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Inside £20m Florida mansion that comes with a Star Trek-themed home cinema

A mega mansion featuring a Star Trek-themed cinema is now up for sale for £20 million.

Located in Boca Raton, on the south-east coast of Florida, the 27,000 square-foot house boasts nine bedrooms, a wine cellar and a home cinema based on the bridge of the USS Enterprise.

The cinema is installed with a vibration system on the floor to give movie nights an extra thrill.

Current owner Marc Bell, former owner of Penthouse magazine and a Tony-winning Broadway producer, put up the house for sale in 2014 for £26.6 million but it was taken off the market a year later.

He then put it back on the market in 2017 for £22.7 million and now Marc and his wife Jennifer have brought down the price to £20 million ($27m).

The house, owned by award-winning Broadway producer Marc Bell, is up on the market for £20 million (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)

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Marc told the New York Post how he became a 'Trekkie' when he first watched the series at the age of 10.

He was on a week-long trip to Florida with his father who was a speaker at a conference but the hotel they stayed was overbooked.

Marc and his younger sister had to sleep in the conference room with a big-screen television.

He said: "I had never seen Star Trek before - I stayed awake for 24 hours to watch. A Trekkie was born."

The bar is featured based on the USS Enterprise from Star Trek (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)
There is also a room for video arcades and a four-player Atari Football (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)

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The private cinema in his Florida home has 11 custom seats, which can recline to beds.

It also has a 3D home theatre features and a vibrating floor that can sync in with the action of the films.

It's said the 51-year-old spent four years adding other entertainment features in the house.

A Star Trek-themed bar including a full-scale Borg model is installed next to the cinema.

The property comes with nine bedrooms, pool and spa, wine cellar and arcade (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)
A eat-in chef's table allow the guests to watch the chef cooking (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)

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There is also a room dedicated to arcade games, dating from the late 1970s and 80s, as well as a four-player Atari Football.

The property comes with a wine cellar that can hold up to 1,500 bottles.

The house is perfect for holding parties with a 60x20-foot pool and a heated spa that can hold more than 20 people.

It has a 60x20-foot pool with underwater sound system (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)
The price has dropped from £27m in 2014 to £20m (MARC BELL/TNI PRESS LTD.)

The facilities are equipped with an underwater sound system too.

The concrete and steel home - with nine bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms and six half-baths - is claimed to withstand category five hurricanes.

If the hurricane did knock the power out, the house has twin generators that can provide a month of off-grid power, it is reported.

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