Smart Advice On Star Wars Droid Art

July 3rd, 2010 Star Wars Art Tags: , , , , , , , ,

I was just checking it out and was going to pass on it when I noticed that one of the droids in the book is a joke – it’s made up of all of the Kenner Droid Factory toy parts stuck together, and then they made up a complete backstory for it. Had to pick it up after that!


How many dismemberments are there in the six Star Wars films?
Yeah, it's a morbid question, but it something I've been wondering, as every Star Wars film seems to involve limbs or heads being lopped off. I'm curious if anyone has ever counted every loss of limb Star Wars Droid Art in the six Star Wars films, including droids/android arms, legs, heads, etc.I know, I probably sound like a nut, but tell me that you haven't watched the Star Wars films and thought, 'hmmm, there were a lot of limbs/heads lost in this film', especially in 'Revenge of the Sith'. Just humor me with this one.Bonus points if you can not only give the grand total, but also break it down by specific limb (e.g. 'New Hope' - alien's right arm in Cantina) etc...Includes droids, alien creatures, and storm troopers too...
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  • Jaeger [ 03Jul10]

    The Essential Guide to Droids is better than the rest of the EG series thus far. It has good pictures and relatively informative schematic drawings of each of the droids, with better art than has been seen yet in a Guide. It also has the obligatory listing and brief description of all the major droid manufacturors in known. Another helpful feature is that it lists the droids according to their function, rather than in the standard alphabetical order, a la EG to Weapons. But the author goes beyond simply describing each droid and its function. He created background lore about the droids, and their developers. He doesn’t make each droid individual, but rather trases entire product lines, for example, he goes from the R1 to the end of the R- series, creating the whole product line development, etc… What he doesn’t do is spend the entire allotted text space for each droid simply relating the adventures it has had. This is a very helpful, informative, and readable SW book, and I’m glad I bought it.

     
  • Gregory [ 03Jul10]

    I really think they are stretching to come up with more “Essential” books for Star Wars, but nonetheless, this is still a good book full of all the information you knew, know, wanted and didn’t want to know about the lovable robotic droids of the Star Wars movies and books. Star Wars fans won’t be disappointed, however there is not much here for the non-Star Wars fan, as they probably won’t even know what their reading about (or if they did, they wouldn’t care). I recommend this to all Star Wars fans.

     
  • Jessup [ 04Jul10]

    This is where I go to get information on Droids. You never seem to get really good description of the droids so this is where reccomend that you go and if you can’t find out what you need to know the I would reccomend th Star Wars Encyclopedia.

     
  • Koopman [ 04Jul10]

    I have all of the Essential Guides and have been pleased with all of them to one degree or another. The Essential Guide to Droids, however, is one of the better ones. The author and artists have done their homework in researching the novels, but for all their work-there are some really silly designs in here, usually written into novels or whatever, because the author thought it would be cute, but only comes across as annoying or dumb (the C2-R4 comes to mind). Other designs have not been well thought out-the M38 Explorer droid is too tall, it seems logical that if you want an automated robot for planetary surveys, then something with a lower center of gravity would be a much better design. I would recommend that everyone ignore the fact that Anakin made C-3PO and keep his manufacturer as Cybot Galactica, since that is a little more believable. As always The Essential Guide to Droids would make an ideal addition to the Star Wars role playing table as well, and it has a good spread of robots from domestic, industrial to combat and medical droids. A solid effort with great art work and well written.

     
  • Lambdin [ 05Jul10]

    Another great Essential Star Guide by Dan Wallace. This volume includes material from the three prequel movies and is worth every cent. Good job Dan! Looking forward to Helen Keier’s New Essential Guide to Aliens.

     
  • Fujimoto [ 05Jul10]

    Pictures are awesome. Just wish it provided a little more info that could be used or interpreted for game play.

     
  • Hoffmann [ 06Jul10]

    Finally a New Essential Guide that can truly be called “Essential!” This may be the best essential guide (only the New Essential Chronology competes with it) written. Dan Wallace (with the aid of Able Pena and Pablo Hidalgo) has gone over every nook and cranny of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and if there’s a droid to be found, a detail to uncover, a story-element to expose, he’s done it!

    After the disappointing New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (which followed the trend of ignoring a lot of early Expanded Universe sources), I thought I was through with the NEG’s. The New Essential Chronology changed that and this book has now upped the ante on ALL future Star Wars reference books!

