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Geek Culture
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
LEGO Revisits 90s Icons With 'The X-Files' And 'Wallace & Gromit' Sets
LEGO has unveiled the winners of its 'Build Your Nostalgia: 90s Throwback!' challenge, bringing to life two fan-created sets featuring period icons The X-Files and Wallace & Gromit . The challenge tasked creators to channel their nostalgia into builds that were between 1,000 to 5,000 pieces and bring to life their favourite TV shows and movies from the 90s. The two winning sets will now go into development, undergoing tweaks by the LEGO Ideas team before becoming an official set sometime in the future. The X-Files set was designed by user WetWired and features an intricate diorama of a forest UFO scene above a recreation of Fox Mulder's famous basement office. The set will comprise approximately 2,020 pieces and includes seven minifigures: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, 'Grey' Alien, The Jersey Devil, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Syndicate Leader and Eugene Tooms. The set is based on the sci-fi TV show The X-Files , which centres around two FBI agents, Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who carry out paranormal investigations. The show debuted in 1993 and ran for 11 seasons, becoming a worldwide phenomenon in the process. On the other hand, the Wallace & Gromit set was submitted by user Pidelium and depicts the legendary British inventor Wallace and his trusty canine companion Gromit. The set is based on the classic 1995 movie Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave , and features the duo on board their iconic motorcycle and sidecar. The two sets are currently in their development phase, with the LEGO design team working with WetWired and Pidelium to bring their winning sets to life. It is to be noted that the final products might also differ from their initial fan designs, so it remains to be seen what they will actually look like as they approach their currently unspecified launch date. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. LEGO lego ideas LEGO The X-Files LEGO Wallace & Gromit
Gizmodo
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘X-Files' and ‘Wallace & Gromit' Are Getting Their Own Lego Sets
Not soon after Lego confirmed the latest additions to its fan-designed Ideas line in the form of Godzilla stomping into brick-built reality, the company has announced two more big name franchises making their Lego debuts soon: the unlikely pairing of The X-Files and Wallace & Gromit. What unites both of these franchises? Well, they were big in the '90s (never mind that A Grand Day Out released in 1989), and were thus two of the franchises used by fan designers in the Lego Ideas 'Build Your Nostalgia: '90s Throwback' competition, which tasked fan designers from the Ideas community to create nostalgic Lego builds to win the chance of becoming new official sets. Lego broke the competition into two categories: larger sets that could be 1,000 to 5,000 pieces in size, and a smaller category for builds between 200 and 1,000 pieces, before selecting five entries in each category to go to a fan vote. The winner of the larger category was Lego Ideas user WetWired's The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There, an amazing tribute to the legendary TV series that incorporates two vignettes stacked on top of one another: a forested UFO encounter, complete with a grey alien beaming down out of a ship, above a replica of Fox Mulder's FBI office (complete with, of course, the iconic 'The Truth Is Out There' poster). On top of the clever vignettes, WetWired's build includes a bunch of minifigures drawing across X-Files history, including Mulder and Scully, as well as the aforementioned grey alien, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Eugene Tooms, the Syndicate Leader, and even the Jersey Devil. The Wallace & Gromit idea that one the smaller-scale category meanwhile takes a different track. Designed by Ideas user Pidelium, rather than a minifigure-scaled playset the build is a brick-built display piece of the legendary Aardman inventor and his trusty canine companion as they appeared in the third Wallace & Gromit short film, A Close Shave, riding their motorbike and side car for their window-cleaning business. The classic rounded style of Aardman's claymation designs are nicely recreated with sloped, smooth tiles, and although some Lego fans might be bummed that Pidelium's build doesn't include any minifigures, it's a fun replica of an iconic image from the series. Of course, being Ideas submissions, things will inevitably change between these fan-made designs and the final official sets (neither of which have release windows or price points just yet). But for now, they join Godzilla and a whole host of other Ideas sets still in development, so your wallet remains safe… for now. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
