Visual Guides was a free ongoing feature of StarWars.com, providing an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into the films of the Star Wars Saga. It was introduced on April 30, 2007 as part of the year-long 30th anniversary of the Star Wars saga. Currently, several "chapters" from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope are available. The feature was roughly analogous to the Visual Dictionaries, Star Wars: Behind the Magic, and Pablo Hidalgo's defunct former website, The Indexed Trilogy.

Each "chapter" contained a portion of the original screenplay concerning the scene or scenes covered, a behind-the-scenes trivia section, rare stills and photographs, and a gallery of annotated screenshots.

For six months following late May 2007, the Visual Guide feature was on hiatus. It restarted on November 19 of that year and then soon after ceased for a second time. It remains on hiatus again indefinitely.

New continuityEdit

Episode IV: A New HopeEdit

New individual namesEdit

• Mulchive Wermis (First identified as Mulchive) (Chapter 3)
• Cariso Smadis (Chapter 3)
• Ukchet (Chapter 7)
• Enjikket (Chapter 7)
• Yeelhoy (Chapter 7)
• Ezjenk (Chapter 7)
• Pachwenko (Chapter 8)
• 6Y-2KPR (Chapter 8)
• WED-15-ST68 (Chapter 8)
• Zubwen (Chapter 8)

New droid model namesEdit

• Siep-Irol Omni-directional sensor globe (Chapter 8)

New location namesEdit

• Audessian Expanse (Chapter 4)
• Xulropic Badlands (Chapter 4)
• Hubba Heights (Chapter 6)
• Jawa Heights (Chapter 8)

New technology namesEdit

• Catastrophic release brace (Chapter 3)
• Borstel "Shocklock" ranging laser (Chapter 4)
• VXI-2c electrotelescope (Chapter 4)
• Riddle Eight spike (Chapter 5)
• Myriad Visual System Mk. 2 (Chapter 6)
• Tungsten (Chapter 7)
• TD1.4 electrobinoculars (Chapter 7)
• 4-DOF robot arm (Chapter 8)
• Dew condensor jug (Chapter 8)
• MB450 macrobinoculars (Chapter 8)
• BoSS Coldbox (Chapter 8)
• Droid "owner" device (Chapter 8)

New organization namesEdit

• Lydree (Chapter 8)

New conceptsEdit

• Bothan Thermal Unit (BTU) (Chapter 6)
• Standard in degrees (Chapter 6)
• Kuba (Chapter 7)

External linksEdit

•  Episode IV Visual Guides on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
• Facebook: The Visual Guides must return to Starwars.com.