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Summary: Your Childhood lives!
Review: ..on the pages of this book! I could not put it down once I picked it up. oversized pictures, details never before seen, great layout, beautiful design and refrence to the greatest toys in the galaxy! A PERFECT COFFEE TABLE BOOK!!A true Jedi would own one!
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Summary: Great addition -- a must -- for every collector.
Review: Actually got a copy at the Denver SW Convention this past weekend. Read it on the plane coming home. An excellent compendium. (By the way, I wonder where the nasty review of one star below is coming from? Petty jealousy?) I recommend this book on its virtues and Mr. Sansweet's well-respected knowledge of the subject and his other fine books.
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Summary: Hey! I forgot about that figure! Fun, well designed guide.
Review: Cool book. Its great to flip through this nicely designed tome every now and then, if nothing else than to marvel at how many figures I don't have. Includes the complete run of the 70s and 80s figures and most of the current figures, to just before the "Flashback" figure wave, the one in which Aunt Beru, Hoth Chewbacca, etc. were released. Has information on figure variations (one figure of the same character might have different "mistakes" from one to another - one might have an open hand or a closed hand, a different colored backpack, for example) and a bit about each character's role in the movies. Great photos (reveal details about figures I hadn't noticed before - Garindan (Long Snoot) holds a commlink, for example) and is a nice testament to the hard-workin', under-appreciated sculptors over at Kenner and now Hasbro. (You know that this book sits on their office bookshelves...) Buy this book if you want to reminisce (Hey, I forgot I had that figure!) or if you want to use it as a guide for which figures you want to snap up to complete your collection. Nicely done, Sansweet and Ling.
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Summary: Great book with some good pictures.
Review: Covers almost every star wars action figure up till 98 also some vehicles and other stuff. great referance for the collector with some pictures of cast I have not seen before.
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Summary: Great photography--buy it for this, if anything.
Review: Excellent photography and color photos. What the author could have done is added the new freeze frames with the respective figures as well as the STAP and Mace Windu exclusives.
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Summary: A trip down memory lane
Review: For a lot of people, Star Wars figures were a big part of their childhood memories. So much so in some cases that as adults we find ourselves unable to resist the temptation to buy some of the new figures too. This book includes a number of rare figures, variations of particular figures--and stretches chronologically up to 1998. This book is a "coffee-table" type book that is VERY complete and very high quality. The pictures of both the figures and movie shots of the characters are visually stunning. This was a well thought-out book.
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Summary: A trip down memory lane
Review: For a lot of people, Star Wars figures were a big part of their childhood memories. So much so in some cases that as adults we find ourselves unable to resist the temptation to buy some of the new figures too. This book includes a number of rare figures, variations of particular figures--and stretches chronologically up to 1998. This book is a "coffee-table" type book that is VERY complete and very high quality. The pictures of both the figures and movie shots of the characters are visually stunning. This was a well thought-out book.
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Summary: Action Figures In Action!
Review: Going all the away up to the end of 1998 and therefore missing all of the Episode One figures and new specialities such as the sail-barge skiff and Stormtrooper with blaster-rifle rack, this is nevertheless the ultimate figure guide. Forget the rest. Continuous fans (who kept the original figures from childhood) to lapsed fans (who had them all, but sold/gave them away) to new fans, this is for you, one and all. Figure histories, oddities, facts and figures, production runs, special campaigns, cards variations: I was extremely impressed with the book and its contents. Each figure gets full-colour treatment accompanied by stills from the various films (reproduced as "evidence") every detail is there: from equipment to weapons. I particularly liked the "rogues gallery" at the beginning where every figure in the original and the later ranges are reproduced in miniature to compare and contrast. This book will have been drooling over figures you desire or mourning over lost, once owned treasures. Get your wallet out now and check you credit limits. Once you get this book you will be hitting every Star Wars store you can find to buy (or re-buy) those essential figures. Would make a great present.
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Summary: Action Figures In Action!
Review: Going all the away up to the end of 1998 and therefore missing all of the Episode One figures and new specialities such as the sail-barge skiff and Stormtrooper with blaster-rifle rack, this is nevertheless the ultimate figure guide. Forget the rest. Continuous fans (who kept the original figures from childhood) to lapsed fans (who had them all, but sold/gave them away) to new fans, this is for you, one and all. Figure histories, oddities, facts and figures, production runs, special campaigns, cards variations: I was extremely impressed with the book and its contents. Each figure gets full-colour treatment accompanied by stills from the various films (reproduced as "evidence") every detail is there: from equipment to weapons. I particularly liked the "rogues gallery" at the beginning where every figure in the original and the later ranges are reproduced in miniature to compare and contrast. This book will have been drooling over figures you desire or mourning over lost, once owned treasures. Get your wallet out now and check you credit limits. Once you get this book you will be hitting every Star Wars store you can find to buy (or re-buy) those essential figures. Would make a great present.
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Summary: In a word: supercool
Review: I found this book on the discount table at my local book-a-rama and decided to take a peek. Twenty minutes later... I was still flipping through the pages, experiencing a rush of mid-70's childhood flashbacks. This book has page after page of crisp photographs of just about every "Star Wars" toy you can think of, plus corresponding stills from the films. The loving care and detail dedicated to archiving these toys (which are both crude and sophisticated) remind me of Chip Kidd's books about "Batman" toys, but these pictures retain the sterile, futuristic feel of a Lucasfilm by-product. I'm no longer a huge "Star Wars" fan but throughout elementary school, I was. As I flipped through this book, so many minor characters that I'd forgotten about came back to me: IG-88, R5-D4, Bossk -- were the toys based on the characters? or were the characters created so there'd be more toys? It doesn't matter. I'd forgotten that when Boba Fett first appeared, you had to send away to Kenner to special order him. I'd also forgotten that the "Empire Strikes Back" Tauntaun toy had a slit in its stomach so you could stuff Luke in there, just like Han Solo did. This book brought all that back to me. If you're a lapsed "Star Wars" fan, jaded by the hype and the cheesy digital graphics of the current sequels, look around for this book and kick back when you have a lot of time on your hands. You might find huge sections of your youth buried in here, disguised as a remote-control Landspeeder.
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