Happy New Year everyone and thank you for your continued interest and support for our cutting edge book project!
We are working tirelessly to put together the finest Star Wars book ever published and have made a decision to add hundreds of new items, charts, matrices and catalog scans that go far beyond the amazing scope we had originally planned. These additional enhancements, while fantastic, have increased both the size of the book and the time involved in getting it to the printer.
We’re managing 10,000 RAW images and converting them to the final published TIFF files by adjusting levels, deleting backgrounds, and making other color enhancements to provide quality which is truly unparalleled. To put it simply, the photographs in this book will look far better than anything the Star Wars collecting world has ever seen before. The sheer size of this project, while constantly expanding, and never sacrificing quality, has proven to be a much larger task than originally anticipated. Like a major movie production, we are periodically going back and doing re-shoots of items to get different views or shots that we feel will aesthetically enhance the design of sections throughout the book. The result is nothing less than spectacular, so we’re happy to spend the extra time to accomplish the closest thing to visual perfection humanly possible.
We’ve also added another chapter to the book by separating action figures from other types of figures. We now have an "Action Figures" chapter exclusively for 3 3/4" articulated figures and a "Figures" chapter for 5" and up figures with limited articulation. All of the items are listed by order of release and sorted by the assortment number printed on each package in order to provide an easy chronological flow to the book’s chapters. Each chapter also has its own designated color scheme for easy location, as well as matching charts, matrices and catalog product scans at the chapter end to provide quick reference guides.
Please visit the SAMPLE PAGES section of our website to view recently added page samples from ROTJ 2-Packs, Multi-Packs, Role-Play, Bagged Figures, Vehicles, Department Store Multi-Packs, and Large Doll chapters. Stay tuned as many new sample pages will be available shortly!
Our estimated time of completion is now Fall/Winter 2009 with an expected ship date of around Christmas or just after the New Year, based on the return of our limited run of books from our printer overseas. We will email new information as it becomes available, and will notify all subscribers to our newsletter when this wonderful book is available for pre-order once again. We suggest you plan to order your copy without delay once we begin accepting pre-orders again. This will occur after the book has been submitted for final proofing, and we expect a sell-out based on initial commitments from both collectors and book dealers worldwide.
Please be sure to enter your email address on our PRE-ORDER page to receive future updates and new information as it becomes available.
- Todd DeMartino