Excellent news for followers of The Goonies: the outdated Victorian dwelling featured within the movie is on sale in Astoria, Oregon, and potential patrons are contemplating making it extra accessible to the general public.

“We have now a couple of events proper now,” says realtor Jordan Miller, the itemizing agent for the property. “It appears to be everyone’s intention to have the ability to open up the home slightly bit extra and have extra entry.”

The 1896 dwelling with sweeping views of the Columbia River flowing into the Pacific Ocean has been listed with an asking value of $1.7 million on Zillow, the place it’s described as “absolutely loaded with historical past, nostalgia and iconic stage of fame.”

Because the film hit theaters in 1985, followers have flocked to the house in northwestern Oregon’s historic port of Astoria. Town celebrates Goonies Day on June 7, the movie’s launch date, and welcomes hundreds of individuals for the occasion.

Proprietor Sandi Preston was recognized to have been largely welcoming to guests. However she lived in the home full time, and the fixed crowds have been a pressure that prompted her at occasions to shut it to foot visitors.

After the movie’s thirtieth anniversary drew about 1,500 day by day guests in 2015, Preston posted “no trespassing” indicators prohibiting vacationers from strolling as much as the property. She reopened it to the general public this previous August.

Metropolis officers, who restricted parking within the space, have lengthy sought to mediate the tensions between residents and the followers hoping to see and {photograph} the situation.

“Whereas the proprietor of this location from The Goonies is a fan of the film and enjoys chatting with guests making the trek to Astoria to see the movie areas, as you’ll be able to think about, it will get onerous having a whole lot of individuals crowding into your private house each single day,” the Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce wrote in August on a Fb web page they administer referred to as Goonies Day in Astoria, Oregon.

Within the coming-of-age movie, based mostly on a narrative by Steven Spielberg and that includes a younger Sean Astin, a gaggle of buddies combat to guard their properties from an increasing nation membership and threats of foreclosures. Within the course of, they uncover an outdated treasure map that leads them on an journey and permits them to avoid wasting their “Goon Docks” neighborhood.

Astoria and its rugged shoreline served because the backdrop for a number of well-known movies from the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, together with Kindergarten Cop starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

For now, potential patrons of the long-lasting Goonies home don’t appear to need to make the home their main residence, stated itemizing agent Miller, suggesting it has drawn curiosity from individuals who need to “make it their ardour.”

“It’s sort of a enjoyable purchase,” Miller stated. “Whoever buys the home goes to have a comparatively regular stream of extraordinarily glad folks strolling up outdoors to meet their childhood desires.”