Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition

This is a awesome Book,, about love, very detailed, made well

My son loves flipping thru this book, great pictures and info!

As a long-time Star Wars fan who grew up with the older editions of the character encyclopedias (both for the live-action films and the Lego minifigures), I quite enjoyed this edition, and it's fun to have as a coffee table book. It's designed well, and entertaining for a quick read and a longer session of "studying."I recall older editions having more information on each page, but perhaps that's just my nostalgic memories speaking. Considering that each character only gets one page, I'd say it includes enough fun facts that I knew and didn't know. But if you haven't purchased one of these encyclopedias before and you're expecting this book to be extremely thorough like a Wiki page, it may not be for you.

I don't know why I didn't expect such a nice book? This was beautiful! Quality was great! So colorful and easy to read letters! Beautiful binding!

The problem with a lot of Star Wars reference books is that newer series, movies and other media make the books obsolete after only a couple of years. The Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition brings it up to date through 2021. The encyclopedia offers brief, but reasonable amounts of information in full color. There are a few things I'd leave out, since it is a CHARACTER Encyclopedia. Stormtroopers, Imperial or Rebel pilots and such stuff are not individual characters and take up space where other named characters could go. Sometimes the order of entries is odd -- for Princess Leia, for example, she appears as just that "Princess Leia" instead of the more typical, "Organa, Leia". It is fine for characters that you think of with a title, but "Anakin Skywalker" is in the front of the book, his son "Luke Skywalker" is in the middle and his mother, Shmi Skywalker is toward the end. It would be better to have all the Skywalkers next to each other. And there is a separate entry for "Darth Vader" although he is the same person (more or less) as Anakin. So prepare to use this book by using the terms in common use for a character. You'll find Din Djarin under 'The Mandalorian'. Emperor Palpatine appears as only 'Palpatine'. Fortunately, there is an index in the front to help. DK books' bindings are always worrisome but this book so far seems fine. An older copy of this book has several loose pages, so be careful. What is rather frustrating is that in about one week from the time this review is written, 'The Book of Bobba Fett' is going to be released and after a few months there will be new characters that will be missing. With the ever growing list of characters, perhaps future editions will be a spiral notebook with the option to purchase at lower costs the new additions to add to it. This book is quite handy and I'd recommend it, along with the similar Character Encyclopedia for 'The Clone Wars', as this book does NOT include any of the characters from the CGI series such as 'Rebels', 'The Bad Batch', 'Resistance' or 'The Clone Wars' unless they appeared in live action media as well. Ashoka Tano only appears in this book thanks to her live action appearance on 'The Mandalorian'. Still, this book (or future updates if you are reading this review long after 2021) is worth having for any Star Wars fan.

This book has great photos and tons of information on the characters. I saw a lot of characters that I didn't even know existed. Made a great gift for my Star Wars loving grandkids.

this is the best star was book ever they have all the cacters from the movies they even have other chacters from other shows

Great product with a lot of info. It’s includes all characters ip until it’s printed date. My son loves the bios and pictures.