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The highly anticipated Annual Beyond the Films Year in Review is here! How did the Films, Television, Games, and the uhm other stuff of 2018 stack up? What did your hosts like, and dislike from 2018? All this, and more, all on the next Star Wars Beyond the Films. YOUR “Star Wars” discussion podcast! YOUR Podcast of Legends! YOUR ticket to that Galaxy far, far away! Your Fandom lies Beyond the Films.
This week true believers, Beyonders, Fanboys, Fangirls, respected aliens around the galaxy, The Champion of the Multiverse; Mark Hurliman, and your Count of Continuities; Nathan P. Butler sit down to discuss the 2018 Year In Review: The Films, Television, Games, and the uhm… other stuff of 2018! So strap in and tighten your crash webbing Fandom, Star Wars Beyond the Films is setting off on another rapid-fire trip into that galaxy far, far away!
This episode your hosts discuss:
The Uhm… Other Stuff of 2018:
- Your Hosts note that there was NO NEW LEGENDS SHORT STORIES IN 2018 …..
Movies
- Solo
Television
- Rebels: Season 4 (end and home video): “Jedi Night” through “Family Reunion and Farewell”
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Season 2 DVD (no BD)
- Resistance: The Recruit through Station Theta Black (11 eps and 12 web shorts)
- LEGO Star Wars: All Stars (8 parts on YouTube, 5 eps on TV)
- Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures (YT, Star Wars Kids, first 11 eps)
- Forces of Destiny Vol. 3 and 4 (Season 2, 16 eps, 8 per TV special)
Home Video
- Rebels Season 4 (BD, DVD)
- Freemaker Adventures Season 2 (DVD)
- The Last Jedi (4K, BD, DVD, exclusives, no 3D) – Best Buy, Walmart, DMC, Target, DS
- Solo (4K, BD, DVD, exclusives, no 3D) – Best Buy, Walmart, DMC, Target (and RC), DS
Video Games
- Jedi Challenges: Kylo Ren Saber
- Battlefront II: Total progression and monetization redesign, no new story content (that was at the very end of 2017), Ewok Hunt mode, Han Solo Season (Boussh as first Legendary appearance), Kessel mode, hero ship mode, hero showdown, Lando’s Millennium Falcon (MF), returned Jabba’s Palace map, Geonosis, Grievous, Obi-Wan
Card and Dice Games
- Destiny: Legacies, Rivals, Way of the Force, Across the Galaxy
Miniature Games
- X-wing: Saw’s Renegades, TIE Reaper, Lando’s MF, 2nd Edition Core Set, Conversion Kits (RA, GE, S&V, FO, Res), T-65 X-wing, TIE/ln, TIE Advanced x1, Y-wing, Fang Fighter, Firespray, Mining Guild TIE, First Order TIE, T-70 X-wing, RZ-2 A-wing
- Armada: Chimaera, Profundity
- Imperial Assault: 5 Skirmish Maps (Mos Eisley Back Alleys, Nal Hutta Swamps, Uscru District, Tarkin Initiative Labs, Lothal Wastes), Tyrants of Lothal, Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger, Zeb Orrelios and Sabine Wren, Hondo Ohnaka, Thrawn
- Legion: Core Set, Rebel Troopers, Stormtroopers, AT-RT, 74-Z Speederbike, T-47 Airspeeder, AT-ST, Desert Junkyard/Ruins gamemats, General Veers, Snowtroopers, Leia Organa, Fleet Troopers, Han Solo, Rebel Commandos, Boba Fett, Scout Troopers, E-web Heavy Blaster Cannon, 1.4 FD Laser Cannon, Emperor Palpatine, Imperial Guards, Chewbacca, Wookiee Warriors (I think), Barricades
RPGs
- Edge of the Empire: NOTHING!!!
- Age of Rebellion: Fully Operational, Cyphers and Masks
- Force and Destiny: Ghosts of Dathomir (I think), Unlimited Power, Knights of Fate
- General FFG: Dawn of Rebellion
- WEG Reprint
- All this, and more!
Once more your hosts cover entirely too much end of the year action this episode. But don’t worry, give it a go; you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even get a little education on Star Wars while you’re at it. But no matter how you slice it and dice it, you’ll be having another adventure Beyond the Films. So sit back, hang on, enjoy the show, and may the Force be with you!
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- Nathan’s YouTube ChronoRadio
- Mark’s YouTube Rogue Transmissions
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Author: Mark Hurliman
Mark Hurliman, a.k.a. illogicalRogue2 is a Founder of The Star Wars Report. He hosts Star Wars Beyond the Films with his co-host Nathan P. Butler, and can be found on The Star Wars Report, and The SWR: Rebels Roundtable podcasts as well.