jedipadawanjb
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Post by jedipadawanjb on Jul 19, 2005 0:20:27 GMT -5
i here all the time about people looking in a visual dictionary for costume and lightsaber ideas also for facts and i was wondering if it was the book you guys are talking about, the one that has the picture of Grievous on the cover?
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jul 19, 2005 0:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by Seda Navilli on Jul 19, 2005 3:46:43 GMT -5
Great books, if you generally ignore the text  |
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Jul 19, 2005 4:08:51 GMT -5
Great books, if you generally ignore the text Couldn't have said it better myself  The books are filled with some great pictures and some of the diagrams are usefull (lightsabers for example) but a lot of the text is just made up to fill space. The tiniest detail of someone's costume (which had no bearing on the story and played no part at all) will suddenly be given a grand title and some huge signifigance. For example, if Jar-Jar had felt so bad about voting Palpatine his powers, that he'd noosed himself up with some rope from the closet, in the Visual Dictionary, this would then be labeled as the Gungan Rope of Shame  |
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Jul 19, 2005 18:04:29 GMT -5
Well, David West Reynolds is credited with writing the Visual Dictionaries for TPM and AOTC and James Luceno is credited for the one for ROTS. So, you can blame them. I just have the books for the photos, which are very nice. I guess the books needed text for page formatting, but I wouldn't miss it if they were just all pictures and labels. In fact, if they didn't have all that annoying text, they might have more room for more pictures. I certainly don't take the text seriously for all costume detail backstories even though they're licensed books for the movies.
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jedipadawanjb
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Post by jedipadawanjb on Jul 19, 2005 19:17:48 GMT -5
thanks for the confirmation wasn't sure. i ordered the book of the Internet anyway and just wanted to see if it was the same book. i personally like the text sure there'd be more room for pics but isn't there a book coming out made for starwars costumes and doesn't it have samples of material.
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Jul 19, 2005 22:13:58 GMT -5
Yes, we eagerly await the Star Wars costuming book in October, but only the expensive version (that a few of us crazy people here will get anyway) has the fabric samples.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jul 19, 2005 23:00:03 GMT -5
I'll be going for the inpensive version myself!
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Clone Commando
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Post by Clone Commando on Jul 20, 2005 1:04:25 GMT -5
you can preorder the StarWars Dressing the Galaxy book at Walmart (online) for 29.99 which is like 10-20 dollars cheaper then when it comes out.(this is the inexpensive version)
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Post by Seda Navilli on Jul 20, 2005 3:24:36 GMT -5
I dont understand why they don't hire people from these (or other) forums! It seems we do a hell of alot more research for fun than the authors do for money!
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Clone Commando
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Post by Clone Commando on Jul 20, 2005 4:14:58 GMT -5
very true
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Aug 3, 2005 2:35:33 GMT -5
I dont understand why they don't hire people from these (or other) forums! It seems we do a hell of alot more research for fun than the authors do for money! LOL! You might be right about that! |
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