New Boba Fett Details Revealed in "The Mandalorian Visual Guide"

Newly released from DK publishing is The Mandalorian Visual Guide, by Pablo Hidalgo with a foreward from Pedro Pascal. Coming in at 232 pages this is much more comprehensive visual guide than most, covering all 3 seasons of the show as well as some modest content from “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” The book shares some some great details surrounding Boba and his “Starship” as seen in the second season of the show. The book briefly covers the events of “The Book of Boba Fett” but only as pertains to Din Djarin himself.

The Boba content begins with Cobb Vanth’s acquisition of Boba’s “Return of the Jedi” armor. The guide states that “the corrosive gut fluids of the Sarlaac scarred the armor’s durasteel coating but the beskar’s integrity and many of the subsystems are intact.” This would seem to help consolidate many years’ worth of lore and legends surrounding Mandalorian armor prior to Karen Traviss’ introduction of the word Beskar in 2006. (The concept of Mandalorian Iron and it’s lightsaber resistant properties date back to 1994 and the Dark Lords of the Sith subset of the Tales Of The Jedi comic series from Dark Horse comics.) The section also refers to the damaged “Jedi” jetpack as “repaired” and specifies that the missile Vanth has loaded is a homing missile.

The next relative entry discusses Boba by showing his Tusken robes along with his Gaderffii stick, describing it as having an “i-ravu” head, and the Tusken cycler rifle. A blurb about his family legacy shows a screen grab of his chain code confirming Boba’s claim to the armor, as well as a mention of his legacy as the last of the clones of Jango.

The Boba content fast forwards to his “re-armored” look. The repainted jetpack is referred to as “refurbished” and having a reinforced ignition system. It also adds the Kessler DB-41 blaster to his standard inventory and mentions his EE-3 as having a Melihat WSM1N1 Macroscope. Here we are introduced to a change in terminology as his gauntlets are newly referred to as vambraces. Dictionary.com defines vambrace as a piece of plate armor for the forearm. This seems to be a more appropriate update to the naming of armor pieces as gauntlet traditionally refers to a protective glove that may contain an extended cuff for the wrist (or can also refer to just the cuff). What’s most interesting is that the book refers to them as gauntlets in the Cobb Vanth pictures and then changes those same pieces (in-universe) to vambraces when showing them worn by Boba. As the lore and mythology of Star Wars continues to grow and be (re-)defined I appreciate the intent of using more appropriate real-world terminology for items.

The continued description of his re-armored look discusses Boba using his own tools and handiwork to keep his armor in shape and functional and not relying on the armorer as he never walked to the traditional Mandalorian path. It mentions Boba finding the paint supplies in his starship; however, he grabbed his new EE-3 from the Razor Crest (presumably before it’s destruction) noting that his previous one was destroyed by Luke.

The book features many good pictures of the Firespray, however much of the information and detail (like Boba’s) is recycled from previous materials. It does discuss “The Clone Wars” history of the ship with Aurra Sing and Hondo Ohnaka and confirms that the nose canons have the ability to switch from laser cannons to ion. I don’t know if that’s been published before.

Lastly, with regards to Boba, it does share a picture of Boba riding his rancor as part of the discussion on the Battle of Mos Espa.

All in all, a great update to the visual guide series. If you’re a big The Mandalorian fan, there’s a great amount of content following his adventures. As far as Boba there’s some great new pics of his re-armored look, but no discussion of his sightly altered “The Book of Boba Fett” armor. There are also some new nuggets of detail surrounding his armor and weapons, but most of it is recycled from other publications. Maybe someday we’ll get the story on the change to his EE-3 between “Empire” and “Jedi.”

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Visual Guide is currently priced at $32.62 USD on Amazon.com.

The Mandalorian Visual Guide
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