--- title: Game of Thrones: HBO Toy Line Could Offer Clue About Jon Snow's Fate description: Spoiler alert, as always canonical: https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-27T15:56:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:36.433Z og:title: The New 'Game of Thrones' Toys Could Offer a Clue About Jon Snow's Fate og:description: Spoiler alert, as always og:url: https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt877c5a2ef0ee82bc/69885332cd6848cab50a0354/got-jon-snow-dance-of-dragons.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in 'Game of Thrones' og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The New 'Game of Thrones' Toys Could Offer a Clue About Jon Snow's Fate twitter:description: Spoiler alert, as always twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt877c5a2ef0ee82bc/69885332cd6848cab50a0354/got-jon-snow-dance-of-dragons.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # HBO Is Toying With Us Over Jon Snow's Fate by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 27, 2015 3:56 PM UTC  HELEN SLOAN/HBO by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 27, 2015 3:56 PM UTC HBO just added fuel to the fire in the debate over Jon Snow’s fate on _Game of Thrones_. As [Pedestrian](http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/hbo-might-have-accidentally-revealed-jon-snows-fat/f42ad335-56a8-4729-a828-63165d28bbc3.htm) reports, HBO recently sent out a press release promoting a sale of their latest collection of toys. While that is not particularly newsworthy the collection is called the “[Honor The Fallen: The Memoriam Collection](https://www.hboshopeu.com/en/gb/gift-finder/fallen.html?rel=1)” and features several beloved characters all killed before their time by the cruel hand of author George R. R. Martin and the writers of the HBO series, including Robb Stark, Khal Drogo, The Hound, Ned Stark, Oberyn Martell and the less beloved Joffrey Lannister. However there is one character noticeably absent from the toys of the dead (a concept that is suitably dark for the HBO series) — Jon Snow. The character, played by Kit Harington, died at the hands of his Watcher brethren and has had the internet buzzing with conspiracy theories since the scene aired in June. Yet he is not featured in the Memoriam Collection. Could that mean that he’s not actually dead? Or is HBO just prolonging its torture of fans like it’s been reading from the Ramsay Snow playbook? This is hardly the first instance of speculation that Jon Snow could be returning to the show. Rumors circulated when Harington showed up at the Wimbledon tennis championship sporting Snow’s [trademark shoulder-length hair](http://time.com/3945898/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington/) and again when he was[ spotted in Belfast ](http://time.com/3967082/kit-harington-belfast-jon-snow-game-thrones-season-6/)where _Game of Thrones_ is filming. Plus, in the words of [ _A Song of Ice and Fire_ creator Martin](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/14/game-thrones-jon-snow-really-dead): “If there’s one thing we know in _A Song of Ice and Fire_ is that death is not necessarily permanent.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/"},"headline":"HBO Is Toying With Us Over Jon Snow's Fate","datePublished":"2015-07-27T15:56:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:36.433Z","description":"Spoiler alert, as always","url":"https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","HBO","game of thrones","Kit Harington","Toys","Jon Snow"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt877c5a2ef0ee82bc/69885332cd6848cab50a0354/got-jon-snow-dance-of-dragons.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt877c5a2ef0ee82bc/69885332cd6848cab50a0354/got-jon-snow-dance-of-dragons.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in 'Game of Thrones'","caption":"Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in 'Game of Thrones'","creditText":"HELEN SLOAN/HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3973117/hbo-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-dead/","name":"HBO Is Toying With Us Over Jon Snow's Fate"}}]}] ```