LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary Review + Giveaway Winners

I promise, this will be the last LEGO Star Wars post in a while, but consider it the most important. Now that the contest is over (scroll down for winners), it’s time to round up my thoughts for an official review of LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary from DK Publishing.

I grew up with the classic DK Star Wars books like the Incredible Cross-sections and the Visual Dictionaries, and this one definitely is just as cool. Actually, it may be the coolest, since it combines Star Wars and LEGO into one awesome book.

The book is hardback with an extra-thick front cover. That’s because the bottom right corner holds an exclusive A New Hope ceremonial Luke minifig! At first glance the book seems short at 96 pages, but once you read through it all (and realize it’s for ages 7+), the book seems the perfect length.

One of the coolest features of the book is right up front; the timeline. It lists every LEGO Star Wars set from the last ten years, which is a very cool resource for collectors. From there it takes you through each film’s sets and details every minifigure, all in the classic DK style.

After the movie saga section, it takes you through the sets from the Clone Wars television series. Not being very familiar with this series yet (no cable, but season 1 comes out soon), I was surprised at how cool some of the sets look.

The next section is for specialist sets. Mini Sets, Technic, and a huge spread on the Ultimate Collector Sets fill out those pages. The Mini Sets are amazing. They so minimalist , but accurate at the same time. The big pretty pictures of the Ultimate sets are probably as close as I’ll ever get to having one, but I digress.

The book is available now for under $13 on Amazon, and you can be sure the die-hard LEGO Star Wars collectors would pay that much just for the exclusive minifig, so it’s a steal! If only the exclusive minifigure was a Chewbacca with a medal, but I guess that will just never happen after all.

Giveaway Winners

And now the moment you’ve been waiting for…the winners! The winners were picked randomly by Random.org.

Grand Prize Winner: Cindy
Mini Prize Winners: SpaceMonkeyX, Tracy Dale, and BrandonT

Congratulations, and thanks for playing everyone! The winners will be contacted by me and then DK will be shipping out the goodies soon. Until next time, may the Force be with you!