Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition

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Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition is a Star Wars reference book by Pablo Hidalgo and Kristin Baver. It was published by Dorling Kindersley in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2021. The title is a follow-up to Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition.

Publisher's summary[]

Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.

Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition presents a unique Star Wars timeline-the full history of the amazing Star Wars phenomenon as you've never seen it before.

This stunning visual journey features trivia and cultural cornerstones from director George Lucas' early life through to the iconic movie stills, comic books, novels, toys, video games, and theme parks that have spawned from five decades of seminal film making.

Fully updated and expanded, this edition encompasses all nine episodes of the original, prequel, and sequel trilogies, along with the standalone movies Rogue One and Solo, and the acclaimed television series, The Mandalorian.

Produced in full collaboration with Lucasfilm and written by renowned Star Wars experts, Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History, New Edition is ideal for Star Wars fanatics and newbies alike.^[1]

Contents[]

Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition is the forth edition of Star Wars Year By Year, with the first edition being released in 2010, followed by a second edition in 2012, and third in 2016. Like its predecessors,^[3]^[4]^[5] this book expand on the previous editions, adding 42 new pages, but it is also the first to remove content, with a 26 pages cut.^[6]

The section covering 1984 to 1996, previously titled "Between the Trilogies", was renamed "Expanding Star Wars, while the section starting from 2013, titled "Star Wars: A New Era", was renamed into "The Sequel Trilogy". The 2016 chapter, the last chapter in the previous edition, was expanded from two to ten pages, with all previous segments from the previous edition kept, although with some descriptions and illustrations changes. Five new chapters, covering years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were also added to this section. The new addition were written by Kristin Baver.^[5]^[6]

The 26 pages removed from the previous edition are as follow:^[6]

Chapter	Page(s) (previous edition)	Content
Author's Note	8-9	By Ryder Windham^[5]
1976	46	Costume sketch for Ben Kenobi by John Mollo^[5]
1976	47	Costume sketches for "Rebel rangers" by John Mollo^[5]
1977	62-63	Cover and two pages excerpt from Star Wars 7^[5]
1979	76-77	Still photography of Harrison Ford as Han Solo on one of the Hoth set of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back^[5]
1980	90-91	Single comic strip by Russ Manning from the Princess Leia, Imperial Servant arc^[5]
1982	102	Klaatu mask by Phil Tippett^[5]
1982	103	Mon Calamari (Ackbar) mask by Phil Tippett^[5]
1997	184-185	Two pages excerpt from "Perfect Evil", meant to illustrate the foray of Star Wars into manga^[5]
2005	254-255	Single panel from General Grievous 1, meant to illustrate the numerous multimedia depiction of Grievous^[5]
2008	288-289	Display of several LEGO minifigurines^[5]
2008	294-295	"Player Bonus Costume/Father's Robes/Kashyyyk" concept art by Chin Ko for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed^[5]
2009	298-299	Lawquane's Farm concept art by Jackson Sze for Star Wars: The Clone Wars^[5]
2010	310-311	Obi-Wan Kenobi and Satine Kryze side by side concept art by Matt Gaser for Star Wars: The Clone Wars^[5]
2015	350-351	Disney Infinity display, including assortiment of collectibles figures, a power disc booster and three screenshots^[5]