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===The Road to Xanadu===
===The Road to Xanadu===
For preventing dangerous intruders there are a few obstacles on the road ahead to Xanadu. Up in Xanadu there is a control room for controlling all the obstacles.
For preventing dangerous intruders there are a few obstacles on the road ahead to Xanadu.
 
First are a wall and a tall gate with hidden cameras, microphones, loudspeakers and a vacuum mailbox. In the early years one mostly, after presenting one self, used a secret signal to open the gates. From the car honk tree times, wait tree sec and made one more honk. Nowadays the gates are opened through the control room. Of course the gate is closing automatic when one have driven through it.
 
Trying to not use the gate by climbing over the wall is not a good idea. The walls have electrical obstacles and the warning bells will ring up in the control room.
 
There are several more hidden cameras, microphones and loudspeakers up the road, just to make sure it is a friend approaching.
 
When the tall gate was opening one got a message that one have to drive at 20 miles pr hour and suddenly a deep chasm is opening - and if one drive exactly at 20 miles pr hour - closes just in time.
 
Then a wall is blocking the road and will lower into the road if one drives at 20 miles pr hour. In the early days this wall was a bit higher up the road and closed the next obstacle, the dark tunnel. If one drive at 20 miles pr hour, the wall suddenly lifts.
 
In the end of the dark tunnel there is one final gate, witch could be closed if the Cobra came for visit.
 
One now can see the shining domes of Xanadu, the garden, the fountains and the big pool which going from the garden and into the house.


==Interior==
==Interior==

Revision as of 13:27, 13 January 2013

Xanadu
Xanadu-01.jpg
First appearance: "The Sign of 8
Created by: Lee Falk and Fred Fredericks


Xanadu is the home of Mandrake the Magician. It was a gift from president Andros, given in gratitude for Mandrake's help during the unstable period in his country.

Location

Xanadu is located at a mountain top outside New York.

The Road to Xanadu

For preventing dangerous intruders there are a few obstacles on the road ahead to Xanadu.

Interior

The interior of Xanadu has never been fully shown. A few of its rooms are however known.

Room First appearance
Year Story
Control Room, controlling the road up to Xanadu 1965 "The Sign of 8"
Observatory 1965 "The Sign of 8"
Laboratory 1965 "The Sign of 8"
Gangster Gallery 1965 "The Sign of 8"
Mandrake's Study 1969 "The Cobra Strikes (The College of Magic)"
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