Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
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Sep 22, 2026
DerekHOST
And I'm trying to think like.
DerekHOST
my my history right like you were you were kind of giving me flashbacks to it because you know I I remember this was when I was still you know living in LA and then I I think I went to that Toys R Us that was uh off Sepulveda or whatever and like uh that was the one like That I think was like it opened at like midnight for the Phantom Menace and everybody lined up to go, you know, ravage the store or whatever when when the doors opened and stuff.
DerekHOST
But, I mean, I remember that, you know, that Toys R Us was a frequent, like, stop where, like, I'd go to the Fox Hills Mall and look at the KBs and whatever bullshit was out there.
DerekHOST
I'd go to that Toys R Us, and then there was, like, a game store across the street.
Jason GibnerHOST
And I'm like, oh, my God, George Lucas, were you reading the books, too? Because Qui-Gon Jinn, doing battle meditation.
Jason GibnerHOST
Phantom Menace.
Jason GibnerHOST
Yeah.
Jason GibnerHOST
So there's these dark side people writing Palpatine, clone Palpatine's back.
BenHOST
Yeah, I skipped that year.
BenHOST
Phantom Menace, Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Fight Club, The Green Mile.
BenHOST
Oh, my gosh.
BenHOST
Green Mile's great.
Stuttering CraigHOST
I'm flabbergasted, like legitimately flabbergasted at that.
MitsuGUEST
Do you know what it's like? I remember Red Letter Media pointing out in the Star Wars Episode I review, the legendary one from way back in the day, that it is ridiculous to create things that are specifically marketed to kids like the Gungans and the Ewoks because that's not what kids like.
MitsuGUEST
Kids want to see Han Solo and Luke and Leia and everybody be heroic and do heroic things.
MitsuGUEST
And with Destiny, it feels like nobody was really being heroic.
EricHOST
So, you know, we've talked about kind of, like, the experience of being, like, part of these releases and these launches and things on the show before.
EricHOST
In fact, our very first episode of the show was talking about the, like, launch of the Phantom Menace toys and going to, like, KB and stuff like that.
EricHOST
Mm-hmm.
EricHOST
so um we've talked about i've been
Mike GibsonHOST
Oh, okay.
Amber VerityPANELIST
And then what's left? Attack of the Clones and Phantom Menace? And Rise of Skywalker? Rise of Skywalker.
Amber VerityPANELIST
So Rise of Skywalker.
Mike GibsonHOST
After Return of the Jedi?
Mike GibsonHOST
Clones?
Amber VerityPANELIST
Clones and then Menace.
Mike GibsonHOST
Rogue One, then Phantom Menace.
Amber VerityPANELIST
Yeah, Robo and then Phantom Menace.
BranwenHOST
Well,
JessicaGUEST
this is why I love this mention of Malastare because pod racing, like anyone can say all their different opinions on the Phantom Menace, but no one, no one can criticise pod racing.
JessicaGUEST
Pod racing as a sequence, even through the dark times when I thought it was, you know, a bad movie for a brief period of my life when I was in denial.
JessicaGUEST
I was still like, but it's got pod racing.
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JessicaGUEST
love that.
JessicaGUEST
Yeah.
SeahHOST
so we're having these like i think we recorded the other night and then afterwards we had a two-hour conversation about like smear campaigns in star wars and like it was so it was so bizarre but then the other day we went literally through how did this start we went through the whole of the phantom menace and attack of the clones and he said he's still got questions but we're not there yet so So he's not ready to hear the next bit of the story.
SeahHOST
But trying to explain to him about Palpatine's role in all of this and what he's doing the entire time has been really interesting.
BrandonHOST
And they didn't, in 1990, so like, this is like, you know, they took a lot of, um, a lot of the effects from this movie, obviously you can't make like, you know, space practical, right? So nobody expects that.
BrandonHOST
But like a lot of the effects from this movie were implemented in Phantom Menace, which came out a couple of years later, Star Trek and Phantom Menace.
BrandonHOST
And they reused the stuff because it was done so well.
BrandonHOST
And the animatronics and all the different aliens and stuff like that, like that to me is like, I just really enjoy that.
Blake BraswellHOST
It's
Lee MalabyHOST
like someone who's watched, like, a kid who grew up watching The Phantom Menace and, like, those ones and then sticking him down in front of A New Hope and, like, what is this?
Blake BraswellHOST
I'll give you one.
Blake BraswellHOST
So my eight-year-old daughter, I forget, I think it was...
Daniel AyersHOST
The thing I wanted to mention, I was re-watching the prequels with my girlfriend.
Daniel AyersHOST
So like Phantom Menace.
Daniel AyersHOST
Yeah, so we saw them kind of in chronological, not chronological, in order of release.
Daniel AyersHOST
So sort of the New Hope, the original trilogy.
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