When Lucasfilm author and executive editor Jonathan Rinzler explored the long-hidden cache of blueprints hidden in the dark archives it was like discovering a Jedi Holocron, an extraordinary key to cinematic history mislaid for decades. Unrolling each extraordinary document, one after another, it became clear that a central part of the very genesis of Star Wars lay in these technical drawings, 95 percent of which had never before been seen by the legions of devoted fans. The origins of the streets of Mos Eisley, the X-wing fighter, even the legendary Battle of Hoth, the cantina, the Carbon Freezing Chamber, and many other iconic sets were guided to the silver screen through these critical documents, and could have otherwise been lost to time.
Highlights from the collection (Click a blueprint name to view)
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Star Wars: The Blueprints: The Complete List
EPISODE IV: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
p. 18-19: Int. Rebel Spacefighter (additional corridor)
p. 24-25: Robot R2 (front assembly view)
p. 27: Robot R2 (starboard elevation)
p. 30-31: T-16 Star Hopper (inside int. homestead garage)
p. 38-39: Int. Cave Dwelling (plan & elevations)
Desc: Interior of Obi-Wan’s cave dwelling
p. 42-43: Int. Cantina (det. no 2)
Desc: Bar plan from Cantina
p. 44-45: Int. Cantina (plan & elevations)
Desc: Plans of layout and alcoves
p. 50-51: Mos Eisley Alleyway
p. 56-57: Gun Port of Pirate Starship (plan & elevations)
p. 60-61: Int. Main Forward Bay (elevations)
Desc: Hangar on Death Star
p. 64-65: Int. Death Star (plan & elevations, centre core & corridors)
p. 68-69: Int. Prison Composite (perspective piece)
p. 72-73: Int. Power Trench (revamp centre core) (lower generator detail)
Desc: Obi-Wan switching off generator
p. 76-77: X-wing Fighters
Desc: side views
p. 78-79: X-wing Fighters (retracting wing – front & rear)
p. 84-85: Y-wing Fighter (profiles)
p. 86-87: TIE Fighter
Desc: Front, side, and top
EPISODE IV: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUEPRINTS (LESS THAN ONE PAGE)
Rebel Spacefighter (plan and elevations)
Lifepod of Pirate Ship (Falcon) (front, top & bottom)
Imperial Starship Cockpit (plan & elevations)
Sandcrawler (plan & elevations)
Other Robots (head detail)
Homestead Garage (plan & elevations)
Exterior Homestead (electrobinocular concept drawings)
Desc: Final scene of Luke using these binoculars was cut
Homestead (roof of garage)
Homestead Garage (int) (workbench)
Desert Wasteland (Oil Rig Christmas Tree)
Desc: This was the first technical drawing ever created for Star Wars – the original was lost; this is a copy
Stage Layout (Obi-Wan kitchen, power station, cave dwelling)
Cave Dwelling (plan & elevations)
Cantina (panel detail)
Desc: These details were called “greeblies”
Cantina (panel detail greebly)
Exterior Cantina, pool table (detail of mask with slots)
Desc: Never seen in the film – possibly from the deleted Anchorhead scene
Exterior Cantina (canopy)
Exterior Cantina (panel detail greebly)
Fourth Speeder (Tunisia location)
Desc: from outside cantina – homage to EVA
Mos Eisley Alleyway (perspective piece)
New Pirate Ship (Falcon) – stage size (size comparisons)
Mos Eisley Hangar-stage size
Desc: Falcon in full size
Pirate Ship (full length)
Desc: Falcon in full size on stage
Mos Eisley Spaceport (painted backing)
Mos Eisley Spaceport (stage layout)
3 Millennium Falcon interior layout blueprints
Control Room Death Star (locker detail)
Desc: With R2D2 and C-3PO
Prop-making (Chewbacca and Leia’s handcuffs)
Radio-controlled Robot (proposed body design)
Desc: Droid “mouse” Chewie growls at
Prison Cell Details: door and cell (Death Star)
Alderaan Garbage Room (plan & elevations):
Desc: Actually Death Star
Alderaan Garbage Room (revised plan)
Death Star Details (plan & elevations, center core, and corridor)
X-wing Fighter (cross-sections, side & aerial views)
Massassi Main Hangar (stage layout)
TIE Fighter (rear and side)
Imperial TIE Fighter (plan & elevations)
Throne Room (stone detail)
Desc: Rebel throne room
EPISODE V: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
p. 96-97: Ice Corridors & Cave (elevations)
Desc: Rebel ice corridors and cave on Hoth ice planet
p. 98-99: Int. Main Hangar Deck (plans & elevs)
Desc: Rebel base hangar on Hoth with Millennium Falcon
p. 104-105: Int. Medical Centre (plan & elevations)
Desc: Rebel Base Medical Centre layouts/doors/walls
p. 109: Int. Med Centre (Medical Robot No 1 Prelim.)
