Death Star Manual: DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (Owners' Workshop Manual)

I grew up in the 80s and started driving in the late 90s. My dad always had a Haynes manual for his vehicles and I was given one for my first few vehicles from him. Slowly I shifted to google for my vehicle referencing needs but the brand was ingrained in me for its thoroughness. Now I have a kid and he LOVES Star Wars. The Death Star manual was an absolute hit!! The tradition for the manual has changed but the gesture lives on for my family. My son (12yr) loved it because of its realistic nature and breakdown of pretty much everything Death Star related. There was information about Tie Fighters as well, which led to the purchase of THAT Haynes manual as well. It's a glowing rave from my kid. We all agree, at least in my house, this book is awesome.

Great book for fans. Also a great conversation starter for any coffee table, shop or work bench! Very informative for any of your Death Star maintenance needs. I finally found that elusive fuse box and hatch cover! What a relief. Bullseye that wamp rat now rebel! Now to pair it with Bluetooth... Impressive most Impressive!

I am a little old school when it co re to manuals, I like to be able to sit down with the book and review the task in hand before I start. Bring the manual with, occasionally getting some grease on the pages. I'm still looking for the manual to a J 327 type Nubian though.

My death star is now nearing completion. I will have the ultimate weapon in the universe. That's no moon its a space station.

This book is a true conversation piece. Everyone who sees it for the first time has to pick it up and page through it. Yes it is fiction, but beautifully done. Thank you.

books in great condition and was a fun read.

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Got as a gift for a buddy who is into star wars and he loved it. Definitely a must have for the collection of any star wars fan

nice and easily understood

Una guía para coleccionar, la cual tiene todo lo que cualquier fan necesita,Tiene fotos y planos de la estación más grande de la galaxia se puede criticar que haya fotos que aportan nada .La edición es tapa dura tamaño A4 y buena calidad de papel y fotos .

Haynes è rinomata per i manuali di riparazione di automobili e motocicli, in questa serie di pubblicazioni dedicate a Star Wars più che un manuale di officina ci troviamo di fronte a un libro che approfondisce ogni aspetto e dettaglio delle navi della galassia lontana lontana, fornendo dati, disegni tecnici, immagini e spiegazioni tecniche. Qualità dei contenuti altissima, qualità della edizione (carta, copertina, stampa) altrettanto alta. Da avere assolutamente per un appassionato.

Great Star Wars book contains lots of photos of the Death Star inside and out, some I have not seen before. I found it very interesting to read. Maybe only for big Star Wars fans.

What did I expect?I expected it to be of the same quality as the Millennium Falcon manual.I expected a lot of images from the movies and the technical/scientific* explanation of what we saw. (* pseudo-scientific of course)The MF manual did all this very well with only a few logical inconsistencies.The Death Star manual however fails in my eyes completely.To begin: there isn't even one picture of the Death Star's superlaser firing. Not one of a planet being blown up.By the way why do the planets explode? Why aren't they just fried? Why does the laser not just burn a hole through the planet?You will find no answer in this book.So that book doesn't explain what the DS is about. What does it explain then?It explains very well why it could be destroyed by a single proton torpedo. It explains this a lot. Many times. Over and over. You get the impression that the DS was not built to blow up planets, but simply to blow up.!A lot of other features are explained too of course. Many of them I find boring. But the really bad thing about it is that they don't make any sense. Typically there are diagrams. First of all, things we see from the outside are just casing. Even if it looks like we see the actual technical parts from the outside, they are just decoration. At least this manual makes us think so. The inside is filled with many fancy named parts. Think of 'flux compensator', magnetic whatever, power amplifier, etc. Even if you try, you cannot read any technical/scientific function out of it. They are just jumbled together and named in technobabble style.The MF manual had this too, but in a much much lesser extent.Last but not least the quality of the book is awful.The hardware: Some pages of my book were not cut correctly. Some pages were glued together by printing ink.The software: The numbering on some of the diagrams is definitely mixed up. (However, it's hard to tell sometimes. See above)There are a lot of typos. Don't you guys have programs to check it? Doesn't anybody proofread it?Finally a word to the geeks.Many of you don't like this book, because Wookieepedia and Curtis Saxton tell you a different size fot the DS, "based on measurements of movie stills". Oh how wrong you are in so many ways.First of all it is not possible to determine the size of spherical objects by photos due to perspective. A 'physicist' like Saxton should know that.Second, concept art reveals that the diameter of the death star is intended to be 100 miles (160 km). So if you see something contradictionary in the movies, then this is either a mistake by the makers or an optical illusion.Finally, starship sizes in star wars change a lot over time. Mainly because somebody (like Saxton) thinks too hard about it. First you (the geeks) don't like the new number, then you accept it and then you will defend it like it is 'gospel'.I think you treat star wars too much like a religion. I would never hate a book because of one 'false' number. I don't like this book because it doesn't entertain me. Because that is what it should be about:ENTERTAINMENT.