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scans_dailyThere are many reasons to want to visit the original Titans Tower, sitting on it's own island in the middle of the Manhattan River
Prior to this the Titans had met in a couple of places, most notably in a cave hidden above the Gabirel's Horn nightclub.
Secretly built by Dr Silas Stone for his son Victor (aka Cyborg), he realised that the New Teen Titans would be a good place, and good people, for Vic to be, where he could come to terms with his cyborg half, and so, knowing he himself was dying, he used his pretty impressive, resources to design and build the original Titans Tower
The architecture takes a theme a RUNS with it... Since the upper left have "T" branch can bear the weight of the T-Jet, and the right can hold a helicopter.... I have to assume the support structure is staggeringly efficient.
If I can find it, I'll look out the Teen Titans RPG book which outlines the rooms in more detail, including just how insanely lurid Changeling's bedroom is... and how large both his comic AND porn collections are.
The design is clearly nuts, and even DC parodied it in the pages of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, where their Z shaped based featured the only elevator designed to move diagonally.
But the architecture is only a part of it... the internal scenery is very impressive.
Did I mention the scenery?
Now okay, it was blown up... but this one was only blown up the once, which makes it no more dangerous than MOST superhero related real estate (look at Xaviers for pities sake) and it was a place where a bunch of teenagers came together out of a common goal and friendship, and looked terribly pretty whilst enagaging in superheroecs and teen soap opera.... what's not to love?
Prior to this the Titans had met in a couple of places, most notably in a cave hidden above the Gabirel's Horn nightclub.
Secretly built by Dr Silas Stone for his son Victor (aka Cyborg), he realised that the New Teen Titans would be a good place, and good people, for Vic to be, where he could come to terms with his cyborg half, and so, knowing he himself was dying, he used his pretty impressive, resources to design and build the original Titans Tower
The architecture takes a theme a RUNS with it... Since the upper left have "T" branch can bear the weight of the T-Jet, and the right can hold a helicopter.... I have to assume the support structure is staggeringly efficient.
If I can find it, I'll look out the Teen Titans RPG book which outlines the rooms in more detail, including just how insanely lurid Changeling's bedroom is... and how large both his comic AND porn collections are.
The design is clearly nuts, and even DC parodied it in the pages of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, where their Z shaped based featured the only elevator designed to move diagonally.
But the architecture is only a part of it... the internal scenery is very impressive.
Did I mention the scenery?
Now okay, it was blown up... but this one was only blown up the once, which makes it no more dangerous than MOST superhero related real estate (look at Xaviers for pities sake) and it was a place where a bunch of teenagers came together out of a common goal and friendship, and looked terribly pretty whilst enagaging in superheroecs and teen soap opera.... what's not to love?
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Date: 2014-12-13 04:55 pm (UTC)That aside... I've always loved the Titans Tower, although I'm only familiar with the animated version. Does the comics version also have a trophy room?
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Date: 2014-12-13 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-13 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-13 05:43 pm (UTC)Not really, no. That wasn't this teams style. A little more businesslike for the most part.
I imagine Dick wanted one every now and again
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Date: 2014-12-20 04:53 pm (UTC)But, now that I'm an adult... Who the hell funded this entire operation? Silas Stone just built them this? How did the teen titans even come together, and who oversaw this and was like "Bunch of super powered teenagers running around fighting Deathstroke... Yeah, I can condone this?" Was this tower hidden somewhere, or was it in a city? And if so, did the mayor and the police just accept and endorse that this was happening? It didn't violate any laws? Like, underage people living together without supervision, and... flying a jet? What exactly were Marv Wolfman and George Perez' writing credentials...? Where did they go to school?
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Date: 2015-03-28 09:58 pm (UTC)The Tower was built on an island in the middle of the Hudson River and was basically right in the middle of New York. Silas somehow bought the island and financed construction. Ongoing maintenance wa paid with, amongst other things, the vast wealth of the Amazons, the Wayne Foundation and Steve Dayton.
This version of the Teen Titans were teenagers, but all except Changeling and Terra were over 18, so were not underage. Changeling was there with the approval of his adoptive father and the other Titans were responsible for him when he was there.
The Titans worked alongside the NYPD and had the tacit approval of the local law enforcement teams and the mayors office... at least until Titans Hunt, when the Tower was blown by the Wildebeest Society and an ambitious City Councilwoman used it as an excuse to basically shut the Titans down (for a complicated plot reason).
As for school, Gar has a number of tutors, and the other Titans were too old to require school, though some, like Raven went to college in New York.
Hope that's a help! :)
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Date: 2014-12-21 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-29 05:19 pm (UTC)Well as long as Wonder Woman and Batman and this Steve Dayton fellow say it's okay, it's okay by me. I'm sure if Batman allowed it, he was keeping an eye on them anyway.