Stevens and Wertz are no strangers to fantasy worlds. The blank wall is where Wertz has caught up to the latest figures available to the public. It started with a gift Vic Wertz poses with some of the many thousands of Star Wars action figures and Lego sets in the collection he has amassed with his wife Lisa Stevens.

A movie theater fit for the Death Star.

A full-size replica of the cantina from the first movie.

Movie props from Yoda masks to lightsabers to blown-apart X-Wing fighters.

Nearly all the arcade games tied to the franchise.

Blueprints for the first Star Wars toys ever made.

Three rare and sought-after Boba Fett rocket-launching action figures.

“And when we first got together in the early 1990s, it was one of the things that we found we had in common.”įrom the tiniest toys to the biggest installations, the collection now includes: “When Star Wars came out, it just blew me away,” Stevens said. Another interesting bit of trivia about Frank is that he was the stunt skier for John Cusack's character in the movie BETTER OFF DEAD.Forty-six years later, as we on Earth mark another May the 4th (be with you), Stevens and Wertz celebrate a collection that has grown to otherworldly proportions, consuming a fair amount of their daily lives and much of their living space. Currently, Frank has gone underground somewhere in Los Angeles, California, to avoid the impassioned vigilantes at literary odds with his radical revelations while he finishes work on Seeing Redd, book two of The Looking Glass Wars trilogy.Ī multi-talented, multi-faceted individual, Frank Beddor is a former World champion in freestyle skiing and a Hollywood film producer whose credits include THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.

Includes bonus track, Looking glass, written and performed by the rock group Hypnogaja-Container.ħ sound discs (8 hr., 41 min.) : digital 4 3/4 in.įrank Beddor spent years tracking Alyss and the fractured truth of Wonderland's parallel existence before writing one word of his trilogy. When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.

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