Apparently Reinhart is an unstoppable force. His recent Transformers book, itself a tour de force, is a departure from the form that he and Sabuda and have developed over years. That book involved a lot more pull tabs than ever, mechanisms activated by pulling the whole page into a new configuration, the power coming from your fingers pulling the tab. Until then all the mechanisms in all of the books work one way or another by simply opening the page and that is what I like about them.
It's like origami in the sense of self-imposed rule. It restricts but it also forces creativity by strict adherence to canon. Outside that, you're just messing around. I made that up. I don't know. Origami paper is square, I noticed. Rectangular paper will not do. If you use a dollar, then the rectangular shape makes it automatically something else. Something like origami in all respects except its shape of origin, it not being square, so not legal, a bastard origami. That's how I feel about pop-ups that do not work by themselves by the card or the page being opened.
With this new book here again, another departure, the pages do not open as a book but rather as a map of the whole mythologic Game of Thrones space, So it will take the whole table or whole living room floor to open to full spread. Individual discrete mechanisms positioned on each page that work by you opening the insert, as if a new tiny page built onto its flap portion of the extended map.
I'm not digging the cost, $65.00. Etaiyo!
That's "ouch" in Japanese. Good thing it's really only $41.00. Phew, a savings of $24.00. But that's still getting up there, way up there, almost 1/3 of the way up to the cost of a college text book. Preorder for March 25th.
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From the Amazon page.
"...a Game of Thrones pop-up book that transforms completely into a 3-D version of Westeros that you could barely fit on your dinner table!...Finally, our cats can wander around Westeros as if they own the place."
—TOR.com
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Where are the weiners? The floppy weiners?
Very disappointing. Perhaps they will be part of the director's cut to be released later. On a side note, to keep abreast of the times, I have renamed my own personal floppy weiner "Bossy."
Oh! Now I know what you mean. SouthPark reference. I had to go to reddit for the answer. Nice folks over there. They're intensely interested in the amount of dick shown in the show, whose dicks they are, for how long shown or discussed in the books, compared to time spent showing tits, and why not more dick, because South Park led them to expect more dick. Floppy floppy dick. And dragons. The same questions relating to dragons.
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