MechWarrior Treehouse Earns Man "Coolest Dad Ever" Title.

MechWarrior Treehouse Earns Man "Coolest Dad Ever" Title.

An article in WizKids documents this man's quest to make a 38% scale model of a Madcat from the game MechWarrior. Oh, and it's a treehouse, and it's for his kids...

It took Jim seven months to build this structure and he had input from his children along the way:

"Over the next couple months working on and off during the evenings and on some weekends the Mech slowly took form. . . The kids had already taken to it, climbing all over it during the construction, spawning the idea to put several hatches on top – the kids could now climb into the LRM racks from above or below (these would later be screwed closed when the roof was towering 12 ft up)."

And, like many enthusiastic roboteers, Jim had to curtail some of the cool features for safety reasons:

"The Mrs. climbed up, then through the center hatch, and stood out on top of it – and decided that the kids shouldn’t! She declared that it 'sure seems a lot taller from up there', and 'it has a great view over the top of our house'."

I'm sure the kids will appreciate the top hatch one day when they're old enough to get those screws out and open it up again for themselves!

Amazing undertaking and this project undoubtedly earns Jim "Coolest Dad Ever" title from his kids and his MechWarrior teammates from the Comstar Guard.

And as a side note: I wonder if he got a permit for that? Or, if one neighbour had a MechWarrior treehouse and another neighbour had a Pirate Ship treehouse, and the two neighbours fought, which would win?

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