Brent Rivera goes from Google Maps to Mos Espa
His movie-location adventure takes Caleb and Drew from a Korean island to desert scenery, a Batmobile and District 12.
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Exploring Abandoned Movie Sets on Google Maps!
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- 0:20The group hires a boat driver to reach a Korean island presented as a Squid Game location.
- 5:07Brent and Drew reach the desert buildings of the Mos Espa Star Wars set in Tunisia.
- 7:27Digging in the sand produces what appears to be a lightsaber prop and film call sheets.
- 8:38A California warehouse visit brings the group face-to-face with a Batmobile and standing sets.
- 14:33The Hunger Games leg begins at the District 12 filming location, beyond a fence and warning signs.
- 16:25The group inspects the bakery location, an old prop loaf and the house identified as Katniss's.
Brent Rivera doesn't stop at moving a cursor around a map. In "Exploring Abandoned Movie Sets on Google Maps!", he and his friends take boats, cross desert sand and peer into warehouses in search of places they recognize from the screen.
The upload has drawn about 2.2 million views in its first 13 hours. Google Maps exploration is familiar territory for Rivera, whose archive includes "Exploring the Scariest Google Maps Locations!" Here, the attraction is seeing what happens when a cinematic world becomes somewhere you can walk around.
The clearest example comes in Tunisia. Rivera and Drew visit Mos Espa, the desert Star Wars set standing in for a settlement on Tatooine. The buildings remain recognizable without spacecraft or crowds filling the frame. Later, Drew spots what appears to be a lightsaber prop in the sand: "Bro, is that a lightsaber?"
Elsewhere, the video's claims need to stay attached to the adventure's telling. A Korean island is presented as a Squid Game location, with the group examining guard-style costumes and cookie tins. In a California warehouse, they find a Batmobile and interiors they identify with The Dark Knight. Caleb also questions the premise of calling the place abandoned: "Yeah, Brent, that means it's not abandoned, which means we broke in."
The final destination is the District 12 location from The Hunger Games, where the group searches out the bakery and Katniss's house. One viewer connects the visit to memories of watching the film when they were younger. That's the particular appeal of this trip: a familiar fictional home, still standing after the movie has ended.
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