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Serenity Blueprints Reference Pack | 
 enlarge | Brand: Quantum Mechanix
Category: Toy
Buy New: $59.95
New (3) from $59.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 29708
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 16 x 0.3 x 12
MPN: SER-0010
Model: SER-0010
UPC: 894742001100
EAN: 0894742001100
ASIN: B000Z3C1MM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Would you like to build your own rogue ship? 33 full-color pages. Introduction by Orson Scott Card. | | • | All you wanted to know about Serenity's Firefly-class design! Would you like to build your own rogue ship? Well, the Official Serenity Blueprints Reference Pack contains everything you ever wanted to know about Serenity and the rich history of her Firefly-class design. | | • | This unbelievable pack contains thirty-three 12-inch tall x 16-inch wide, full-color, spiral-bound pages documenting the design, systems, and layout of Serenity plus the rest of the Firefly-class designs! (Serenity is a Series 3 Firefly.) | | • | Each book comes shrink-wrapped and includes an introduction by legendary sci-fi author Orson Scott Card. These are the plans. | | • | Now all you need are the time and materials! Made and printed in the U.S. The 10 pages focused on Serenity were designed by Geoffrey Mandel, Serenity graphics designer extraordinaire, and Timothy Earls, illustrator for Firefly and set designer for Serenity. |
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Product Description
Would you like to build your own rogue ship? 33 full-color pages. Introduction by Orson Scott Card. All you wanted to know about Serenity's Firefly-class design! Would you like to build your own rogue ship? Well, the Official Serenity Blueprints Reference Pack contains everything you ever wanted to know about Serenity and the rich history of her Firefly-class design. This unbelievable pack contains thirty-three 12-inch tall x 16-inch wide, full-color, spiral-bound pages documenting the design, systems, and layout of Serenity plus the rest of the Firefly-class designs! (Serenity is a Series 3 Firefly.) Each book comes shrink-wrapped and includes an introduction by legendary sci-fi author Orson Scott Card. These are the plans. Now all you need are the time and materials! Made and printed in the U.S. The 10 pages focused on Serenity were designed by Geoffrey Mandel, Serenity graphics designer extraordinaire, and Timothy Earls, illustrator for Firefly and set designer for Serenity.
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Attention to detail February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It never ceases to amaze me how much attention to detail QMX put into their products - and this reference pack is another fine example. Before my obsession with Firefly began, I'd never been a collector of stuff (not even with my star trek obsession) but I find myself wanting pretty much everything that QMX releases. I love the way they put so much care into everything, it's not just some cheezy cheap looking knockoff of something. The reference pack is truly a unique item and I figure the guys that work on this stuff must be huge fans of Firefly/Serenity themselves, because the care and effort put into their products really shows. Worth every cent.
An amazing work of art and an incredible reference guide February 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This stunning flip book contains ten sheets of full-color, detailed blueprints of Serenity, her shuttles, and the mule, plus an additional 20 pages of content. Each of the main blueprint pages shows a different view of the ship or portion thereof and include diagrams of the mule and the shuttles. Every nook and cranny of Serenity is explored, and many new details are revealed, things that were never shown in the movie or TV series but are fascinating to think about. Serenity has escape pods. An age-old forum question is answered - does Serenity have showers? Yes.
The graphics are beautifully done; they don't look like blueprints per se, but I find them much more attractive. The clean, simple diagrams of the ship appear on a parchment-like background, which is darker near the outlines of the ship and fades out to a lighter shade. It's attractive and browncoaty. The diagrams are very easy to see and understand, but there is also a satisfying amount of detail conveyed. I can't even imagine the untold hours of design work that went into creating these; great attention was paid not only to creating accurate, attractive diagrams of the ship and her workings, but to making the background they appear on seamless and interesting.
This is so much more than a dry blueprint of a ship; this book takes the imagery and canon of the show and uses it to create something that stands on its own feet as a piece of the 'verse.
Every single page is a work of art and clearly a labor of love. It's satisfyingly big, allowing the art to be viewed clearly, without being too large to handle. The pages flip easily and the high-quality spiral binding allows it to lie flat. The pages are on heavy stock with top-notch, full-color printing throughout. There's a very touching introduction of sorts by Orson Scott Card, renowned sci-fi author and Firefly fan.
What other goodies? Too many to mention, really. There is a page that shows a number of "draft" versions of the Serenity logo, showing the stages it went through before the final was chosen, and a page showing the various doors on the ship and their markings, and....and.....
These are an awesome resource for fanfic writers among others, and a wonderful thing for any fan to be able to thumb through, studying the layout of our beloved ship in the company of artists who love it just as dearly. The wealth of information, beautiful design, and reasonable price combine to make the Serenity Blueprint Reference Pack deserve my highest rating.
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