auximenies said:
Mielr said:
Yes! Here in the US they had a collector's book/program, too. I had forgotten about that. :-) I think it was sold at the concession counter.
This is the one I have:
http://www.oldcomics.net/images/mag-return-of-jedi.jpgI have that one, too. Bought it at the grocery store, i *think* well after i had seen the film.
I have an older sibling (11 years older than me) who got that book when he was a kid, and I looked at it all the time when I was growing up. It definitely added to the "mystique" of ROTJ for me, and ROTJ was briefly my favorite SW movie. Seeing all the models and how they did certain things was awesome.
It's hard to describe what I mean by "mystique," but there was something about the book that just made ROTJ feel so... epic, like it was a the culmination of all the greatest filmmaking/SPFX techniques combined into one film, made by filmmaking masters. It felt like so much care went into making the movie. But something beyond that too that I can't really explain.
ROTJ is now my least favorite of the OT, so go figure.