Batcave Home Theater

An anonymous reader noted a fun follow up to the Star Trek Home Theater we disussed not that long ago. "A retired naturalist thought that her cellar would be a great Batcave, and transformed it into the ultimate home theater. That's right, a Batcave themed home theater created by New Hampshire-based installer DC Audio Video Systems. The set-up includes prop bats which hang from above, a motorized 110 16:9 Stewart Electriscreen, Triad Silver THX Speakers, and a Sony G90, a $36,000 commercial 1080p 2500 x 2000 CRT projector. The room also features eight black, motorized leather recliners and a LiteTouch LC5000 System for Lighting Control." Update 18:16 GMT by SM: updated link to the original story.

Holy batcave!

[King Gabey]

We've been robbed, Batman! All they left is our leather couches...

Great,

[Fengpost]

what is next? Star Wars laundry room? Serenity bedroom? Or, dare I say it, Hogwartz garage?

Status...

[nighty5]

I know she's retired, but is she single?

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[giminy]

How much did Sony/et al. pay for this thing to be made? I wonder if the author is getting a bonus for getting it included on Slashdot?

The Star Trek one looks like an ad for Creston as well. Where oh where did that *good* Star Trek Apartment go? The one that the autistic fellow in the UK made by hand?

Reid

A bunch of stuff wrong here

[hipsterdufus]

1) The best seat in the place is where the HUGE projector is located. No need for something like this in a completely blacked-out room.

2) The spray-foam cave idea looks ok, but how do you keep it clean and dust free? Further, the ambiance is ruined once you put the smooth leather chairs in there. They should be rock-like, imho.

3) Speakers: like any real theater, you shouldn't be able to see them. No real reason that the Triads couldn't have been placed behind foam-esque screen and hide their existence.

4) Pretty large investment and yet you can "only" have 8 people there to watch a movie.

5) Where's the gear? (I hope it is truly hidden)

6) Do you enter via a statue-pull-bookcase-open and a pole?

My Bat Cave Home Theatre

[Dystopian Rebel]

My own Bat Cave Home Theatre (BCHT) didn't work out so well. The computer equipment with flashing LEDs was easy by current case-modding standards. I had a little trouble with the analog input that was supposed to take alphabet soup and convert it to a list of movies, so I abandoned that after the first few blown motherboards.

What really stopped the project for me were the problems related to the Mechanical Wardrobe Manipulators that I had built to change my clothing as I slid down the pole from the main floor closet into the BCHT. The distance from the closet to the BCHT is about 12 feet max, whereas I guess Batman's Bat Cave was probably at least one hundred feet under Wayne Manor. I just never got the right balance of speed and safety. The Vertical Descent Shirt Unbuttoner alone put me in the hospital 4 times.

Re:Not all that batty

[eln]

I agree. I've been in plenty of batcaves and without the overpowering smell of guano, it's really not a true batcave. Nice effort though.

What the design tells you about the designer...

[teslar]

Q: How can you tell the cave was designed by a geek?
A: All seats are single-seaters - there is no comfy cuddling-with-significant-other possibility ;)

Re:There's more to bats than "batman"

[LMacG]

And apostrophes don't indicate plurals, but you don't see me shouting about it.