I took this picture this afternoon. . .
The first person who can tell me which scene from which movie features this panoramic vista, as well as where this photo was taken on our planet, gets a free book!
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The first part of the question is easy. The second part makes for a good trivia question. . .
That's where the X&Y-wings departed the rebel base on Yavin 4 to assult the death star. It was filmed in Tikal Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Yavin IV to me. :) Shot in Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteThe Movie: Monsters.
ReplyDeleteThe Place: Guatemala.
It's from the original Star Wars (Yavin 4, to be exact), where the victory celebration takes place after the Death Star is destroyed. The actual location on planet Earth is Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The shot is from Tikal Guatemala
ReplyDeleteIs it the Yavin IV moon from Star Wars AKA Tikal, Guatemala?
ReplyDeleteEnd of Star Wars Ep IV just before the rewards ceremony or thereabouts.
ReplyDeleteTikal Guatemala.
Yavin, filmed at Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteAm I right?
It is from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The scene is when the Millennium Falcon arrives at the rebel base on Yavin 4. The real world location is Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteIt's the outdoor view of the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Filmed in Tikal, Guatemala!
ReplyDeleteYavin IV in Star Wars: A New Hope. Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteCrikey, I didn't read your directions closely enough. I believe it's from A New Hope, and was filmed on location at some temple in Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dvdactive.com/images/editorial/screenshot/2009/8/yavin2004b.jpg
HI Pat,
ReplyDeleteLooks like the seen from Star Wars" A New Hope showing the rebel base on the moon of Yavin.
As for where - it looks like a top view from the temple of Kulkulcan in the ruined Mayan city of Chichen Itza.
Best,
Henry Lopez
... scene is when the Millennium Falcon is landing on the 4th moon of Yavin.
ReplyDeleteYikes at triple posting.
Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the rebel base on Yavin 4. In real life it's the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala. (I think)
ReplyDeleteIt's from the Yavin 4 scenes at the rebel base from New Hope, and in real life it's in Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure someone else has got it already buttttttttt
I believe it's the rebel base towards the end of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Which was filmed at the Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteYou really do make your way all over the world Pat.
Its the scene from the rebels hidden base on Yavin IV in Star Wars: A New Hope. The actual ruins are in Tikal in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Tikal to me (but I could be wrong...).
ReplyDeleteGuess, that you're thinking about Emmerich's '2012' as the movie in question, right? (Mass suicide scene?)
Sorry to double post as it were, but I feel a bit dirty about my first. I don't know that I was the first to reply regardless, but if so you may wish to disregard me for the prize.
ReplyDeleteYou see, I didn't actually recognize the picture. I instead quickly snapped off your picture into the Google Goggles app of my phone, which led me to a Mayan calendar with the words El Mirador and Tikal on it. It was a few short Google searches from there with "movie" and "scene" appended before I was directed to A New Hope, and from there it was a short leap to the rebel base scene.
I've of course seen the movie and after the aforementioned help could place the scene, but I'm afraid I was not geek enough to immediately recognize it. So if you feel your free book should go to a more deserving candidate, feel free to pass over me, I will not object in the slightest.
That's the Rebel base from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Actual location is Tikal in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteMayan temples at Tikal in Guatemala. Filmed Star Wars episode 4 (a new hope) the falcon landing at the rebel base on Yavin
ReplyDeleteRedwood National Park, Crescent City, California, I believe...
ReplyDeleteThe movie was Return of the Jedi...it was the scene where the satellite explodes on Endor.
Tikal Guatemala, Star Wars: A New Hope's the movie.
ReplyDeleteHard to forget as my bus was hijacked by armed gunmen the very next day. Ah, memories!
ReplyDeleteThe movie is Star Wars, a New Hope.
ReplyDeleteThe location is Tikal, Guatemala.
Yavin 4 from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing to pop into my head was "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" but I'm probably wrong. Geographical guess? Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteTikal national park, Guatamala. Star wars: A New Hope, rebel base on the jungle moon of Yavin 4
ReplyDeleteThis would be Star Wars IV - A New Hope, the exterior shots of the secret base on Yavin. I have heard that those were shot at Ti'kal National Park in Guatemala, but I don't know if that's correct.
