Valyrian steel is much lighter than one might expect, because it is the only metal that can be beaten as thin as it is and still retain its strength. The ripples in the steel, a mark of steel that has been folded on itself many thousands of times, is also a hallmark (III: 358, 359)
Replicas from HBO’s® series Game of Thrones®
We are pleased to announce we have acquired exclusive rights to produce weapon and armor prop replicas from the HBO® series Game of Thrones®. We will begin manufacturing these items while continuing to work on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” book replicas we already produce. We are very excited about the ability to pull from the designs the prop designers on the show have come up with. We have already started work on the Bran Assassination Dagger, the Hound’s Helm, a Stark Infantry Shield, and Robb Stark’s Sword, which we hope to have out by the end of the year. Many are likely wondering if we plan on producing show versions of the book swords we have already done, the answer to that is yes, we intend on eventually doing that.
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February 2nd, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Amazing news! Congratulations.
February 2nd, 2012 at 7:13 pm
I can’t wait! At this rate, I’m going to dedicate a whole room in my house to ASOIAF!
February 2nd, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Will you be making any limited Damascus versions from the show?
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Will you be making the show’s version if Ice?
Would also love to see Blackfyre and/ or Dark Sister.
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:25 pm
I would love to buy a Maester’s chain, if that is not too small an item for your production.
February 3rd, 2012 at 7:27 am
A Maester’s chain may not be considered armor, which is what our license allows. We will be making Ice eventually. We cannot make items under the show license that are not from the show (Blackfyre/Dark Sister). We could make those under the book license, but do not want to as they have not received any significant “page time.” @Grant yes, but not everything.
February 3rd, 2012 at 8:19 am
@Valyrian, I would really like to see Gendry’s Bull Helm in addition to The Oathkeeper everyones drooling of. How about the Red Viper’s spear?
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:31 am
Will Jaime Lannister’s sword and Robert Baratheon’s sword be coming out? Those are two really awesome swords in the show.
February 3rd, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Definitely looking forward to seeing a show version of Longclaw! And of course the House shields!
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:46 pm
How close to the show’s weapons will your versions be?
Will it be exact in terms of length, width, thickness, etc?
From what I remember, Ice on the show is MASSIVE, longer even than the current Damascus version being sold.
Dennis
February 4th, 2012 at 7:15 am
Pretty exact, but it isn’t that much bigger than the one currently being sold. Having held both side by side now, its like 2 or 3 inches.
February 4th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Thanks for reply.
I have to say that I like your design for Ice better. Maybe it’s the limitations of shooting for a T.V. series but the Ice on the show has a very common run of the mill appearance. Looks basically just like a big sword, nothing more.
Maybe that fits in better with the utilitarian, no frills personality of the Starks or HBO’s vision of “reality behind fantasy” but your design from the book just seems more in line with “high fantasy” especially with the look of the pommel.
February 4th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
OMG I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST this about Arya Stark’s Needle. I was going tocoplain it looked nothing liek the one in the show, but I didn’t realize you based the appearance on the books. I might think of purchasing the HBO Needle
February 5th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Will you guys be making the blades of Daario?
February 5th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Wow…that is totally awesome Valyrian Steel! This opens up so many great possibilities. I can’t wait! I love the ideas of what you have planned, but why Robb’s sword? To me it just kind of seemed like an ordinary norman/arming sword. That being said, i’ll still probably buy it! Some suggestions would be: a Knight of the Vale shield, Gendy’s helm, and I don’t know how far you want to get into suits of armor, but a kingsguard, gold cloak, and Lannister guardsmen suits of armor would be awesome. Also an arakh, Khal Drogo’s knives, Visery’s cool falchion-ish sword, and Jaime Lannister’s sword and dagger, (you could ask Jory Cassel about the specifications, he got a good “look” at it). For next season, depending on how they look, you could do an entire Unsullied outfit: spear, shield, short sword, spiked helm, sandals, tunic.
Also, this might be just way too obscure but as i was re-watching the episode when the hill tribes attack Catelyn and Tyrion, at the end of the fight, Bronn walks towards Tyrion and he has a badass looking kukri in his belt which could be pretty cool.
One more thing, this is not relating to the show, but Victarion Greyjoy’s kraken helm and cloak from the books would be sweet.
February 5th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Just another thought. Rhaegar’s ruby encrusted armor would be an amazing piece to display.
February 5th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Daario’s “girls” are something we’re quite excited about for the future.
February 5th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Is there any idea on when concepts of the “girls” will be in the works? I would love to be able to get a pair of my own in the future.
Also is there any idea when Bran’s assassination dagger will be announced for preorders?
February 5th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
We would like to do a show version of the “girls” so that entirely depends on when the Daario character is introduced.
On the assassination dagger, no.
February 7th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Good news
In terms of the armour, will you be releasing any leather armour that many characters wear? And would these be display items, or possibly wearable versions, as I am involved in medieval re-enactment.
Love your work.
