Product Description

This book explores the inner workings of some of the most famous spacecraft and vehicles in movie history. It shows where everyone was on Princess Leia's Blockade Runner when it was captured in the first scenes of the first film and you can see Boba Fett bring Han Solo's frozen body aboard Slave 1.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #234207 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The popularity of the Star Wars films seems only to grow with time, and the release of the new "prequel" trilogy is sure to add to that ever-burgeoning fame. Star Wars: Incredible Cross-sections is another in Dorling Kindersley's beautifully produced series of companion books providing interesting background trivia to the all-time classic trilogy. Using the full colour cross-section artwork techniques familiar from previous DK illustrated works, Reynolds, Jenssen and Chasemore collectively reveal the inner workings of 15 of the key vehicles and spacecraft from the original three films. Want to know how the ungainly AT-AT walkers (the metallic behemoths witnessed at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back) manage to move and the ethos behind their unusual design? Or perhaps the combat advantages of a TIE fighter over a T-65 X-wing, or even the modifications made over the years to Han Solo's legendary YT-1300 stock light freighter, better known as the Millennium Falcon? This book will make all clear, illustrating it (almost literally) down to the last screw. To my mind, this is the real strength of the book--the texture and precision of Jenssen and Chasemore's illustrations bears the most minute examination, and even those with no knowledge of or interest in Star Wars would surely marvel at these wonderful examples of sci-fi art. But, of course, this is really a book aimed at the committed fan, and the information David West Reynolds has retrieved from his research into the Lucasfilm archives will leave none of them disappointed. --Alisdair Bowles

Customer Reviews

The Ultiamate craft in the Orgianal Star Wars (Episode IV-VI)
For those you of who have never seen this book, it is a classic in both information and design and was one of the first DK (Dorling Kindersley) books on the saga.
Written by David West Reynolds and Illustrated by Jenssen and Chasemore this covers the Original Star Wars Trilogy now called Episode 4 to 6 and gives great detail in the drawings. The craft are introduced in the same sequence of the film, so you get the Blockade Runner first followed by the Star Destroyer (Victory Class), Death Star, Tie Fighter and so forth. The schematics are brilliant and well worth looking at over and over again and special features include the Death Star with great information via West Reynolds. You get a glimpse of the Star Wars Universe which enhance your film viewing. This is a must buy for any Star Wars fan and anyone who play the Trivial Pursuit Star Wars board games.
The contents include:

The introduction (on engines, hyperdrives, sublight drivers etc)
The Blockade Runner (Tantive IV)
Star Destroyer
Tie Fighters (bombers, fighters etc) and Death Star (original)
Sandcrawler
Millennium Falcon
X-Wing (T-65) although this was and the Y-Wing's (BLT-A4)were not actually named in the films.
Tie Advanced X1 (Darth Vader's Tie)
All Terrain Armoured Transport (AT-AT) and Scout Walker (AT-ST)
Snowspeeder
Slave 1 and Jabba's Sail Barge

All in all a very brilliant book and well worth buying which you will want to read for years later (I have had this book since at least 2000).

Your inner kids dream!
My god since I was a child I wanted this book, every year on my christmas list it would go but I never got it. Well now I do and it is fantastic, the detail into the vehicals and background information is astonishing.

The thing that did bug me about this book though was the sheer size, its just irratatingly massively tall, even with a large bookshelf you'll have to lay it on its side.

The other thing you may not like is the fact that the detail only goes into the vehical layouts and functions, theres no top speeds, dimensions or weights, maybe a small point for some but this was a real dissapointment for me, it took away part of the illusion.

Too expensive!
I have a number of "technical" starwars books and this is possibly the most detailed in terms of the physical structures of the craft. However, the book is very thin and the price tag is over inflated. A better book is the Technical Manual.