Desc: Medical Centre Droid
p. 110-111: Int. Command Centre (Plan & Elevations)
Desc: Hoth ice planet Rebel Command Centre
p. 115: Ice Cave & Corridors – layout (Stage 1 Plan)
Desc: Internal ice corridors for command centre & Medical centres – Rebel Base Hoth ice planet
p. 116-117: Millennium Falcon – Ext (plan of paneling & dressing to undersides)
p. 120: Millennium Falcon hold – revised seat unit (seat plans)
p. 124-125: Star Destroyer (alcove window with color)
p. 126-127: Star Destroyer I (alcove window with color)
p. 128-129: Int. Star Destroyer (Vader’s Meditation Pod)
p. 130-131: Star Destroyer composite (sections, elevations)
p. 132-133: Battle of Hoth (illustration)
p. 134-135: Battle of Hoth (composition based on ice plane battle) – drawing of snow walkers in battle by Beddoes
p. 136-137: Exterior Norway Location (gun emplacement requirements):
Desc: gun turret in three stages of destruction (Battle of Hoth)
p. 140-141: Snowspeeder (preliminary layout):
Desc: side, front, end elevations; underside
p. 144-145: X-wing Fighter (applied panels):
Desc: plan topside, starboard elevation, port elevation, plan underside
p. 150-151: Yoda’s House (interior; plan & sections)
p. 156-157: R2-D2 (practical hand)
p. 158-159: Cloud City Landing Platform Side Bay (plans & elevations)
p. 166-167: Carbon Cell Block/Carbon Freezing Chamber (Int. Cloud City/Int. Carbon Freezing; carbon cell block):
Desc: side view of carbon cell freezing chamber
p. 168-169: Carbon Freezing Chamber (plans & elevations)
p. 172-173: Reactor Control Room (Plans & Elevations); Cloud City Reactor Control Room
p. 176-177: Gantry Outside Reactor Shaft (plans & elevations)
Desc: in Cloud City with Darth Vader
p. 180-181: Gantry outside Reactor Shaft (built backing for tilt-down/tilt-up shots)
Desc: Cloud City
p. 182-183: Cloud City Reactor Shaft – Exhaust Inlet (Cloud City) with Luke being sucked in
EPISODE V: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUPERINTS (LESS THAN ONE PAGE)
Main Hangar Deck (gantry detail)
Main Hangar Deck (x-wing)
Main Hangar Deck (sections CC&DD)
Model Snow Lizard (tauntaun) (metal armature)
Location Requirements (Hoth) (cannon sled, prop)
Medical Center, layout
C-3PO (fixings & turnings)
Rebel Medical Center (freestanding control unit)
Rebel Command Center (power blocks)
Command Center (elevations)
Command Center (ice sensor, steps & landing)
Command Center (layouts)
Millennium Falcon (details frame)
Millennium Falcon (ramp & docking bay)
Millennium Falcon, Hold Area (seating & control console area)
Millennium Falcon, Cockpit (main plan & elevations)
Millennium Falcon (radar antenna)
Star Destroyer (fore window, main bridge area)
Star Destroyer Composite (sections & elevations)
Vader’s Star Destroyer (hologram pod)
Vader’s Star Destroyer (emperor hologram concept drawings)
Aerial view of battle (layout – battle of Hoth)
Gun Emplacements (plan & elevations) Battle of Hoth with figure
Battle of Hoth (size comparison layout) – Snow walker “leg”
Battle of Hoth (size comparison layout) – Scale relations of snow walker & snow speeder
Snow Walker Leg (plans & elevations)
Snowspeeder (gimble & base for speeder)
Ext. Snowspeeder (rear harpoon gun)
Snowspeeder (seat)
X-wing Fighter Cockpit (general cockpit)
X-wing Fighter (stencil markings)
Supertrooper II (prototype mockup – helmet)
Boba Fett’s Cockpit (plan & elevations)
Stormtrooper II Backpack (full-sized)
Bog Swamp (Dagobah) (armature for large skeleton)
Dagobah Drawings (3) (diagrammatic section of x-fighter in tank)
