The truth is made of tiny, interlocking bricks, as LEGO has revealed its new kit based on The X-Files. What’s more, Gillian Anderson has reprised her iconic role as Agent Scully to promo the set.
A LEGO Ideas fan-designed model by Brent “WetWired” Waller which won the “Build Your Nostalgia – 90s Throwback!” challenge, set #21369 The X-Files will release on August 5th priced at $199.99. LEGO Insiders get first dibs on August 1st, and the set will only be available on LEGO.com or brick-and-mortar LEGO Stores.
Remarkably close to Waller’s original design, the set features Agent Mulder’s lab tucked under a forest landscape with a UFO hovering overhead. It also comes with an impressive eight minifigs, including Agents Mulder and Scully, Carl “The Cigarette Smoking Man” Busch, Walter Skinner, Mr. X, Alex Krycek, a gray alien, and even The Flukeman. Plus, those who order online between August 1st and 10th will receive a The X-Files: Scully’s Lab gift with purchase, featuring an exclusive lab-coat-and-scrubs version of Scully in her FBI National Academy laboratory.
Clearly excited to be recreated in minifig form, Anderson herself reprised her role as Agent Scully for the set’s ad — a pretty big deal, considering that she famously quit the role in 2018 after being disappointed with the direction of the final season. Speaking with Forbes, she called the LEGO set a career highlight, saying, “It’s way at the top, I’d have to say. Definitely. It was pretty cool when we ended up on a Mad Magazine cover. It was pretty cool when we ended up in a Simpsons episode — one of my favorites of all time. But I have to say that this is right up there with The Simpsons.”
Watch the ad and see more shots of The X-Files LEGO set below.
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