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== Films -- Animation ==
* Carl and Ellie's house in Pixar's ''[[Up]]''. It appears to have been abandoned for quite some time when Carl and Ellie first meet inside as children, and it remains that way up until they buy and refurbish it after their marriage. [[Egregious]] because [[World War Two]] ([[Fridge Logic|and it's accompanying]] dual housing shortages -- one during the war, [[It Got Worse|and one after]]) happened somewhere in between there.
* In ''[[The Princess and
== Films -- Live Action ==
* Disney's ''[[Tron
** It makes sense that the building is still owned by the Flynn family, or at least Encomm, who have kept the taxes and utilities up to date (the power is still connected, for example). And the arcade was obviously shut down and dust-proofed in an orderly way. Why no-one has broken into it & stolen all the valuable arcade cabinets is another question.
*** It's implied by [[Expanded Universe]] material that Alan has been paying for the upkeep for the same reason he kept the pager. Of course, this brings up the [[Fridge Logic]] of why he didn't investigate the place and find the improvised laser lab himself.
* In ''[[
* Probably because it's a major deathtrap, the abandoned firehouse in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' remains conveniently available until Venkman ''et al'' need a place of business.
{{quote| '''Spengler:''' I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.<br />
'''Stantz:''' Hey. Does this pole still work? ''(slides down)'' Wow, this place is great! When can we move in?! }}
* Inverted in ''[[The Shadow (
* [[Slasher Flick]] ''[[Hell Night (
* The Victorian mansion in ''[[Mousehunt (
* The [[Abandoned Hospital]] in ''[[Accepted]]'' has just been sitting around for who knows how long, before the kids decide to turn it into a fake college.
* It hasn't been ''abandoned'', but the video-rental store that holds a vital clue in ''[[Men in Black (
* The Blackwell Hotel in ''[[
* In ''[[Double Impact]]'', after officially teaming up, Chad and Alex, as well as their 'Uncle' Frank, set up in an abandoned villa in Hong Kong.
== Literature ==
* At the end of [[
* After the Full Moon Garage in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is abandoned due to the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|lycanthrope biker gang]] that owned it being slaughtered, it is left relatively untouched... because other bad guys like its convenient location and run-down appearance for their own dirty work. Harry finds himself revisiting it.
* The Riddle House in ''[[Harry Potter (
* In one of the early ''[[NUMA Series]]'' novels, the heroes figure out how a massive drug smuggling operation is being run and speculate as to where the drug handoff will be made. One character invokes this trope. Another immediately shoots it down, pointing out that abandoned warehouses are hard to come by in major port cities.
== Live Action TV ==
* The Hyperion Hotel has been sitting abandoned quite a long time until the title character rents it in ''[[
** In the fourth season Connor also moves into what appears to be an abandoned natural history museum, full of dust and stuffed wildlife, complete with working electricity.
* In ''[[Fringe]]'', the [[Mad Scientist]] returns to his lab in the basement of a Harvard building after 17 years and just has to dust the place down before getting back to work; not only has the space been left unused, but all the equipment is still there. Considering what Walter and Bell get up to down there, that might have been the smartest thing to do.
* Another example of Never Recycle a Room can be found in the fifth season of the new ''[[
* Gotham City in the Adam West version of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' had some serious problems with abandoned factories and warehouses. It's almost like they ''wanted'' them to be taken over by criminals.
* ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' and his elite police unit have usually claimed a building that the city of [[San Francisco]] had lying around unused. In the fourth season, this was a former floating cannery that was later converted to a nightclub and later seized in a drug raid. It proves to be a decent place to set up shop, being spacious and having a place for everything they need. The only downside is a [[Running Gag|tendency]] to play "Disco Inferno" with no reason or explanation.
* The characters in ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' always find a empty warehouse nearby when they need to fight. While this is usually plausible, there is at least one case when they manage to find one close to the Seine in the center of Paris, in an area where it would need TARDIS-like features to fit.
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