Home to the world's largest Star Wars collection
Rancho Obi-Wan is just that, a "Rancho." It's not big enough to be considered a "Ranch," but it's a charming little space just outside of Petaluma, Calif. We do, however, back up to larger fields and as such we have all kinds of wild animal visitors like deer, skunks, foxes, coyotes, weasels, badgers, and... turkeys.
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The first C2E2—the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo—took place April 16 to 18, 2010 at Chicago’s main convention center, McCormick Place. Steve Sansweet was there representing Lucasfilm and gave a presentation on what was up at the company, including the continuing adventures of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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The process of gathering data for Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection was both tedious and long. Writing the book had it's own challenges with unique fixes.
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Steve talks about having the "collector gene" and what he collected growing up in 1950's Philadelpha: comic books, Life magazines, swizzle sticks, matchbook covers, ice cream photos, bread cards, model kits, newspaper clippings and finally, space toys!
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In 2008, still many years before the thought of forming a nonprofit museum, Steve was giving tours to school kids on a regular basis. It's always given Steve great joy to share the items from his collection. Seeing the emotion on people's faces or hearing their gasps as the door opens to the museum is life-affirming.
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In February 2006 I arrived at Rancho Obi-Wan with my computer, a trunk full of clothes and my cat Claire. It was my intention to stay for 6 months, do a complete catalog, and return home to Texas. That was now 14 years ago. The catalog is no anywhere done, but looking back, I can see the museum is now a lot cleaner.
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