A Tour of POPEYE VILLAGE in Anchor Bay, Mellieha

Описание: Visiting Malta’s Popeye Village in Anchor Bay Mellieha where Popeye the Movie was filmed over 40 years ago! Set in Sweet Haven, Popeye Village is a fun day out in Malta for children and adults alike!
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Take a tour of Popeye Village in Malta with me and explore Sweet Haven village set on the banks of Anchor Bay in Mellieha. These days it’s one of Malta’s most popular tourist attractions but it hasn’t always been that way - in fact it started out as an ambitious and expensive production set for Disney’s feature length musical Popeye.

Popeye Village was constructed by the film crew during 1979 who ended up building 20 wooden structures, an access road from Mellieha and a breakwater in Anchor Bay to stop the film set from being flooded during stormy weather. It was an immense project for its time and a majority of the film’s $20 million budget was spent hand crafting and perfecting the village of Sweet Haven.

Popeye was filmed during the course of 1980 and starred Shelley Duvall and the late great Robin Williams - his first part in a major movie project. After filming had finished the Anchor Bay movie set was opened up as a tourist attraction and over the years has evolved into an amusement park. It’s an exciting place for adults and children alike as there are many old themed buildings in Sweet Haven to look around and lots of places to swim, play and relax in the bay. It’s also an educational experience with stories, photos and information about how Popeye was made and what its legacy is today.

I found Popeye Village to be an exciting day out and it was good to tour around such an interesting place. It was also personally gratifying for me as I had visited Popeye Village once before - in the summer of 1987 when I was a child travelling on a family holiday. I dug out a few old photos from that holiday and used them to create a few ‘then and now’ clips for this video - hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I did!

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