The Essential Guide to Droids (Star Wars)

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Summary: Great reference guide
Review: This book is a must-have for any Star Wars fan, and explains 100 of the coolest droids. One bad part is, it has no terminology section, like the Weapons and Tech Guide had, for those people who dont know what a Photoreceptor, Vocabulator, or Servomotor is.

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Summary: I love, love, loved it!!
Review: This book takes all the other information about droids, which has been scattered throughout hundreds of books and puts it in one. The Essential Guide series has been very successful but the last on on planetss disappointed me. It had bad drawings and little information. But this book has brought me back to the series. With great specs, awesome stories, and cool drawings, this book is a must have for all star wars lovers.

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Summary: If you like Star Wars, you'll like this book.
Review: This is a wonderfully funny, interesting book. All the neat droids covered in this book are cool. I'm surprised only 5 other people left reviews for this book. The only downside is that the illustrations are absolutely DEVOID of color besides white. Now you may be criticizing me, mumbling under your breath "Oh go crawl back in the sand box," but it IS true that the mere prescence of color can make something marginally interesting massively interesting. The Star Wars: Visual Dictionary and Incredible Cross-Sections series are popular for that very reason, although the Essentials series has tons more information in sheer volume. The black-and-white illustrations were well-done, but mucho DRAB. The original concept art was cool, but the schematics and silhouette models are positively goofy-looking. Still, they get the job done of making it apparent how the droids are supposed to be designed.

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Summary: Another Life-Saver
Review: This is where I go to get information on Droids. You never seem to get really good description of the droids so this is where reccomend that you go and if you can't find out what you need to know the I would reccomend th Star Wars Encyclopedia.

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Summary: A must for Star Wars fans everywhere.
Review: This was a great book. I was amazed at all the droids throughout the Star Wars universe. The book was nicley illustrated had great schematics and the text was very discriptive. It also gave a discription of different manufacturers of the droids. However this book was not as good as the planets and moons or guide to characters it still gets a 5 in my book. The droids book completes my set in this collection. I would like to say thanx to Daniel Wallace, Bill Hughes, and Troy Vigil, I hope you will continue to create other Star Wars books in the near future.