The cast and crew of "Star Wars" may have only pretended to go to a galaxy far, far away, but making the original trilogy took a lot of traveling. The films traverse multiple different planets, each with its own climates and locales. Since these were the days before wholesale digital environments, the "Star Wars" team had to go globe-trotting to locations that could approximate alien worlds.

Take Tatooine, the desert backwater where Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) journey begins in the...

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