If you don’t know what G.O.T. means, you may have been asleep for the past few years as the Game of Thrones phenomenon has become not only one of the world’s most widely-watched TV series but also a driver of tourism business to all the places it has filmed.
Now, Northern Ireland is poised to become the mother lode of G.O.T. tourism as HBO, the show’s producer, opens an attracting allowing visitors to visit the Linin Mill Studios at Banbridge, where interiors are filmed, and to walk through some of the standing location sets, including King’s Landing, Castle Black and Winterfell.
In a possible bit of hyperbole, HBO Licensing & Retail says it will be “on a scale and scope bigger than anything the public has ever seen.” Perhaps not quite, but there will be costumes, props, weapons, models and “interactive materials which will showcase some of the digital wizardry the series is known for.”
The project is set for an opening in Spring 2019.
