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Tatooine, a tourist's paradise

Cory Doctorow at 2:12 pm Thu, Jan 5, 2012

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From @LASTEXITshirts, an unattributed "commercial side of Tatooine" image, that made me guffaw. If you know who the creator is, please leave it in the comments!

The commercial side of Tatooine. (via Super Punch)

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  • Donald Petersen

    Goddamn.  Luke finally fixed those vaporators after all.

  • http://www.incline-studios.com Billy Hale

    The image is quite cool. But there are no oceans on Tatooine!

  • vonbobo

    I guess there were oceans… (wiki)
    “Tatooine is a desert planet in a binary star system. It once had large oceans full
    of marine based life and a world-spanning jungle, but this biosphere was destroyed when the myopic Rakata razed the planet, drying up its
    riverbeds and boiling away its oceans.”

    So maybe this was before the razing, in a time long long ago?

    • robdobbs

      Don’t be silly, clearly they imported the water and made a fake beach.

      • mccrum

        ‘shopped.  Can totally tell by the pixels.

  • Yep

    Utini, baby!

  • robdobbs

    Could be this guy: http://www.cedricdelsaux.com

    • skabob

      UTINI!

  • dagfooyo

    Man, isn’t that just the way of things.  You’ve finally got your blanket and beach chairs laid out, your umbrella set up and a cold beer in your hand when some jackass parks their damn sandcrawler right in front of you.

    • jimh

      Well, it’s just a minor inconvenience until some Sandpeople show up and kill you for your umbrella and cold beer!

  • Stewart Lampe

    http://www.stevethomasart.com/home/starwars.html

  • howaboutthisdangit

    If the Jawas had any business sense they’d be selling sno-cones and hotdogs.

  • furanko

    I think Jawas should stay in the used stuff business:

    http://francobrambilla.com/artwork/1232060_We_Sell_Used_Cars_And_Droids.html