I've been waiting eagerly since Thanksgiving for this feature: Quid Plura has some Xmas* offerings for medievalists.
I thought the Lego Advent Calendar was a joke. It isn't! Really, what kind of market could there be for this?
*And I continue my crusade to take the "Christ" out of Xmas, a crusade that will misidentify me as atheist and will only make sense to other Christian medievalists. I keep waiting to get an angry phone call from my mom. After I have won this battle, I'll start replacing "and" with 7. Muhahahaha!
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Well, in Scandinavia Advent calendars are very big (we live in Norway). Some people have home-made wooden mini-cabinets with pull-out drawers for every day of December (since they've long since not be true Advent, but rather 24 days til Christmas calendars) from which they draw small presents; these would be considered rather fancy, for people who can afford tradition. Almost every child has at minimum a cheap-o thing with little chocolates. The Lego Advent calender would probably figure somewhere in between. A friend from England bought one for our son last year thinking the whole thing rather amusing. It's not normal but I wouldn't be surprised if some parents did this for their kids (with Christmas itself not being quite as ginormous as it is in the States).
ReplyDeleteWe do Advent calendars and William (and the girls) would LOVE a Lego Advent Calendar, but I'm not buying it anytime soon--too expensive.
ReplyDeletePlaymobil has a knight-themed advent calendar.
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