Museum House: This Family Lives With Three Terminators

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This is more unheard of than seeing DiCaprio with a girlfriend of over 25 years. You find the same in this house Foreign beeping on the roof chasing you in the hallway R2-D2. Marcos and Xenia sleep only 30 centimeters from a couple. gremlins and one Batman With the look of Michael Keaton. They always have the ‘kit’. Ghost Hunterstreasure map ‘Goonies’‘ gamejumanji‘is this about the stairs’predatory‘? Two of the first words his eldest son learned to say were: “Uncle Suachi”. boy it’s called schwarzenegger The one who is in the room with a red laser-like face that is close to 90 meters and releases at any moment.Sayonara baby”. No, he calls you “scum.”

This family lives with three life-size Terminators. they are looking for him MuseumHouse. It is the house museum of his two fans. cinema from the 80s. live in sallent (near Manresa) with two children and fifty collector’s items. Since Han Solo trapped in carbonite up to Hoverboard from the movie ‘Back to the Future’. And they haven’t come yet robot police and Johnny 5sShort circuit‘ On real scale, Marcos makes the photos look excited. Ksenia shrugs. She asked him to ride when he could Cover from ‘Lost’ in the backyard. “Okay honey, it’s okay”, they respond to anything here. science fiction idea.

His eldest sons, Marcos, Xenia and Jack Ripley, arrange their R2-D2 between Han Solo and Boba Fett, trapped in full-scale Terminators, carbonite, and soldier suits. JORDI COTRINA

Marcos Mellado, 34 years old, electronic robotics. Made with tiny hands R2-D2 Life-size wandering around the house asking for help for Princess Leia. Xenia Garcia, 36, works in a factory. No one can say that he likes to be scary in his spare time. Her favorite clothes hang at the entrance: ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’. He has two sons with movie names: jack ripley4 years and Ellen Connor, 2. The combination of ‘Alien’ heroine Ellen Ripley and ‘Terminator’ heroine Sarah Connor and Jack? “All jacks the mood of the cinema—they justify the boy’s name—: Jack Sparrow, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Jack Skeleton, Jack Bauer”.

A custom-made Alien suit for Xenia between the weapons of the saga and a sailor suit signed by actor Michael Biehn. JORDI COTRINA

They met 7 years ago. First time Xenia she went her home frameshe already had terminator more than two meters and one predatory next to the sofa. “I spent a few hours keeping my distance,” she laughs. Until he put alien costume two weeks later. “He enlightened me—looking at his partner. These were things I had never thought of.”

At the entrance of the Museum House, at the bottom of the stairs, there is the ‘Predator’ outfit. JORDI COTRINA

At the age of 10 he proposed to her: “When I grow up I want a Terminator at home”. Marcos saw a full-scale one at the launch of Planet Hollywood. “I stayed gawk at -to remember-. And suddenly I began to ask: ‘Daddy, how do you turn on the light in the eye?’ “I think it’s a lightbulb,” he replied, “but I’m not your father.” His family had been looking for him for a quarter of an hour. “After the fight involved, I said, ‘I want to have one of these at home when I grow up’. And so far we have three. I have the common sense of my wife to say that three is fine”. “This doesn’t help at all – Xenia refuses to the side-, buy without consulting me”. “That’s not true – Marcos laughs – I’m asking you… is he more handsome than he is?”

T-800 from ‘Terminator’: Schwarzenegger’s metallic skeleton. Marcos calculates that he measured 2.32 m with the pistol. JORDI COTRINA

this collector Is it him? “a dependence”, confirms his partner. “Medicine”. The last thing through the door? “Part of the ‘The Goonies’ home”. Already by the window at the entrance, The Unending Story book, indiana jones diary and Voldemort’s wand. The ‘Star Wars’ toys in Jack’s room are actually his father’s when he was his age. “i never played Marcos admits. “They gave it to me, I was passionate about it, and I put it on the shelf and looked at it,” he said.

Boba Fett figures include a bust of Darth Vader, a prototype of the head of Johnny 5 from ‘Short Circuit’, the hoverboard ‘skateboard’ from ‘Back to the Future 2’ and a replica of the play ‘Jumanji’, movie ruins, among others. JORDI COTRINA

They often say to him, “I wouldn’t spend a lot of money on this.” “Well,” replies Marcos, “you buy it and spend it on a less valuable car the moment you hit the street.” He shrugs.My car became the Terminator”. What he takes to the car shop is to paint a picture of himself. R2-D2. Look for watchmakers that will impress you. robot police. “The magic is—smiles—. A watchmaker wouldn’t do that, but he could.”

Next to the bedside table are several life-size gremlins, Boba Fett’s helmet, the ‘Iron Man’ prototype and a talking Deadpool head. JORDI COTRINA

Marcos never talks about money. Even Xenia doesn’t know what her first Terminator cost her, she admits. “I I collect feelings and emotions that I live in the cinema -justifies itself-. I bought a bust of which only 99 were made in the world. T-1000, ‘The enemy robot in Terminator 2 – and the first thing I do is cut it to fit the whole body”. “But what are you doing?, other collectors often tell him. “Re-evaluate the remaining 98,” laughs. “But now the only one true scale This is me”. She dressed in the same clothes as him Los Angeles police What movie is she wearing? He even reproduced gunshot marks. He gave himself a ‘like’ on Instagram Robert Patrickthe actor who brought him to life in the cinema.

“Do you want to sleep on the ship from ‘Alien’?”They suddenly let you go with a movie-like naturalness. This is not a rhetorical question. is he Project long-term museum-house: a movie bed and breakfast. “An entire floor – the floor above, will still be reformed. What you will have will be 300 square meters. cinema 17 seats -Marcos lists-, three themed rooms Y An arcade imitating the 80s”. Both are grinning. It’s only been a year since we moved into this house. “We do not have time.”

Xenia and her two children pose with an Alien on the stairs of their house. JORDI COTRINA

In a room they want to recreate ship from ‘alien’with lockers to store clothes, glasses and towels with logo Weyland Yutani Company, the company that, according to the science fiction imagination, controls human colonies outside the solar system. Even Marcos wants to copy cryostasis chambers Where the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ crew sleepsnostromo‘. “We want you inside. film”, Ksenia promises. Edit until then Museum visits via Instagram (@museum_house). “People from all over Spain came just to see the pieces.”

Marcos sings a bust of Michael Keaton, “the best Batman.” In the bedroom of the Museum House. JORDI COTRINA

They movie happy ending? “Let our children share hobby and they can continue”, the couple replies. jack ripley works alongside the myths of the eighties with his home routine. Favorite character? He does not think that: “Spider Man”.

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