Nice article, Jon, and a nice chat we had. Thanks! I will not be heading out to Florida myself for the presentation, though. Mark Cox, one of the six Saviours, will be taking care of that. And my own son, Kobe, is 9 (not 7). But indeed a Star Wars fan, much like his father.

I've been a Star Wars fan since I was a little kid and I think that this is a good idea. If the local economy in Tunisia benefits from this, more power to these guys.

This home has fared amazingly well after being destroyed by the Death Star. The amount of decay is minimal considering the amount of firepower that was focused on its destruction. I'm concerned now that a policy of isolation and sanctions was not utilized against Darth Vaders imperial forces since his weapon of mass destruction caused no more than "decay" to Luke's home planet. We can all learn from this and apply these lessons learned to a country much nearer and much less far away...North Korea. If we simply appear at the DMZ dressed as Luke with light sabers this hermit kingdom delimma will work itself out. No need for intervention and anymore loss of our best pilots. Im sure Yoda would agree.

G4Y bewt sewks goes down in that cantina.

Funny so many fans that dont study film or understand that in the movie industry there is no new concept in western films when it comes to Sci Fi. They all derive from WW2, mix in the typical themes and bam, educated lacking masses eat it up. Sadly the ironic twist in all this is that this kind of film set up the dark side to all movies that came out after. Including that diahreah fest called Prometheus. OR the eye and ear diahreah of jar jar binks.

CIA undercover job.

This place just had a war and now western culture agents going in to brain wash the eastern culture with USA propoganda

That is really cool that Mark and his crew went out there and did that. Its such an iconic movie and I didn't know how valuable it was for tourism for Tunisia. Maybe Mark's crew will someday fix up the rest of the sets.

Cool! Now let's restore the Mos Eisley Cantina on Djerba!

Whoooooo whoooooo. I find this very troubling. Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side of the Force. Whoooooo whoooooo. That is all.

I think that's great that someone did that. I would like to visit sometime.

For the rest of the complainers, some people would complain about Paradise.

Cool. I like that it's all still there and newly restored! Great job! Starwars fans around the world will appreciate this immensely.

In fact, the iconic "igloo" did not stand there for "more than three decades". The original, built in 1976, degraded to the point that it totally vanished. It was rebuilt in 2000 for the shooting of "Attack of the clones". It is this "new" structure that was restored.

It would be good if we could preserve other iconic "Star Wars" structures, like Obi-Wan's house and the cantina's exterior in Ajim, Djerba. I'm afraid they might be be demolished by developers.

Did they finally bury the charred bones of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru?

I never understood why Luke just ran away from the scene without giving them a decent burial.

Dpn't worry cacalips. The Islamic faction of Tunisia will destroy this "Western Idol", that is an affront to their religion.

It seems weird to me that they keep changing stuff in the oaiignrl trilogy. There were a few changes in that special VHS release in the late 90 s, now they are changing even more things (to match the prequels, I guess). People LOVE the oaiignrls; they ought to offer that, too and maybe they will, in five or ten years (not now, 'cause this way they can get people to buy BOTH sets).

As die hard Star Wars fans, my son and I are so happy these guys committed themselfs to restoring such an amazing piece of Star Wars memorabilia to share with all the other fans on the planet. We shall be admiring their hard work in person next summer. Nice one!!!