February 7th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I would love to eddard Starks ice or Jayme lanister golden sword or lanister armour or kings guard. What about jora mornmiths sword or broms. Any chance of jofferys sword or an arark
February 7th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
What about scabbards for your existing swords
February 7th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Jaime Lannister’s sword from the show!!!
February 7th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
I assume you won’t have to make an HBO version of Longclaw in that they used your version of the sword in the 1st season. By the By was that Longclaw the prototype sword you sold recently (the person who got it probably will want to tape that episode and flaunt that fact it was used in the show if that was the case) anyway this may be an obvious answer just double checking in case there is an HBO longclaw you will make that I am unaware of.
February 7th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Sorry Brad, that isn’t the case. HBO used a sword similar to ours (seeing as how we both worked from the same source material) but it wasn’t the same sword. They had their own original design on it.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Are there any plans to make Jamie Lannister’s sword from the show or are you going to wait and see their design for oathkeeper(i thought the sword from the show looked similar to what I’d imagine oathkeeper would look like)
February 8th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Will you be posting up pictures of some of the show props you’ll be making replicas of? I’d love to get a nice look at what you guys will be producing. I can’t wait to have two difference Ices hanging up!
February 8th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Any plans on doing the crowns of the kings from season 2?
February 12th, 2012 at 9:13 am
When are Oathkeeper photos going to be released? Do you have a price estimate on it yet?
February 13th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Any chance of seeing “Dragonbinder” as a Valyrian Steel original or HBO replica?
February 23rd, 2012 at 6:51 pm
What about Dawn?
February 25th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
“When are Oathkeeper photos going to be released? Do you have a price estimate on it yet?”…x2.
February 27th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Do you think you might do a version of Longclaw when it belonged to House Mormont, before it burned?
February 27th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
I was wondering where in the books do you find references / pictures of these swords.
February 28th, 2012 at 6:43 am
GRRM’s head Devin, we work closely with him to design the swords.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:30 am
I’m really looking forward to seeing pics of Oathkeeper and the Hound’s Helm.
March 3rd, 2012 at 9:13 pm
I’m really excited for the hounds helm, if it looks anything like the GoT tv series with functioning visor it will be epic! I realize that it is in production, but do you have any idea on pricing?
March 6th, 2012 at 3:34 am
I have to say, I own a Valyrian Steel Ice and I love it, it has a place of honour in my collection…
But since I first read the books, there is one weapon from a Song of Ice and Fire that I want more than anything: Dawn, the sword of Ser Arthur Dayne, Sword of the Morning.
The most famous sword in Westeros, from the greatest swordsman mentioned in the books, who met such an unnecessarily tragic end.
It just speaks to me.
March 12th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Is there any information about Oathbreaker? I have Long Claw and want to add to my collection
March 12th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Oathkeeper and no, nothing to report.
March 13th, 2012 at 8:08 am
The HBO arakhs are really cool. I would love one with a high carbon steel blade and maybe a resin handle.
March 13th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
how many ice damascus are there left?
March 14th, 2012 at 7:01 am
120
March 14th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
When do you plan on unveiling some of the new hbo Designs? And from what i saw on the show the lenghts of swords usally are the same, but the blades do appear to be alot thicker than the Longclaw and Ice being produced for the books. Will the hbo versions be more expensive if they are in fact heavier and thicker?
March 14th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
I pre-ordered Robert’s war hammer, just curious if you have a ballpark estimate of when that is coming out. Also, any info or first looks at some other stuff coming our way soon? I saved the most important for last. I don’t know what kind of source material you could look at to design it, but I think that if you took a poll the most popular piece you could make would be Arthur Dayne’s sword Dawn. It would definitely be a best seller and would be the ultimate fan pleaser. Please make Dawn.
March 19th, 2012 at 2:41 am
I would love you guys forever if you stuck to making Oathkeeper. I also think making the Hound’s Helm is a wicked idea.
March 26th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
shutup and take my money!
March 26th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
So you will be making the HBO version of Longclaw?!? I loved the wolf pommel from the show!
March 26th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
How many of Needle, Longclaw and Ice are still available?
March 27th, 2012 at 6:27 am
1500, 830, 800
March 27th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Wow im surprised theres still alot of needles left. Hmm maybe the production run for the swords should be 1,000 for each item moving forward. You figure youd sell them all out within 1 year or less and it’ll make the rest of the items coming out even bigger sellers since they tend to go fast.
March 30th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Will the HBO reproductions be “battle ready”? I know that term is somewhat loathed, but basically asking if it can be swung around without fear that it’s going to break apart from the force. I have some wall hangers that would be really dangerous to swing, much less make contact with something.
March 30th, 2012 at 9:59 am
I would love the Mountain’s Irish ring pommel styled greatsword. I also hope the blades are battle ready.
March 30th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
just give me an update on the new releases already and i’ll be happy. concept art, drawings or even just a written description of what is in the works would be greatly appreciated!
March 30th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Bran Assassination Dagger:
Steel Type?
