Ultimate Star Wars Fanboy's Collection

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:59 pm

Ultimate Star Wars Fanboy Stashes a Galaxy of Cool Collectibles

Link to WIRED slide show

Meet Steve Sansweet, the ultimate fanboy. Thirty-some years ago, he started collecting all things Star Wars while working as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Now he has a 5,000-square-foot, climate-controlled barn in Northern California packed with goodies from the iconic space saga. His stockpile is rivaled only by the personal stash of George Lucas himself.

Trolling eBay, scoping out the goods at collector's fairs, poring over magazine ads and hounding companies for their marketing demos has helped him amass a collection estimated to contain about 100,000 individual pieces. But better still? He now has a fanboy's dream job: He's working at Skywalker Ranch as Lucas' professional, paid fan.

Post by **complacent** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:01 pm

Holy effing NERD!!!

some of it was kinda cool...

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:04 pm

This looks fun...for Ze Germans, Ja?!

Libra Monkee · Post by **Libra Monkee** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:11 pm

This is nice but I don't see the Star Wars alarm clock.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:44 pm

Libra Monkee wrote:This is nice but I don't see the Star Wars alarm clock.

I'm pretty sure we didn't get to see much of anything compaired to the size of the collection. the guy has an assistant to keep everything catalogued!

Libra Monkee · Post by **Libra Monkee** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:43 pm

I know, I was being facetious.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:57 pm

what did you call me?