This Lego Ideas The X-Files set is getting made and we’re over the moon
The X-Files, one of the finest TV shows of the 90s, is being immortalised as a Lego set, courtesy of Lego’s 90s nostalgia Lego challenge.
Lego has unveiled the winners of its Lego Ideas 90s Throwback Challenge and one of the winners is this absolutely epic The X-Files set. That means more than a pat on the back for creator WetWired, it’s actually getting made into a real set!
We were huge, huge fans of The X-Files when it first aired, particularly the monster-of-the-week episodes that steered clear of its meandering alien conspiracy arc. So this is absolutely on our to-buy list and the sooner it arrives the better.
The set will be effectively rebuilt by Lego and WetWired, so that it’s ready for commercial sale. Going by previous Lego Ideas, the ones that made it store shelves, it’ll look similar, though not exactly identical. However, you can still bank on it looking awesome, with a giant UFO floating above Fox Mulder and Dana Scully’s basement office.
On top of the famous duo, there are also minifigures of Skinner, the pair’s boss, and the mysterious Cigarette Smoking Man, known here as Syndicate Leader. There’s also a “Grey” Alien, The Jersey Devil and elastic liver-muncher Eugene Tooms.
The set is made up of 2020 pieces, so you can expect the commercial set to have a similar count. That’d put it somewhere in the £150 – £250 price bracket. Typically, Lego Ideas models tend to have a slightly higher price tag. The good news, for WetWired, is that they get 1% of the sales, plus 10 copies of the set.
There was also another winner, in the competition’s smaller set category, and it’s a cracking little build. It’s a Lego version of Wallace and Gromit in their bike and sidecar, from designer Pidelium.
So when can you get your hands on these models? That’s the catch, you’ll have to wait a while. It may be a year or more before these two models end up store shelves. But when it comes to The X-Files, we waited fourteen or so years for Season 10, we can wait at least one for Lego The X-Files.
