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
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.