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ReplyDeleteStar Wars Episode 4. It's after Leia is rescued and they return to Dantooine (?) to prepare to stage the attack on the Death Star.
ReplyDeleteStar wars episode 4, a new hope - it's the scene on Yavin 4 when Luke et al are arriving.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it's in Guatemala. Tikal or something like that.
Hmm, looks like Crystal Skull to me...
ReplyDeleteSuch a baaaad movie.
1) Scenes from the moon outpost on Yavin from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
ReplyDelete2) Tikal, Guatemala
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is the movie, and Tikal, Guatemala is the place.
ReplyDeleteYavin 4 at the end of Star Wars IV: A New Hope. The real world location is Tikal, Guatemala
ReplyDeleteStarwars - Yavin 4 Tikal National Park
ReplyDeleteIsnt that supposed to be Yavin IV. the Massassi Outpost? And in real life Tikal, Guatemala?
ReplyDeleteStar Wars: A New Hope
ReplyDeleteYavin 4
Filmed in Tikal, Guatemala
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
ReplyDeleteThe lost Mayan city of Lubaantun, formerly British Honduras, now Belize.
Tikal, A new hope the yavin base.
ReplyDeleteHey Pat!
ReplyDeleteThe movie that features this vista is Star Wars IV: A New Hope, and the photo was taken at Tikal, in Guatemala, an archaeological site of Maya Civilization :)
Star Wars episode IV (or as us real people know it, the first one: "A New Hope") - the Yavin 4 Rebel Base scenes (you know, just before they blow the crap out of the Death Star).
ReplyDeleteLooking east from the top of (Tikal) Temple IV.
Tikal Temple IV is a Mesoamerican pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in modern Guatemala.
I'm gonna say "A New Hope." :D
ReplyDeleteOh, and Tikal for the name of the ruins, but I can't remember in which country they're located.
ReplyDeleteYavin 4 Rebel Base in Star Wars - Tikal, Guatemala
ReplyDeleteStar Wars: A New Hope
ReplyDeleteTikal, Guatemala
At least I think:P
Looks like the base on Yavin IV in Star Wars Episode IV. Wiki tells me it was filmed in Tikal, Guatemala. Hope that is right.
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ReplyDeleteHi Pat,
ReplyDeletepicture from Star Wars IV a new hope,
Filmed at Tikal Guatamala - i think its a Mayan temple.
I hope im right and the first to answer :)
Cheers
Steve
This is the scene in Star Wars: A New Hope where the X-Wings are taking off from the secret rebel base on Yavin 4.
ReplyDeleteFilming took place in Tikal, Guatemala.
It's moon of Yavin 4, where was the Rebels secret base in the Star Wars IV (New Hope).
ReplyDeleteAnd the original scene is the Tikal National Park, Guatemala.
Yavin 4 from Star wars a new hope.
ReplyDeleteI believe it was at Tikal in Guatemala:)
A Rebel lookout scanning the horizon, the Rebel Base on Yavin in Star Wars (IV), filmed at Tikal in Guatemala. :-)
ReplyDeleteThis must be the Tikkal ruins in Guatemala, used in Star Wars IV - A New Hope. Gotcha!
ReplyDeletehttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tikal
It's Tikal, isn't it? Featured in Star Wars: a New Hope--not sure which scene specifically, but it's the Rebel Base on Yavin, near the end of the movie. I think it's when the Millenium Falcon first arrives on Yavin after escaping from the Death Star?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess its Paso de Ovejas and the film is Apocalypto?
ReplyDeleteIt's Yavin$ the rebel base in Star Wars A New Hope and was filmed in Tikal National park in Guatamala
ReplyDeleteSteve
It's Yavin4 the rebel base in Star Wars A New Hope and was filmed in Tikal National park in Guatamala
ReplyDeleteSteve
Star Wars - Episode IV - A new Hope
ReplyDeleteX-Wing/ Y-Wing Fighter-Sqadrons take off to the battle of Yavin.
