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Drink up, Jedi! Pop-up Star Wars cantina is coming to wretched hive of Hollywood

Star Wars fans will want to watch the web for details of a new bar coming to Southern California.

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Watch your step in the Star Wars cantina, especially if you're a smuggler who drops your shipment at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser.

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Your old watering hole a bit tame these days? If you live in or can get to Southern California, soon you can toss a few back at one of the galaxy's most wretched hives of scum and villainy.

A pop-up bar based on the infamous Star Wars Chalmun's Cantina in Tattooine's Mos Eisley is opening in Hollywood, Nerdist reports, though details are still fittingly mysterious.

The Scum and Villainy Cantina now has its own Facebook page and website, but the exact location (and opening date) is still as secret as Yoda's species.

The site promises a "fully immersive environment where you drink, eat and hang out as if you were in galaxy far, far away. If you've got the credits, we'll serve your kind here...just make sure to leave your droids at home. Costumes encouraged."

Reservations can be made for two-hour blocks, which include two drinks, a souvenir pint glass, and other galactic goodies. Seems clear that this is the bar you were looking for. Just don't try that "You don't need to see his identification" line on the bartenders.