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MILLENNIUM FALCON M-68 LANDSPEEDER SS5T CORELLIAN BATTLE HELMET LANDO CALRISSIAN THE OFFICIAL GUIDE written BY PABLO HIDALGO THE OFFICIAL GUIDE written BY PABLO HIDALGO CHAPTER 2: TRENCH WARFARE Forces of the Empire Foreword Mimban Introduction The Mimbanese Camp Forward CHAPTER 1: MEAN STREETS Mudtroopers Corellia Unusual Squad Imperial Patrol Speeder AT-Hauler Flan Solo Chewbacca M-68 Landspeeder Den of the White Worms CHAPTER 3: THE GREAT ROBBERY Moloch Vandor Scrumrats Beckett Corellian Thugs The Crew Coronet Spaceport Conveyex Galaxy Travelers Coaxium Emigration Officers 98 CHAPTER 5: THE BIG SCORE Range Troopers Kessel 100 Cloud-Riders Pyke Gang 102 104 Enfys Nest Mine Workers 106 Control Center CHAPTER 4: PLACE YOUR BETS Droid Workforce 108 Star Yacht Kessel Run 110 Dryden Vos Savareen 112 First Light Staff Savarians 114 Dryden’s Study Enfys Nest’s Gang 116 Party Guests 118 Qi’ra CHAPTER 6: GOING SOLO The Lodge The Return of Han Solo 120 Lodge Patrons An Expanding Galaxy 122 Lando Calrissian 124 Sabacc Index 128 L3-37 Acknowledgments Millennium Falcon It’s 1988 and I’m nine years old. My mom and I are We also drove over to the warehouse where models in San Francisco, seeing the sights. Golden Gate were stored after use. If things go according to plan, Bridge, Alcatraz, eating dim sum in Chinatown. in a few years, when George and Mellody open the And there’s one other stop on our tour. A few years Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, you’ll get the chance earlier, my dad had done some writing for this guy, to see some of what I saw that day—the most George Lucas. The Star Wars guy. That was in the wondrous toy chest on earth, filled with models early eighties, before I was old enough to really of the Death Star, X-wings and Mon Calamari star appreciate it. But their past collaboration and cruisers, rancors and Eborsisks, even a certain Lost friendship meant my mom and I were able to arrange Ark (which, incidentally, was not in a wooden crate a visit to the visual effects company that George had marked “TOP SECRET/ARMY INTEL” but just sitting founded. The name alone quickened my nine-year-old there on a shelf gathering dust). What I felt that day, pulse. Industrial Light & Magic. The fusion wandering through that dark, quiet warehouse, was of technology and fantasy. The idea that anything pure wonder. What I understood, for the first time could be made real on a movie screen was both in my life, was this: imagination is magic and exhilarating and terrifying—that primal cocktail of magic is real. emotions that fuels the imagination of all children. With the insight of author Pablo Hidalgo and the The entrance to ILM was concealed in a nondescript help of the Lucasfilm image archive, DK’s books are storefront with blacked-out windows, like a top-secret a little like that ILM toy chest I visited as a child. government lab. My mom and I got the tour, visiting They are grimoires of magic, an access point to each department; make-up effects, where I got to try another galaxy, one that’s growing larger, richer, more on a mask for the highly anticipated Ghostbusters dangerous, more beautiful, and more real every day. sequel; the camera department, where they were Enjoy it, reference it, devour the details, but be busy inventing new equipment; matte painting, warned, the study of magic is serious business. that wondrous (and now sadly lost) art by which It will lead you to dark corners of distant worlds, entire worlds were created with paint and ink to places no one else has ever visited. And before be indistinguishable from a photograph; and finally, you know it, you’re a magician too. the department I was most excited about: the model shop, where creatures, spaceships, sometimes even At least, that’s what happened to me. whole towns were built on the same scale as the action figures I played with on the floor of my bedroom. And there was no question, ILM made the best toys on earth.

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