Tuesday, June 5, 2012

IT'S YOURS, AT LEAST UNTIL THE DRAGONS SHOW UP: Do you have a lot of money and are looking for a new and imposing office chair?  Might I suggest HBO's life-size replica of the Iron Throne of Westeros?  It's a mere $30,000, plus shipping, handling, and the blood of hundreds of your bannermen.

14 comments:

  1. Jenn.4:38 PM

    Considering that I spend a chunk of my viewing time contemplating just how ugly and uncomfortable that particular throne appears to be, I think not.

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  2. Duvall4:44 PM

    Does it come with megalomania and family dysfunction, or do you have to pay extra for the full package?

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  3. isaac_spaceman4:50 PM

    In the books, the throne gets quite a bit of backstory that makes this a funny purchase.  Aegon the Conqueror commissioned it from the swords of the knights he concquered in unifying the Seven Kingdoms.  Because the throne is really a bunch of bent weapons, not an actual throne, more than one character points out how tremendously uncomfortable it is.  Somebody (I think it's Joffrey, but it might have been Mad King Aerys) keeps cutting himself on the sharp blades in the arms.  Even in the show, you can see by the way that Joffrey squirms in the chair and perches at the edge that he doesn't like sitting in it.   

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  4. Duvall5:11 PM

    Both, though it was Aerys that cut himself on the throne so often that he was (discreetly) referred to as King Scab.

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  5. Genevieve5:18 PM

    This is a Big Bang Theory episode waiting to happen.

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  6. Watts5:37 PM

    I can only imagine that a person who buys an Iron Throne of his/her own is also a person who is likely to know a knitter that would gladly make it a custom cozy.

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  7. Jordan5:40 PM

    More affordable GoT product: Like that episode where Bronn sings a Lannister song?  Wish he was singing 60's pop standards instead?  Apparently he had multiple #1 hits and multiple #1 albums in the UK in the 90's doing that.  There's a YouTube whole you won't quickly get out of.

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  8. The Pathetic Earthling5:57 PM

    Indeed -- it was also melted together by dragonfire -- so the fiberglass here isn't very authentic.

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  9. isaac_spaceman9:14 PM

    I call shenanigans, though.  If one puff of baby dragonfire is hot enough to turn iron chains into dust (or if a few passes by the dragons turn a stout stone fortress into magma, you wouldn't still see so much of the swords. 

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  10. isaac_spaceman9:16 PM

    Bee's over, right?  Holy fucking shit.  That is some of the least bad-ass stuff I have ever seen.  Why did you have to show me that? 

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  11. I can't stop laughing.

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  12. Joseph J. Finn12:14 AM

    The chains were magic that dissipated after the dragons killed the sorceror involved.

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  13. Jenn C1:41 PM

    OMG, I googled them and their record was more popular than What's the Story Morning Glory in the UK. I am shocked.

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