Rancho Obi-Wan is a publicly supported, nonprofit museum in Petaluma, California that houses the world’s largest Star Wars memorabilia collection, as certified by Guinness World Records in 2014.
Our mission is to serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of Star Wars memorabilia and artifacts, using the collection to provide meaningful educational, aesthetic, intellectual and cultural experiences for a wide array of audiences and to carry out other charitable and educational activities associated with this goal.
The Story of the R1-G4 Hand-Crafted Prototype Figure
This is the story of the R1-G4 hand-crafted, prototype figure created in late 1977, because Kenner was working on expanding their new toy line from 12 Star Wars action figure to 20. And, they were looking primarily at two categories: cantina aliens and droids. One Kenner designer hand-crafted a prototype figure intending to depict a droid …
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