The World's Largest Star Wars Memorabilia Collection at Rancho Obi-Wan 

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I recently saw the vinyl caped Jawa figure at a collector's store in Ft. Worth, Texas. It wasn't $2,000. It was $20,000 ! ! ! And there was someone in the process of purchasing it! That is 100% the truth!

, Paul Rice

EpictheEpicest Username ftw

He was the head of fan relations at Lucasfilm for many years too before he retired

He is very wise to say that awesome he won me over immediately when he said that

And how much money you have to spend. Lets not beat around the bush here.

Yeah and the norm just overlooks that and goes “ bUt YoU dO oWn AlOt”

No... This is just a museum. Order 66 toys in Texas is heaven.

yes and i love it

Woooow

Hopefully

I've now been there, This is truly Heaven

me too me too NIRVANA has been found lol

+Trevor Lee Brown More like NERDvana! lol.

+Admiral Ackbar Jk. I love Star Wars!

Nerd'vana is the perfect term lol.😂

I will be the shemale of the family

Jason Harshman Supposedly he didn't retire, George Lucas fired him because he was angry that a movie used piece that he had gifted to Steve to "keep," Steve traded for something of equal value. That angered George because he felt betrayed by that and let him go over it. You might say that sounds crazy but I guess George Lucas can get a little wierd about that kinda shit.That's the rumor from inside sources anyway.

Vfgbnfgh Vfvvhfcbh that is a hurtful thing to do and does sound like Lucas looked at him like a friend but this guy is clearly only in it for the fame and bragging rights

Good question. I think he may have staff that does it for him. I heard in another video he has people that work for him there

It's called a cleaning lady...

Probably has a really good air handling system with dust filters in those rooms.

Aletz Lessorio I like never clean my figures.

universalmanchild do you think he goes George costanza and has sex with her on the desk? (Not quite the same I know, since it’s not like he would be at work if he did that, the same way George was)

same

Fuck Disneys star Wars land new trilogy crap, I'm also going to Rancho Obi Wan

#RanchoObiWan

Same here...fuck disney...this SW museum is worth it!

There's not a pack of Newports anywhere on this planet!

It was out way before family guy they used him in the 80s it's Mr t 😂

Ha, no freakin' way. Hello to Jerry from the past. Just watching a random video on Adam Savages' channel, and here you are. Or rather, there you were, 3 years ago. Hope you're enjoying Maker Faire 2017.

Barnacules Nerdgasm kinda

Waaaait... is that THE Barnacules from THE Nerdgasm?!? Hey!!

I love your vids

Barnacules Nerdgasm I love your you tube chanall

5 years later, I hope he is okay and still collecting star wars memorabilia.

Jacob Hiatt search “rancho Obi wan” he’s in a few videos recently released. Bit older but still alive as far as I know.

@@thepaultato3243 that's great news

Moai dude hahaha what in the fucking fuck. I'm dead

The early bird special! I'll leave now!

Lol

Shadow.assassin4171 XD

my parents says star wars is a fairy tail,the worst one!

Tr8-Tr There wrong.

Because youre poor.

@@JosephHood83 exactly my words

Gotta collect them all! Star-r Wars!

Billy Cheung you can tell he gets a thrill out of people's reactions to seeing it

another boba :3

Hey!

Hahaha

Was that a star wars bong or something?

Specialized Wookie I was thinking he wasn't really into it.

More like he resents what he isn’t or has

He is crap...

he wasn't meaning to, he was in complete awe and didnt know how to process it, he met his own personal jesus right there, or his own Santa CLaus or whatever!, he must have busted five nuts just walking around that place guys! give him a break!

He makes all the episodes of Tested that he's in super awkward. Nothing against the guy, but the show works much better when it just focuses on Adam who has that natural charisma.

