Airbnb invites you to die very stupidly by falling out of its replica of the house from Up
The Up house joins a cartoonish recreation of the mansion from X-Men '97 as part of Airbnb's new "Icon" offerings
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The Klingons teach us—probably—that every living being is really just searching for the perfect death. To that end: What could be a more fitting end than to be the person who forgets they booked Airbnb’s floating Up house, walks out their rented front door one morning, and plummets off their front step and straight into the annals of (extremely fatal) history?
The “hotels but without all those pesky extras like quality control” booker announced its new “Icons” line of gimmick rentals this week, which includes a home that is, yep, the house from Up, pictured being held be a crane, with a ton of balloons tied above it. We honestly don’t know what the mechanics of the whole thing are, but the press release promises “Yes, it floats,” so presumably there’s some way you’ll potentially end up leaving a you-shaped Wile E. Coyote hole in the ground of scenic Abiquiu, New Mexico as a consequence to an ill-advised run to the bathroom.
Other “Icons” offerings—which are being handed out by a lottery, as a sort of promo for new features being added to Airbnb—include less obviously fatal offerings, including a recreation of the Xavier mansion from X-Men ’97 that’s been designed to look like a cartoon. There’s also a genuinely pretty awesome apartment installed in the clock face of the Museé d’Orsay in Paris, with views overlooking the upcoming Olympic games, which sounds at least a little cooler than thinking about how sad Ed Asner was in Up before he kidnapped that child. (It’s been a minute since we’ve watched Up.)
Other “Icons” on offer: The house from Purple Rain, decked out with Prince memoribilia; a night at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy (“You’ll sleep on a bed crafted from the same leather as Ferrari seats,” ugh); and a number of celebrity dates, including a chance to have an awkward hour or so in the company of Kevin Hart. “Why do you look so sad?” Hart will ask you, as he tries to get you to participate in a tequila tasting with him and his friends while you hang out in his “secret speakeasy.” Will you be honest enough to tell him it’s because you really wanted to hang out in the X-Men mansion instead? Only time will tell.
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Sweet! One more Newswire about this exact same story and I get a free sandwich!
Be less online?
Yeah, but the sandwich is a gas station egg salad sandwich.
Weird that the strategy is to recreate buildings from animated movies instead of just renting actual buildings from live-action movies. I mean, I’m sure they’re already doing that, but still.
The last paragraph implies that we won’t get a choice of which of these mini-Hells we wind up in.
What kind of idiot thinks this is actually the case? Did you read the damn thing?
I didn’t read this at all but FUCK AIRBNB
Amen. I have never, ever understood the point of them: hotels are cheaper, and I don’t have to fucking clean them at the end. My favourite thing about airbnb is how cunts buy up all the rentals in a small town, and then the cunts who stay in them complain that the town’s boring and there’s nothing to do because all the people who’d normally work in the tourism/hospitality sector there can’t afford a fucking house there.
Airbnb is really trying to rehab its image. Do what you want with an Up house, but you’re still the worst booking option.
I get other commentors issues with AirBnB but the X-Men house looks like it could be fun to at least see
Is Jim Davis’ house from ‘I Think You Should Leave’ available?
Up co-director Pete Doctor stated that Pixar’s best estimate for how many balloons would be needed to lift Carl’s house was nearly 23.5 million.
Do they want a Balloonfest ‘86? Because THAT’S how you get a Balloonfest ‘86!
I can copy and paste. Can I be a journalist too?
The Darwin Awards are a good thing.
I wish the internet was dead