Customer Reviews
An excellent overview of Star Wars in a gloriously coloured book - By: lend me your ears, and I'll poop innit!, 09 Nov 2008 
I bought this book on a whim & enjoyed it so much. It's got a lot packed into it, & it's a fairly slim book! I actually bought it same time as The Ultimate Visual Guide to Star Wars by Ryder Windham (the one with Darth Vader on the cover), & to be honest, it's a much better book; because it serves not just as a visual dictionary, but as a visual guide to boot. Well worth buying for any Star Wars lover out there!
My boys spend hours poring over this! - By: Red Squirrel, 03 Oct 2008 This has proved a big hit with my boys (aged 8 & 9) & our copy is starting to look battered from too much use! They are into the Star Wars films & PS games, & have found the level of detailin the book to be very informative. However, they are both advanced readers, & while you can enjoy looking at the pictures, there is a lot of text & if your child can't read fluently they will miss out on lots of interesting details.
Great Pictures, Dissappointing Text - By: PG, 24 Jul 2008 
Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries)
The picturesin the book are great. The text leaves much to be desired. The text is hightly repetitious. It is like a different person wrote each page, but didn't read the pages that the others wrote. If your technically oriented, don't read the text, as it is better to believein the illusion that the things will work rather than to know that they wont. In addition, page 104 of the copy sent by Amazon, the ink had bledin the printing press. Fortunatly the image was only slightly smuged, but the text under the bleed is illegible - but no great loss from my point of view.
If you have no other books on star wars then this one will provide enough information to remind you of the characters so you can talk to you kids about them. If, like us, you want lots of pictures, the book is great. But given the ink bleed on page 104, it is a book you may like to previewin a shop rather than buy on-line as there appears to be a quality control issue for the publisher.
Not So Complete. - By: BryBo, 09 Feb 2008 With the Classic DK line up of previous books & high standard from them, you would expect the Complete Star Wars Visual Dictionary to be fully laden with information from all the previous books. Alas, this is not the case but it does include the Visual Dictionaries from Episodes 1 to 3 & a shorter version for Episodes 4 to 6 (original Trilogy). Having said that, it does have some extra information on R2D2 & the Sarlacc but misses out on the Y-wings, A & B-Wings as well as the Empire craft but since these are on earlier books it does not matter as much.
It is still great fun to read & to look at & a Star Wars fan will love it & it will get youin the mood to see the films again. I also loved the Cutaway of a Lighsaber & comparing the Lightsabers of Episode 3 & 4 (Obi Wan's & Anakin's with Luke's are the same & should be). I think that the same detail on the Trilogy would have made this more enjoyable but I am a puristin this matter. Even though the latter part has lost some of the information & the earlier is the same, you do get some extra snippets of information that were cut from the film at a later point (Luke watching the battle above his skies of the Blockade Runner being captured by the Imperial Destroyer). The Clone Troops & Stormtroopers info are very good, as well as the Characters but again you will not find out too much about Han Solo, Chewy or the Later life of Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi. In this book, you get to see the downfall of the Galactic Republic (it was already fallingin Episode 1) to it's downfall & the rise of the Rebel Allience & final fall of the Empire.
If you can't get hold of the originals (or they are too expensive to buy sperately) then buy a copy today.
A must for a Star Wars fan - By: Ms. P. Harris, 09 Feb 2007 This is an essential item for any young (or older)fan of Star Wars. The images are superb quality & the amount of information is exhaustive. A really beautiful addition to any bookshelf & worth every penny spent.