Ikr

His good friend stole from him earlier this year In June 2017 Sansweet said that he was a victim of theft and that over 100 items from his collection have been stolen, “The majority of them vintage U.S. and foreign carded action figures, many of them rare and important pieces.” Reportedly, several of those pieces have already been “resold or professionally appraised for a total of more than $200,000.” According to Sansweet, a man named Carl Edward Cunningham, whom Sansweet refers to as “a good and trusted friend,” surrendered to police at the end of March 2017 but is currently out on bail pending additional hearings

I can guess what it is that you won’t be able to steal. He gave his buttholes’ virginity away DECADES ago!! I’ll bet he’s got a Luke Skywalker action figure by Kenner Toys out of its box right now. The worst part of it is that the poor little Luke Skywalker action figure is jammed so deep into the guys bowels that all that’s left hanging out is Luke’s little plastic toy feet. I found him more than a little bit - kinda creepy.

@@MichaelJohnson-by1tv I'm not sure what you're judging him so harshly for. He just seems to me like a passionate collector.

Michael Johnson all your talk about rectal entry is creepy my guy.

Abe Froman if she doesnt....why get married? ...I kid...use a Jedi mind trick on her...she will come around...lol

Abe Froman I'm a huge Star Wars fan and I'm a girl. If she doesn't go for it, gimme a call. I live in NorCal so it's easy to swing by and pick me up on the way to Rancho ObiWan, heh. Also I can tell you stories about Skywalker Ranch, had a temp job there in 2016, thanks to a friend who works there. I know what George's downstairs bathroom looks like!

TheJenSolo i dont know you but im in love.

Dump her.

TheJenSolo why would you be so stoked to see rancho Obi-Wan if you had a job at skywalker frizzeaking ranch!!!?

They have so much money to hire fantastic movie producers/directors who know Star Wars but instead waste it.

It's a ranch aka chicken coop that he bought and it's located near Lucasfilm where he worked

What one helmet would you choose,?

In Star Wars

no in the collection

Oh cool

if only... oh boy ..

Still adjusted for inflation...pretty much you would get the same price

Actually one of his good friends stole tons of stuff earlier this year. "In June 2017 Sansweet said that he was a victim of theft and that over 100 items from his collection have been stolen, “The majority of them vintage U.S. and foreign carded action figures, many of them rare and important pieces.” Reportedly, several of those pieces have already been “resold or professionally appraised for a total of more than $200,000.” According to Sansweet, a man named Carl Edward Cunningham, whom Sansweet refers to as “a good and trusted friend,” surrendered to police at the end of March 2017 but is currently out on bail pending additional hearings"

"...We're gonna need a bigger truck..."

I want it all

+Same Sunday why not just become his neboure and visit him every day? XD

Strangely, there was a robbery there about two years ago...

i was thinking he broke something expensive or irreplaceable while filming and had to pay for it.

He might have insecurity issues.

He obviously wasn't a child in 1977 when Star Wars came out. He doesn't get it. He shouldn't have been the one conducting the interview.

+brantdanger you don';t have to be born in 77 to be engrossed with all things Star Wars. My apartment is a scaled down version of this place for example. What you need to be is not just passionate and know how to edit and upload a video, but have presentation and speaking skills, which this person probably didn't when being swamped with so much merch. I have only been overwhelmed with Star Wars once in my lifetime and that was at Celebration last year for obvious reasons.

Simon Worley have you noticed that everyone who walks in stands back breathes then gose oh my god

Slimmy_007 that would be a pretty fair thought to have were it not for the idea that this space certainly takes *a lot* of money to operate. you have to have it pretty climate and humidity controlled to preserve some of these aging objects. in the hands of the general public we could guarantee most of these objects would get destroyed or lost. you also get a personalized tour by him personally. you might think that the $60 ticket price, minimum of two tickets, is pretty steep, and on the surface that also seems like a fair thought. but, if he had a couple of hundred people filtering through every day then that cost would be more reasonable. even your local museums have either an admission charge and/or donation jar. well, the public pays for a lot of these museums through taxes, i would imagine, and many of the items inside are 'on loan' from private owners. the idea is we're paying for museums whether we visit them or not, then an admission on top of that when we do go. at least with a private museum it costs the public nothing, lol. i'm glad someone out there has the means and wherewithal to preserve this stuff, but i doubt he's a rich man. much like forry ackerman's museum, it's good that someone cares enough to donate so much time, money and love to it so that we can be amazed yet again by this franchise. to me, sounds like a bargain, especially to someone like me who just lost his best friend since 3rd grade earlier this week and we grew up playing with this stuff (we're both 45) and would probably stifle tears memories of this old plastic would bring back. a bargain, indeed.... so, i have no qualms paying a couple of bucks so guys like me, someone with memories attached to these things, can have a comprehensive and pristine collection to gawk at and remember our childhoods....

