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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2012, 11:24:21 PM »


thats the recoleta church in buenos aires, leg 2 pit stop

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« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2012, 10:13:42 AM »
#12 - it's an angel atop a column in the Recoleta cemetary in Buenos Aires

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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2012, 12:17:46 PM »

#13 - no surprise, it's the JR Shin-Osaka Railway Station, Osaka Japan  (with Shinkansen)

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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2012, 03:34:36 PM »
#14 is the Bibi Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan

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« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2012, 07:08:55 PM »

 :yess:  horsey guy is the statue of Martin Miguel de Güemes in Salta, Argentina



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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2012, 11:19:56 PM »


I would hazard a guess that the graffiti is in Paraguay

The guy's shirt matches the National Soccer Team's Home Jerseys:


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« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2012, 11:25:32 PM »
Nice one Djr!
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« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2012, 11:31:35 PM »
don't know if we already have this but cap 15 is a lagoon in honolulu. on the left of the lagoon is the ala moana bech park and to the right is the hawaii yacht club next to the hilton hotel

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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2012, 06:23:05 AM »
I'd definitely saw a Japanese geisha and a Buddhist/Shinto Temple in Japan on the intro clip of TAR 20, and that temple is probably somewhere in Kyoto and they might go there.  If someone send 2 pictures that I'd mentioned it, please post it here 'cause I don't have time to post it here. :-[

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« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2012, 07:14:16 AM »
Japanese geisha scene possibly shot in Toei Kyoto Studio Park.


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« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2012, 10:12:45 AM »
Nice one DavidJunior!
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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #36 on: March 02, 2012, 10:50:02 PM »
I advanced #6 a few frames and got this. Anybody read Japanese? Maybe there's an Osaka connection.

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« Reply #37 on: March 04, 2012, 07:06:33 PM »
I advanced #6 a few frames and got this. Anybody read Japanese? Maybe there's an Osaka connection.

The writing on her lower left is Takeda. It's a geiko place in Kyoto.
http://www.kyoto-club.com/takeda.html
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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #38 on: March 05, 2012, 04:47:39 AM »

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#8 is One Waterfront Towers in Honolulu, HI.  Can't believe no one caught this one.  The pictures are taken from different angles (front and back), but if you compare the buildings in the cap (A) to the the one I found online (B) I think you'll agree with me.

If you look between the towers at the base, both pictures appear to have the same flat-topped triangular shape (obviously reversed).  In (A), the brown parking structure concrete looking building on the right base of the right tower can just be seen in the lower left corner of (B).  In (A) you can see a two-storied, large-windowed building on the near side of the right tower, just peeking out of the base of the left tower in (B).

There's a lot more 'matches' if you look for them, but it's obvious to me that pic (B) was taken soon after the building was put up, the parking lot hadn't even been put in or the building painted. 

Doh!!!  All of that work, then I remembered this... below is one of bspencer's eyewitness pics for comparison of what it looked like when the racer's were there.  Da-da-da-daaah...


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Re: TAR 20 INTRO CAPS!!
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2012, 12:25:06 AM »
Thanks, choroneko. Since we already have a Shinkansen cap, perhaps it's possible for a single Osaka/Kyoto leg? Traveling by train between the two cities would take less than an hour. (assuming, of course, that the Gion Kobu stuff isn't just B-roll)

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« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2012, 12:17:15 PM »
Here's the Noren or the symbol of the Takeda izakaya in Kyoto.



It is exactly the same with the one in the intro cap.
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« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2012, 01:19:01 PM »
really nice work, Choroneko!!! 

But what IS a geiko place/this place? Is it a Tea bar? A dance school? A geisha school??

I am confused...
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« Reply #42 on: March 06, 2012, 01:55:43 PM »
really nice work, Choroneko!!! 

But what IS a geiko place/this place? Is it a Tea bar? A dance school? A geisha school??

I am confused...

It's like a bar or teahouse where geisha/geiko performs.
To why TAR chose Takeda, I do not know hehe..

I hope they'll do a roadblock or detour with a geisha. Drinking games or dance routines probly. Oh that would be so awesome.
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« Reply #43 on: April 21, 2012, 01:03:05 PM »
Cap 7 is Kahana Bay on the windward (eastern) coast of Oahu.

Cap 11 is a Makanikai Helicopter.  They do charter tours of Oahu.
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« Reply #44 on: April 27, 2012, 10:24:23 PM »
Boston Jen , you are spot on!  The settlement is Kaaawa (who said there is no word with three consecutive a's?).  This shot was taken here:


 
 

 
 


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« Reply #45 on: April 27, 2012, 11:20:01 PM »
Thanks Chateau!!! :hearts:
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« Reply #46 on: May 05, 2012, 05:34:12 PM »
don't know if we already have this but cap 15 is a lagoon in honolulu. on the left of the lagoon is the ala moana bech park and to the right is the hawaii yacht club next to the hilton hotel

:tup:  Yep, you got it, Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.

I was double checking to make sure we had all the identifiable Hawaiian caps nailed down, and I just noticed this one, which you had already figured out.  If the angle was a bit different, you could see my high school, but it was the last cap I recognized. 

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