Review: What can a 'Star Wars' fan expect at the Lucas Museum? Vehicles, costumes and maybe some inspiration

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Set us as preferred A young man from Tatooine sets out to find his malfunctioning droid and ends up saving the galaxy.A young man from Modesto heads to USC during the death throes of the studio system and ends up altering the course of Hollywood.

“I set the goal of getting through film school,” George Lucas told an interviewer in 1999.“I didn’t know where I was going to go after that.”You’re aware that the horizon is just the start of the adventure.

You’re a “Star Wars” fan.What you want to know is which “Star Wars” artifacts are in the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (opening Sept.

22) and whether racing straight there solely for them is worth the trek.Help you, I will.Sorry, Yoda.

For now, the green sage is merely a bronze statue on the lawn, posed to ignore the grinning Grogu behind him.(Otherwise, don’t even ask about the Disney sequels.)Lucas could probably fill an entire museum with what he’s stored from his six “Star Wars” features, but he’s restrained himself to one gallery and one theme: vehicles.

In the future, this gallery (merely one of 33) may rotate out its exhibit for work devoted to, say, matte paintings or costumes.Yet, as Lucas is a legendary lug nut, these hover cars and spaceships whisk you full speed into his creative process.Original production art by Ralph McQuarrie and Doug Chiang guides visitors into the space, which gives equal treatment to the original trilogy and the three prequels.

Each illustration features something with a motor or an alien creature that qualifies as transport.A TIE fighter hovers outside Alderaan‘s Imperial City.

A yawning sandcrawler unloads cargo at a Jawa swap meet.A flying Aiwha carries a rider through the sky.

At a glance, these framed works blend into the rest of the art at the museum, which may be the point.By discarding artistic hie...