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 Post subject: Anyone ever visit Star Wars filming locations?
PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:54 am 
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Or more specifically, anyone ever visit the sites in Tunisia?

I'll be staying in Italy for almost all of August and have thought about taking a trip down to Tunisia for a few days since it's so close. I actually know someone who lives in Tunis (old Arabic professor) who I can stay with.

But! How the heck can I get to the Lars house? I know exactly where it is, but what is the best way to actually get there? There's an airport in the nearby town Tozeur, yet I'm not sure if it's possible to fly into the airport since I can't find a single flight at any time. It's either that, or an extremely long drive across the desert from Tunis.

Anyway, would love to hear if anyone here has ever visited it, or if anyone else would ever visit it in the future. :cheers

Figured you guys would be the type of crazy fans who'd actually fly all the way out to the middle of a desert to see a rotting piece of fiberglass. :blah

Also, just for the heck of it, the Lars igloo from Google Earth...

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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:00 am 
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I live a few miles from the studios so i pass locations all the time, but i cant help you with the lars homestead sorry.

friends have been there and they said they went on a tour but dont know where from.

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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:11 am 
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gh05ty wrote:
I live a few miles from the studios so i pass locations all the time, but i cant help you with the lars homestead sorry.

friends have been there and they said they went on a tour but dont know where from.


Yeah, I've seen that there are tours offered from either Tozeur or Nefta, but it's actually getting to either of these towns in a semi-convenient way that's holding me back. They both seem to be kind of in the middle of nowhere.

Cool that you live close to the studios. :cheers


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Mark Dermul has a website dedicated to trips to Tunisia and has also written a book

www.markdermul.be/tatooine


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This is Mark Dermul's website on travels to Jerba & Tunisia
to help you locate the movie locations from the Star Wars Saga

This new and improved website bundles all the information from the previous sites and enables you to find all the info you need to undertake an expedition on your own (or with friends) and locate all the sites used by Lucasfilm Ltd to create the desert world of Tatooine for the Star Wars Saga.

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Used to live in the same town as Brian too, HH right brian ?........ :thumbsup

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vaderman wrote:
Mark Dermul has a website dedicated to trips to Tunisia and has also written a book

http://www.markdermul.be/tatooine


Excellent! Great site! Definitely helps! Looks like they drove to all the different places. :eek


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DF make sure you look at the US foreign office site below before going there. There have been issues of kidnapping etc in recent times.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1045.html

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JoeR wrote:
DF make sure you look at the US foreign office site below before going there. There have been issues of kidnapping etc in recent times.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1045.html

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Honestly, I'm not too worried. Problems definitely exist over there, but the chances of actually running into trouble are still extremely low. Plus, if I stick with my friend from Tunis, I think I'll be alright.

Most likely, I'll be going to Algeria for about a week next year as part of this Jewish Christian Muslim relations organization at a local university here, which is being funded in part by the Algerian government (long story). At least from what I've been learning about Algeria, Tunisia should be no problem at all. Most issues only occur at political hotspots or government facilities.


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Hope you have a great time. Didn't mean to sound like a negative nancy! :lol

If you fancy bagging up a few vials of sand, I would happily trade some treats or drop you some dollars... :thumbsup

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JoeR wrote:
If you fancy bagging up a few vials of sand, I would happily trade some treats or drop you some dollars... :thumbsup

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Great idea! If I end up making this trip happen, I'll definitely have to bring some extra containers along. :thumbsup


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Used to live in the same town as Brian too, HH right brian ?........ :thumbsup


Yes used to live near Leavesden Studios but now very near Pinewood Studios :wink:

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Surely this should be from Google Tatooine :blah :toothy :cheers

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Or more specifically, anyone ever visit the sites in Tunisia?

Also, just for the heck of it, the Lars igloo from Google Earth...

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gh05ty wrote:
Used to live in the same town as Brian too, HH right brian ?........ :thumbsup


Yes used to live near Leavesden Studios but now very near Pinewood Studios :wink:

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Ahhh youre west of me now... for a while anyway.. till i up sticks in a few months and move to the deep south west, down to pasty country :lol

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Surely this should be from Google Tatooine :blah :toothy :cheers


True! :lol :blah


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 Post subject: Re: Anyone ever visit Star Wars filming locations?
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Well, unfortunately, I couldn't make it to Tunisia this year. Airfare was way too expensive. But I did get to spend almost a month in Italy, which included a few days in Venice. Naturally, I had to check out a few movie locations from Indiana Jones and James Bond Casino Royale. It was a fun hunt finding these places!


San Barnaba from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. I have no idea how they had him climb out of the "sewer". I looked for a possible hole in the ground, but there was nothing.

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And a bridge Indy walked along.

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Casino Royale location where Bond spots Vesper with the suitcase. The bank where he peeks in to look for her was next to this spot as well. It wasn't a bank anymore, but a glass art museum. The same doors were still there though, so of course I had to lean into the place just like him.

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This is the spot where Bond was lamenting the death of Vesper on his boat at the end of the movie. "The bitch is dead."

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The orange building on the right is the location of the sinking building in the movie, and I'm standing in the area where all the people were standing up in shock as it was falling. :eek

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There were a few other spots I found too, but I don't want to put the thread into picture overload since they were minor anyway. Fun little adventure looking for these places. :cheers


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