This is more unheard of than seeing DiCaprio with a girlfriend of over 25 years. In this house you find the same Alien on the roof that chases you beeping down the hall R2-D2. Marcos and Xenia sleep just 30 centimeters from a pair of gremlins and a Batman with the look of Michael Keaton. They always have the ‘kit’ of the Ghostbustersthe treasure map of ‘The Goonies’the game of ‘Jumanji‘, is that about the stairs a ‘predator‘? Two of the first words she learned to say from the eldest son were “Tito Chuache”. That’s what the boy calls schwarzenegger of almost meter 90 that is in the room with red-laser look and face of letting go at any moment “Sayonara baby”. Well, no, he calls you “asshole”.
This family lives with three life-size Terminators. They are calling her museum-house. It is the house-museum of two fans of 80’s cinema. Live in Sallent (near Manresa) with her two children and fifty collector’s items. Since Han Solo trapped in carbonite until the Flying skateboard from ‘Back to the Future’. And they are yet to come Robocop and the Johnny 5’sShort circuit‘ in real scale, Marcos shows photos excited. Xenia shrugs. She has asked him to ride when she can the hatch from ‘Lost’ in the backyard. “Okay, honey, no problem & rdquor ;, they respond here to any science fiction idea.
Marcos Mellado, 34 years old, is electronic robotics. With his little hands he made the R2-D2 life-size that walks around the house asking for help for Princess Leia. Xenia Garcia, 36, she works in a factory. No one would say that in her spare time she loves to be scary. In the entrance are hung her favorite outfits: from ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’. They have two sons with movie names: jack ripley4 years, and Ellen Connor, 2. Combination of Ellen Ripley, the protagonist of ‘Alien’ and Sarah Connor, the one of ‘Terminator’ And Jack? “All the jacks of the cinema are cool –they justify the name of the child-: Jack Sparrow, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Jack Skeleton, Jack Bauer & rdquor ;.
They met 7 years ago. The first time that Xenia went to the house of frameshe already had a terminator over two meters and a predator next to the sofa. “I spent a few hours keeping my distance & rdquor ;, she laughs. Until she put on the alien costume two weeks later. “It enlightened me –he looks at her partner-. These are things that she had never thought about & rdquor ;.
He proposed it to her when he was 10 years old: “When I grow up I want to have a Terminator at home & rdquor;. Marcos saw a full-scale one at the opening of Planet Hollywood. “I stayed gawking -remember-. And suddenly he started asking me: ‘Dad, how do you make the light come on in the eye?’ “I guess a light bulb,” he replied, “but I’m not your father.” His parents had been looking for him for a quarter of an hour. “After the relevant fight, I said: ‘I want to have one of those at home when I grow up.’ And so far we have three. I have the wisdom of my wife, who says that three is fine & rdquor ;. “That doesn’t help at all -she denies next to Xenia-, purchase without consulting me”. “It’s not true -Marcos laughs-, I consult you… if this one is more handsome than that one & rdquor ;.
The collector is he. “She is a addiction& rdquor ;, confirms his partner. “A drug & rdquor ;. The last thing that came through the door? “A piece of the house of ‘The Goonies’”. It’s already in the showcase at the entrance, next to the The Neverending Story bookthe indiana jones diary and the voldemort’s wand. the toys of ‘Star Wars’ The ones in Jack’s room are actually from the father, from when he was his age. “I have never played Marcos confesses. They gave them to me, I was passionate about them and I put them on the shelf and looked at them & rdquor ;.
“I wouldn’t spend so much money on this & rdquor ;, they usually tell him. “Well,” Marcos replies, “you spend it on a car that is worth less the moment you buy it and hit the street.” He shrugs his shoulders.My car has been a Terminator”. What he takes to the car shop is to paint his R2-D2. Look for watchmakers who will engrave on the head of your Robocop. “The magic is that –smiles-. A watchmaker does not do that, but he can do it & rdquor ;.
Marcos never talks about money. Not even Xenia knows what her first Terminator cost him, he confesses. “Me I collect feelings and emotions that I have had in the cinema –he justifies himself-. I bought a bust of which only 99 have been made in the whole world -he refers to the T-1000, the antagonist robot from ‘Terminator 2’ – and the first thing I do is cut it to fit a whole body & rdquor ;. “But what are you doing?, the other collectors usually tell him. “Revalue the remaining 98 & rdquor ;, he laughs. “But now the only one who is real scale is mine & rdquor ;. She has dressed him in the same clothes as los angeles police which he wears in the film. It has even replicated the gunshot marks. He ‘liked’ her on Instagram himself Robert Patrickthe actor who gave him life in the cinema.
“Do you want to sleep on the ‘Alien’ ship? & rdquor;, they suddenly let you go with a movie-like naturalness. It is not a rhetorical question. Is he Project long term of the museum-house: a movie bed and breakfast. “An entire floor – the one above, is still to be reformed. It will be 300 square meters in which you will have a cinema of 17 seats -Marcos lists-, three themed rooms Y an arcade emulating the 80s”. They both snort. It’s only been a year since they moved into this house. “We lack time & rdquor ;.
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In a room they want to recreate the ship from ‘alien’with lockers to store clothes, cups and towels with the logo of the Weyland Yutani Corporation, the company that controls human colonies outside the solar system, according to science fiction imaginary. Marcos wants to replicate even the cryostasis chambers in which the crew members of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ sleepNostromo‘. “We want you to be inside the movie” promises Xenia. Until then, arrange visits to the museum via Instagram (@museum_house). “People have come from all over Spain just to see the pieces.”
Their movie happy ending? “May our children share our hobby and they can continue it & rdquor ;, responds the couple while jack ripley scampers between eighties myths with domestic routine. Your favorite character of hers? The boy does not think about it: “Spiderman”.