Light Kit for Charles Dickens Tribute #40410

A Christmas Carol in 333 bricks

A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, at a moment when the old rural Christmas was being replaced by something more urban, commercial and sentimental.

Dickens gave the season a story with a deadline: one night, three ghosts and a man who has to change before morning. The book was an immediate success, and its images of the Cratchit table, the goose and the converted miser did more to shape the modern holiday than almost any other single work. Scrooge's counting house folds out of a book in the 333-piece Lego Charles Dickens Tribute 40410.

The book that gave Christmas a plot

Dickens did not invent the Victorian Christmas, but he gave it a narrative shape that could be repeated: a cold house, a warm kitchen, a family separated by money and a last-minute change of heart. The counting house is the correct setting for that story because it is where the money and the miser meet. A tribute built as a book, rather than as a house, keeps the emphasis on the text.

Its three minifigures are Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, set around a desk, a ledger, a candle, a chair and the narrow office window that keeps the clerks in the cold. The model is compact enough to sit on a shelf beside the novel, and the cover gives it a closed, shelf-ready form when the scene is not on display.

Most of the light in this ZENE Bricks set stays inside the counting house.

The candle on the desk is the brightest point, falling warm amber across the ledger and the edge of the desk; the window is cooler and weaker, suggesting the street without turning the office into a lantern. A small source behind the book spine keeps the open pages readable in a dark room. The cable is thin enough to follow the hinge, so the cover still opens and closes.

It belongs on a bookshelf rather than in a village. It sits naturally beside a copy of the novella, a Dickens biography or a row of Christmas books, and it gives a study or hallway a small, literate piece of the season. Few lego icons christmas releases are this literary, which puts it high on a christmas lego gifts list for a reader. 

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• Supports already built LEGO® sets with a little refitting required.
• No circuit experience needed, just follow our simple step-by-step instructions for guidance.
• Twisted pair design balances robustness and installation concealment.
• Have your LEGO® sets be exciting and soul-filled even in the daytime.

What's Included

• Light Kit include Connecting Cables, Lights, Expansion Boards, etc.
• Battery Box without Batteries. A christmas carol only light included.
  
• Instructions in PDF format provided.

Type: Compatible with LEGO® sets
Material: Eco-friendly ABS plastic