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A photo showcase of items from the Rancho Obi-Wan collection.
Rancho Obi-Wan has 60,000+ photographs taken over the years with new photos added every day. Many of these photos are of items in the Guinness World Record collection. Many of the items have stories attached. Some items are iconic and some are weird yet wonderful. Some are common, others rare and many are from countries other than the United States. All of them are imbued with Star Wars goodness.
There are over 7,000 Star Wars books listed on Amazon.com. The Rancho Obi-Wan library has yet to be cataloged. How many books do you think we have? We know we have books from at least 36 countries in at least 30 languages, including braille. Not including comic books!
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We recently cleaned off Steve's desk at Rancho Obi-Wan. Check out some of the items that we found there.
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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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In early 2007 Abrams approached Lucasfilm for Steve to write a "365 days of collectibles" type book. Using the photos taken by Alex Ivanov as a foundation talks began on how the book would look. Eventually the project was to mimic the book Rolling Stone 1,000 Covers: A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture.
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Once upon a time, in mid-2006, DK Books approached Steve to write a Star Wars collectibles book for them. They envisioned a book with a photo of nearly everything in the collection (!!) with a price-guide format. They hired Alex Ivanov, former photographer for Industrial Light & Magic, for a total of 35 days expecting him to be able to photograph a majority of the collection during that time. It was not meant to be.
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The Star Wars collector community knows no bounds. People collect everything from action figures to autographs, art prints to coins, but my favorite of all the collecting genre is patches. If you weren’t a patch collector before reading this, I hope that by the time you’re through you might want to snag your first. After all, patch traders are nothing without people to trade with. So what is it about patches? Well, it's not just one thing, it's many.
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Unveiling Finn’s helmet—from the most authentic line of prop replicas ever made. Rancho Obi-Wan is proud to take part in the unveiling of a new line that comes as close to screen-used props as possible. Thanks to Lucasfilm, we’re excited to add to our collection this incredible FN-2187 Stormtrooper helmet with bloody handprint, part of the Star Wars Collectibles: Ultimate Studio Edition line. It’s as close to a screen-used prop as you can buy.
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I have to admit that at first I was dubious. I’ve been collecting Topps STAR WARS™ cards since the first set started showing up with slabs of gum in 1977. My love of cards goes back even further to collecting baseball and non-sports card when I was growing up. But buying and collecting digital STAR WARS cards from Topps?
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By Jamie Greene
This is my Star Wars blog. You can read along with me in your book. You’ll know it is time to turn the page when you hear R2-D2 beep like this.
Let’s begin now.
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By Stephane Faucourt
I was 5 years old in 1977, a bit too young (especially at that time) to see Star Wars in theaters – but like many 5-year-old boys, I was instantly hooked. When the toys hit the market I became the luckiest kid on earth when my parents bought me the complete set of 12 four-inch-tall action figures at the nearby superstore. Among these original figures, Chewbacca was my favorite – not because I had a preference for his role in the movie, but for the toy itself.
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