Inside the Worlds of Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace: The Complete Guide to the Incredible Locations - Hardcover

Lund, Kristen; Lund, Kristin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789466929 ISBN 13: 9780789466921

Publisher: Dk Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Full-color illustrations, cross-section artwork, film stills, blueprints, models, and scale drawings, all accompanied by informative captions, capture in rich detail the exotic locales of The Phantom Menace, depicting the water world of Otoh Gunga, Mos Espa, and the epic Battle of Naboo.

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Review:

Where does a Jedi go to unwind? Why, to a Contemplation Station, of course. The Jedi Temple on Coruscant has three of them.

But you'd already know that if you had Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I, yet another lushly illustrated and obscenely detailed Star Wars reference from the folks at DK Publishing. Much like their other excellent cross-section books, most of which focus on vehicles, this title pulls apart Episode I's exotic locales, from Otoh Gunga to the N-1 hangar in Theed to poor Anakin and Shmi's pathetic excuse for a home in Mos Espa.

Each illustration includes a few paragraphs of background information (along with some well-chosen stills from the movie in some cases), but the meat is in the copious call-outs pointing to minute details that would otherwise go unnoticed. In the honeycomb of "species-friendly" offices surrounding the Senate, for example, you can see the Wookiee napping rooms (oh, the Jedis only wish that they had hammocks in their Contemplation Stations) and learn about re-orgs in the Neimoidian diplomatic corps ("To enforce competitiveness, Neimoidians assign identical work to two teams of worker drones, with the incentive that the successful team eats the other").

The book's biggest set piece is a fold-out rendering of the Mos Espa Arena, but fans will likely enjoy the diagrammed blow-by-blows of Episode I's most dramatic scenes even more: What route did the Queen and her retainers take as they scurried through occupied Theed? Exactly how and where did the Trade Federation deploy its droids? And which turn is the tightest on the Boonta Eve Classic? Thanks to DK, it's all there in meticulously drawn detail. --Paul Hughes

About the Author:

Kristin Lund was 13 in 1977 when her mother took her to a Cape Cod mall to see the new movie, Star Wars. Graduating cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Smith College, she writes story, dialogue, and manual text for Lucas Learning Ltd., George Lucas's educational software company. She is also a contributor to Star Wars Kids magazine, and has written numerous articles and short stories. She lives in Northern California with one husband, two daughters, and three dogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789466929
• ISBN 13: 9780789466921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: O'Neill Cynthia
• Illustrator: Jenssen Hans, Chasemore Richard