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Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections #3
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Incredible Cross-Sections
Star Wars: Episode II -- The Saga Continues... Illustrated by DK's acclaimed cross-section artists, Hans Jenssen and Richard Chasemore, Episode II Incredible Cross-Sections is written by new author, Dr. Curtis Saxton, who has a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics and well-known to Star Wars fans through his high-profile website (The Star Wars Commentaries, hosted by the biggest fan site, Force.net) Episode II will include detailed cross-sections of all the new spaceships and vehicles, including: Obi-Wan Kenobi's Starfighter, Anakin Skywalker's "hotrod" speeder, Padme's stylish chrome-plated starship, Jedi battleship, plus amazing new bounty hunter vehicles, cool speeder bikes and other spaceships from previously unseen civilizations in the Star Wars galaxy.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2002
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September 26, 2023
These books are amazing. By the time AOTC came out, I was a bit older and spent less time poring over the details of this one, but I remember liking it quite a bit. I'm currently reading through Clone Wars EU/Legends novels, so I was much more engaged with this book than I have been in previous years! Hm. Seems I didn't buy the ROTS one... will rectify that.
October 8, 2020
Interesting.
April 7, 2024
(Review from 2024)
To a young Star Wars fans in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Visual Dictionaries and Incredible Cross section books were fantastic. The former gave you all the cool in-universe details about the main characters and their costumes/props and made background characters feel all the more real now that you were getting more details about them. The later just made those wonderful vehicles feel all the more real and you imagine them being real and pilotable because of the fantastical engineering inside.
It didn't matter if it was in-universe details that most audiences would care about, they were just fun books to expand on the movies.
The Attack of the Clones (which in hindsight is my least favorite Star Wars movie) particularly struck a chord with my 9 year old self due to having all the details about Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers, both which really wowed me and started my life long love for all Star Wars things Mandalorian and Clone related. The Republic Gunship pages of this book were probably my favorite pages of this book.
To a young Star Wars fans in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Visual Dictionaries and Incredible Cross section books were fantastic. The former gave you all the cool in-universe details about the main characters and their costumes/props and made background characters feel all the more real now that you were getting more details about them. The later just made those wonderful vehicles feel all the more real and you imagine them being real and pilotable because of the fantastical engineering inside.
It didn't matter if it was in-universe details that most audiences would care about, they were just fun books to expand on the movies.
The Attack of the Clones (which in hindsight is my least favorite Star Wars movie) particularly struck a chord with my 9 year old self due to having all the details about Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers, both which really wowed me and started my life long love for all Star Wars things Mandalorian and Clone related. The Republic Gunship pages of this book were probably my favorite pages of this book.
February 2, 2014
And so ends my morning lay in reading these books (with the able assistance of my cats). I think this book to me captures the little boys fascination with spaceships, and daring battles (ok well this little boy at least) - as I said in my comments about the first of these books I started to read -there is something appealing to the small boy in me - who spent many an hour dreaming of space battles and heroic daring-dos. I think also in hindsight - since I deal with a lot of technical documentation and drawings for my work - these styles of cross sections add a little air of realism to them since they share the same style of illustrations as those I have to deal with professionally - hey a kid can dream can't he.
January 20, 2016
Asher (6 y.o.) took about a week to carefully read through *all* of this book. It goes into great, great detail (not kidding about the "definitive guide" title) in both word and illustrations about all the air craft used in Attack of the Clones.
Illustrations are incredibly detailed!
Illustrations are incredibly detailed!
May 10, 2011
It has really good pictures. I also like the informaiton the give on the side bars.
I would reccomended to anyone.
I would reccomended to anyone.
January 10, 2016
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-Sections
by Curtis Saxton, Hans Jenssen (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Richard Chasemore (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)
large fold out pictures
by Curtis Saxton, Hans Jenssen (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Richard Chasemore (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)
large fold out pictures
August 4, 2015
This book was fun because it had really fun pictures. They looked really tough to draw.
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