The best way to catch up with Game of Thrones before Season 4 starts? By watching this amazing supercut of every single on-screen death in the series so far. Made by Digg Video, it’s a bloody gore-y mix of swords, spears, arrows, bare hands, etc. ripping apart flesh and ending human life. There’s a total of 5,179 deaths in the series. Not that much, right?
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If you want to play LEGO Game of Thrones, you wish or you die. Nah, you go to Citizen Brick. The company that’s harvesting the fruits of LEGO’s refusal to create an adult line of toys has a series of minifigs with the awesomely bad title Dragon Sword Fighter Force. The familiarity is strong with this Force.
Heavily inspired by the characters from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO’s adaptation of said literature, the minifigs come in four separate packs with three toys each or as one big bundle of 12 toys. That’s not all – if you buy all 12 minifigs at once, you get a bonus minifig that looks like Mr. Martin himself. Though to be fair there are millions of men who look like Sir Typesalot.
Betray your browser and head to Citizen Brick to purchase the Ga– Dragon Sword Fighter Force minifigs. Each three-pack costs $55 (USD). The 12-pack bundle won’t save you any money because it costs $220, but at least it’ll come with Sir Types A.A. Lot.
[via GeekAlerts]
By now you’ve probably heard the theme song and seen the intro to Game of Thrones a thousand times. If you really enjoy it, you’re going to love this version of the intro for Skyrim.
Skyrim’s world layout and gameplay don’t have anything to do with George R. R. Martin’s epic books, but there are enough similarities to mash the two together into a neat new opening video called “Thrones.” Because why not? In fact, I would guess that more than half of Skyrim players have already read the books or watched the show. Check the intro out for yourself:
Skyrim fans will recognize recreations of each of the major game areas, portrayed as if they were the separate family-owned lands from Game of Thrones. Brady Wold, the creator of the video, says that it started off as a fun project to kill an afternoon, but soon turned into thousands of hours of work, using After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, and ZBrush.
[via Geek]
You could read the books. You could borrow your friend’s HBO Go account to watch the show. You can spoil yourself by just existing on the Internet. Or you can catch up with the last season of Game of Thrones through this surprisingly good emoji recap. Yeah, emojis. It covers the big happenings of season 3—who boned, who died, who’s alive—with the magic of everyone’s favorite form of smiley face communication.
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Game of Thrones Season 4 is coming in two weeks and everyone is itching to see [SPOILER] die a horrible dead. Please allow me to entertain you with this wonderful auto-tuned music video that will placate your thirst like Dragonade for at least two minutes.
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Jewelry artists Pyrrha now have a deal with HBO to create and sell Game of Thrones pendants. You wear or you die. There is no middle ground.
The line of handcrafted talismans include the sigils of houses Baratheon, Stark, Targaryen, Greyjoy, Lannister and Tyrell. They will also be offering rings, but haven’t shared any pictures of them as of yet. These pieces will start shipping on March 30, to arrive just in time for the Season Four premiere.
You can order the pendants direct from Pyrrha or from the HBO Shop for $226(USD) each in either sterling silver or bronze. Pricing for the other items in the line start at $98. Jewelry is coming!
[via The Mary Sue via Geeks Are Sexy]
Game of Thrones is a complicated show with a never ending cast of characters and families and sigils and bannermen and animals and politics and power and maps and magic and breasts that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with who is fighting who and for what. This hilarious parody of Game of Thrones by Cracked imagines the show’s characters getting confused at all the little details in the war and losing track of what is who. It’s great.
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[SPOILERS] Craftsman and artist Mick Minogue made action figure-style woodcuts of some of Westeros’ infamously battered – or worse – characters for the Winter is Coming art show at the Ltd. Art Gallery. Needless to say, the figures give away some of the novels’ plot points and are most certainly not for kids.
Mick also made high quality packaging for the action figures, each with a funny blurb that alludes to the fate of the characters. Mick also said that the art show is based not on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones but on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, allowing Mick and the other artists to give their own interpretations of how the characters looked.
That last figure. Man. You’re on Arya’s list now Mick. Mick made eight action figures; if you can’t check them out at the Ltd. Gallery, keep an eye on Mick’s Facebook page, where he’ll share photos of the other toys. Mick also said he might make more aside from the ones he made for the show. It’s not like he’s lacking for material.
[via Topless Robot & This Greedy Pig]
Interested in a tour of Westeros? Of course you are. This Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros is available for pre-order now and it looks amazing.
This book is pretty awesome by itself, but you could also add some Game of Thrones action figures for a really fun time. It’s a book and an amazing playset in one. Check out the video to truly appreciate how cool this guide is.
This is the best pop-up book I’ve seen since I was a kid. You will totally want to get one for yourself. It looks like it has everything you could want between the covers. It will be released on March 25th, and is available for pre-order on Amazon for about $41(USD).
Now if it only played the theme song every time you opened it up.
[via Tor via Nerd Approved]
Game of Thrones fans, do you prefer candy or cake? With this tasty version of Winterfell, you don’t have to choose. It has both.
It’s easy to survive long winters when the snow is powdered sugar and you can lick the castle walls. If you want to make this bad boy for yourself, check out the Instructables guide. The project looks pretty involved, but the result is totally worth it.
Of course, Eddard Stark would never think about eating his castle, after taking so long to build it, but I ain’t Eddard Stark, so give me a fork.
[via That’s Nerdalicious]
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