Dagobah (inside tree)
Cloud City Buildings (scenic backing)
Cloud City Interiors (fountain, plan & elevations)
Cloud City Composite, Stage 2
Cloud City Dining Room (entrance doorway)
Cloud City Dining Room (model towers)
Dining Room, Cloud City (plans & elevations)
Dining Room, Cloud City (furniture)
Carbon Freezing Chamber (plans & elevations)
Carbon Freezing Chamber (platform)
Carbon Freezing Chamber (carbon cell block)
Reactor Control Room (steam effect gratings)
Reactor Control Room (tube & sliding grill)
Gantry Outside Control Room (plan & elevations)
Gantry End of Pod Reactor Shaft (main setups)
Desc: three level, tilt-up, tilt-down shots
Exhaust Pipe (set-up) (beneath Cloud City – with figure of Luke))
Exhaust Pipe, Beneath Cloud City (exhaust pipe doors)
Medical Frigate – Bionic Hand Basis (Luke)
EPISODE VI: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
p. 190-191: Exterior, Jabba’s Palace (Jabba’s Palace “eye”)
p. 194-195: Jabba’s Throne Room, Red Ball Jett Organ
p. 198: Jabba’s Throne Room (stage 8 layout)
p. 200-201: Robot (double gatefold)
p. 208-209: Jabba’s Barge (plan & elevations)
p. 210-211: Jabba’s Barge (revised elevation):
Desc: side view
p. 212-213: Jabba’s Barge (fanciful illustration)
Desc: color illustrations
p. 214-215: Jabba’s Barge (plan, midship & stern)
Desc: above view
p. 216-217: Jabba’s Barge (large deck gun):
Desc: front and side views of deck gun
p. 220-221: Sarlacc Pit (concept drawing)
p. 226-227: Shuttle (interior/exterior)
p. 230-231: Ext Shuttle (wing cannon)
p. 234-235: Scooter: Desc: Speeder Bike (front, top, back, side views)
p. 236-237: Scooter (plan and elevations) speeder bike elevations/plan of underside
p. 240-241: Ewok Village (chief’s hut and huts)
Desc: above/interior views
p. 242-243: Ewok Village (sections “AA” “EE” & part section “HH”):
Desc: exterior view of huts in trees
p. 248-249: Imperial Bunker Village (basic bunker structure)
p. 250-251: Bunker Control Room and Corridor (plan & elevations)
p. 252-253: Bunker Site: First Location Plot Plan
Desc: ink drawing of bunker location site
p. 262-263: Emperor’s Throne Room (interior elevations) (above Death Star)
p. 267: Emperor’s Throne Room (console column)
EPISODE VI: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUEPRINTS (LESS THAN ONE PAGE)
Exterior, Jabba’s Palace (plan & elevations, entrance door)
Exterior, Jabba’s Palace (eye through door) (2 details)
Boiler Room, Jabba’s Palace (plan & elevations)
Boiler Room, Jabba’s Palace (body in torture rack)
Robots (insect head) (Jabba’s Palace)
Rancor Pit (chute exit & gate)
Jabba’s Barge & Throne Room (musical instrument)
Robot U8-D8 (layout) – torture droid
Robot (side view) – torture droid
Boiler Room (torture rack)
Robot Torture Rack (revision)
Rancor Pit (blue backing, setups)
Jabba’s Skiff (revised detail)
Jabba’s Barge (with cannon gun) (revised longitudinal section)
R2-D2 (accessories)
R2-D2 (drink dispenser & tray)
C-3PO (technical dummy) (lost eye)
Sarlacc Pit (provisional sketch)
Sarlacc Pit (concept sketch)
Sarlacc Pit (early concept sketch)
Tatooine Landing Strip (stage layout)
Space Shuttle (plan)
Death Star Docking Bay (built/matte concept)
Death Star Docking Bay (aerial and side view)
Dagobah (Tree “B” Root profiles)
Dagobah (stage layout plan)
Scooter (Speeder Bike) (stands & breakdown)
Scooter (views)
Scooter (measurements)
Scooter (model preparatory sketch)
Scooter (front matte setup)
Ewok Village (tree house prototype)
