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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It could have been so good,
This review is from: Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection (Hardcover)
First to tone down the publisher's hype. 5 posters does not constitute an "incredible collection" and there's certainly nothing "ultimate" about it.Now, the 5 posters are gorgeous. They're printed in vibrant colors on very high quality thick paper that's just shy of being cardboard. On the front of each is a glossy photo and the back has a non-glossy blueprint of one or more items. They would easily rate 5 stars, but... they come folded and creased, ruining their potential as posters. And if they're not used as posters, they're extremely inconvenient for browsing. As everyone knows, folding and unfolding these will weaken and eventually tear the paper along the creases. But even fresh out of the box, with the creases not yet worn, THEY'RE STILL CREASES! A five-year-old could look at this and figure out that the posters should have been shipped in a tube. Why the publisher couldn't make that same leap of logic, we'll never know. So should a Star Wars fan buy these? Absolutely! You'd regret not having these, but you'll also curse the luminary who thought that a rectangular box made the package artsy and stylish.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fantastic collection of blueprints and images,
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This review is from: Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection (Hardcover)
Growing up with the Star Wars films in the late 70's I was always drawn to the technology behind the films. One of my favorite Star Wars items was a collection of blueprints and technical designs I bought in 1981 so I was extremely happy when this book was announced. While the cross sections books are excellent additions to my library for me nothing is better than spreading out a big drawing and pouring over the details of it as it adds tremendous depth to the Star Wars experience.It is very apparent that both authors/artists, Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas, along with being extremely gifted and talented artisans, they are obviously dedicated Star Wars fans. From their choices of images to the modern design and descriptions used in their work you can clearly see the care they both took be clear, concise and true to Star Wars Universe while imprinting their own incredible style upon it. This collection of poster blueprints will please the serious and casual fan and look great spread out on table or hung up on the wall. I hope there will be additional volumes and my only suggestion would be a rolled poster tube set as that would make framed versions appear even better. I am certainly left wanting more!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Grerat But Not Enough Content,
This review is from: Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection (Hardcover)
The Star Wars Ultimate Blueprint collection isn't a book exactly but rather a collection of five huge and double-sided poster-sized plans. While five may not seem like a lot, the prints are quite beautiful and enormously detailed and a great deal of information is packed into each one. These are printed on very heavy stock with the front side treated with a heavy gloss. The front of the poster features the character, ship, or weapon shown in full color images from the Star Wars movies while the back displays the blueprints.R2-D2 and C#3P0 are combined onto the same sheet. The cutaway drawings display all the parts of the two druids along with a "parts" list. C3P0 has 95 different parts detailed and R2D2 has 52 parts documented. As a protocol Droid, C3P0 has a large memory bank, language memory discs, and phonetic pattern analyzers to assist him in his main function. The Astromech druid R2D2 is like a walking Swiss army knife, equipped with item such as a utility saw, fire extinguisher, life form scanner, holographic projector, and more. Next we get and up close look inside Darth Vader himself including his life-support systems, cyborg implants, and sensory enhancers. Vader's cyborg implants provided him with a breathing tube, supplemental nutrient storage, aural ear implants, and a ventilator to assist his breathing. The enhancers in his helmet include infrared and ultraviolet lenses to allow him to see in total darkness. It's clear from looking at the blueprints that while Vader's suit made him a living weapon, it was also his personal hospital and maintenance area that kept him alive. The weapons blueprint covers Han Solo's modified Blastech DL-44 pistol; the Stormtroopers standard issue Blastech E-11 rifle; the Blastech RT-97C, favored by Sandtroopers; and Anakin Skywalker's custom lightsaber, passed on to Luke by Obi-Wan. The last two prints cover the Millennium Falcon and the original Death Star. The Death Star plans, and it's kind of funny to say that, considering the events in the very first Star Wars film, cover just about everything you can think of regarding the massive battle station: It's Hypermatter reactor core, tractor beam reactor, superlaser gunner station, tie-fighter hangars, and the Hull defenses. A note of trivia, the Death Star's armament included over 7,000 Tie Fighters. While all this is really superb, I think a bit more content would have put the product into solid A grade territory. One more print could have included X-Wing and Star Destroyers and that would have bolstered the set. Also, it might have been better for these to be presented in a book where the plans folded out rather than be in poster format. Posters tend to just get ugly once you unfold them and fold them several times, although I supposed if you were an avid enough fan you might consider framing them.
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