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‘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.
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