{"id":65266,"date":"2025-07-14T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:07:12","slug":"star-wars-goes-on-display-at-comic-con-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65266\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars goes on display at Comic-Con Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hp4.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48815\"  \/><\/a>Princess Leia of the 501st Legion\u2019s San Diego Squad keeps a brave face on day Carrie Fisher, the original \u201cStar Wars\u201d princess, died in Los Angeles. (File photo by Ken Stone)<\/p>\n<p>The Force will be strong at the <a href=\"https:\/\/balboapark.org\/arts-culture\/comic-con-museum-balboa-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Comic-Con Museum<\/a> on Monday, as a Star Wars memorabilia exhibit will open for a brief period before going up for auction.<\/p>\n<p>Julien\u2019s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies are partnering on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/museum\/event\/echoes-from-the-galaxy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECHOES from the GALAXY<\/a>\u201d exhibit, which will run for two weeks before the live and online auction commences Sunday, July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> \u201cA New Hope\u201d screen-used Stormtrooper helmet exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\u2019s 2024 exhibition \u201cDefending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI,\u201d and \u201cbelieved to be featured in scenes on Tatooine as a \u201cSandtrooper\u201d helmet, contact says;<\/li>\n<li>Original production-used Death Star surface pieces including a hand- painted two-sided cardboard \u201ctower\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cStar Wars: The Phantom Menace\u201d lightsaber props from Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson and Ray Park (\u201cObi-Wan Kenobi,\u201d \u201cQui-Gon Jinn,\u201d and \u201cDarth Maul,\u201d respectively); and<\/li>\n<li>Mark Hamill\u2019s (\u201cLuke Skywalker\u201d) \u201cReturn of the Jedi\u201d production-made lightsaber.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The museum is in <a href=\"https:\/\/balboapark.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balboa Park<\/a>, at 2131 Pan American Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The collection has been assembled by some of a galaxy far, far away\u2019s biggest fans: Steve Sansweet (author, chairman and founder of Rancho-Obi-Wan, the Guinness World Record holder for largest Star Wars memorabilia collection), Gus Lopez (founder of the Bobacabana), Duncan Jenkins (founder of the Sithsonian) and Lisa Stevens and Vic Wertz (founders of the Imperial Archives).<\/p>\n<p>Julien\u2019s and TCM held a similar event last year, timed to coincide with San Diego Comic-Con. In 2024, the organizations compiled props and costumes \u201cHarry Potter\u201d and the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Comics franchises.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Comic-Con Museum is open Thursdays through Tuesdays (closed Wednesdays) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Leia of the 501st Legion\u2019s San Diego Squad keeps a brave face on day Carrie Fisher, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,38545,8159,1582,276,3549,7302,46449,7264,14398,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-65266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-auction","10":"tag-balboa-park","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-comic-con","15":"tag-san-diego-comic-con-museum","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-star-wars","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114852452341726614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}