NOOOOOO! Star wars film set to be lost!

[Dark Sith Lord]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23375344

 

[jedi_masters]

Yea i read this this mornign as well. Such a shame. They say the dune will pass over it eventually but doubt whether the building will survice without any damage.

 

[mr_palitoy]

Get digging lads...



Jason

 

[monkey_roo]

Great dig indeed

To a certain extent this could be a fun thing down the road. Imagine a team of archaeologists rocking up looking for long buried movie sites in a few hundred years or more. Some future Indiana Jones unearthing SW history. Life imitating art imitating art becoming real life

 

[Grant_C]

Even god hates phantom menace

 

[edd_jedi]

Even god hates phantom menace

Haha yes, no great loss in my book! If the original set got lost on the other hand...

 

[Carl Waterworth]

This will be a shame! I was lucky enough to go there earlier this! fantastic experience.

 

[theslider]

Even god hates phantom menace

Haha yes, no great loss in my book! If the original set got lost on the other hand...

This.

If only the entire prequel trilogy could be swallowed by a desert!

 

[Michael Sith]

Shame about the set being lost :roll:

 

[starshipriot]

I don't think its that great a loss. I think it speaks a lot of western society that movie crews go and construct and film these things, then leave them to rot in the desert. OK they may be iconic and people may go and venture to see these things, but its probably only due to time and money constraints that it'd be cheaper just to abandon and leave than to take apart and dispose of properly. If it was filmed in a forested area and stuff, they would have to take it apart and dispose of properly as they would get their asses sued by wildlife preservation groups.

Haha I sound like a raging hippy all "save the planet" but I think it says a lot is all.

 

[monkey_roo]

A few movie sets (and TV sets) are now being left as tourist artractions not just because it is cheeper to leave them, which is so true. I think there are parts of the set of Hunger Games that can be toured, I know there is a growning Game of Thones tour, in NZ there is Hobbit/LoTR's tours etc. i think certain countries or authorities want to cash in on the movie after the fact, which is fine.