[New] Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Visual Dictionary

If there are Star Wars books that I love, it's the Visual Dictionaries. They are great Star Wars compendiums.

According to Amazon, on January 16 they will release TPM Visual Dictionary to prepare for the re-release of the movie on theaters. However, I noticed something. The book will have 96 pages (over 30 more than the original VD). To me, that's very exciting news.

What are your thoughts?

EDIT: On Amazon.co.uk, the book will be released on December 19.

 

Well, I guess I'm the only one, then...

 

I'll definitely be picking this up if it indeed has extra pages. I love the Viual Dictionaries!

 

[gesture of cautious optimism]

 

The TPM Visual Dictionary was the first Star Wars book I ever owned.

It spills 20-some-odd pages onto the floor whenever I try to pick it up now, so I try not to touch it if at all possible. But at least it saw a lot of abuse back in its day. I mean, use.

 

Huh, weird. Mine is falling apart like that too.

Poorly made bindings, I guess.

 

Mine is still intact (pages-wise), but the hardcover is a bit in bad shape. I think I'll buy two this time: one to use, the other to save as a collector's item.

But over 30 pages of new material is intriguing... Will it be new content for the 3D release?

 

A pop-up section, perhaps?

TC

 

what is this book? Amazon have absolutely no information...

 

I really hope not.

Never heard of the visual dictionaries?

 

No, but that sounds boring.

 

Visual Dictionary. Plenty of interesting stuff originated with them.

 

I don't think that's exactly what Talon was implying...

 

^ This. As a matter of fact this, verbatim.

 

Then I didn't understood his reply.

 

pop-up=3D.


I'll take a look at it; I'm curious too as to where 30 pages of new material is coming from. Didn't really seem that there was much the original VD didn't cover to some extent.

 

Maybe we're gonna get stuff like a de-aged Christopher Lee popping into Qui-Gon's funeral and a corresponding VD entry?

 

That's what I thought.

Indeed. I still don't see where they will get so much content, unless they completely revamp the whole book.

 

Not sure how many de-aging they can do when you're a 400 year old vampire...

"Mr. Lee, you're not showing up in the camera...."

 

I don't know about the Ultimate Visual Guide, but the Complete Visual Dictionary doesn't have new TPM-related pages. The majority are from the OT.

 

Sneak Peek

Looks good to me.

 

Ody Mandrell is naked. WTF. The Ody Mandrell action figure sitting on my desktop is most insulted by this new revision.

 

Any idea if this'll continue with the rest of the 3D releases? Sure wouldn't mind new OT Visual Guides-they've always seemed underwhelming to me in terms of how much stuff is actually in them, especially compared to the prequel Guides.

 

I agree. It's a single book for three movies. I hope that if the future episodes are released, we get a book for each movie.

P.S: I just noted that the extra pages are more recycled information than actual new one. The pages are just more free of space. I hope it's not true for everything. Also, hated that Stewjon is mentioned in the Visual Guide too.