LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer, the Force will be strong with Julien’s Auctions and TCM in collaboration with Comic-Con Museum during Comic-Con International® weekend, bringing the phenomenon of pop culture auctions directly to fans and collectors visiting the world-famous convention. The centerpiece will be a live and online Star Wars auction featuring coveted props, production materials and memorabilia. The items will go up for bidding Sunday, July 27th in front of a live audience at the Museum. Part of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Comic-Con Museum.

This monumental collection has been assembled by some of the franchise’s foremost Star Wars memorabilia collectors: 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).

This super group of Star Wars collectors has come together with the intention of creating The Saga Museum® of Star Wars Memorabilia to honor the enduring legacy of the franchise and to inspire interest in science, technology, robotics, engineering, art and mathematics through the museum’s exhibitions and programming. Partial proceeds of the auction will help lay the cornerstone of the future Saga Museum’s permanent home for their collections. Fans will get to see the auction items up close at an exclusive two-week exhibition, ECHOES from the GALAXY, opening Monday, July 14 at Comic-Con Museum at Balboa Park in San Diego and leading up to the auction on Sunday, July 27.

“We’re truly excited to team up with some awesome partners, raise funds for our planned Saga Museum, and let other fans and collectors share in the fun of owning these items, many from our personal collections,” said Steve Sansweet, who, until he retired in 2011, was head of fan relations for Lucasfilm for 15 years.

Among the hundreds of items up for bidding (with estimates):

• An original Stormtrooper helmet screen-used in Star Wars: A New Hope that was exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s 2024 exhibition “Defending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI” ($200,000-$300,000). This helmet is believed to be featured in scenes on Tatooine as a "Sandtrooper" helmet and may have been worn by the third Stormtrooper guard from the left, escorting Princess Leia to be confronted by the ominous Darth Vader.

• An original stunt lightsaber prop as used by Ewan McGregor as "Obi-Wan Kenobi" in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ($35,000 - $55,000). Kenobi used this type of stunt lightsaber prop while battling alongside Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), against Darth Maul (Ray Park) at Theed Palace on the planet Naboo and during various fight scenes against battle droids, during attempted negotiations with the Trade Federation, and while protecting Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman).

• The iconic original lightsaber hilt prop used by Ray Park as "Darth Maul" in the film Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace ($40,000 - $60,000) that dazzled Star Wars fans as the first double-bladed lightsaber in the franchise’s canon.

• A screen-matched Resistance pilot helmet “Red Four” from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a Lucasfilm COA ($30,000 - $50,000).

• An original prop hand worn by Anthony Daniels as C-3PO in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ($30,000 - $35,000).

• Six prototype heads for an uproduced Yoda toy by Kenner in 1981 for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ($35,000 - $40,000).

• An original Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) production-made lightsaber, cast from the molds of a touring lightsaber, from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ($10,000 - $15,000).

• An original Signature Edition studio scale Master Replicas Millennium Falcon model, released in 2006, that features a hand-signed and numbered plaque from Harrison Ford ($8,000 - $10,000), based on the thirty-two-inch model Falcon that lives in the Lucasfilm Archives.

• A complete original promotional Stormtrooper costume ensemble made by Industrial Light & Magic in 1995; original production-used Death Star surface pieces including a hand-painted two-sided cardboard “tower”; a Bob Mackie-designed hot pink screen-used costume from the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special; some 40 AFA high-graded “REVENGE of the Jedi” Kenner card back proofs for 3.75-inch scale action figures; and more.

“Julien’s and TCM are excited to celebrate Star Wars fans, collectors and insiders during our two-week event at Comic-Con Museum that spotlights the vision of the franchise’s top collectors and their commitment to carry forth the Star Wars’ legacy into the next millennium,” said Catherine Williamson, Managing Director of Entertainment, Julien’s Auctions. “From iconic movie props and concept art to crew items, rare prototypes, vintage toys, and high-end international memorabilia from across the entire series, prepare to be blown away and inspired by this ultimate legacy collection that offers a uniquely curated glimpse into the cultural significance and wonder of the Star Wars Universe.”