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Star Wars Scrapbook: The Essential Collection | book_rev
PRINTED CIRCUITS R2-D2 and C-3PO get scrapped in "The Essential Collection"

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Writer: Stephen J. Sansweet; Genres: Movies, Nonfiction, Pop Culture; Publisher: Chronicle Books

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By Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column
After Star Wars hit big, Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start a new religion based on the Force. Of course, that never happened—or did it? Behold the all-consuming brand of secular worship that flows through this immaculately produced keepsake album. Bound with a metal spiral like your old grade-school notebooks, it lavishes exquisite care in reproducing the silliest of ephemeral memorabilia: tickets to the “premiere” of the Disneyland Star Tours ride, a Wall’s ice cream wrapper stamped with Darth Vader’s puss (“contains: sugar,” says the ironic ingredients list), a paper-cutout C-3PO mask, and so on. It’s charming but creepy, and if Jedi Knights existed, they’d probably rank it alongside winking-Jesus 3-D postcards in the annals of misguided relics of adoration.

Posted Jul 01, 1998
 

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