Thrones-style hockey intro shoots and scores
One of the side effects of becoming a global phenomenon: everyone’s out to reference you. (There’s even a local HVAC company whose commercials are in the Game of Thrones font, and want to check your heater because “Winter Is Coming.”) Now even sports teams have gotten into the act, as the NHL team from Colorado, the Avalanche, use the opening titles as an introduction for their team.
I’ll admit, if it had just been those first 30 seconds, this probably would have fallen into the category of “Yet Another Winter is Coming ad.” But this one is especially good for a few reasons:
- The theme song and the player’s names in place of the cast.
- The different rival cities in place on a Westeros-style clockwork map.
- That “flying through the spikes shot” was a really cute way to update the same shot from Westeros to America.
- And of course Canada is Beyond the Wall. Poor Winnipeg.
The computer graphics for the cities, unsurprisingly, aren’t as good as HBO’s credits, but otherwise whoever did this really did their homework. Check it out after the jump…
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