Be honest.

[Lentrax]

Would you buy this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f0d6/)?

I sure wouldn't. Not without a LOT of cushions anyway.

[Morph Bark]

For a fraction of the price I'd make my own.

[nedz]

Not at that price.
I'm sure its worth it, but that's quite a lot of cash for a chair.

[Thajocoth]

It's not as uncomfortable as it looks. They had one set up at the GDC last year...

Still, I wouldn't buy it because it doesn't have the qualities I look for in an office chair... And it's expensive. My chair at home was made by Serta. They make beds... The chair is quite comfy. It wasn't the cheapest, but it wasn't expensive either.

[Cikomyr]

If it's not made out of real swords to begin with, no.

Come on, an Iron Throne of plaster?! :smalltongue:

[Kelb_Panthera]

Not even at a fraction of that price. It doesn't look at all comfortable and it doesn't go with anything in my house. Maybe I'd consider buying it at material cost, but even then I'd be buying it for the material so I could melt it down and make something useful, assuming it's actually made of at least mostly iron.

[Haruki-kun]

If I had a house or apartment that could fit it and I had a lot of money (or it were cheaper), probably so. It's not so much a chair as an ornament of sorts. Memorabilia. It doesn't need to be practical.

[Heliomance]

Not even at a fraction of that price. It doesn't look at all comfortable and it doesn't go with anything in my house. Maybe I'd consider buying it at material cost, but even then I'd be buying it for the material so I could melt it down and make something useful, assuming it's actually made of at least mostly iron.

Nope, it's fibreglass and resin.

[Aedilred]

I'd pay the iron price for it.

If I had that much money to throw around on what is essentially junk, then I'd consider it, although I was disappointed to discover when I first saw it that it wasn't made from iron (as much sense as it makes that it isn't).

It is pretty cool, but it'd be a reasonable way down my list of things to buy even if I became rich enough to afford it.

[Dr.Epic]

Yes. Yes I would. Worth every penny. Not to mention you earn 219,975 geek points which is just frosting on an already pretty awesome cake.

[Coidzor]

Color me unimpressed and unamused.

[Dr.Epic]

Not even at a fraction of that price. It doesn't look at all comfortable and it doesn't go with anything in my house. Maybe I'd consider buying it at material cost, but even then I'd be buying it for the material so I could melt it down and make something useful, assuming it's actually made of at least mostly iron.

Then you get a new house!

[Othesemo]

I'd rather have spending money for a few years. I'd probably break it within a few weeks, anyways.

[pffh]

For that price I'd rather pay someone to make a real one.

[Dr.Epic]

For that price I'd rather pay someone to make a real one.

Good luck finding some dragons.

[JoshL]

At that price I'd rather buy one of these. (http://www.hrgiger.com/chairs.htm)

Still, pretty cool. And it SHOULD be uncomfortable to sit on...and dangerous!

[Kallisti]

Entertaining as I find the idea of purchasing the Iron Throne, no. I never really liked the way the show visualized the throne to begin with; there's no way I'd pay that kind of money for a fiberglass/resin mockup of one of their props.

[pffh]

Good luck finding some dragons.

I can probably find someone to make a few of those as well.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

You mean this thing?

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542861_3548168464129_1226380813_n.jpg

Way aheada ya.

[Worira]

At that price it would need to be made of actual high-carbon steel battle-ready swords.

And then I wouldn't buy it, because I don't need a chair made of swords. But, y'know, if I did.

[Dr.Epic]

I can probably find someone to make a few of those as well.

Good luck finding all seven dragon balls.

[Cuthalion]

I wouldn't pay for it. :smalltongue:

[Mystic Muse]

I feel entirely "Meh" towards it. It doesn't appeal to me, it doesn't look comfy, and the price tag is absurd.

[Anxe]

I would not buy that. There's no situation in which I'd want it in my home permanently. I'd also much rather have a car at that price. Or a down payment on a home.

[Dr.Epic]

I feel entirely "Meh" towards it. It doesn't appeal to me

What are you? Some kind of emotionless automaton?


it doesn't look comfy

It's not about comfort. It's about sending fear into the hearts of your enemies!


and the price tag is absurd.

Are you kidding!? It's worth exactly every penny!

[Anarion]

Nope, I wouldn't buy it. Who wants the seven kingdoms anyway? They're like, the crummiest kingdoms in the entire GoT world and half of them aren't even loyal at this point anyway.


I'd pay the iron price for it.


