Philip Reed from battlegrip.com has launched a new Kickstarter project for a 96 page hard cover book focused on Kenner’s 1998 Star Wars Expanded Universe toy line. This will be the author’s fifth toy related book. There’s just something cool about holding a nice hard cover, toy book in your hands. I encourage everyone to support these kinds of projects so collectors can continue to have a physical library of toy related reference material.
From the author:
I love books. Over the last few years I’ve used Kickstarter to produce four hardcover books about toys, and each time the supporters have been wonderful to work with and have made it possible for the books to be top quality and wonderfully printed. I’ve had so much fun creating books about toys that I’m doing it again. Universe Expanded is for all of you who have an interest in the Kenner Star Wars Expanded Universe subline of 1998.
About the book:
Universe Expanded will follow the same physical format as my two recent books about action figure marketing — Each Sold Separately (Kickstarter page) and Action Figures Not Included(Kickstarter page) — because holding those finished books in my hands felt very rewarding. The landscape format, hardcover binding, and colors in those two books were all wonderful and I look forward to shelving the finished copy of Universe Expanded right beside those books.
You can back the project at several different levels here on Kickstarter.