This book is a celebration in book form. The book shows off gorgeous concept art and pages from creator Guillermo Del Toro’s notebooks. It tells all about the story of the movie, the cast, and filming.

The book has fun removable bits, victory posters and ID badges. And blueprints! Blueprints of the armored Jaegers. Did they find these in my history notebook from when I was 13?

There is so very much in this book that we were afraid to open it. It’s a spoiler warning on every page, so I confess I have only seen pages as I flipped rapidly through, afraid to dwell too long, fearing that I could not handle the joy held within.

If you have not seen the movie, I forbid you from ever opening this book. It's a safety issue.

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This look into del Toro's epic film of "giant robots fighting giant monsters" is a mix of the insightful and the standard. It gives you a good peak behind the curtain but also contains some of the usual moviemaking understanding that you'd expect to easily see on a blu-ray special feature. The real treat are the pictures, goodies (incl. a poster and stickers), and especially the sketches from del Toro's notebooks. All in all, a very good artbook for a very great kaiju film.

Beautiful book. The thing itself is a work of art, with the high quality images, insert pages from Del Toro's notes, and the two full sized photos at the back. It also provides an insight into how the film came to be made and the massive amount of special effects involved. I'd presumed a lot of the things were computer generated and that were actually sets. For example, the pods they use the pilot the Jager were actually physically made and controlled by puppeteers and the actors were in real physical suits that attached to the machinery.

nice book about the movie!

This artbook has so much backstory about the tech of the film and the characters, and I love reading about how the film progressed from a screenplay to the larger-than-life story it is today.

if you enjoyed the film, you’ll probably enjoy this book. It has stories from the set and from the writers and director as well as loads of conceptual and developmental art from the film. Absolutely fascinating.

Ah! So cool.

Really good look behind the scenes of the visual and technical planning of Pacific Rim. Great job, whoever designed the book really got it right. I love all the little things "pasted" in like pilot ID cards, sketches with notes, stickers -- if I ever have a kid there will be a note from Mommy in there that reads "Grounded for life if you ever peel these stickers!"

Pacific Rim is a fun movie aimed right at the 11-year-old boy in all of us. Even if the ladies. This art book does a really good job of showing the development of the design and look of the movie. I do wish it had more rejected designs, because I always find those interesting, often more so than the ones that make it into the final movie. The behind-the-scenes peek at Del Toro's working style was equally as interesting.

This is definitely aimed at a niche market of movie fans, of which I am one. If you like these sorts of books, you'll enjoy this one.