The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Kickstarter has closed, raising an amazing $462,405. This makes it the fourth most successful film/video kickstarter ever.

Sure it’s not the $5.7 million raised by Veronica Mars, but this adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has certainly blown away all expectations. Remember, it reached the goal of $60,000 in just three hours.

Raising 770% of their target goal, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries Kickstarter ranks fourth in the list of most funded film/video Kickstarter projects, beaten out by Veronica Mars, Video Game High School: Season Two and The Cyanide & Happiness Show. We would call that good company.

The team behind Lizzie Bennet has said thank you in their own special way, though the release of the script used in the Gigi Darcy auditions, and a message from star Ashley Clements, who also released one final Dizzie photo (because she knows what we want).

The Kickstarter will fund a DVD box-set of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, as well as new mini-series Welcome to Sanditon. The DVD will include every episode, plus behind-the-scenes videos, episode commentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, interviews with the cast, and much more. Read what Lizzie Bennet Diaries showrunner Bernie Su had to say about it when we interviewed him following the season finale.

Perks included the DVD boxset itself, a special Lizzie Bennet Diaries edition of Pride and Prejudice with foreword by Hank Green, a recorded personal voicemail message from Maxwell Glick (Mr Collins) or Daniel Vincent Gordh (William Darcy), amd even a role on Welcome to Sanditon. Two of these roles for sold for $1,000 each.

Welcome to Sanditon will air in early May 2013. The second major series, which is yet to be announced, will be launched in late Summer 2013.