ROTS Visual Dictionary and ICS available at Wal-mart.com

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-19 02:11am

I just ordered them. Look here:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... id=3401443

and here

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... id=3401442

Crosses fingers.

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-03-19 07:37am

IN STOCK?! You lucky bastard. Australian joints don't get it until April 30.

It is the responsibility of every member of this board who gets the VD/ICS first to extensivlely catalog their contents online for immediate consumption.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-19 02:35pm

Vympel wrote:IN STOCK?! You lucky bastard. Australian joints don't get it until April 30.

It is the responsibility of every member of this board who gets the VD/ICS first to extensivlely catalog their contents online for immediate consumption.

I selected express delivery so they claim it will arrive on the 22nd of March but there's a good chance that they won't ship until the actual release date of April 2nd. That's why I'm crossing my fingers. But with any luck I'll have them by Tuesday. Wal-mart.com also has the Art of Ep3 available here. I'm ordering it too.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-19 02:42pm

We will require high-res scans of the ICS.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-03-19 03:50pm

Let the masturbating begin!;)

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-19 04:01pm

Firefox wrote:We will require high-res scans of the ICS.

I'm sorry to say that I don't have a scanner. I may be able to take pictures of the pages with my digital camera though.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-19 04:02pm

Use whatever tools you have at your disposal!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2005-03-19 04:03pm

Clone Sergeant wrote:
Vympel wrote:IN STOCK?! You lucky bastard. Australian joints don't get it until April 30.

It is the responsibility of every member of this board who gets the VD/ICS first to extensivlely catalog their contents online for immediate consumption.
I selected express delivery so they claim it will arrive on the 22nd of March but there's a good chance that they won't ship until the actual release date of April 2nd. That's why I'm crossing my fingers. But with any luck I'll have them by Tuesday. Wal-mart.com also has the Art of Ep3 available here. I'm ordering it too.

Wal-mart was ignoring the release date for Ep. 3 action figures, so they might ignore it for the books.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-19 04:08pm

neoolong wrote:
Clone Sergeant wrote:
Vympel wrote:IN STOCK?! You lucky bastard. Australian joints don't get it until April 30.

It is the responsibility of every member of this board who gets the VD/ICS first to extensivlely catalog their contents online for immediate consumption.
I selected express delivery so they claim it will arrive on the 22nd of March but there's a good chance that they won't ship until the actual release date of April 2nd. That's why I'm crossing my fingers. But with any luck I'll have them by Tuesday. Wal-mart.com also has the Art of Ep3 available here. I'm ordering it too.
Wal-mart was ignoring the release date for Ep. 3 action figures, so they might ignore it for the books.

I hope so. I'm spending a ton on shipping fees so it better get here when they say it will.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-03-19 04:21pm

I agree with the others, use whatever you can to get those pictures to us!

... and weapon yields should be one of the first things you mention...

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-19 04:54pm

Techno_Union wrote:I agree with the others, use whatever you can to get those pictures to us!

... and weapon yields should be one of the first things you mention...

Will do.

I'll let you guys know when they ship.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2005-03-19 05:34pm

Awesome! It's being written by Saxton.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2005-03-19 05:52pm

You only just found this out?

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-03-19 06:28pm

Chris OFarrell wrote:You only just found this out?

Who wants to take a guess PT on fighters are slated at... 10-15 GT a piece?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-03-20 01:56am

Laird wrote:Who wants to take a guess PT on fighters are slated at... 10-15 GT a piece?

And what would you base this assumption on?

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-03-20 05:02am

Lord Poe wrote:
Laird wrote:Who wants to take a guess PT on fighters are slated at... 10-15 GT a piece?
And what would you base this assumption on?

An educated guess.

Alexus · Post by **Alexus** » 2005-03-20 07:51am

I agree with the others, use whatever you can to get those pictures to us!

Do what must be done! Do not hesitate... (etc)

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-03-21 08:28pm

I am happy to say that I too just purchased them... though I did the priority rater than the most expensive one... so Thursday or Friday for me!

President Sharky · Post by **President Sharky** » 2005-03-21 11:29pm

Just in case you don't visit the Episode III spoiler thread, I'll repost the info from the ICS I've gotten from TF.N, where someone already has the book.

Table of Contents
Star Destroyer - Venator Class
ARC-170 Fighter
V-Wing Fighter
Jedi Interceptor AKA Anakin's Starfighter
Tri-Fighter
Buzz Droid
Droid Gunship
Invisible Hand (fold out) - with blurbs on the Banking Clan Frigate and Commerce Guild Destroyer
Juggernaut
AT-RT Walker
Utapaun P-38 Fighter
Techno Union Starfighter
Grievous' Wheelbike
Wookiee Catamaran
Palpatine's Shuttle, as seen in the beginning of the trailer
Yoda's Escape Pods

Venator-class Star Destroyer

The Galatic Republic's new Venator-class Star Destroyer is fast enough to chase down blockade runners and big enough to lead independent missions such as the liberation of Utapau. A floatila of these medium-weight, versatile multi-role warships can blast through the shields of a Trade Federation battleship with ease. The hangars of the Venator-class are much larger than older Star Destroyers like the Victory-class, and can support hundreds of fightercraft. The ship is also capable of planetary landings as a military transport and can be an escort for battleships in the Republic's armada. However, the primary function of the Venator-class is its role as a fighting ship and starfighter carrier, making it a firm favorite with Jedi fighter aces.

Stats:
1,137 meters long, 548 m wingspan
max acceleration: 3000 G
hyperdrive class: 1.0
crew: 7400
armament: 8 heavy turbolaser turrets, 2 medium dual turbolaser cannons, 52 point-defense laser cannons, 4 proton torpedo tubes, 6 tractor beam projectors.

