{"id":239867,"date":"2026-04-08T05:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:02:17","slug":"game-of-thrones-themed-art-car-expected-to-turn-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239867\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones-themed Art Car expected to turn heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SPRING, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; More than 250 art cars are participating in the 39th annual Art Car Parade, and returning this year is artist Kimi Bainter of Spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Art Car Parade means everything to me,&#8221; Bainter shared with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bainter told ABC13 she has participated in Houston&#8217;s unique parade for 13 years. Last year, her design &#8220;Madonna Iguana&#8221; was awarded second place in the art car category. The year before, she took first place for her design &#8220;Baby YodaHead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I change my car every year, and so this year, I thought I&#8217;d do something not so sweet and kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For the 2026 parade, Bainter crafted a design titled &#8220;Winter is Coming,&#8221; inspired by the television show Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the video above, we joined the artist as she molded and crafted the car to look like the character, the Night King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 39th annual <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehoustonartcarparade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Art Car Parade<\/a>, presented by Team Gillman, returns Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC13 will live stream the parade starting at 2pm on Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; More than 250 art cars are participating in the 39th annual Art Car Parade,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[92060,92057,2635,8118,92056,56,58,57,92059,92058,15478,746],"class_list":{"0":"post-239867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-92060","9":"tag-art-car","10":"tag-artist","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-game-of-thrones","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-kimi-bainter","17":"tag-night-king","18":"tag-parade","19":"tag-spring"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}