Ewok Village (interior hut structure (with Ewok))
Ewok Village (sedan chair for C-3PO, built by Ewoks)
Ewok Village (dressing) (x2 of Solo on spit)
Ewok Village (reissue of full stage plan)
Bunker Site (plan)
Imperial Bunker (detail 06)
Bunker (sketch elev. site plan & section)
Briefing Room (central console): Rebel Briefing Room with Figure
Bridge (control/pilot consoles): Rebel Briefing Room
Rebel Briefing Room (sliding doors)
Bridge (admiral’s chair, headrest)
Y-Fighter (general layout)
A-Wing Cockpit (sections)
Emperor’s Throne Room (section)
Emperor’s Throne Room (plan)
Emperor’s Throne Room (windows)
Emperor’s Throne Room (window cut out)
Emperor’s Throne Room (true elevation of side wall)
Shuttle (props – stave for shuttle guard)
Vader’s Mask (hinge)
EPISODE I: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
p. 274-275: Theed Plaza (building no. 3, main plan & elevation)
p. 284-285: Mos Espa (Watto’s shop building, exterior)
p. 290-291: Mos Espa Pit Hangar and Race Arena (Anakin’s pod engine)
p. 294-295: Temple of Jedi, Council Chambers (plan & elevation)
p. 298-299: Droid Tank: Desc: Side, back, top, front views
p. 302-303: Naboo Speeder One (elevation & sections)
p. 304-305: Theed Main Hangar (dressing for revamp of helicopter)
Desc: Side view helicopter
p. 306-307: Theed Main Hangar (double-sliding doorway)
Desc: door
EPISODE I: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUEPRINTS (LESS THAN ONE PAGE)
Theed Plaza (exterior main hangar entrance)
Theed Plaza (building no. 5 elev., plan, sect. & detail)
Naboo Queen’s Spaceship (main area, engine component)
Queen’s Spaceship (airlock door opening system)
Queen’s Spaceship (queen’s chamber)
Queen’s Spaceship (droid hold)
Naboo Queen’s Spaceship (diagrammatic interior layout)
Mos Espa Street (buildings)
Mos Espa Space Repair Pod (EVA homage #2)
Watto’s Shop (shelves): with Figures
Watto’s Shop (exterior concepts)
Watto’s Shop (plan, sections & elevations)
Anakin’s Hovel (plan, sections)
Anakin’s Hovel (backing detail)
Mos Espa Arena (podrace flag designs)
Podracer (exploded isometric view, pod frame)
Anchor Head Arena (starting line/bridge)
Council Chamber, Palace of Jedi (main area, floor pattern)
Palace of Jedi, Council Chambers (Yoda’s Jedi chair)
Sith Speeder (metal work & plywood profile)
Theed Main Hangar (main plan – information only)
Homestead Layout (plan layout)
Speeder Bike (general arrangements)
Lars Homestead (vaporizer cluster)
EPISODE II: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
P. 308-309: Rickshaw (Tunisia location)
Desc: Rickshaw on Tatooine
p. 312-313: Coruscant Speeder II (plan and elevations)
Desc: top, side, back, front views
EPISODE II: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUEPRINTS LESS THAN ONE PAGE
Jedi Fighter (plan & elevations): ship
Boba Fett’s Landing Platform (relationship of platform to spacecraft)
Solar Sailer (in hanger) (plan, side elevation)
EPISODE III: FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE BLUEPRINTS
p. 318-319: Starfighter (elevations)
p. 320: Starfighter Plans (and underside)
p. 322-323: Federation Cruiser Hallway (exploded perspectives)
p. 324-325: Imperial Rehabilitation Chamber (rehabilitation table)
p. 328-329: Diplomatic Cruiser Hallway (plan & elevations)
p. 330-331: Alderaan Cruiser Cockpit (plan & elevations)
EPISODE III: PARTIAL AND DETAIL BLUEPRITNS (LESS THAN ONE PAGE)
Imperial Rehab Chamber (set out plan, section AA)
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