VIP / Insiders! Double points coming up, and Jane Austen GWP 🥰

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Hello, my lovelies. It's that time again. They're offering a double VIP / Insider point special later this week, and it's timed to go with a Jane Austen GWP (Gift with Purchase).

From the lego website, from the 19th through the 23rd, earn double points on your purchases at lego.com:



So that's going to be the time for me to pull the trigger on getting the 10351 Sherlock Holmes Book Nook I've been jonsing for. And because they totally saw me coming, this coincides with a Gift with Purchase in Jane Austen's honour, a part of a growing series of GWPs honouring famous authors. 40766 Tribute to Jane Austen's Books | 361 pieces | 1 minifig | 18+.

As with a previous GWP 40410 Charles Dickens Tribute, the set includes a vignette and an oversized book. In this set we have Jane Austen's parlour with fireplace, curtained window, bookshelf, pianoforte / Clementi square piano, and portraits on the walls from her books. A little oddly, the portraits are depicted with the traditional yellow lego skin tone, while the included Jane Austen minifig is flesh toned. Maybe because one group is fictional and the other an historical personage? No clue. The Austen minifig will fit in beautifully at Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, or Hogsmeade, however, so I appreciate that she's light nougat. (Another GWP in the famous novelist series, 40690 Tribute to Jules Verne's Books also includes an outsized book and minifig of the author, but instead of a minifig scale vignette, there's a little submarine representing Captain Nemo's Nautilus from 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' and a train and hot air balloon from Phileas Fogg's journey 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.)

The only portrait I feel reasonably confident that I recognise, on the upper right, depicts what I assume is Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy) and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Mr. Darcy) dancing at the Ball at Netherfield from 'Pride and Prejudice'. The one on the upper left is likely to be the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne (which was also the working title of the novel), from 'Sense and Sensibility'. The one in the lower right could be Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley from 'Emma', mostly because it echoes the pose of characters in an 1898 illustration from the book. (That's significant because there really isn't a great deal of touching between characters outside of dances or the weddings.) I wouldn't swear to any of those, though. They're unconfirmed; that's just me, spitballing.

Starting 19 June, 2025, for as long as supplies last:


Jane Austen enjoyed music and played the piano all her life. As a young girl, her love of music was encouraged by her father, who bought her a pianoforte and arranged for her to receive instruction from the assistant organist at Winchester Cathedral. When the family left Steventon in 1801 the piano was sold, and whilst living in Bath and Southampton Jane made do with a rented instrument. When the[y] moved to Chawton in 1809 she wrote to Cassandra:

‘Yes, yes, we will have a Pianoforte, as good a one as can be got for 30 Guineas — & I will practise country dances, that we may have some amusement for our nephews & neices, when we have the pleasure of their company.’

Jane Austen, 28 December 1808 - from the JaneAustens.house website




I expect them to go quickly, so if you're interested in the GWP, you'll need to act fast.

Comments

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

OMG JANE AUSTIN!!! That's a great untapped market for LEGO:writers! I'm impressed :D

[erexen.livejournal.com]

[erexen.livejournal.com]

I acted the Very Moment it went live! I ordered the Nook and another dueling platform, so GWP here we go! Thank you for the awesome reminders, would fall apart without your encouragement.