Star Wars Blueprints Books

As my final post about Star Wars books available at DK Canada, I have decided to present two wonderful item that could be a great addition for any Star Wars fan.  

Star Wars Blueprints The Ultimate Collection

This incredible collection of blueprint posters shows Star Wars locations like you’ve never seen them before! Whether it’s a breakdown of the hyper drive system in the Millennium Falcon, or the complete floor plan of the Deathstar, these blueprints will impress and amaze any Star Wars fan.

Star Wars Blueprints Rebel Edition

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back with detailed plans of the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars Blueprints: Rebel Edition! See how the super high-tech vehicles, weapons, armor, and droids of the Rebel Alliance are designed and built with five fantastic, single-sided, full-color poster-sized blueprints! Placed inside a 32-page book, the posters contain technical drawings, history, movie tidbits, and more. This book- poster combo is an absolute must-have for every Star Wars fan.

My Thoughts

I will admit that I didn’t know what to expect when I choose these two titles.   I picked them based on the fact that they looked different than the other books offered and that it could be fun to study as part of our homeschool.  

So these two titles were the first ones I opened up when I received the box from DK Canada.    And I got really excited because I knew that these would be greatly appreciated in our family.   

Both contains marvelous posters that will show the blueprints of various well-known Star Wars ships, locations, droids, Dark Vader.    The Ultimate Collection posters also have two sides one side showing the blueprint while the other side shows an image from the movie.   On the other hand, the Rebel Edition also has a 32-page book attached to the box.    Both blueprints cases will provide detailed drawings and information on what the blueprint is about – whether a vehicle, weapon, droid, ship, location and so on.     The details are amazing and will keep a fan busy for a while.

When I showed them to my husband he was also excited and we came up with a plan for our boys.   We are planning to surprise our daughter with new colors in her bedroom later this month.  She won’t know about it until we come back from a little outing.    So we thought it would be fun to have these blueprints up on the walls of the boys’ room to surprise them as well.     They will be excited about it and will want to check them all out immediately.    I can’t hardly wait to surprise them!   *grin*

Now the reason I am presenting you these books today is that a big event held by DK Canada on May the 4th -  WAIT A MINUTE – IT’S TODAY!!!!! If you want to have the opportunity to provide fabulous book to a great reading foundation I strongly suggest that you continue reading.

In celebration of the May the 4th Be With You! event, you need to know that for every DK Star Wars book sold at Chapters / Indigo stores on May 4-6, we will be making a donation to the Indigo For the Love of Reading Foundation.

Here’s some information about the program.

We passionately believe that when a child has a book put in their hands it changes their life forever. With the support of Indigo customers and employees the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation puts books into the hands of Canadian children. To do date Love of Reading has committed over $12 million to more than 650 high-needs elementary schools across the country so children can develop a love of reading, unleash their dreams and fulfil their potential. For more information about the Foundation visit, loveofreading.org.

Also, several Chapters and Indigo stores across Canada will be having special May the 4^th parties during the weekend sponsored by DK and featuring costumed characters from Star Wars provided by the 501^st Legion. Here’s a full list of stores ( asterix means the 501^st will be there! ).

• NEWFOUNDLAND – Saturday May 5^{th /} Call for details - Chapters St. John’s 70 Kenmount St A1B 1W3 –709.726.0375
• NEW BRUNSWICK – Saturday May 5^th / Call for details – Chapters Halifax - Bayers Lake Power Centre, 188 Chain Lake Dr – 902.450.1023
• OTTAWA* – Friday May 4^th – 12 noon – Chapters Rideau – 47 Rideau Street – 613.241.0073
• OTTAWA*– Saturday May 5^th – 3.00 pm – Chapters Kanata – Kanata Centrum, 400 Earl Grey Drive Unit # 1- 613.271.7553
• TORONTO* – Friday May 4^th – 12.30 pm – Indigo Eaton Centre – 220 Yonge St – 416.591.3622
• TORONTO – Saturday May 5^th / Call for details - Indigo Yorkdale – 3401 Dufferin St, Unit #29 – 416.781.6660
• WINNIPEG*– Saturday May 5^th – 12 noon – Chapters Polo Festival, 695 Empress Street – 204.775.5999
• CALGARY*– Friday May 4^th – 2.00 pm – Chapters Shawnessy – The Boulevard Shopping Centre, 16061 Macleod Trail S.E. – 403.201.5660
• VANCOUVER* – Friday May 4^th – 12 noon – Chapters Robson – 788 Robson Street – 604.682.4066

If you want DK Canada to donate some marvelous book to the foundation, all you have to do is to submit pix of the Chapters / Indigo events and either post them on our Facebook page at facebook.com/DKCanada or Tweet them using the hashtag #DKmay4th. For each photo DK Canada receives, they will make a donation to the Love of Reading Foundation.

Finally, for the entire month of May DK Canada is having a photo contest where people are invited to send photos of themselves or loved ones reading DK Star Wars books. For each picture received, DK Canada will again make a donation to the Love of Reading Foundation. Information about the contest will be posted under “PHOTO CONTEST” at cn.dk.com/starwars. DK Canada will pick an Office Favourite photo and that person will win a DK Star Wars library worth $200 and we will donate a complete set of DK Star Wars Readers to the library of school of their choice.

If you want to surprise the Star Wars fan in your life with amazingly fun blueprints, these two books are available at your favourite bookstore, even amazon.ca.

Disclaimer: Thanks to DK Canada for sending me the above mentioned product for review purposes. I was not monetarily compensated for this review. Please note that the review was not influenced by the Sponsor in any way. All opinions expressed here are only my own.