Starwars
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ReplyDeleteHi Pat,
ReplyDeleteThe shot is from Star Wars: A New Hope as the Millennium Falcon approach the rebel base at Yavin 4. The location in question is Tikal in Guatemala.
Star Wars Ep IV: New Hope - Rebel base on Yavin. Photo taken at Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteApocalypto?
ReplyDeletewasn't this in predator vs.alien ?
ReplyDeletenot that it matters, i don't realy give a damn.
ahm, ok, just out of interest, which movie is this from ?
The climactic scene of Roland Emmerich's film "2012".
ReplyDeleteThe Pic was shot on the Yucatan Peninsula, modern-day mexico
Star Wars Episode IV:A New Hope, the Yavin IV base
ReplyDeleteTaken in the Tikal Mayan Ruins near Flores in Guatemala.
So cool! :)
I'm not sure but it could be Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan forest which were featured in Apocalypto movie.
ReplyDeleteTikal National Park in Guatemala. Better known as the rebel base on Yavin 4 in Star Wars a New Hope.
ReplyDeleteMy second guess is Star Wars IV - A New Hope, the scene in Star Wars hen the Millennium Falcon escaped the Death Star and goes to this forest planet. Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteThat's Yavin IV, from Star Wars: A New Hope. In SW it was called the Massassi Ruins. Thank you, Decipher's SW:CCG (r.i.p.). This is the Mayan ruins at Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteIt is the Yavin scene in A New Hope filmd in TiKal Gautemala!
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Doug Landis
Whoops, here is my name!
ReplyDeleteTikal, Guatemala, A New Hope, Yavin Scene
Hey Pat,
ReplyDeleteAuthor slams reviewer because she didn't like his book:
http://www.bookexhibitionism.de/2012/01/author-drama-germany/
(is this contest open internationally?)
ReplyDeleteThis picture was taken in the rainforest of Tikal National Park in Guatemala and was featured in Star Wars: A New Hope.
Place- Guatemala
ReplyDeleteFilm- The Fountain (2006) {I guess...}
Milind Yadav
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Place- Guatemala
ReplyDeleteFilm- The Fountain (2006) {I guess...}
Milind Yadav
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It was used in Star Wars IV: A New Hope
ReplyDeleteLocated in Tikal National Park, Guatamala
...More specifically I would guess that it was taken from on top of Temple IV.
ReplyDeleteIs it from Lord of the rings? Return of the king
ReplyDeleteLord of the rings, return of the king
ReplyDeleteI'm unlikley to be first but ....
ReplyDeleteFilm: Star Wars. The rebel base on the fourth moon of Yavin.
Location: Mayan temple at Tikal, Guatemala.
Dov, this is from The Massassi Outpost on the fourth moon of Yavin’: Tikal, Guatemala in Star Wars Episode IV (the first film released).
ReplyDeleteThis was filmed in Tikal Naional park which is in the North part of Guatemala.
The scene in the movie is Arrival on Yavin
Yavin 4?
ReplyDeleteI believe that is Tikal Guatamala which is seen in Star Wars A New Hope.
ReplyDelete"We are approaching the planet Yavin. The Rebel base is on a moon on the far side. We are preparing to orbit the planet."
ReplyDeleteThis is the shot where we see the Falcon land on Yavin. You're standing on Temple IV, overlooking Temples I, II and III!
So: Tikal Temple, Guatamala for SW IV: A New Hope
That has to be Tikal in Guatemala. It was used as shooting location for the rebel base for Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
ReplyDeleteReturn of the Jedi is the movie
ReplyDeleteTikal was the location, a Mayan temple area in South America
Star Wars - Rebel Base on Yavin 4
ReplyDeleteWell, how about Apocalypto? Just a guess. It was filmed mainly in 'Catemaco, San Andrés Tuxtla and Paso de Ovejas in the Mexican state of Veracruz.' I'm not sure which of those places (if I'm even on the right track), so if you need a guess, I suppose I'll just take Catemaco.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Tikal, used in exterior rebel base scenes in Star Wars Episode 4.
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ReplyDeleteThat would be the rebel base on Yavin IV.
