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A steel cabin, three curved monitors, and a crane arm — Linus Tech Tips takes on gaming’s most ridiculous chair.

Linus Sebastian and the Linus Tech Tips crew set out to build the Acer Predator Thronos, and what should have been an afternoon project turned into a three-day siege. The Thronos isn’t a chair so much as a motorized cockpit — a 225 kg steel-framed rig with a crane arm, triple curved monitors, and a seat that reclines 140 degrees with built-in haptic vibration. This is the machine LTT documents in “This Motorized Gaming Seat took THREE DAYS to set up…”, and the build itself becomes the story.

• The Acer Predator Thronos weighs roughly 225 kg (nearly 500 lbs) and ships in massive crates full of heavy structural members.
• The rig’s motorized crane arm raises and lowers a wrap-around array of three curved Acer Predator monitors, paired with a motorized footrest and a seat that reclines up to 140 degrees with haptic feedback.
• Acer priced the Thronos configurations between $10,000 and nearly $20,000 USD, depending on the PC and peripheral setup bundled in.

Three Days, One Enormous Crate

The Thronos first showed up on Acer’s radar at IFA Berlin as a concept so absurd it looked like a prop. Getting one built in an actual room, it turns out, is its own project. Linus and the team spend the first stretch of the video just sorting through the shipping crates — heavy steel structural members, bolts, and cabin panels — before they can even think about wiring.

That’s before the wiring harnesses even go in. The Thronos needs its own internal cabling run through the frame to power the motors, the monitor arm, and the seat’s haptic system, and LTT treats it less like furniture assembly and more like a small construction job.

The Cockpit Itself

Once assembled, the Thronos looks like something pulled off a flight simulator floor. The crane arm swings the three curved Predator monitors into position over the seat, while the motorized footrest and 140-degree recline let the occupant essentially lie back inside a wraparound screen. Acer built the whole thing to pair with its Predator Orion desktop and matching peripherals, turning the cockpit into a self-contained gaming station rather than a chair you set up next to one.

A 225-kilogram steel cabin, three curved monitors on a motorized crane arm, and a seat that reclines 140 degrees — Acer’s Thronos plays less like a gaming chair and more like a jet simulator built for one.

The Price of Absurd Luxury

Acer’s pricing on the Thronos ranges from $10,000 up toward $20,000 depending on which Predator Orion and peripheral bundle buyers select — numbers that put it well outside the territory of even the most expensive gaming chairs on the market. Linus frames the whole build as a case study in impractical luxury: the engineering is genuinely impressive, but the sheer scale of the thing — and the days of labor needed to get it running — make it a showpiece more than a practical purchase for most setups.

It’s the kind of hardware that sits alongside other over-engineered gaming peripherals LTT has torn into before, the sort of gear that shows up in the same breath as a Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor or the oddball hardware rounded up in pieces on weird gaming tech you can only buy in Japan — gear built to make you stop and stare before you ever ask whether you actually need it.

By the time the crane arm finally swings those three curved panels into place and the seat kicks into its full recline, three days of bolts, wiring harnesses, and hauling steel frame pieces around the LTT studio have gone into a single chair — and Linus still has to figure out where in the building it’s going to live.