Product Description

A guide to 100 of the most essential Droids who appear in the Star Wars Trilogy, featuring line drawings and illustrations in full detail.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #608164 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Some of the coolest personalities in Star Wars--both big parts and bit players-- aren't really persons at all. They're the droids. From the comedic duo of R2-D2 and C-3PO to the beeping, gonking peanut gallery in the belly of the Sandcrawler, you can tell that Lucas loved his droids. In fact, as Essential Guide author Daniel Wallace wisely points out, A New Hope opens not with a princess or a Jedi, but with the bickering R2 and 3PO. Wallace shares that affection, and in The Essential Guide to Droids, he lovingly describes a hundred of the hardest working bots in the galaxy, drawing from the Star Wars movies, novels and comics. (As Wallace puts it, "We like to think we covered all the cool ones.")

Every droid you remember (or maybe just recognize) is here, from R2 and 3PO to the syringe-packing interrogator orbs on the Death Star to the eyeball-on-a-stick security drone that minds Jabba's front door. Each entry lists the unit's specs and history (and sometimes even marketing strategy),and a technical blueprint points out all the features (how else would you find the retractable paralysis cord on the cone-headed bounty hunter IG-88?). With its droids of all callings, from medical to military and protocol to processing, this Essential Guide is a tour any SW fan will love. --Paul Hughes, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

A good read, for true fans.
This book is quite a good read and is an essential piece of reading for true Star Wars fans, and contains some good stories within the technical parts. The book can be a tad bit tedious in some aspects but is a good read even for people who aren't extreme Star Wars fans. If you are buying an essential guide and it is your first one I would recommend you start with something a bit lighter, for example The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (which happens to be one of my favourites), but, once you have read something like that (the guide to vehicles and vessels), it is an excellent book and I often find myself re-reading it. It can be very helpful if you are a fan like me of the many Star Wars books and of the movies for it can help you with very important information. This information helps you understand what you are seeing or reading. In summary it is truly an excellent book and worth every penny of the money spent.