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Found this over on Fox News while using Stumbleupon and thought I'd post it over here...
Fox News: Star Wars Superfan Rebuilds Luke Skywalker's Crumbling Tatooine Home
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Fox News: Star Wars Superfan Rebuilds Luke Skywalker's Crumbling Tatooine Home
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It was in a galaxy far, far away … otherwise known as Tunisia.
The iconic homestead on Tatooine of future Jedi knight Luke Skywalker -- where his loyal aunt and uncle hid him from the prying eyes of the empire -- was actually filmed by George Lucas and Co. in the deserts of Tunisia. But the spot where Luke dreamed of epic Tie Fighter battles and zipping around the galaxy was crumbling -- until Terry Cooper came along.
"It’s the most iconic scene of all six Star Wars movies,” 42-year-old Welsh superfan Cooper told “Wales Tonight,” a program on TV station iTV. “And knowing that that place does exist, in a real place on Earth, that’s free to go and see … it’s something that we thought it would be a shame if this ended up as just a faceless ditch in the desert one day.”