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With a galaxy of information on every page, the Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia Hardcover Book is the perfect illustrated guide to everything Star Wars . This beautiful visual tour of the Star Wars universe includes gallery upon gallery of stunning images and fascinating facts.The object-themed spreads focus down onto hundreds of topics, from Star Wars fashion and food, to vehicles and creatures.Explore a range of droids, from medical to spy droid, or discover the different snacks you can eat in the Star Wars universe.The Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia Hardcover Book has 200 pages.Measures about 11 12-inches tall x 10 9/10-inches wide.
They were refrenced in Rebels via a Holocron and I beleive theres a guide or something that came out that included them but don't quote me on that.
Edit: apparently this guide is where they are refrenced
Edit 2: The form shown in Rebels is Form 5s other variant Shien which focuses on blaster deflection
This book is actually different.
Where as Ultimate Star Wars and most visual dictionaries have spreads on specific characters or things and go into detail on them, this book has spreads on general topics and has a bunch of prop photos of them. It's even got spreads on things as trivial as food, luggage, furniture, and interior design.
Its amazon page has some preview pages to give you some idea.
EDIT: as far as interesting info goes I think the only treat we'll be getting is the re-canonizing of some of the trivial details found in the original visual dictionaries. But if I find anything juicy I'll be sure to post.
Get this one.
It seems to not have been updated for The Last Jedi, but otherwise has material from all eras. The photos of the blaster props from the movies, labeled with their in-universe designations, in the section on blasters, is worth the price alone. Just a really great all-around reference source to use for visual aids in the game.
They do release these. The Visual Encyclopedia is basically exactly what you are looking for, although probably not as in-depth as what you have envisioned.
I'm holding out on picking anything up until after Episode IX releases though.