Searching for Wookie’s In Wales
Activity holidays in Wales according to the great David Tennant have been described as being out of this world and he should know as he has travelled to many faraway planets and galaxies which bear an uncanny likeness to disused quarries in the Principality. It would seem that Wales has seen a great deal of location work for some fantastic science fiction movies and certainly over the past few years it has become a real draw for location teams, looking for ethereal, other worldly scenes and set ups. We can’t guarantee Star Wars fans anything if they do decide to spend an activity holiday spotting locations, but there are some beautiful Sci-Fi places you can drop in to.
Welsh Sc-Fi activity holidays have to begin at Portmeirion, setting for Patrick McGoohan’s 1960′s science fiction television series ‘The Prisoner. The combination of SF motifs, 1960s counterculture themes and the surreal setting of Clough Williams-Ellis’ architecture of Portmeirion raised it to the incredible cultural heights of blokes arguing in pubs about what it all meant! Williams-Ellis built Portmeirion using fragments of demolished buildings and deliberately fanciful designs that gave ‘the village exactly the ambience that McGoohan was after. In fact that is a mystery that is still going strong with members of the fan club “Six of One” society, still holding get togethers in the Italianate resort village, travelling to see the site for themselves and shout that they are free men and not just a number, before a giant weather balloon grabs them.
Without question any Sci-Fi location-spotting tour Wales has to include Cardiff and Cardiff Bay, where ‘Dr Who was re-invented by Russell T Davies. He was clever as not only did Davies successfully manage to resurrect the franchise and so become the BBC’s biggest headline show (remember Christmas 2009 when David Tenant seemed to own the world), but has also managed to pave the way forward for other mainstream programmes to travel along the M4 towards Cardiff. You will discover many Doctor Who and Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) places around Cardiff such as the Queen’s Arcade Shopping Centre, Millennium Statium and also Cardiff Bay and Swansea.
Snowdonia is already famous as location for UK activity holidays and you can get some science fiction set viewing in too! Snowdonia was the backdrop for ‘Tomb Raider 2 – Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life. Some of the fantastic scenes featuring Angelina Jolie were filmed at a lake in Snowdonia called Lyn Gwynant, and this lake was formed by glaciers many years ago and is still popular today with many watersport lovers. Snowdonia was also the supposed location for the giant gun built deep into a Welsh mountain that powered the 1967 SF Comedy ‘Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon.
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