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tikistitchMan Goes Bankrupt Building Starship Voyager Home
Tony Alleyne, the man who turned his apartment into the Star Trek Starship Voyager has gone bankrupt. He started transforming his apartment after his wife left him when he replaced the refrigerator with a 'warp coil'. The apartment is located in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue lighting, and a command console. He even built a life-size model of the show's transporter room with reshaped windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights to give the illusion of being beamed up. Tony at one time had the apartment for auction on eBay for $2 million but had no luck in selling. Tony maxed out 14 credit cards accumulating £100,000 in debt. His goal was to lure other Trekkies to pay him to convert their humble abodes.
The article also includes a link his design business, 24th Century Design.
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Date: 2006-02-09 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 09:57 am (UTC)(after checking out link...)
Date: 2006-02-09 10:22 am (UTC)Oh and isn't it lovely the way he sealed off all the windows and just has the dim blue lighting? Also note that there are few if any places to SIT! After living in that place a few months, you'd have the complexion & fallen arches of a Borg.
(You never see a Borg sit, right??) ^_^
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Date: 2006-02-09 10:24 am (UTC)*coffee spit*
Dude, you totally owe me for a new computer monitor. ^_^
Re: (after checking out link...)
Date: 2006-02-13 09:30 pm (UTC)Snot: I cannae do at the time, Captain. The toilet's backed up into the warp drive. It'll take time to clean it out!
Re: (after checking out link...)
Date: 2006-02-13 09:33 pm (UTC)Our mission: To boldly go where no one has gone before!
(the rush into conspicuously marked doors; a flush is heard; they emerge)
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
...
And that, in turn reminds me of The Black Adder:
"Let all those who go to don armour tomorrow remember to 'go' BEFORE they don armour tomorrow!"
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Date: 2006-02-09 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 12:06 pm (UTC)http://www.angolz.com/home/productDetails.aspx?PLU=0000103824&catId=28
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Date: 2006-02-09 12:11 pm (UTC)*faints*
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Date: 2006-02-09 12:15 pm (UTC)*glee*
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Date: 2006-02-09 03:54 pm (UTC)The Trekker in me just can't help but think that this is REALLY cool. He did a fantastic job, if the pictures are any indication!