Complement: 192 V-Wing fighters, 192 Eta-2 Actis Interceptors, 36 ARC-170 Fighters, 24 military walkers, 40 LAAT/i gunships and misc. shuttles.

Droid Gunship

Ominous in appearance and relentless in battle, the droid gunship is a powerful, well-shielded millile platform. Designed for air strikes within planet atmospheres, it moves at relatively slow speeds and displays average maneuverability, but this is compensated for by its awesome firepower. Two laser cannon turrets can track targets independently, while torpedoes and missiles prove devastating against ground-based installations, attack vehicles and faster short-range targets. The wing modules can carry extra laser cannons, concussion bombs and upgraded targeting scanners. The droid gunship is truly a symbol of Separatist military might.

Stats:
12.3 meters long, 11 meters wide
max acceleration: 100G
max air speed: 14,200 KPH
armament: 14 missiles, 2 laser cannon turrets, 1 medium laser cannon, 2 light laser cannons.

General Grievous' Wheel bike

General Grievous' fearsome reputation as a merciless military leader is reinforced by a personal fleet of specialized killing machines and vehicles. On cavernous Utapau, the cyborg general; drives a wheel bike - a tumbling twin-wheel that surrounds a central motor. Grievous' military vehicle is an offshoot of the Banking Clan's hoop-wheeled Hailfire droids, designed to roll at initmidating speed on hard surfaces. It can also raise itself up on two pairs of legs to walk over the top of battle wrecks and other obstacles. A double laser cannon replaces one side seat and Grievous can wield either a convieniently placed electrostaff, a blaster, or one of his Jedi lightsaber trophies when he rolls into a battle. Flexing claws skirt the wheels to provide a smoother ride, or clutch the ground as climbing teeth. The bike's strong grip allows amazing acrobatics, an ability displayed when Grievous is pursued by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Grievous' fighter

Although he prefers hand-to-hand combat, General Grievious often flies a battle-worn Belbullab-22 fighter designed by Feethan Ottraw Scalable Assemblies, specialists in self-constructing armaments factories. Made for a living pilot, the hyperdrive-equipped craft is bulkier and hardier than disposable droid fighters. Two main ion drives enable the Belbullab to keep pace with an Utapauan P-38. A rear-mounted thrust-vectoring fin and auxiliary thrusters built into the wings assist with yaw and roll maneuvers. Raoid-firing triple leaser cannons sustain firepower of equivalent destructive force to that of the V-Wing starfighters.

Invisible Hand Stats

length: 1,088 meters
propulsion: 4 Nubian Creveld-4 radial ion drives
max acceleration: 2,500 G
max speed: 2000 KPH
hyperdrive class 1.5
crew: 600 and up to 1.5 million battle droids
armament: 14 quad turbolaser turrets, 34 dual laser cannons, 2 ion cannons, 12 point-defense ion cannons, 102 proton torpedo tubes.
complement: 120 droid tri-fighters, 120 vulture fighters, 160 MTTs, 280 assorted droid armored vehicles.

Commerce Guild Support Destroyer:

Recusant-class light destroyers are mass-produced by zealous workers led by Techno Union foremen, using materials from many Commerce Guild worlds. Since the beginning of the Clone Wars, countless numbers of these support vessels have been built, destroyerd in battle, and replaced. Lone Recusant-class ships often carry out attacks on Loyalist commercial shipping, but their real effectiveness becomes apparent when deployed in large numbers. Four to six can outgun a Venator-class or Victory-class Star Destroyer, but it would take 1,000 Recusant-class ships to take on Kuat Drive Yard's Mandator II Star Dreadnaught.

Stats:
1,187 meters long, 157 meters wide, 163 meters tall
Acceleration: 2,800G
hyperdrive class: 2.0; 30,000 light year effective range
300 crew, up to 40,000 deactivated battle droids
Weapons: 1 prow heavy turbolaser cannon, 4 heavy turbolaser cannons, 6 heavy turbolaser turrets, 5 turbolaser cannons, 30 dual laser cannons, 12 dual light laser cannons, 60 point-defense laser cannons.

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-03-22 12:20am

I thought it'd be better in its own thread ... with the books about to hit stores in the US, we'll be talking quite a bit as we pore over the new stuff

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2005-03-22 12:24am

I snet off to Wal-mart for them too. hopefully I'll get them not much after he does.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2005-03-22 01:21am

My books haven't shipped yet and they are supposed to show up tommorow so I'm sending Wal-mart.com a kind what-the-hell-is-going-on note. Something in my gut is telling me Lucasfilm got to them and they are holding up the orders until April 2. We'll see what happens.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-03-22 01:19pm

Clone Sergeant wrote:My books haven't shipped yet and they are supposed to show up tommorow so I'm sending Wal-mart.com a kind what-the-hell-is-going-on note. Something in my gut is telling me Lucasfilm got to them and they are holding up the orders until April 2. We'll see what happens.

What are the chances of getting some money back then if they do that? Seeing as though the ship dates were clearly linked to how much we paid...

Alexus · Post by **Alexus** » 2005-03-22 01:30pm

Four to six can outgun a Venator-class or Victory-class Star Destroyer, but it would take 1,000 Recusant-class ships to take on Kuat Drive Yard's Mandator II Star Dreadnaught.

I'm a bit disapointed. I expected more, somehow.

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2005-03-22 01:43pm

Four to six can outgun a Venator-class or Victory-class Star Destroyer, but it would take 1,000 Recusant-class ships to take on Kuat Drive Yard's Mandator II Star Dreadnaught

So a Mandator is roughly 200 VSDs? Isn't a VSD roughly 1/2 of an ISD? Holy shit that thing is tough. Why the hell won't they just show this thing to us in the EU? It was mentioned way back in Saxton's Episode II ICS, and so far this is all we know about it.