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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 12:56:13 GMT -5
When I was a little kid, we lived in Queens NY about 15 minutes from where Peter Parker was supposed to live in Forest Hills (and it was all pleasant like that). But my dad worked in the city and we would go in there all the time, and being a very young reader of the FF along with other titles like Spidey, early on I had this dream that one of those buildings could be the Baxter Building and how wonderful it would be to live there (along with becoming a superhero of course!). I loved seeing the schematic of their building with all the cool levels and rooms, and even a rocket silo!
Fast forward to later in life, my wife and I worked and lived in Manhattan for a period of time in the 2000's, and we lived on the 18th floor of a 36-floor high rise (the Baxter Building was supposedly 35 floors). While not quite as high up as the FF headquarters, it was still up far enough that I always found a tranquility of sorts being removed enough from street level, and greatly enjoyed the city views. The top floor was also a common recreation area with a full view in all directions of the city. While I didn't remotely have the spacious layout of the FF or all of Reed's wonderful toys, I found it most agreeable.
It's funny, I never slept better than when we lived there. I live out in the country now and I love it in many ways as well, but every little sound for some reason makes me take notice. Back in our NYC building, the neverending sounds of sirens, horns, and other city noise was like a lullaby...
A long way of saying the Baxter Building gets a vote from me, and now I'm split between the Hall of Justice (heavy Super Friends nostalgia), or the Legion's Bronze Age HQ. Living in the Legion's future was another favorite fantasy, and I always loved that particular building.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 2, 2023 13:00:01 GMT -5
Easy choice for me... Titans Tower. The Tony Stark built Avengers mansion would be 2nd.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 13:02:37 GMT -5
Thinking about this topic, while they didn’t start as comic strips, I love locations like Castle Grayskull, Cats’ Lair, and the Ghostbusters HQ (gotta love a team that used an old fire house). I mean, look at Cats’ Lair:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 13:13:23 GMT -5
If I was going to choose an "other" i.e. one not on the list, it would be the palace in Wakanda. That would be an incredible vibe to live in.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 2, 2023 14:09:01 GMT -5
Avengers Mansion and Baxter Building for me. Hall of Justice if I got a third. My votes were the same, Avengers Mansion and Baxter Building, but my third would be the Batcave. In one of my earliest issues of Avengers, they evidently didn't call it "Avengers Mansion" yet. Thor tells someone to go to "the townhouse of Anthony Stark". I was six or seven years old at the time and had never seen the word "townhouse" before. I imagined a house as big as a town. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 14:30:27 GMT -5
This conversation is triggering another thought for me...while I focused on the usual "classic era Big 2" for scope of this list, I also wouldn't mind another "home base" of a much less fantastical nature.
Nero Wolfe's Manhattan Brownstone as depicted by Rex Stout but particularly as brought to life in the early 2000's A&E TV series. While not a "crime fighting" base of operations in the heavily action based sense, one can argue many a crime was solved from this location.
Of course I digress from the funny books…
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 2, 2023 16:37:58 GMT -5
Well, if we're going that route, I gotta cite London's 221B Baker Street.
Cei-U!
Elementary, my dear supercat!
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Post by MDG on Mar 2, 2023 16:40:22 GMT -5
I went with the Batcave and "Other" for the Ha-hacienda.  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 2, 2023 16:52:29 GMT -5
This conversation is triggering another thought for me...while I focused on the usual "classic era Big 2" for scope of this list, I also wouldn't mind another "home base" of a much less fantastical nature. Nero Wolfe's Manhattan Brownstone as depicted by Rex Stout but particularly as brought to life in the early 2000's A&E TV series. While not a "crime fighting" base of operations in the heavily action based sense, one can argue many a crime was solved from this location. Of course I digress from the funny books…
I like the characters in the books so much that I haven't been able to accept any of the live-action versions that I've seen or heard about, but I might have to look at this one just to see how they did with the famous brownstone.
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Post by berkley on Mar 2, 2023 16:54:13 GMT -5
I voted Baxter and Sanctum but Steranko's SHIELD HQ made it close.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 17:03:52 GMT -5
This conversation is triggering another thought for me...while I focused on the usual "classic era Big 2" for scope of this list, I also wouldn't mind another "home base" of a much less fantastical nature. Nero Wolfe's Manhattan Brownstone as depicted by Rex Stout but particularly as brought to life in the early 2000's A&E TV series. While not a "crime fighting" base of operations in the heavily action based sense, one can argue many a crime was solved from this location. Of course I digress from the funny books…
I like the characters in the books so much that I haven't been able to accept any of the live-action versions that I've seen or heard about, but I might have to look at this one just to see how they did with the famous brownstone.
I would recommend it...the portrayal is rather exquisite. The main hall, Nero's study, the dining room, the kitchen with Fritz, the plant room, they are beyond tastefully rendered (maybe skip the Golden Spiders pilot film though at least initially, the layout was a little different though still nice). Even if they still leave you with a different image from the books, I think you will enjoy the visual treat. I will say this as well...Maury Chaykin made a fabulous Nero IMO. For me he is to that role as David Suchet was to Poirot. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 2, 2023 18:59:20 GMT -5
I like the characters in the books so much that I haven't been able to accept any of the live-action versions that I've seen or heard about, but I might have to look at this one just to see how they did with the famous brownstone.
I would recommend it...the portrayal is rather exquisite. The main hall, Nero's study, the dining room, the kitchen with Fritz, the plant room, they are beyond tastefully rendered (maybe skip the Golden Spiders pilot film though at least initially, the layout was a little different though still nice). Even if they still leave you with a different image from the books, I think you will enjoy the visual treat. I will say this as well...Maury Chaykin made a fabulous Nero IMO. For me he is to that role as David Suchet was to Poirot.
I'll have to give it a look out of curiosity now.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 2, 2023 19:34:09 GMT -5
My love of the Legion required me to vote for a Legion HQ, and I voted for the 2nd one. I voted for Avengers Mansion with my other vote (you get to live there, you get free Jarvis prepared meals, and you're right next to Central Park!) but the Fortress of Solitude (all those cool alien animals and technology) and the JLA Satellite were very tough to leave off. I also have a special place in my heart fo the X-mansion. I remember wishing I could live there when I was a youngster.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 20:30:04 GMT -5
My love of the Legion required me to vote for a Legion HQ, and I voted for the 2nd one. I voted for Avengers Mansion with my other vote (you get to live there, you get free Jarvis prepared meals, and you're right next to Central Park!) but the Fortress of Solitude (all those cool alien animals and technology) and the JLA Satellite were very tough to leave off. I also have a special place in my heart fo the X-mansion. I remember wishing I could live there when I was a youngster. I had to change my second vote (Baxter Building still my first) from the Hall of Justice to the 2nd Legion HQ, as a fellow Legion fan how could I not? Like yourself and others here, I find having just 2 choices tough (and of course I'm guilty of limiting that option, doh!). Did you ever wonder how the early Legion actually fit inside the original clubhouse? Man that looked small on the outside! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 3, 2023 11:23:43 GMT -5
I went with the Batcave (with any luck the one designed by Dick Sprang) and an "Other," in this case the original JLA HQ, aka the Secret Sanctuary. If only to see the Atom sitting in his little anti-gravity chair.   |
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