A few days ago I finished reading “Battlestar Galactica Shipyards: The Encyclopedia of Battlestar Galactica Ships”(Eaglemoss/HeroCollector, 2020). (AlA few days ago I finished reading “Battlestar Galactica Shipyards: The Encyclopedia of Battlestar Galactica Ships”(Eaglemoss/HeroCollector, 2020). (Also listed a lot of places like Amazon as “The Ships of Battlestar Galactica”.)
“Featuring Ships From the Original and the Reimagined Series”, as it says on the cover (although, I should point out up front that only twenty-nine out of this “reference” style book’s one hundred and seventy-four pages feature original 1978-1979 tv series Battlestar Galactica ships (16.7%). The rest covers ships from the 2003-2009 SCI-FI series.
Which is fine if, like me, you like both. However, there are some original series purists (ones who don’t care for the newer series) who should probably see if they might be able to check a copy of this book out from their local public library (as I did) rather than investing the money in buying a copy.
That said, this, like Eaglemoss/HeroCollector’s Star Trek Shipyards books, is a great resource for anyone who likes the overall Battlestar Galactica franchise and, in particular, looking over and admiring page after page of pictures and multiple-angle illustrations of the spaceships created for both series.
As with the Star Trek Shipyards series—of which there currently six volumes covering the ships from the various Star Trek television series and movies with at least two more coming out soon)—the Battlestar Galactica Shipyards book is a collection of articles originally released in magazine form, each magazine bundled with a die-cast metal and plastic display model of the same ship covered in the magazine. (The reason there aren’t more of the original series ships in the book is because the models series is likewise mostly “reimagined” Battlestar Galactica, with only five out of the so far twenty-three ships in the models series are original series ones.)
Each ship covered in the book gets a text article covering the in-universe history of that ship (or model of ships) including summaries of significant moments from the television series, followed by detailed front, side, top, and bottom view CGI illustrations.
(The original magazines also usually have articles on the designing of the ships but those HeroCollector decided to put those articles in a separate series of books, their “Designing Starships” series. A “Battlestar Galactica: Designing Spaceships” volume is due out in October 2021.)
If you are big into and into Battlestar Galactica or into science fiction spaceships in general, I highly recommend “Battlestar Galactica Shipyards” (and also the Star Trek Shipyards books, too)....more
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