If you want to know what lifelong dedication looks like, head north of San Francisco to a quiet ranch that hums with the energy of another galaxy. Rancho Obi-Wan is Steve Sansweet’s sprawling museum, a nonprofit home to more Star Wars artifacts than anywhere else on Earth. “Rancho Obi-Wan is the repository for the world’s largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia,” he says in our Collectors walkthrough, his voice equal parts curator and kid-in-a-toy-store. The place is part museum and part time capsule of more than 400,000 pieces deep into the universe George Lucas built, and the fandom that never let it fade.

The rooms spill over with history which includes bootleg toys, Japanese snacks from 1978 “still sealed in the cup,” and even a Marc Eckō Chewbacca jacket Sansweet admits he’s “nev

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