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<\/p>\nProving that tourism boosters will find a way to appeal to just about any<\/i> niche or hobby group, here’s a poster promoting Tunisia, the North African desert country that, as any good fanboy or ‘girl should know, was the real-world stand-in for the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars<\/i> films (not to mention several key scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>):<\/p>\n
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According to this<\/a>, these posters were being distributed at the Star Wars<\/i> Celebration Europe convention last week. I’d love to have one for the Archives, and I wouldn’t mind watching a sunset from the Hotel Sidi Driss<\/a>, either. Guess those boosters know what they’re doing after all…<\/p>\n [Update: Actually, a little bit of googling has turned up some trivia I didn’t know, as shocking as that seems. The “double-sunset scene” in which Luke stands on the rim of the pit he and the Larses called home was actually shot at a place called Chott el Jerid<\/a>, some distance away from the hotel that served as the interior locations of the Lars homestead.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Proving that tourism boosters will find a way to appeal to just about any niche or hobby group, here’s a poster promoting Tunisia, the North African desert country that, as any good fanboy or ‘girl should know, was the real-world stand-in for the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars films (not to mention several key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}