    Everything is here. Entire pages are devoted to characters from rare and even out-of-print continuity sources, from old newspaper strips by Russ Manning, to the Droids animated show and spin-off Star Comics series, to Alan Moore’s rare stint on Marvel UK’s Empire Strikes Weekly (reprinted in Devilworlds) to the requisite but often overlooked pages of Marvel Star Wars (reprinted recently as A Long Time Ago volumes 1-7), L. Neill Smith’s brilliant Lando Calrissian trilogy, RPG sources, novels, young readers books, Dark Horse comics; It’s all here and much, much more! Not a stone is left unturned from 1977 to 2006, nearly 30 years of continuity has gone into this book that actually succeeds in demonstrating that the much maligned “appliances” of Star Wars are really fascinating creations in their own right, and every bit as intriguing as their human masters.

    Wallace handles the text expertly, weaving bits of continuity to form a much stronger and cohesive whole. This is not a guide for techies either, or even just for those who’ve read every original source out there, but rather it’s a book for the average Star Wars reader written with a narrative structure. Far from simply providing the origin and purpose of the droid in question, each entry features fascinating short biographical tales of some of the famous examples that caused either salvation or destruction to the galaxy! Also, there’s a history of droids section that details the dawn of their inception to their persecution and abolition at the hands of the Yuuzahn Vong. Also, as an added bonus, the illustrations here are stunningly realized.

    This is definitely a guide you don’t want to miss and represents the high watermark Star Wars authors can achieve when they combine love of the universe with intelligent, diligent research and a deft hand at fixing the plotholes and connecting the dots. For from these often disparate pieces, some of the great tales emerge. This book is proof of that.

     
  • Karch [ 06Jul10]

    For the most part I feel the Star Wars “Essential Guide” series are a good value for the money. Yes, there is a LOT of SW product out there but the entire line is well done, and this new book on droids is no exception. The illustrations are excellently done, and the text is detailed enough to be interesting but brief enough to be enjoyable. Even a casual SW fan should enjoy this book.

     
  • Diaz [ 07Jul10]

    Our 8 year old son is the one who wanted it, but we all play with it. The child is the designer of “droids” that he sends on missions. Each droid must meet special mission criteria specifided by the program, but there is plenty of room for innovation, and if the mission fails, well, he can re-design and try again. When he successfully completes a mission, he is rewarded with more and better parts to include in his future droids. As he propgresses, the missions get harder. Unknowingly he is learning about physics, how machines works and about material properties while improving his problem solving skills.

    It is fun to be a droid designer and to see one’s creations put to work. Kids like it, and we, parents, like it for the creative thinking and learning. So, let them fight over the computer!

     
  • Lirette [ 07Jul10]

    My 4 year old and myself love Lucas Learning’s DroidWorks. It is an older program and it took some time to get it running on my later model machine. After some research on the net I discovered that I had to bypass the normal executable to avoid installing an old version of DirectX I didn’t need. This was as simple as creating a shortcut to the real executable. Then my droids were moving slowly until I installed CPUKiller which creates extra workload for my CPU in order to slow it down for the game. Now my only problem is that when trying to view the “information crystals” my droids find in the game my system freezes. However this happens later in the game and we still have gotten a lot of game play out of it. Perhaps I can solved this problem soon.

    My son loves putting different droids together and sending them out on missions. All the missions are educational in that my son must solve problems with levers, pulley’s, gears, laser reflections, etc. There’s an Index which is an encyclopedia to explain these concepts. Droids are also built of different materials which are described in the Index. My hat is off to George Lucas for producing this quality work of edu-tainment.

     
  • Ibarra [ 08Jul10]

    this game is great you get to build your own droids from star wars and then battle them.

     
  • Littler [ 08Jul10]

    Star Wars Droidworks has been one of the most addictive games I have ever played. The plot goes like this: The Empire has started the prodution of assassin droids. Assassin droid are tough droids armed with huge blasters and a taste for torture. However, they are dim-witted. Your job is to build a droid to reprogram the assassins into harmless droids. Before doing this, you must build droids to complete eight training missions three times to prove you’re worthy and to be rewarded with droid parts. These missions are also to teach you about the science concepts used in the missions. Once all are completed, you get access to the four secret missions. In three of them, you must collect the three Information Crystals, one in each mission. In these three missions, assassin droids are lurking, so you must be careful. After that, you must activate them in the Data Information Facility to get the Data Disk, as well as the location of the Hidden Droid Factory that is producing the assassins. With the Data Disk, you must enter the Hidden Droid Factory, and insert it into the reprogramming slot to reprogram the assassins into harmless dancing droids.

     
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