It's the man, who spawned a tour, who created a legend, who made a lot of money.
You know the person. He lives next door or down the street.
He’s got the complete set of Harry Potter books — first edition in Ziplock bags — and he knows so much more about Star Wars than any person humanly should (It’s not science fiction, it’s a Space Opera, duh, every one knows Star Wars IV is just speculative fiction.)
The annual Robin Hood festival takes place in August.
So if there are Harry Potter packages, why wouldn’t someone offer Robin Hood tours — there’s even an app for that, which the LA Times points out.
The app, British Film Locations, will provide you with detailed information on locations in the United Kingdom and what role they played in any particular movie. It will connect you to Braveheart’s battlefields and Robin Hood’s tight factory, blurring the lines between amazing history and amazing fictional history, aka, lies.
The British Tourist Authority has also created a special website for people hungry for more information about the band of merry men who killed and robbed nobility, slapped each other on the butt and catered to Russell 
Crowe’s every whim. So grab your Robin Hood Card (33 pounds) which lets you into seven Robin Hood attractions such as:
- Nottingham Castle and entry to ‘ROBIN HOOD – THE MOVIE’ exhibition*
- Galleries of Justice Museum performance tours
- City of caves performance tours
- A bow and arrow set or guide book at Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve
- Guide book at Rufford Abbey Country Park
- Creswell Crags Ice Age exhibition
- Clumber Park
Then there’s the Archery Trip that lets you go into the Sherwood Forest and shoot a bow and arrow. Splitting arrows in the bulls eye costs even more.
Here's a couple of outfits you can wear while on tour in the UK.
And of course, the Robin Hood Festival in August, which actually predates the most recent Robin Hood movie.
There’s also a self guided tour of a dozen Robin Hood locations around Britain that a person can follow along. Wearing a green felt hat is optional. But we’d encourage you to download the podcasts so at least you have a better idea of what the tour includes.
Finally, there’s an exhibition in Nottingham created by the set designer of the Robin Hood movie proving that art becomes reality only after art charges the world $9 per person to see it.
Of course, you could just go see the movie and save your money on a Robin Hood trip and instead go to someplace that doesn’t need Russell Crowe to sell a version of the past that didn’t really exist.
History doesn’t need to rewrite itself, it only needs to be there. Of course, according to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie really isn’t that good, scoring only a 54 percent freshness factor. We think most of these tours would score even lower.
