--- title: Game of Thrones: IKEA Has Iron Throne Toilet Display description: Game of Thrones fans now have the opportunity to sit on the Iron Throne without battling white walkers, dragons or even Cersei Lannister. canonical: https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-05T15:08:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:49.684Z og:title: IKEA Offers a Game of Thrones-Style Iron Throne Now og:description: When you play the game of thrones, you win or you continue shopping og:url: https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa91e6f44d06b8c7/698899bb8e060104d8466782/cersei-lannister.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3733 og:image:height: 2100 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S6-E10 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IKEA Offers a Game of Thrones-Style Iron Throne Now twitter:description: When you play the game of thrones, you win or you continue shopping twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa91e6f44d06b8c7/698899bb8e060104d8466782/cersei-lannister.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This _Game of Thrones_ Display at IKEA May Have Customers Vying for the Iron Throne > Sponsored content. 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When you play the game of thrones, you win or you continue shopping_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 5, 2017 3:08 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 5, 2017 3:08 PM UTC Thanks to an [IKEA](http://time.com/money/4673887/best-ikea-product/) in France, [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/) fans now have the opportunity to sit on the Iron Throne without battling white walkers, dragons or even [Cersei Lannister](http://time.com/4398147/game-of-thrones-cersei-lannister-marry-euron-greyjoy/). A photo uploaded recently to [Reddit by user rpmdebslack](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/62zl4n/ikea%5Fdoes%5Fsome%5Ffrench%5Fwordplay%5Fwith%5Fgame%5Fof/) shows a toilet display in the French store cleverly arranged to resemble the Westerosi seat of power, complete with a collection of toilet brushes and their holders that pass for the swords of Aegon the Conqueror’s enemies. The display is even accompanied by the words, “Oserez-vous monter sur le trône?,” which translates to, “Would you dare sit on the throne?” See the photo below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/"},"headline":"This Game of Thrones Display at IKEA May Have Customers Vying for the Iron Throne","datePublished":"2017-04-05T15:08:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:49.684Z","description":"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you continue shopping","url":"https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","Ikea","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa91e6f44d06b8c7/698899bb8e060104d8466782/cersei-lannister.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa91e6f44d06b8c7/698899bb8e060104d8466782/cersei-lannister.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game-of-Thrones-S6-E10","caption":"","creditText":"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/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/","name":"This Game of Thrones Display at IKEA May Have Customers Vying for the Iron Throne"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you continue shopping","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4726404/game-of-thrones-ikea-iron-throne-toilet-display/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```