$18,000?
For their presumption they get to pay the iron price...
Are you a Game of Thrones fan who dreams of marching an army to Kings Landing to take the Iron Throne? Dream no more. Game of Thrones, official Iron Throne replica HBO's replica of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones is available for $30,000 (£19,367). This is quite a knock up considering it isn't made from real swords, …
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Spookily enough, I had just read the related section last night from Game of Thrones:
Ned could feel cold steel against his fingers as he leaned forward. Between each finger was a blade, the points of twisted swords fanning out like talons from the arms of the throne. Even after three centuries, some were still sharp enough to cut. The Iron Throne was full of traps for the unwary. The songs said it had taken a thousand blades to make it, heated white-hot in the furnace breath of Balerion the Black Dread. The hammering had taken fifty-nine days. The end of it was this hunched black beast made of razor edges and barbs and ribbons of sharp metal; a chair that could kill a man, and had, if the stories could be believed.
The Fiberglass Throne doesn't quite have the same ring.
Skull sitting on swords, natch.
More like the "ironic throne" then, because after buying your throne you will be as poor as a pauper.....
That said, I bet that after the beating he took at Blackwater,Stannis Baratheon wishes he had just plunked down $30K+shipping instead of spending all that money on his army/fleet. So I guess its a matter of perspective!
The Danish Kings used to have a throne called the "Unicorn Throne" because it was made partly of alicorns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Alicorn), which were in reality narwhal tusks (which Denmark, being the sovereign of Greenland, had easy access to). But why say this when it was more impressive to claim they were from unicorns?