Dressing a Galaxy

Dressing a Galaxy: Review + New Characters
In this entry I'll review 'Dressing a Galaxy'. I'll add more whenever I continue to read in the book. This is the regular edition. There is also a deluxe edition of the book, but I found the difference in price between the deluxe edition (euro 250.00) and the regular editon (euro 50.00) too much. If anybody has been able to discover any new information found in the deluxe edition, please let me know.'DaG' is a beautiful hardcover book that has been published as a companion to an exhibition in the US. As the title already informs us, the book deals with the costumes of the (prequel) movies. The normal edition is a book about the prequel costumes. They are photos about the OT in it, but they are small. The pictures are large and a dream to fans who like costumes. The book has +/- 215 pages.

Chapters in this book are: Jedi vs Sith, Royalty - Military Wear - The Galactic Senate - Slaves, rogues and Bounty Hunters & Padmé's journey. At the back of the book there is a very cool index of many costumes of the saga.

They are pictures of those costumes and the characters that wear them. These pictures are very small, but nevertheless they are very nice to see. You still have to read this book, but you'll spend more time studying the pictures than reading the fragments of text. 'DaG' does not only focus on the main characters, but also shows costumes from lesser-known characters such as Sheltay Retrac or Queen Breha Organa. This book has given many characters a new name.

Positive Highlights: Many beautiful pictures - Attention for lesser-known characters - Many new names: new information - Plenty of costumes worn by female characters in this book - Costume index at the back of the book

Negative Highlights: Not that much about the OT - Existence of Deluxe Edition could have been avoided.

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Here is a list of the new characters in this book:
- Sateen Vestwe: Bearded Alderaanian Aide seen in Tantive IV (III)
- Neb Creip: Dark skinned human Senator (III)
- Cellheim Anujo: Veiled Senator who accompanied Tundra in a recent Sith Snapshot (III)
- Kaycee Kollenz: Passenger aboard the Jendirian Valley who sports a breathing apparatus (II)
- Gondrin Upal: Nikto on Jendirian Valley (II)
- Reina March: Female who is seen on a picture with Faytonni in Outlander (II)
- Joshua Jinzler: White, short, spiked hair, possibly Advozsec from Outlander (II)
- Duke Teta: Squid Lake visitor. Wears some kind of bishop like headwear (III)
- Opula Deget: Female, with golden skin - Squid Lake (III)
- Lt. Col. Ejai: From 'RotS' (III)
- Shadday Potkin: Female Jedi from 'RotS' (III)
- Led Daragon: Squid Lake, wears some king of sleeping cap (III)
- Ulfor Bombaasa: Wears a pink shirt - Squid Lake (III)
- Son Halliikeenovich: Wears a beige outfit and a black hat - Squid Lake (III)
- Kar Plaushe: In Outlander. Wears a transparent veil, female (II)
- Mik Regrap: Aide of Lott Dod in TPM, Has the oval shaped hat (I)
- Rute Gunnay: Neimoidian with brown clothes on Mustafar. Weird name, but it's there. (III)
- Zyn Javeb: Black dressed Pau'an (III)
- King Grakchawwaa: Wookiee Warrior - Hasbro Wookiee Preview figure (III)
- Eugroothwa: Wookiee Warrior. Looks like the Wookiee Warrior from Hasbro (III)

Star Wars Poster Book

Star Wars Poster book review
In this entry I'll review the 'Star Wars' Poster Book, 'written' by Stephen J Sansweet en Peter Vilmur.The SW Poster Book is no Source book (of course), but since it's a non-fiction book, I'll review it. The Poster book is an elaborate book, with 320 p. It covers posters from 'ANH' until 'RotS'. Does this book show every poster ever created about 'SW'. No, of course not. You would need 25 of these books to accomplish that. The book shows the most famous posters and unique, rare, foreign and akward posters. At the back there is some kind of price guide and much more posters are mentioned. The chapters on the prequels are much shorter that the chapters on the classics.You can see that Sansweet was involved in the creation of this book. It's no secret that he likes Japan and has many contacts there. So there are many Japanese posters in this book. Some of the posters have appeared before in other Sansweet books such as 'From Concept to Screen to Collectible'.The text in this book is very interesting and relates many things about the most important SW posters. I was really surprised by that, because almost nothing had ever been written about that. Thumbs up! Also notable is the mentioning of our colleagues of the Dutch fanclub Echo Base in the book. Matt Busch painted a beautiful poster for their Echo Base Con in 2002.

+ Positive Highlights: Beautiful hardcover book - Many pictures - More (interesting) text than you'd expect - Many foreign posters

- Minor Issues: You have seen some of these posters before, but yeah - No Belgian posters are printed, but yeah - No 'RotS' (only 3 posters)

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