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Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Ep 004 : Steve Sansweet - CLASSIC CLIP – Star Wars Collector, Author, President And CEO Of Rancho Obi-Wan - CLASSIC CLIP

Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Steele Saunders

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5524 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Steve Sansweet is the Guinness Book Of World Records holder for the world's largest Star Wars collection, which is housed in his Ranco Obi Wan measuem in Northern Califronia. His first of many Star Wars books "Star Wars: From Concept to Screen to Collectible" book blew my mind in the mid 90's opening up a world of Star Wars information to a pre-internet information starved Star Wars fan.

We talk establishing Rancho Obi Wan, hanging with George Lucas & being blamed for everyone's collections!

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash Steel Wars.

0:20.4

Are you shocked at how your life has, from such a small thing, seeing this film has expanded into a career and a passion?

0:29.8

You know, it was a step-by-step kind of thing and a gradual thing but you know when I look back yeah sure it's

0:39.3

very surprising I expected to end my career to the Wall Street Journal and and I had it you

0:45.6

know I had I had the best job in the world and then I went to Lucasfilm and I had the best job in the

0:50.5

world there so having a second career never really occurred to me, but it's been the

0:59.6

best experience I can imagine. How you pottering away in retirement is pretty good as well.

1:04.2

Yeah, retirement is a strange word. It means you're working harder and making less.

1:12.9

When I'm thoroughly enjoying not going into the office every day,

1:16.8

I've been working for six solid months on a new action figure book,

1:20.0

which is finally finished and will be out later this year.

1:24.6

The ultimate action figure collection, every darn figure from 1978

1:30.9

to us as late as we could get in 2012.

1:34.7

And then we've been ramping up Rancho Obiwana as a non-profit since last November,

1:42.0

which gives us the opportunity to do tours for members.

1:45.5

There are various levels of membership.

1:48.3

And we're actually going to have a Rancho Obi-Wan experience at Celebration 6.

1:55.0

So we'll be able to show a lot of fans who have heard about it,

1:59.6

what it is. Hopefully get them to join and

2:03.2

eventually visit.

2:05.3

Like for us visiting there was a day we'll never forget. We loved it.

2:10.7

It's weird that collecting, it seems quite materialistic, but when we went there, it was,

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