Yeah I guess so if he has some items that are the only ones in existence then I couldn't think of anyone better to trust with their safekeeping I suppose to me it just depends on whether this is at his house or in a separate building and whether he is the only one that works there. Because then it would just feel like seeing someone's personal Collection more than something for the public

Slimmy_007 true, and i get what you're saying. it would be like if i had an extensive collection of something and wanted to create a tax dodge to view my common everyday bullshit stored in my basement, lol. having never been there, i would only guess that this museum is on his property. it's clearly a pretty extensive building that he's adding onto. he also has an assistant, according to the website. sansweet himself had worked at ILM. in my silly wild dreams i hope to someday have a video arcade museum that just goes on and on. just need the money. lots and lots of money. lol. but, i would set it up as a 503(c) (and someone correct me if my memory on that number is wrong, been awhile since having to need to know that) despite it being privately owned and essentially serving my own personal weirdness for such trivial things. the difference between forry, who i think just took donations and was owner and curator with no other help, is that his museum was basically a big house, as i recall, and not really made for display and preservation. while he had an amazing collection, there didn't seem to be much order to it (or dusting!). i get rancho obi-wan and sansweet's way of setting it up and why, and i get why someone would view it otherwise. but, maintenance and utilities would be astronomical, so if *we* want these things collected and preserved, which i do, i wouldn't mind ponying up the dough to gain entrance. is it important to keep this stuff in a museum? from a pop culture perspective, absolutely, and it's no different than any other museum based on pop culture iconography. the corvette museum or coke museum (if there is one) would be no different, and i think just by watching this one video that it's clear sansweet's collection should satisfy anyone's definition of 'museum.'

Sounds cool go for it I think in the long run it's probably a good cause but I just don't think he presents it in the best way.

Slimmy_007 thanks. :) it's a dream based on me being stupid rich one day (complete with a restoration shop, of course) ~ and after doing the charitable things i would like to do. anyway, i was hoping to see more things behind cases and things. we're always used to seeing objects behind glass and roped off, usually with individual lighting and just professionally done all the way around. i went to the smithsonian just to see the 'star wars' exhibit back in, oh, 1997?, which was amazing. (i'm in ohio, so it was a cross-country trek, but not around the corner, either, lol.) *that's* how most of us, i'd say, think of museums. honestly, though, i've been to far many more museums of, shall we say, more modest means. i'm sure they would all love to have the huge spaces, custom lighting, professionally built cases with individual climate controls, conservationists on staff, the whole bit. oftentimes a 'normal' museum is a cluttered mess, lol, with just whatever old shit they could find nailed to the wall looking more like a pawn shop than a museum. kind of an aside (again), the historical society of the town i'm in bought the house i lived in when i was a kid ~ while we were living there! we were the last people to occupy the joint as a residence. pretty cool (at least to me), but as a 'musuem' of our town's history they are definitely pretty skimpy when it comes to artefacts! sansweet appears to have *too* much to display optimally, and i noticed at the very beginning of the video the sturdy and functional, yet hardly pretty, shelving. if you mean by presenting his *intentions* the best way, maybe you're right. his website is more informative, and were it not for these vids i'd never have know about rancho obi-wan, but they are pretty light on what he and his museum does charity-wise in these vids from what i've seen.

Star Wars, Doctor Who, Pokemon, Batman, the Simpsons - individual rooms dedicated for each collection. A dream, if only I had that kind of money. Which I don't.

Stalin Mario No. You are lame.