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This Week’s Word Is “Galaxy.”
“Look at the size of that thing.”
The Ultimate Pop Up Galaxy is a feat of paper engineering. It’s a beautiful 3D homage to the Star Wars saga. We’re not strangers to pop-up books here at Word Wednesday, but this book takes things to a whole new, and massive, level.
What is Star Wars: The Ultimate Pop Up Galaxy?
The book is an ode to Star Wars, with 24 incredible pop-ups across 5 amazing spreads. If you have space (and decent visual/spatial skills), it folds out to form an incredible 37″ X 44″ diorama.
The book takes in episodes I-VIII and Rogue One. The five main panels (or “spreads”) have a central pop up-structure, with three of four further outer panels surrounding it. Flaps on these panels unfold to reveal set pieces from the movies. On the upper-side of these flaps, there is text that gives a brief synopsis of the movie scenes displayed in the pop-up underneath. The text can only be easily read when these outer pop-ups are folded away.
Panel 1 is devoted to the prequel trilogy, and, whilst it might be appropriate to have made Hayden Christensen’s sections out of wood, paper is still the medium of choice. The central structure represents…
