taken his love for his favorite character Admiral Ackbar to a whole new level. 

On today's episode we'll talk about his extensive Admiral Ackbar collection and why everyone loves this red skinned fishy rebel.

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Mark Schnack Interview 1:45

Mind Probe 33:07

Attack on Thermal Ocillator Game:42:29

Bombastic Gamer Films is a team of gamers and filmmakers who love writing, recording, and editing gameplay from Star Wars Battlefront, Battlefield 1, and GTA 5 into short skit style comedy videos.

Ever wondered what Stormtroopers talk about while on duty, or what happens when the greatest heroes and villains from the Star Wars universe meet? 

Jason and Indiana Jim will take you through the ultimate bombastic experience as we talk to the filmmakers.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BombasticGamerFilms/

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Remember opening up that toy store ad in the local newspaper and seeing that they had the newest Star Wars toys and that the figures were on sale for a mere $1.99. Philip Reed takes us back to those days with his newest book: A Galaxy of Action Figure Savings. 

We talk with Philip about his love for Star Wars toys and putting together these toy time capsules that capture a moment in history in the marketing and advertising of everyone's favorite vintage toy line.

Philip has tons of Star Wars knowledge, but is he worthy of our game: Who wants to be a Grand Jedi Master? Listen and find out!

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What do you get when you mix the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Star Wars? You get an internet sensation with over 1 million views. 

In this episode, Jason and Indiana Jim talk to the creative team of Palette Swap Ninja who crossed sci-fi and rock-n-roll to come up with Princes Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans, a Star Wars parody based on the classic Beatles album.

Hear excerpts from the album as well as what it took to make it from the artists themselves, and don't miss a unique and fun Trench Run Game that had us all experiencing some Beatles mania! 

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If you ever wanted to know when something happened in the Star Wars timeline, then Nathan P. Butler is your man. For almost 20 years now, he's been notating all the important and the mundane. If it happened in canon he could tell you when. But, when a disturbance in the force, called the Disney takeover, happened what was to be come of the Timeline. Nathan tells us,  shares his love for the Timeline and uses his knowledge of all things Star Wars to tackle a trench run like no other.

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Jason and Jim dive head first into the New Teaser Trailer for The Last Jedi with insight, speculation and perhaps some spoilers. Due to the spoiler nature of this podcast listener discretion is advised.

What did you think of the trailer? Post on our Twitter or Facebook pages or call us at 205-383-3663 and leave a recorded message review.

Pop in your Blu-ray or log into your digital streaming service and join the Expanded Fandomverse's host, Jason Collier, and Less than 12 Parsecs host, Tim McMahon, for a full length commentary of Rogue One. We give you instructions to sync up your player or digital file to this podcast and then proceed to take you on a journey through Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We share our Fan Boy insight as well as cool and interesting facts about the film. Get your popcorn and soda and enjoy our feature length commentary!

Legend tell us one thing, history another. Every year the Expanded Fandomverse gets injected with super soldier serum, goes subatomic, dons a suit of armor, raises its Hammer, and gets a little angry, so we go all "Winter Solider", and shoot an arrow in the direction of a Vision of something we haven't done before.

In this very special episode Jason is joined by friend of the show, Kris Meyer, as they open the Astral Dimension and get caught up in the web that is The Marvel Cinematic Universe. Enjoy..and Happy April 1!

Join Jason Collier (Access Hollywood's Ultimate Star Wars Fan and host of the Expanded Fandomverse Podcast), Scott Ryfun (Host of the My Star Wars Story Podcast and co-host of Dinner4Geeks Podcast), and Erin Neidigh (Author of 5,100 Question Mega-Ultimate "Star Wars" QuizBook and the new Rogue One Quiz book) for reviews of all 13 original episodes.

We finally end the  Star Wars Radio Drama with the climate Battle of Yavin.

We discuss how the epic battle translates to the audio format and we also discuss viewing Star Wars through our newfound knowledge of Rogue One. 

We give mini reviews of Rogue One as well as sum up what we loved, hated and what we would have changed about the Radio Drama.

All this and more in Episode 13: Force & Counter Force!

ENJOY, and make sure you let us know what you think of the podcast!

"You may think you've seen the movie; just wait 'til you hear it!"...

Jason has been on a quest, to find another Producer/ Host for the Expanded Fandomverse Podcast.  Answering the call is none other than Podcaster and Audio Drama Writer/Actor/Editor Jim Perry, otherwise known as Indiana Jim. Don't be fooled by the name, he's a huge Star Wars fan and is ready to tackle all the obstacles in the Fandomverse Temple of Doom.

