Watching The Truman Show & Spotting Filming Locations In Seaside, Florida

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Jun 5, '26 · 1:25 PM4981

If you walk down the pastel-colored, picture-perfect streets of Seaside, Florida, for the first time, you might get a strange sense of deja vu. That is because nearly three decades ago, our quiet 80-acre coastal neighborhood transformed into "Seahaven Island"—the fictional, hyper-idyllic town built inside a giant Hollywood dome for Peter Weir’s 1998 satirical masterpiece, The Truman Show.

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Jun 7, '26 · 12:40 PM#2

I never walk down the streets of Seaside anymore. I’m afraid I might get hit by a falling stage light. :blink:

Kurt

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Jun 7, '26 · 12:56 PM#3

I never walk down the streets of Seaside anymore. I’m afraid I might get hit by a falling stage light. :blink:

I have a lot of friends there but they all seem so fake. Am I being paranoid?

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Lake View TooSoWal InsiderEastern Lake7,000 postsJoined Nov 16, '08View profile MessageSoWal Insider

Jun 8, '26 · 6:19 AM#4

"Cue the sun!!"

Dawn

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Jun 8, '26 · 9:07 AM#5

Grayt movie!

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Jun 8, '26 · 10:52 AM#6

Little known fact: when the sets were being dismantled, I got Tom Stein to get me one of the roofs of the "Bus Station", and he delivered it to my property and I used it for the roof of a gazebo in my back yard, and it's still there.