Mystery Photo #5


Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

24 thoughts on “Mystery Photo #5”

  5. Tatouine, while a good guess, is not strictly speaking accurate.
    See how specific y’all can get.
    Also, FWIW, it’s really cool to be able to be where I am now, take this picture, upload it to the blog, and immediately have folks guessing the location a good chunk of a world away.
    The high tech quality of that is so in contrast with the -er- rustic setting.

  6. The set of the home of the Lars family as seen in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Don’t know if the set pictured here is a rebuild of the original seen in Star Wars: A New Hope or not. They may have kept it in storage for all I know. The set was, I believe built at the Elstree Studios in London. Either that, or they built it on site in Tunisia where the Tatooine exteriors were filmed.

  7. See how specific y’all can get.

    Dear Jimmy
    I had to check the cruise website, to see which one you were talking about, and I found the place below on the itinerary page.
    Oct. 13
    Mon
    Gabes, Tunisia
    Since, as Tim above said, Star Wars was filmed in Tunisia, I think that’s Tatooine indeeed! If I were a Star Wars geek, I could be more specific.
    And I said that as a joke, thinking that you were in Israel or the surrounding area…

    …it’s really cool to be able to be where I am now, take this picture, upload it to the blog, and immediately have folks guessing the location a good chunk of a world away.

    Does that mean that the picture was also uploaded through the iPhone, or just taken with it?

  8. Jimmy, be careful if the group makes a stop at Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  10. Similar to the entity known as Vaal, discovered on Gamma Trianguli VI, a prototype has been discovered here on Earth.

  11. Similar to the entity known as Vaal, discovered on Gamma Trianguli VI, a prototype has been discovered here on Earth.

  13. Jimmy wrote:
    Tatouine, while a good guess, is not strictly speaking accurate.
    Ah ha, I’ve got it! Tatouine was in two of the original three movies. This must be Tatouine in Return of the Jedi, not, A New Hope. I don’t see the sand monster, though. Jimmy must have carefully edited his picture.
    Oh, and have your guys on the cruse seen a camel, yet?
    The Chicken

  19. LarryD,
    Actually, Jimmy’s boot is in mystery picture #4. It is behind the head of the guy with the hat on, poised to kick him for his lack of decorum!

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