Don't miss the trivia portion of the show, as Jim takes on the Sounds of Star Wars. Will his audio editing background help him? LISTEN NOW to find out!

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What happens with two guys who have very short podcasts get together to talk about Star Wars comic books?  We get really long winded and char for nearly 2 hours!

We are almost all caught up on in our quest to chat about all the comics we missed in the last year.  Maybe one more episode, and then we should be back on track!

For now, we're talking about  the last two story lines from the Darth Vader series; "The Shu-Turon War" issues 16-19, and "End of Games," issues 21-25, as well as Doctor Aphra, issues 1 & 2. 

With the stand alone Han Solo film 2 years away, fans of the dashing rogue can catch a sneak peak into the other adventures of Han Solo in a new fan film

In Han Solo: A smugglers trade a pre- New Hope Han Solo has to free a captive prisoner. Trouble ensues and Han has to use some simple tricks and nonsense to get him out of danger.

We are joined by Director & Co-Writer Keith Allen and Cinematographer Kristopher Kimlin to talk about the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPfCTyd3X8

Join Jason Collier (Access Hollywood's Ultimate Star Wars Fan and host of the Expanded Fandomverse Podcast), Scott Ryfun (Host of the My Star Wars Story Podcast and co-host of Dinner4Geeks Podcast), and Erin Neidigh (Author of 5,100 Question Mega-Ultimate "Star Wars" QuizBook and the new Star Wars;The Force Awakens Quiz book) for reviews of all 13 original episodes.

In this episode we arrive at the 4th Moon of Yavin and talk, and talk, and talk. Han meets Biggs and Luke tries out to fly an x-wing, and more talking.

We also discuss Star Wars domain name squatting, death of Ewoks, , and THE New Hope.

All this and more in Episode 12: The Case for Rebellion!

ENJOY, and make sure you let us know what you think of the podcast!

"You may think you've seen the movie; just wait 'til you hear it!"...

After a year away, Allen Voivod and Tim McMahon are bringing back The Expanded Comicverse, our monthly recap and review of the new Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics.

In this "trial run" of an episode, we discuss two recent story lines in the flagship Star Wars title.  Keep checking back as we get ourselves all caught up!

www.StarWars7x7.com

www.TwelveParsecsPodcast.com

www.TheExpandedFandomverse.com

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All Star Wars sounds, music, images, logos, designs, characters and elements are registered trademarks and copyright of Disney, Lucasfilm Limited, their subsidiaries and respected rights holders, and used by The Less Than 12 Parsecs Podcast under fair use doctrine. All original content is copyright Tim McMahon, Allen Voivod and our respective podcasts, released under the No Derivative Works Creative Commons License. A proud member of the Expanded Fandomverse network of shows. Utinni!

Jason is joined by his daughter Reese for a Holiday Special (better than the Star Wars on) where we talk Rogue One (with Spoilers) and listen to our fans who called in and gave us their reviews on the new film. We hear from The Star Wars Guru, Tom Berges from igrewupstarwars.com , Josh Blake from KennerCollector.com, Fandomverse co-host Derek Daniel, Collector's Care founder David Bledsoe and more. Plus we hear initial audience reaction recorded from  the theater right after the 1st showing.

We listen to Star Wars Christmas songs, wrap presents, and make fun of Wookiees.

Grab a glass of Blue Milk Egg Nog and enjoy!

It's not too late to leave a review, call and leave a review at 205-383-3663, and we'll use it on the next show! All callers are entered to win a prize of The Force Awakens dvd and digital copies.

Tim and Jason sit down to discuss the new standalone Star Wars film: Rogue One.

If you have thoughts on the film, leave us a voicemail at 205-383-3663 and we'l use your call on the show. You could also win a prize!

Join Jason Collier (Access Hollywood's Ultimate Star Wars Fan and host of the Expanded Fandomverse Podcast), Scott Ryfun (Host of the My Star Wars Story Podcast and co-host of Dinner4Geeks Podcast), and Erin Neidigh(Author of 5,100 Question Mega-Ultimate "Star Wars" QuizBook and the new Star Wars;The Force Awakens Quiz book) for reviews of all 13 original episodes.

This episode finds our heroes freed from the trash compactor, escape the Death Star, and battle tie fighters. We note some differences, similarities, things that bugged us and things we loved.

We flashback to a 1980 Today show clip...We have an extended post credit sequence where Scott can't seem to tell the difference between a Nexus and Nexu's... and we even evoke some Star Trek; Generations into our conversation.

All this and more in Episode 11: The Jedi Nexus!

ENJOY, and make sure you let us know what you think of the podcast!

"You may think you've seen the movie; just wait 'til you hear it!"...