Comments on: Star Wars Y-Wing Bed

By: Y-Wing Dad/builder

Y-Wing Dad/builder — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Thanks for the comments! The popularity of our Star Wars room is exploding this week (after having the house on the market for 6 weeks). Yes, this is a kids room. You can go to the house website to bedroom 2 to see all 10 pictures of it. http://ourvisaliahouse.com/ It took me about a year to complete working weekends, etc. The room is 11×13 and the ship covers almost the entire space. We have 9 foot ceilings so the bottom-most part of the ship is 6 feet off the ground which left 2.5 feet above the mattress. Perfect! Pictures dod not do this justice! My 14 year-old has friends lined up at the door just to see it and play in it! The cockpit has a computer joystick (oh, I can hear the jokes already-sigh) wired to a toy blaster gun I carefully split in half and screwed to the underbelly. So lights and blaster sounds (7 total) come from the two main buttons on the joystick. Me and a friend (over 400 pounds) tested the strength of it by hanging off the loft and off the area between the cockpit and the bed – SOLID!! Didn’t move a millimeter or make a sound! The concept is: the Y-Wing is leaving a docking bay to head out and fight a battle around the Death Star. The fourth wall (which is from camera position in the above picture) is space with a painting of a small battle scene around the Death Star. You can see there is a window above the bed (I photographed it at night on purpose). On the same wall is the entertainment center with misc cabinets for storage of xbox, etc and a 32 inch LCD-very cool! Instead of bedroom furniture, I used garage furniture to go with the docking bay theme. It was fun making it and the cost was about $2000 (not including the TV).

By: Nicholas Dollak

Nicholas Dollak — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:53:13 +0000

Is there a discount because of the visible battle damage? I see some carbon scoring on the starboard hull and engine tube. Looks like the guy’s seen a lot of action.

By: sc0tty

sc0tty — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:17:30 +0000

It costs that much because it has a virtual reality simulator in it where even the most inexperienced virgin can pretend to be Hans Solo and make out with intergalatic alien pirate chicks.

I was gonna add as Chewy watched on but hesitated. Aww what the heck.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:07:02 +0000

$364,900,- to keep your virginity intact…?
…A bargain I should say!

Then again-
If you already have a spaceport, take time to surf the internet for some nice Y-wing pic’s, do some drawing and measuring and if you buy about $100,- worth plywood, plastic tubes, 2 domed dustbins and some paint and acryllic glass and you put …say about one day’s time of work in it, you could get your own Y-Wing much cheaper.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:13:41 +0000

cool!

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:52:19 +0000

As Star Wars clearly pointed out, any nerd girls that are interested in you will ALWAYS turn out to be your sister.

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:43:58 +0000

There are Star Wars nerd girls? Damn. I missed out.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:38:16 +0000

After all, girls aren’t much bigger than womp-rats.

By: Vash

Vash — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:31:37 +0000

I know plenty of starwars nerd girls who would love this. Virginity keeping and starwars paraphernalia no longer correlate, get with the times, it’s not the 70′s.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:29:29 +0000

That is so much cooler than the AT-AT bed, but then again, I’ve always loved the design of the Y-Wing. That definitely doesn’t look like a kid’s room.

Gold Leader rulez!

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:01:33 +0000

Not that I can see.

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:39:15 +0000

Not getting the virginity joke. Doesn’t the article clearly indicate that it’s a KID’S bed ?