You must not have checked the link. They're not accepting the iron price. :smallbiggrin:

[Mystic Muse]

What are you? Some kind of emotionless automaton?

Yes. I am the Terminator. I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And I absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.



It's not about comfort. It's about sending fear into the hearts of your enemies! I am the terminator. I send fear into the hearts of my enemies just by existing.



Are you kidding!? It's worth exactly every penny!

Not to me.

[Doc Kraken]

That much for a kneeler's chair? You know nothing. :smalltongue:

Gotta give 'em points for the sheer density of references in the description, though.

[Heliomance]

Are you kidding!? It's worth exactly every penny!

If it was actually made of metal, maybe. For fibreglass and resin? No way.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

The actual prop isn't made out of metal, iirc. So, you may be out of luck there.

[Elemental]

No. I'd never consider buying that.
It's simply too expensive. If I had those kinds of funds available, I'd be doing some serious renovations!

[Dienekes]

Would I want the Iron Throne in my house, even if it was just a replica? Of course. It'd go great with my swords and armor. Hell, I'd probably reconfiguring a room or two around it.

Am I willing to pay $30,000 for, well, anything? No, no I am not.

[Ravens_cry]

No.
Damn.
Way.
Even if I had the money.

[Blue1005]

For wasting that much money, i feel like i could assemble one of the ultimate nerd collections and have the masses bow to my awesomeness. And it looks so fake and cheesy that I would be embarrassed to have it in my house.

[Morph Bark]

Am I willing to pay $30,000 for, well, anything? No, no I am not.

I'd be willing to pay that for a house.

If I had the money.

[Mikhailangelo]

'A must have for any ruler of the Seven Kingdoms'

Way to limit your target market guys!

[Socratov]

Let's say i have the money for it and I don't need it because i'd be stupendously rich...

Yes.

I'd even let some contractor build me a throneroom. One difference, It'd be my boardroom :smallyuk: and every division (let's say 7 divisions would be enough in my company) I would call a kingdom. and it would be awesome :smallcool: (I'd also have the crown made and name my PA Hand :smallamused:)

[Cespenar]

Not "accepting" the iron price is a silly phrase. You don't get to accept or refuse the iron price.

So, yeah. If I were a stinky Lannister, I'd buy that.

[Asta Kask]

I'll pass the tip along to the King of Sweden.

[Aedilred]

You must not have checked the link. They're not accepting the iron price. :smallbiggrin:
That's why I'm not buying it :smalltongue:

[Twilightwyrm]

Well first of all, I'm thinking that probably isn't made from metal, and likely isn't particularly sharp. But, if you could actually get a more...shall we say, true to life version, it would basically be to communicate that you do not screw around. I'm imagining a lawyer somewhere having one in a room he meets with the opposition in.

[Asta Kask]

The only thing it would communicate is that the owner is a colossal nerd.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

If money were no issue, I'd buy 8 and place them around a huge dinning room table, then have dinner with friends more often. Maybe have SoIaF Parties...

In all realistic likelihood, I'd never even consider spending that kind of money, but it would be hilarious to have not one, but EIGHT of the damn things in one room. Oh God, the tacky. So much tacky. The majesty!

[Seffbasilisk]

I would not. If I found it on the street, or won it in some sort of gambling wager I'd likely hold onto it...

However I too, favor the Iron price.

Ideally, I'd have the shattered swords of my foes, and smith them together to forge my own.

[shawnhcorey]

No, it would clash with my decor. :smallbiggrin:

[GnomeFighter]

$30k for a fiberglass set prop? No way is that worth that cost. Its probably around $50 of raw materials. The rest would be work, and at that cost they are claiming allot of man hours. It's not like it can even justify a huge markup when they are made to order...

[North_Ranger]

Nah, can't do it even if I wanted to. Took the black, you see...

Although I think I'd rock the pose of kingship:
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x9/Mikko_M/Goofy%20Halforum%20Pics/IMG_6981.jpg

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Nah, can't do it even if I wanted to. Took the black, you see...

Although I think I'd rock the pose of kingship:
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x9/Mikko_M/Goofy%20Halforum%20Pics/IMG_6981.jpg

Ah! Now I know the true reason behind your name! Doesn't enable me to have true power over you or something? XD

[Morph Bark]

If money were no issue, I'd buy 8 and place them around a huge dinning room table, then have dinner with friends more often. Maybe have SoIaF Parties...

In all realistic likelihood, I'd never even consider spending that kind of money, but it would be hilarious to have not one, but EIGHT of the damn things in one room. Oh God, the tacky. So much tacky. The majesty!

