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Title: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: BobA on July 02, 2009, 06:47:09 pm
Am I out of touch thinking a $250,000 Batcave home theatre is really excessive?   I guess it is whatever pulls your chain.  Cheap if you are Bill Gates.

Link to HTcave (http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/holy-home-cinemas-batman!-article-6863-1.html)
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: FrizzleFried on July 02, 2009, 06:54:47 pm
Some people have just insane amounts of dough.  That is certainly nothing I'd consider... but if I were to make $10m a year... maybe.

$130,000 in audio/video equipment.  Dude's not just throwing in some Sony's...

I'd balk at $13,000 in audio/video equipment let alone $130,000.

Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: pinballwizard79 on July 03, 2009, 12:05:55 am
what does he do for a living, make gravity or sunshine?

Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: mccoy178 on July 03, 2009, 12:19:08 am
That is a really, really cool room! :applaud:
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: Ummon on July 03, 2009, 07:32:49 pm
two-hundred-fifty grand is NOT that much. Thirteen grand is nothin. Think if you made a million dollars a year. If you saved for four years, you could ever so easily afford half a million. Or, could easily pay it off in that time. And that's if you had a bunch of other ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: TOK on July 03, 2009, 08:10:34 pm
two-hundred-fifty grand is NOT that much. Thirteen grand is nothin. Think if you made a million dollars a year. If you saved for four years, you could ever so easily afford half a million. Or, could easily pay it off in that time. And that's if you had a bunch of other ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

Thinking if you did it isn't the trick, actually doing it is.
Thats why its a lot of money.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: Ummon on July 05, 2009, 04:56:50 pm
You're missing the scaling concept, here. Besides, there are censored by saint. Please don't make me have to hunt for this stuff of people who make over a million dollars a year. I don't subscribe to the concept of work, so that element of it is irrelevant.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: TOK on July 05, 2009, 08:31:40 pm
You're missing the scaling concept, here. Besides, there are ... of people who make over a million dollars a year. I don't subscribe to the concept of work, so that element of it is irrelevant.

I thought you spanked fat chicks for a living.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: Dartful Dodger on July 06, 2009, 10:23:27 am
There's no bat pole.

If I loved Batman enough to build a $250,000 Batcave, I'd have a bat pole in a closet somewhere above the theater room.  At the least I'd have a rubber Batman suit on display.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: drventure on July 06, 2009, 11:44:23 am
Yeah, I have to agree, it's a cave home theater, but hardly a "BatCave"

Where's the Control Panel? the vine covered entryway? The metal catwalks?

Wait, Dark Knight or (60's) Batman?  ;)
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: HaRuMaN on July 06, 2009, 12:01:38 pm
You're missing the scaling concept, here. Besides, there are ... of people who make over a million dollars a year. I don't subscribe to the concept of work, so that element of it is irrelevant.

I thought you spanked fat chicks for a living.


rofl
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: shardian on July 06, 2009, 01:06:24 pm
It is impressive when a lowly weekend warrior like us does something like this. It is yawn material IMO when some rich ---meecrob--- gets a whim, waves his magic wallet, and has whatever he thought of.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: Aceldamor on July 06, 2009, 01:17:38 pm
Not that impressed..I figured for a quarter of a Million dollars there would be more visual eye candy..bat computer, vault door, etc.

Looks like a pre-fab pool grotto that has been converted to show movies.  :dunno
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: mccoy178 on July 06, 2009, 03:10:19 pm
They actually hand crafted the foam.  I know the homeowner threw money at it, but someone had to build it.  That's what impresses me.
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: HaRuMaN on July 06, 2009, 03:19:01 pm
They actually hand crafted the foam.  I know the homeowner threw money at it, but someone had to build it.  That's what impresses me.

Have you seen foam being hand-crafted?  It's not exactly rocket science...
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: mccoy178 on July 06, 2009, 03:34:32 pm
Well, I'll tell you what, I bet just like many, many of the projects on this site, about 10% get it right.  I would imagine the same would apply to the foam cutters.  I'm giving credit where credit is due.  Also, I'm also really impressed that unlike me, they got P A I D! :cheers:
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: boykster on July 07, 2009, 01:35:27 am
$250k does seem like a lot, and $130k in equipment is a hefty tag, but the projector and scaler alone in that setup weighs in at nearly $20k.  I'm guessing that the screen is close to $10k as well.  I find it very impressive that they were able to integrate the faux rock work with good acoustic design - not an easy project with smooth walls, let alone irregularly shaped faux foam rocks.  I did think the speakers could have been better "intergrated" - ie invisible - rather than black grills on the stonework.  Its also in australia, so $250k AUD = $15.73 USD?  ;D

No pricetag listed, but here's a way over the top theme home theater...

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/designing_the_death_star_theater/

http://www.modernhometheater.com/virtualtours/star_wars/slideshow/index.html
Title: Re: $250,000 Batcave Home Theatre
Post by: Ummon on July 07, 2009, 09:41:57 pm
Yeah, I have to agree, it's a cave home theater, but hardly a "BatCave"

Where's the Control Panel? the vine covered entryway? The metal catwalks?

Wait, Dark Knight or (60's) Batman?  ;)

The former of course.


You're missing the scaling concept, here. Besides, there are ... of people who make over a million dollars a year. I don't subscribe to the concept of work, so that element of it is irrelevant.

I thought you spanked fat chicks for a living.


But I get paid in blood, you know. Hahahahah, no seriously, that's just ---smurfing--- art, man. There is a technique to handling flesh, which corresponds to the object being struck and it's particular physical properties, as well as getting the proper timbre out of the report of the strike.