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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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  • Eagles [ 26Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Gail [ 26Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Barz [ 27Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Dickenson [ 27Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Gustafson [ 28Jul10]

    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!

     
  • Louie [ 28Jul10]

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

     
  • Foxx [ 29Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Nien [ 29Jul10]

    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.

     
  • Jameel [ 30Jul10]

    This is my second favorite game next to runescape. I really love to make up my own puzzles and have my dad (yes he plays to) try them. The whole family enjoys this game. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes puzzle games.

     
  • Grove [ 30Jul10]

    This game can be challenging but, we play as a family “team” and all contribute to the solution. It has made for hours of fun. It is not a heavy duty learning game but, it helps my little ones use the mouse and learn the tactile-visual interface necessary to feel comfortable on the computer.

     
  • Alba [ 31Jul10]

    Excellent logic puzzle game. Playing this game will certainly embed the concept of ratios in your child. The ability to pause and think and try different solutions is handy. The feature to create your own puzzles is a wonderful extension for a thinking child. The artwork is familiar and the droids are as fun as in the movies.

     
  • Frame [ 31Jul10]

    I sent this game Pit Droids to my grandson for his birthday. It seems he had the game before but it was played so much that it no longer worked. My daughter says he loves it better than any other game he has. He would play it for hours if she let him. He just turned six and is already at the medium level.

     
  • Medbury [ 01Aug10]

    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.

     
  • David [ 01Aug10]

    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.

     
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