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One man, 40 feet of scaffolding, and a gaming microwave — this is how Colin Furze plans to survive lockdown.

Colin Furze, the British backyard inventor with a track record of building things nobody asked for, dropped a video in mid-March 2020 called “Corona Virus Isolation Box” — and it’s not the medical device the title suggests. Instead it’s Furze’s own tongue-in-cheek answer to COVID-19 self-isolation: a rickety, elevated pod hoisted roughly 40 feet in the air, built to keep him completely away from other humans while the world locks down.

• The structure is a suspended pod modeled visually on the “high hide” lookout tower from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, built cheaply out of basic materials and raised about 40 feet off the ground.
• Inside, Furze packed in everything needed for solo lockdown living: a makeshift shower, a primitive toilet setup, and a sleeping area.
• The pod also houses his previously built, custom-engineered playable gaming microwave, giving him entertainment while cut off from contact.

A Comedian’s Take on a Serious Moment

Furze built his YouTube following on stunts that read like a mad scientist’s garage sale — jet-powered go-karts, a hoverbike, a homemade rocket-propelled bicycle. With COVID-19 forcing governments across Europe into shutdown mode in March 2020, he pointed that same absurdist engineering instinct at the isolation orders themselves, building a literal escape pod instead of just staying inside like everyone else.

The video plays the setup for laughs, but the joke only works because the underlying advice was dead serious. Furze used his platform — an audience numbering in the millions — to slide in real public health reminders between gags: stay home, wash your hands properly, find ways to entertain yourself without leaving the house.

Forty feet up, with a shower, a toilet, a bed, and a playable microwave — Furze’s version of self-isolation.

The Engineering Behind the Gag

What sells the bit is that the pod isn’t just a prop — it’s functional, in the same way all of Furze’s builds are functional even when they’re ridiculous. The elevated design keeps him physically separated from anyone on the ground, a literal, exaggerated take on social distancing. Cobbling together a shower, a toilet setup, and sleeping quarters in a structure that size is the kind of scrappy, materials-on-hand build that’s made his channel a go-to for fans of DIY engineering and prank culture alike, the same crowd that gravitates toward Remote Controlled Alligator Prank Just For Laughs.

The gaming microwave is the detail that ties it all together. Furze had already engineered it as a standalone project before COVID-19 hit, turning a kitchen appliance into a working game console. Slotting it into the isolation pod turns a genuinely impressive bit of hardware hacking into the punchline for staying entertained while stuck 40 feet in the air with nowhere to go.

Public Health Messaging, Furze-Style

Comedy aside, the timing mattered. Britain hadn’t yet gone into a formal national lockdown when the video went up, but self-isolation guidance was already spreading fast, and creators with big platforms were being leaned on to reinforce it. Furze’s video did that in the language his audience already understood — over-the-top builds and dry humor — rather than a straight public-service announcement, folding handwashing and stay-home messaging into a bit about hiding from the virus in a treehouse.

It’s the same instinct that’s made a lot of internet creators effective messengers during the pandemic: audiences that would scroll past a government notice will sit through a full build video, and the message lands anyway. For a channel used to covering flame-throwing bicycles and homemade jet engines, an isolation pod fit right in with the rest of the catalogue.

Furze never claimed the pod was a real solution — it’s scaffolding, plywood, and a sense of humor 40 feet off the ground. But the gaming microwave inside it was already a real, working build long before the pandemic gave it a punchline, which says plenty about which parts of the video were the joke and which parts were just Furze being Furze.