Full Tang?
Handle Material?
Sharpen-able?
Stark Infantry Shield:
Material?
Functional/wearable?
March 31st, 2012 at 7:58 am
This isn’t finalized yet, but the dagger will be damascus, not full tang, come sharpened already, with a faux-dragon-bone (synthetic) grip, and 24k gold plated metal parts. Stark shield more up in the air, probably high carbon steel, very functional and wearable.
March 31st, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Sweet! Sounds pretty awesome! BTW any update on Robb’s sword and also the Oathkeeper? I think from what I was able to research in the archives here on this site is that Oathkeeper is to be only Damascus steel and colored as well (very cool). Keep up the amazing work!
April 1st, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I know everyone wants Dawn as do I but this is really hard to make right.
The thing looks like MILK GLASS but is a match for Valyrian steel.
It’s badass in the books but how is this going to look in real life?
I guess Valyrian can make it literally out of milkglass but that would mean an extraordinarily fragile display piece and the risk of breakage would be huge. Otherwise, not sure how you can make steel look like that . . .
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:11 am
If Dawn is made, milk glass or otherwise, we will buy it. It is known.
April 2nd, 2012 at 1:42 pm
These replicas are all excellent, do you have any plans on selling any Dothraki weapons in the future (primarily the Arakh)?
April 2nd, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Yes
April 2nd, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Any price estimates on the dagger yet?
Over $200?
April 2nd, 2012 at 4:17 pm
around 300, its small and just a dagger, but it is still damascus and 24k gold plated.
April 3rd, 2012 at 9:53 am
Since you guys deal with GRRM frequently I was wondering if he mentioned any progress on the 6th book. He has not updated his site for the book since the 5th came out.
April 3rd, 2012 at 10:09 am
We don’t get any special access to book progress. But I know he did read a chapter from the next book recently.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/george-r-r-martin-reveals-new-winds-of-winter-chapter
April 3rd, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Are you going to be posting pictures soon of the dagger or Oathkeeper?
April 4th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Stark Infantry Shield and Hound’s Helm:
Price estimates?
April 4th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
helm probably be $300.
shield might be same, might be more, it isn’t as far along in the process yet.
April 5th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Gave this site a shoutout in my column (at the end) NORTH OF THE WALL, an episode review/recap at Joblo.com (http://www.joblo.com/blu-rays-dvds/news/beyond-the-wall-this-week-on-game-of-thrones-episode-1-april-1-2012-02)
Check it out and lemme know what you think, and I suppose you’re the one to ask, was that a replica of Robert’s Warhammer in the beginning matches?
April 5th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
It looked a lot like it didn’t it? It is possible HBO’s prop designers were inspired by our hammer, but they weren’t provided one by us.
April 8th, 2012 at 5:48 am
Will you guys be making any house banners? Like the ones UC made to go with the LOTR Gondor shield ? The stark round shield from the HBO series would be sweet, but 10X
better with a house banner !
April 8th, 2012 at 6:22 am
Our license does not include banners, though I know exactly what you mean. There are some banners made by other manufacturers.
We do plan to do something cool with the shield though.
April 8th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Trying not to spoil for people who have not read or watched the series???Lightbringer??? Does S****** really have it or if it is/was “Dawn” , “Oathkeeper” , “Ice” ,”Blackfyre”, the D****n h*** or ????? Strange that no one is asking for one of the most important swords (my opinion) in the story????Could it also be the first Valyrian sword forged??Just saying next time your with GRRM that would be a great discussion Lol.
April 15th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Do you think that Oathkeeper will cost about the same amount as Damascus Longclaw?
April 15th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Less, we hope.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:04 am
timeframe for king of the north’s sword release? summer 2012? or winter 2012? (no pun intended).
April 27th, 2012 at 1:45 am
This may have already been answered, but when you do an HBO replica of Longclaw, will it be damascus and full tang?
April 30th, 2012 at 6:31 am
Any Chance you will be producing lannister swords and armour it looks so cool.
also any chance any of the wepons will be battle ready
April 30th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Any possible, vague timetable on future products? Also, any pics of anything in the developmental stage? It’s been a while since we got any upcoming pics or any solid news.
April 30th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Sorry we have nothing to share. We’re working on things. It isn’t like the book replicas where we’d have concept art to show, they’re existing props, you’ve all already seen them on TV. So there is nothing to show until a prototype is done and photographed, and that takes awhile.
Eventually though, there will be lots of information, since we’re doing so many products concurrently.
May 1st, 2012 at 10:29 am
I would buy a TV show version of Needle
May 14th, 2012 at 3:30 am
Is there any news about the new items?
May 14th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
longclaw for the win. any chance that you might make any banners of the major houses i cant describe how awesome that would be ive wanted a house stark banner for so long. please make one please
May 16th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I would like to buy the HBO versions of Longclaw, Ice, Needle, etc…not really interested in book versions of anything. Maybe Bob’s Hammer.