Man goes broke over Star Trek home

[Matt White]

Ananova:

Man goes broke over Star Trek home

A Star Trek fan has gone bankrupt after spending £12,000 turning his home into the Starship Voyager.

Tony Alleyne's flat in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue lighting and a life-size model of the show's transporter room.

He even built a command console, reshaped windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights so he can pretend to be "beamed up".

He hoped his pad would tempt other Trekkies to pay him to convert their homes too.

He took out two huge loans and ran up debts of over £100,000 on 14 credit cards marketing his idea and paying for the merchandise and has filed for bankruptcy.

Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil" said: "I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.

"But I was wrong and just overstretched. Building it in my apartment was the enjoyable and easy bit. But then I got hooked up with marketing and merchandise people here and in America and it all got out of hand.

"I'm still proud of what I created but it's been a financial disaster."


Sounds like a DM.......but which one?!?

[Cathedral]

I want to see this house, I've had a similar idea with a basement, but a whole damned house?

Oh, and i wouldn't be doing a Star Trek theme, it would be a Lost in Space theme right down to the robot. I've got blueprints to build a fully functional B-9 at a cost of around $8,000.

The blueprints however were the easy score at $25, lol.

[flappo]

i'd love to do that

but i'd use the lost in space jupiter 2 as my template

oh , i loved that show as a kid

[bastardog]

I will love to turn my house in a porn film studio with lots of naked 18 - 25 years old girls walking around all day long

[Nitro Express]

Just another fool wasting cheap money in the real estate bubble.

[Diamondjimi]

Re: Man goes broke over Star Trek home

Originally posted by Matt White

Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil"

BWHAHAHAHAHA ........A fuckin "warp coil"?!


What a maroon !

[stringfelowhawk]

I'd design my house to look like backstage at an early Van Halen concert. Complete with an abundance "live groupies!"

[Flash Bastard]

NERDS!!!!!!

[Matt White]

Originally posted by flappo
i'd love to do that

but i'd use the lost in space jupiter 2 as my template

oh , i loved that show as a kid

CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY!!!

[Romeo Delight]

What is a "warp coil":eek:

[flappo]

something women stick up their cunts ?

[Last_Child]

Originally posted by Matt White
Ananova:

Man goes broke over Star Trek home

A Star Trek fan has gone bankrupt after spending £12,000 turning his home into the Starship Voyager.

Tony Alleyne's flat in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue lighting and a life-size model of the show's transporter room.

He even built a command console, reshaped windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights so he can pretend to be "beamed up".

He hoped his pad would tempt other Trekkies to pay him to convert their homes too.

He took out two huge loans and ran up debts of over £100,000 on 14 credit cards marketing his idea and paying for the merchandise and has filed for bankruptcy.

Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil" said: "I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.

"But I was wrong and just overstretched. Building it in my apartment was the enjoyable and easy bit. But then I got hooked up with marketing and merchandise people here and in America and it all got out of hand.

"I'm still proud of what I created but it's been a financial disaster."

Moron.

[bantonelli]

Re: Man goes broke over Star Trek home

Originally posted by Matt White
Ananova:

Man goes broke over Star Trek home

A Star Trek fan has gone bankrupt after spending £12,000 turning his home into the Starship Voyager.

Tony Alleyne's flat in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue lighting and a life-size model of the show's transporter room.

He even built a command console, reshaped windows to look like portholes and set up vertical lights so he can pretend to be "beamed up".

He hoped his pad would tempt other Trekkies to pay him to convert their homes too.

He took out two huge loans and ran up debts of over £100,000 on 14 credit cards marketing his idea and paying for the merchandise and has filed for bankruptcy.

Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil" said: "I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.

"But I was wrong and just overstretched. Building it in my apartment was the enjoyable and easy bit. But then I got hooked up with marketing and merchandise people here and in America and it all got out of hand.

"I'm still proud of what I created but it's been a financial disaster."


Sounds like a DM.......but which one?!?

Perhaps Tony was hoping to get a contract the for building the Financial Disaster "Lost in Space" for the Rocker who claims the Aliens downloaded his brain and stole his architectural ideas.....Do the name SPAMMY ring a bell? Spam plans to share his futuristic trek with George Takei.

Beam Spam up up and away....Zulu.