A Star Wars You Live Where – Dagobah
In the immortal words of Weird Al Yankovich, “I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-O-D-A.”
That, in a nutshell, describes Dagobah, for sure. But isn’t there so much more to the planet where young Luke Skywalker meets Master Yoda for the first time? Lucky for us, there are scads of websites out there devoted to giving us the Star Wars information we seek. I’m not kidding, Folks. There is a LOT out there. So I’m going to tell you about it. Dagobah, that is. It would be an awfully long blog post to describe the whole Star Wars universe. So we’ll do it one blog post at a time.
**Note: rewrite theme song to “The Beverly Hillbillies” so that the lyrics are about Yoda and you will win a small prize.
So, Dagobah. Unless you’re Yoda, you don’t live there. And in fact, even if you ARE Yoda, you’re dead. So nobody lives there. But would anybody want to? And since that’s impossible because the planet is fictional, where could you go on Earth that would replicate the feeling of being on Dagobah?
Dagobah, not Earth
Dagobah, as you know, is where Yoda lived out his self-imposed exile after his failure to defeat Darth Sidious. The planet contained the essence of a Dark Jedi who had been killed there many years before the Clone Wars. It was that dark essence that shielded Yoda’s light side presence from any detection, and also that dark essence that Luke battled in the cave.
Now you know about that, so it is time to answer the earlier question about where you would go here on Planet Earth to replicate the feeling of being on Dagobah?
While we won’t find a place on earth with Bogwings or Giant Swamp Slugs, we have some (though less and less every year) boggy, swampy, jungle-y land here on Planet Earth. In fact, the Atchafalaya Basin is probably the closest thing we’ve got in North America, though it’s not as dark and dismal as Dagobah.
Do you have a swampy, boggy marsh you like to call home? Send in pictures and we’ll post them here.
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