Just got this book recently. I quite like it! It reminds me of the also very good Visual Guide for Rogue One. Our olden days frenemy, the freelance artist and art teacher from Winnipeg, the guy who should know better from his days working with West End Games, Pablo Hidalgo!
There are, in this book and in this movie, some "deep cut" references for the gentle reader. Featured in Lando's portion: a mention to the Mindharp of Sharu. In the Coronet Spaceport section is a mention of and a relief carving of "Uhl Eharl Khoehng" and the "Edjian Prince", created by Patricia A. Jackson for the short story "Uhl Eharl Khoehng" in Star Wars Adventure Journal, Vol. 1, No. 8.
I like seeing the TIE/rb Heavy Starfighter (I have no doubt we'll be seeing that one in the X-Wing Game in the future.
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It was also fun to learn a bit more of the story details, like the fact that the muddy ground war Han is involved in takes place on the planet Mimban. The great conveyex robbery takes place on the planet Vandor, and Savareen, the site of the backwater refinery, is near Tatooine, Geonosis, and Ryloth.
For completeness, here is what the native Mimbanese fighters, resisting the Imperial aggression, look like:
I can't recall seeing them on the big screen.
Watching the movie again, after reading the Guide, I saw that one of Enfys Nest's marauders is Mimbanese.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the spinoff movies are not put on hold, as has been rumored, because I'm interested to see development for that group of early revolutionaries.