Star Wars: The Blueprints

A true insight behind the scenes - utterly superb. As a Star Wars fan, this is an absolute treat, but from a wider perspective, its how things should be done. Proper respect to all the artists that make the films we love possible - absolute genius.

A rare find there fore its not cheap it has the schematics if the film and props .very big book star wars fans will love it. But if are expecting the workings. Of ships. Etc you might be put off....

I bought this for my hubby's 40th Birthday as he's a massive Star Wars fan and he loved it. Great coffee table book, very in depth. I havent read it but he seemed very ingrossed in it. The book is beautifully put together and the photos and blueprints are stunning. Great gift for a Star Wars Nerd!

Huge, heavy and packed with sketches and blueprints. This is not like the 'Complete Cross-Sections' series of books. The pictures are scans of the technical drawings (pencil on paper etc). Because of this some of them are a little difficult to make out.There are some disappointing omissions such as detailed drawings of lesser-seen but still iconic vehicles such as the AT-AT. The walker itself is in there but no cockpit or interior bits as there are with others.It's a big book and very heavy so not really for bedtime reading.I am a graphic artist and some of the material in this book is invaluable as a resource.

What an excellent collection of amazing artwork and descriptors. Packed with inspiration for future projects.

This book is massive, it has lots of cool Star Wars blueprints in it and it is heavy too

I skipped the limited Epic Ink edition which I felt to be too large and expensive. The original trilogy studio set blueprint reproductions we had access to during the last decades had been a set of selected Star Wars (ANH) blueprints and those featured in the artbooks of TESB and ROTJ.This book reveals most impressively that there had been much, much more, and accompanied by many hardly or never before seen photos this is a must-own for the serious Star Wars collector and most definitely one of the top three Star Wars publications I've purchased during the last decade.The book illustrates nicely the amount of planning and detailing of the various studio sets of which I hadn't been that much aware of previously, and apparently nothing was left to chance or improvisation, even the ice corridors of the Rebel's Echo Base are laid out in detailed side and top views.And the book contains a few surprises. For the first time we see the enigmatic "Rebel Snowcrawler" (mostly deleted and hard to spot in the footage) from TESB which is identified as "cannon sled" (and was apparently a forerunner of the desert skiffs in ROTJ) and there's even an "in-universe" interior arrangement drawing of Echo Base (seems like "Inside the Worlds of Star Wars" could use a revision), which in general is featured with ALL its sets.Pages 124 and 125 are rather intriguing as they seem to feature an early design for the Star Destroyers' main bridge consisting of only three windows (compare photo on page 126!). This concept seemed to have survived for the "First catch of the day" scene in the film (however, shot in the port side alcove of the main bridge, instead) and apparently changed to the "aft bridge area" in the top view of the TESB Star Destroyer bridge blueprints (only seen for a brief moment and revamped in the "My Lord, we have them" scene).My criticism is less that Mr. Rinzler didn't elaborate on what appears to be an evolution of the Star Destroyer studio set bridge design (and its variations / different sections presented for Lord Vader's "Executor") but more that the book does NOT feature the top view of the TESB Star Destroyer bridge studio set although it obviously qualifies as one (or the most) iconic set of the film.Despite its great value and fantastic compilation the lack of various studio blueprints, one might have expected or hoped for, is the reason why I can only rate (and rather reluctantly) this otherwise breath-taking book with four stars.Instead of the detailed blueprints for the Ewok village (and those that had already been featured before, though admittedly at a much smaller scale) here are some I would have rather wanted to see: Death Star Control Room, tulip-style console, DS Hangar Control Room, Detention Block AA 23 entry area, actual construction blueprints of life-size X- and Y-wing fighter, Massassi War Room (all ANH), Star Destroyer bridge top view, AT-AT cockpit, Rebel Cruiser medical facility (all TESB), Death Star II corridor (leading to lift tube in deleted scene), Headquarter's Frigate bridge and briefing room (only some elements are featured), Headquarter's Frigate hangar, Emperor's Super Star Destroyer bridge (all ROTJ).One fifth of the book features studio sets from the prequels. That's okay for me but I would have wished those 66 pages rather contained the aforementioned missing blueprints. It's interesting to learn they seriously did consider to feature a revamped 20th Century helicopter in Theed's hangar (good thing they didn't).

If you are a true Star Wars fan - WHO just needs to know everything there is re. Star wars and the designs - THIS is THE BOOK - A true masterpiece of a book and thoroughly illustrated with everything from walkers to bases, to star destroyer bridge and so on.....I just use it for reference almost daily as a 3d designer and 2d illustrator/concept designer.....BUY THIS BOOK - It reeks quality...Rene, Denmark