ReplyDeleteShot was when the falcon came in, and the starfighters took off to attack the Death Start.
Location is Tikal, Guatemala.
Bloody good shot, that said. :)
Itkovian
Pretty sure that's from Star Wars IV: A New Hope. And it's in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteFrom Star Wars a New Hope. Rebel base location... Yavin 4?
ReplyDeleteStar War Ep IV - rebel base. Had to look up details. 4th moon of yavin.
ReplyDeleteReal world location is Tikal, Guatemala.
Great picture, looks just like the scene from the movie.
Star Wars episode IV and Tikal, Guatemala
ReplyDeleteHey Pat!
ReplyDeleteThe answer is
Star Wars IV and Tikal, Guatemala.
Yavin IV from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Filmed in Tikal, Guatemala.
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ReplyDeleteYavin IV from Star Wars: A New Hope. Real life location is Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteReturn of the Jedi, and I am guessing it was taken in South America
ReplyDeleteThis is Yavin IV from Star Wars and the photo is from Tikal National Park in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Star Wars: A New Hope, on Yavin, though there are no spaceships in the sky.
ReplyDeleteYou're in the Tikal Mayan Ruins in Guatemala. And I'm jealous.
the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 from Star Wars: A New Hope, and the real life location is at Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteHi Pat!
ReplyDeleteThat would be the scene from A New Hope where the Falcon lands on Yavin 4.
In the real world, this it Tikal in Guatemala.
Star Wars: A New Hope, It's the rebel base on the jungle moon of Yavin 4.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's Tikal, in Guatemala!
The moon of Yavin IV, rebel base camp. Star Wars episode IV. Tikal Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteMy husband knows everything. :-)
Looks like fun!
Star Wars IV A New Hope
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Star Wars. And the ruins are in Tikal, Guatemala
ReplyDeleteYavin 4 Star Wars
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Tikal and Star Wars 1V A New Hope :)
ReplyDeleteThis is Yavin 4 and was seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as the launch point for the attack on the Death Star. It was filmed in Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteThat looks to me like the rebel stronghold on Alderaan (?) when the Millenium Falcon gets there for the first time in Star Wars Episode 3.
ReplyDeleteThis was in Star Wars: A New Hope and I think it is Tikal in Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteFrom Star War episode 4: A New hope. The ‘Massassi Outpost on the fourth moon of Yavin', or as we know it Tikal, Guatemala.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars Ep IV
ReplyDeleteThis is Yavin 4 in the movie, and you're at Tikal in Guatemala.
The scene I believe takes place before the Death Star attack briefing.
Return of the Jedi - the moon of Endor!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's the Milennium Falcon landing on Yavin 4...and it's in Tikal, Guatemala
ReplyDeletethe forest moon of Endor - Return of the Jedi!
ReplyDeletereturn of the jedi - forest moon of endor, as for the real life location, i'd say somewhere in southeast asia, possibly Thailand
ReplyDeleteHi Pat,
ReplyDeleteI think this picture show the Tikal Temple in Guatemala.
The movie this come from must be Star wars Episode 4 with Scenes of the Rebel base.
Regards,
Bruno
This appears to be the Tikal Pyramids in Guatemala. A recent movie filmed there would be Apocalypto.
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ReplyDeleteWell, most of you got it right! Don't know how many of you actually knew this, or if you guys simply Googled it... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI had no idea it had been filmed in Tikal, Guatemala. But when you reach the top of Temple IV, there's no mistaking!
So our winner is David, who left a comment at 11:39pm last night. The right scene was the arrival of the Millennium Falcon on Yavin IV, just prior to the attack on the Death Star at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope.
David, please contact me via the giveaway email address. I'll get back to you when I return home from this trip.
And to everyone else, a tour of the Mayan ruins of Tikal is a must! =)
i didn't see this until just now, but i could have answered, as i have been to that exact spot! it was, indeed, awesome.
ReplyDeleteThis is the establishing shot of the orgy scene in Blade Runner. In the real world, it's located in the Joshua Tree National Park in southern California.
ReplyDeleteI knew the scene right away, but I had no idea where the location actually was. Cool.
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