Why eight and not seven? Seven is a more fitting number...

The rest of the room would need to be made equally tacky. Possibly a round table. Maybe some banners cover the walls and windows. A bear/tiger carpet. Some kind of chandelier.

[Lentrax]

Bah, you would want a table in the shape of the Seven Kingdoms, for chairs of this significance!

[TheWombatOfDoom]

$40,000 Dragon Skull Sculptures mounted on the walls.

[Chess435]

For that much $, I'd rather buy a car.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

or go take classes in fiberglass sculpture! Then profit!

[WarKitty]

If I had that sort of money, I'd get myself a throne of real skulls.

[Dr.Epic]

Yes. I am the Terminator. I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And I absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

In that case let me destroy you mind with a paradox:

This statement is false.


I am the terminator. I send fear into the hearts of my enemies just by existing.

Except for Magneto or any given metal bender. Or Bender for that matter.


Not to me.

You're a robot. What do you know about sweet, sweet deals.

[North_Ranger]

Ah! Now I know the true reason behind your name! Doesn't enable me to have true power over you or something? XD

No, but it will spare you from the wrath of my squirrel companion, Mr Pibbles.

[Heliomance]

This statement is false.


I'm gonna go with... true.

[Coidzor]

I'd be willing to pay that for a house.

If I had the money.

I can't even imagine what circumstances could lead to a 30K house, even if one was building it one's self out of Cobb or Adobe & didn't count the value/price of the plot of land.

[Kelb_Panthera]

Nope, it's fibreglass and resin.

I didn't read anything on the page and I've never seen the show.

This statement makes that thing an official waste of my time. I'd sooner spend the $ on pre-paying my rent for the next several years in a better apartment.

[Mauve Shirt]

No. Not even if someone paid me to do it. With that much money I would make a down payment on a condo.

[Dr.Epic]

I didn't read anything on the page and I've never seen the show.

:smalleek:

WHAT!?!?!? What have you been doing? You gotta see it! It's awesome!

[HairyGuy4]

Would you buy this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f0d6/)?

I sure wouldn't. Not without a LOT of cushions anyway.

Never in a thousand years. What a rip off.

[Dr.Epic]

Am I the only sane person on this thread? How can you all pass up the chance to sit on your very own Iron Throne? (even if it isn't really iron)

[Coidzor]

Am I the only sane person on this thread? How can you all pass up the chance to sit on your very own Iron Throne? (even if it isn't really iron)

I think most of us are going through and trying to mentally calculate how different we'd have to be from who we are in order to have 30K to throw on what at least seems to be an impulse purchase.

I'm not much of a fan of the design of the Iron Throne from the show, or of the book series, really. The TV series I've only caught a bit of, anyway. And if I had 30K and was myself, I couldn't spend it on anything that I really wanted due to various things, and if I was a version of myself who had that kind of money lying around I'd probably only have it because I was about to reinvest it.

[Dr.Epic]

I think most of us are going through and trying to mentally calculate how different we'd have to be from who we are in order to have 30K to throw on what at least seems to be an impulse purchase.

I'm not much of a fan of the design of the Iron Throne from the show, or of the book series, really. The TV series I've only caught a bit of, anyway. And if I had 30K and was myself, I couldn't spend it on anything that I really wanted due to various things, and if I was a version of myself who had that kind of money lying around I'd probably only have it because I was about to reinvest it.

WHAT!? It's a throne made of swords! That's friggin' awesome!

[Coidzor]

WHAT!? It's a throne made of swords! That's friggin' awesome!

Kinda. Design just really doesn't do it for me though. Honestly, with art students being as desperate for cash as they are, the only real obstacle to exploiting them for cheaper would be the time it'd take to get a better design.

[Elemental]

This statement is false.

If you say so.

[Crow]

Maybe if I had the money and it was built from real swords :)

[North_Ranger]

For me the breaking points are two things:
(1.) The price. Putting down 30K for something like that - even with an astronomically high coolness factor - is simply too much.
(2.) The size of that thing. I live in a relatively cluttered condo, and I simply wouldn't have a place to put that.

Now if that was in an exhibition and I could park my keister on it for a photo... you'd bet your ass I'd be sitting there. But still, took the black.

[Killer Angel]

They cannot ship the item outside of the U.S.
What a pity... otherwise, I would certainly buy it.

