Inspired by the Emmy Award–winning title sequence that opens each episode of the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros is guaranteed to thrill the show’s legions of fans.
Featuring stunning pop-up recreations of several key locations from the series, including the formidable castle of Winterfell, the lavish capital city King’s Landing, and the Wall’s stark majesty, this book takes readers into the world of the series like never before.
Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros features five stunning spreads that fold out to create a remarkable pop-up map of Westeros, as well as numerous mini-pops that bring to life iconic elements of the show, such as direwolves, White Walkers, giants, and dragons. All the pops are accompanied by insightful text that relays the rich history of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond, forming a dynamic reference guide to the world of Game of Thrones.
Visually spectacular and enthrallingly interactive, Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros sets a new standard for pop-up books and perfectly captures the epic scope and imagination of the series.
Review:
I actually bought and first read this book several years ago but reviewing Matthew Reinhart's Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts recently made me realise I never got around to posting pictures of Westeros. These books are both just so much fun to look through. Each page has so much detail and there are lots of little additional pop outs showing things like the Iron Throne and things like the Direwolves and White Walkers. Let's face it this is never going to be the kind of book you look through regularly and it's a bit too bulky to display but it's still enjoyable to pull out and flip through occasionally.
Each page can be looked at separately or you can unfold the entire book to create a huge pop-up map which reminds me a lot of the opening credits from the TV show. It's a bit fiddly to fold out so you need to be careful as you do it but although there are easy to follow instructions it really can be opened out by feel. The only downside of having the entire map unfolded is that it's so big it makes it hard to focus on the smaller details from each page so I think on balance I'm unlikely to open it out very often no matter how cool it looks.
King's Landing
The Eyrie
Winterfell
The Wall
The Continent of Essos
The entire map unfolded
This book trailer shows the book in a even more detail including how to open it out into the giant map:
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A 3D masterpiece celebrating Harry Potter's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from New York Times best-selling pop-up engineer Matthew Reinhart.
Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts is an exhilarating, interactive guide to the iconic school of witchcraft and wizardry. This book features spectacular pop-up re-creations of key locations inside and outside Hogwarts castle, and it opens flat to form a pop-up map of the castle and its grounds - including the Quidditch pitch, the Forbidden Forest, and beyond.
In addition to large pops on each spread, numerous mini-pops will bring to life beloved elements from the Harry Potter films, such as the Marauder's Map and the Flying Ford Anglia. Each pop will include insightful text about Hogwarts as seen in the films, making for a must-have collectible for fans of the Wizarding World.
Review: Harry Pottter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts is exactly what it sounds like, an interactive 3D pop-up model of Hogwarts Castle as well as locations like the Quidditch pitch, the Forbidden Forest and even part of Hogsmead Village. There are five large models that can be opened separately or if you're very careful you can fold out the entire book into one huge map. Although it was fun to open the book out fully once I found that when you've done that it's so big that you can't really appreciate all of the little details so I actually prefer to look at the models separately so I can fully enjoy what I'm seeing.
This is the kind of book that you never get tired of because there are just so many little hidden doors and windows to open, additional pull tabs that bring out new pop-ups or move characters around etc, that every time you look at a page you find your eyes drawn to a new detail that you didn't spot before. Honestly, the amount of detail is insane and if you have a torch on hand for looking inside the models you'll find even more. Spot Hagrid baking rock cakes in his house or Harry and his friends having a Herbology lesson in the greenhouse, you can even help Harry catching a golden snitch on the Quidditch pitch!
This book isn't cheap so I was hesitant to make the purchase at full price but it was well worth the money when I found it going cheap on Amazon. As lovely as it is I still think it's over priced at £50 but for around £20 I think Harry Potter fans will be very happy with it.
I found it really difficult to take decent pics of the pop-ups but hopefully these photos should give you some idea of the amount of detail included:
Hogwarts Castle part one where you can peek inside the dormitories
Dumbledore's Office
Hogwarts Castle part two with the classrooms and greenhouses
The Quidditch Pitch
Hogsmead Village with an interactive Marauders Map
The Forbidden Forest & Hagrid's Hut
The entire map folded out
(with a bonus curious kitty who wanted to know what I was up to!)
This trailer shows detail of the two main castle pop ups:
This one includes the Quidditch pitch and Hogsmead:
The final trailer is of the Forbidden Forest as well as showing you how to fold out the giant map at the end:
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