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DK has posted Artoo and Threepio from their upcoming blueprints collection. Nifty! (via)

• Preview: Library Journal has a first look at The Art and Making of The Force Unleashed. (via) Meanwhile, you can take a peek at the contents of DK’s Ultimate Blueprints Collection on Amazon. (via)

• Random: Dan Wallace wordles The New Essential Chronology.
• The Clone Wars: TFN catalogs the exhaustive amount of tie-in books for The Clone Wars.

• Reference: Rebelscum has a new cover for DK’s Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection. The DK listing still shows another version.

• Upcoming: On the Dark Horse boards, Randy Stradley has revealed the complete contents of the The Ultimate Star Wars Graphic Novel Collection.
• Preview: Dark Times #12/Vector part 6.

• IGN has a refresher on the characters of The Clone Wars. Nothing the obsessives don’t already know.

• Mike Stackpole honored with asteroid namesake.
• Chris Trevas confirms to EU Cantina that Chris Reiff is indeed a second artist on the blueprint collection, not just a figment of Amazon’s imagination.
• And now there are Mad Libs. Great. Can we just have Sir Dan make some instead? Authorized games so boring. (via)

As noted on TFN, listing have begun to appear for the Ultimate Blueprints Collection on DK.com and Amazon. The Amazon UK listing lists Ryder Windham as author with Chris Trevas (who’s mentioned in the starwars.com item) and Chris Reiff as illustrator. Both Amazons list August release dates.

Don’t get too excited, it’s not a novel, but it is something a little unexpected: Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection from DK Books. I can’t recall ever seeing Star Wars blueprints published before (at least not in bulk) but I’m not totally shocked to see something like this.