[Knaight]

If it were free, I wouldn't pick it up. I consider the way the show visualized the throne to be sloppy, contradictory to the books, and generally not that interesting. Furthermore, I currently have very little in my house that indicates that I am a nerd of some sort at all (the presence of 7500 pages of classic Chinese literature on my bookshelf is probably the biggest indicator, along with the small shelf of RPGs), which is exactly how I like it - this gaudy thing would kill that in an instant. If you then add 30 thousand dollars on top of being free, it goes from a mere "absolutely not" to some variety of "[profanity] no I'm not buying that [profanity]."

[Ravens_cry]

For thirty grand I want a working lightsabre or plans for a working Cochrane Warp drive.

[TuggyNE]

I can't even imagine what circumstances could lead to a 30K house, even if one was building it one's self out of Cobb or Adobe & didn't count the value/price of the plot of land.

You can actually make a perfectly good* straw bale house for anywhere from maybe $20k to $50k, especially if you use unskilled labor for most of it. (That doesn't, obviously, include the price of land, but it does include just about everything else.)

As far as the topic of the thread... nah, $30k for a big chair that isn't even actually made of swords (or iron/steel at all, even) is just not even plausible, even if I had the cash. Fiberglass doesn't do it for me.


*Where "perfectly good" is defined as, surprisingly, nearly fire-proof, earthquake-resistant, very quiet and rather well-insulated.

Full disclosure: Not actually a SoIaF nerd anyway. ;)

[Maelstrom]

Speaking as a fan of GoT and a semi fan of the HBO series (Not a fan of martin, however)...Never, ever

I'm not a huge fan of memorabilia to begin with, but something like this...Not sure what it is, but it really chaps my hide (without every sitting on 'resin' swords). It just looks fake. Nothing about it is impressive (excepting the price, which as an affront to pretty much anyone, money or no)...

Looking at it again (it's like a train wreck)...Seriously?


You can actually make a perfectly good* straw bale house for anywhere from maybe $20k to $50k, especially if you use unskilled labor for most of it. (That doesn't, obviously, include the price of land, but it does include just about everything else.)


Heck for 30-50 grand you can build a reasonably sized house out of wood or stone/blocks if you are doing the labor yourself... It's really the labor and land (!) that add up the costs (for a basic place, of course)

[Dr.Epic]

Kinda. Design just really doesn't do it for me though. Honestly, with art students being as desperate for cash as they are, the only real obstacle to exploiting them for cheaper would be the time it'd take to get a better design.

Pff. You just have no eye for taste. Would you rather prefer a sword made out of thrones as opposed to a throne made of swords?


Maybe if I had the money and it was built from real swords :)

What about built from real lightsabers. Though I'm not sure you could sit in it with out getting sliced into tiny pieces.

[Ravens_cry]

*Where "perfectly good" is defined as, surprisingly, nearly fire-proof, earthquake-resistant, very quiet and rather well-insulated.

Full disclosure: Not actually a SoIaF nerd anyway. ;)
Just watch out for wolves with incredible lung capacity.:smalltongue:

[Elemental]

Just watch out for wolves with incredible lung capacity.:smalltongue:

Or a herd of really hungry cows.

[Asta Kask]

I like how it's priced at $29999.99c. Don't spend that one cent all in one go!

[Kelb_Panthera]

I like how it's priced at $29999.99c. Don't spend that one cent all in one go!

That's just an old subliminal marketing ploy that's been used forever and a day.

[Jay R]

Would you buy this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f0d6/)?

I sure wouldn't. Not without a LOT of cushions anyway.

No cushions. Sometimes you sacrifice comfort for style.


WHAT!? It's a throne made of swords! That's friggin' awesome!

In the long run, all true thrones were made of swords. That's how rulership of a kingdom is built.

But this one isn't - it's made of fiberglass.

Ultimately, I wish I could afford this throne. I still wouldn't buy it, but I wish I had that much money.

[Wardog]

I wouldn't buy it, because I don't have either the money or the space for it.

If I did have the money and the space for it (and if for some reason I wanted a throne made out of swords), then I would spend the money on a throne made of swords. Not a fibreglass chair that looks as though it's made out of swords.

Also
This item does not qualify for free shipping is really cheap of them.


On the other hand, this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e793/) looks cool, seems reasonably priced, and would actually be useful for me (I don't like wearing wrist-watches, and for various reasons my phone isn't a perfect replacement).

[Dr.Epic]

Oh man! I just got the greatest idea! This Halloween, dress up as the actual Iron Throne! That'd be awesome! Wish I thought of this earlier! I don't have enough time to make a replica even out of cardboard. Next year...next year...