LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary

[HothTrooper]

The cover image was definitely gone Saturday. It must have been a glitch on Amazon's part.

[LEGOscum]

The cover hasn't been finalized yet.

Due to necessity I have to out myself - I am one of the writers working on this, as well as the photographer. Some of you might have probably guessed this already.

I need your help. I need to photograph the 2009 Toy Fair Vader-In-A-Box and I don't have one. Nor does LEGO

Does anyone know of one that is for sale? I've checked eBay and Bricklink and there aren't any up.

[bigospedros]

There's some in the FBTB feature on the Toy Fair ...

http://www.fbtb.net/features/toy-fair-2009/

So I assume one of the staff here has one?!

[Jedd the Jedi]

I'm pretty late in the game on this but I'm very excited about this book, and I'd love for scans of some sort to be posted because I forsee it being a while before it reaches our fair shores here in Singapore. I'd love to point to the images going "I have this" and "I have that", then when I say "I don't have this" begin to whine and throw a tantrum, like a particular Legoboy1234567... I really enjoy DK's visual dictionaries so I am looking forward to owning or at least reading this one.

[Master Fetty]

Hmmm... If the authors know of places such as this, is it possible FBTB has got a mention?

I think this book is a real recognition of LEGO Star Wars and how it can prove integral to Star Wars' longivity - I was a LEGO fan before Star Wars and without it probably would never have fully got into it.

[LEGOscum]

Hmmm... If the authors know of places such as this, is it possible FBTB has got a mention?

That's funny. I was a member here before I joined the LSWVD team. I've been part of the LEGO and Star Wars collecting communities for over 30 years so it's not like I got my FBTB membership so I could lurk and post the occasional plea for help!

[onions]

i had a suspicion you were involved.

just curious how did you become a member of the team?

[LEGOscum]

I've been covering LEGO for the Star Wars Insider for a couple of years and have built up a good relationship with LEGO (hence the trip to Billund in February). Being able to write for the Insider means I'm on the LFL approved authors list, so I got recommended to DK by LFL. Also I live in the UK so I can work directly with the publishers.

[Andi]

Amazon wrote me right now that the release date is delayed.
Jeremy, do you know more details why it is released later?
It will be released, that's certain? (I had there another book pre-ordered a few years ago which changed release dates several times, and in the end it never got released)

[HothTrooper]

Just for the sake of clarity, the delayed release Andi mentioned is October 5 now rather than September 21 according to Amazon.

[LEGOscum]

Amazon wrote me right now that the release date is delayed.
Jeremy, do you know more details why it is released later?

Quite possibly Amazon got the dates wrong. A couple of weeks ago I had a short exchange with my editors about the difference in US and UK dates and it turned out there were a couple of different editions, including one for libraries that didn't have the minifig on it (which makes sense). Here's what I posted in the Rebelscum LEGO thread:

From Simon, the managing editor/chief author:

"The regular trade edition with minifigure publishes in Oct. (Don’t know why it is listed as Sept- maybe they want to release a few days earlier, in late Sept?)

The other edition is the Library Edition, which is a US thing: they want a version without the minifigure for sales to libraries. It’ll be exactly the same book in every other respect though, and will publish in Oct also."

Elly, the book's editor, adds further detail about the mystery/unpriced book:

"The reason why two trade editions appear on amazon.com is because the $14.95 one is the US edition and the one with no price (dated Oct. 1) is the UK edition. On amazon.co.uk the UK edition is listed as costing £16.99."

As for the actual change in release date, it's probably because Amazon has finally caught up with the fact the book comes out a couple of weeks later, or perhaps someone has vetoed their earlier release date because of the minifig being sold on the secondary market (there is a real fear that books will get ripped open in the stores so that people can get free minifigs to sell on eBay).

[Andi]

Thanks for clearing this up, Jeremy

[jocktheglide]

thx for the heads up on the minifig bought the book just for that

[Brainslugged]

Medal Luke is OK I guess, but it would be nice if they created a totally new figure with a new head mold - something that would be unlikely to ever need to turn up in another set. Garinden maybe? Or a cool new alien jedi? Ordered the book anyway.

[turkishvan2]

Aw, man.I already placed a preorder and now wait even longer.

[Joedward]

What's the big deal with the wait of a few extra days? You ordered it already, you have to wait several months as it is, chances are it might arrive a day or two before it's in the shops.
I don't see the big problem.

[Morgan19]

Medal Luke is OK I guess, but it would be nice if they created a totally new figure with a new head mold - something that would be unlikely to ever need to turn up in another set. Garinden maybe? Or a cool new alien jedi? Ordered the book anyway.

Maybe I missed it, but where has the final figure even been revealed? Everything I've seen so far has just been that preliminary image.

m19

[yankeeken]

No finalized figure picture has been released. Some people have just convinced themselves that it is going to be a Medal Luke despite the fact that there is no evidence to support their claim.

[jocktheglide]

Medal Luke is OK I guess, but it would be nice if they created a totally new figure with a new head mold - something that would be unlikely to ever need to turn up in another set. Garinden maybe? Or a cool new alien jedi? Ordered the book anyway.

Maybe I missed it, but where has the final figure even been revealed? Everything I've seen so far has just been that preliminary image.

m19

im still in question now are we gonna get a special figure in the U.S? so there are two types of book one with no figure and one with figure?

[Bulls_Eye]

im still in question now are we gonna get a special figure in the U.S? so there are two types of book one with no figure and one with figure?

You get the one without the figure by getting to the bookstore after someone else has already stolen it from one of the books. Seriously though, it's supposed to just be for libraries, and I don't think it will even be available to the public.