The X-Files 2016 Revival Select Action Figures by Diamond Select Toys

The monsters are back, and so too are Agents Mulder and Scully to face them! Later this month The X-Files return with a new 6 episode special event series starring most of the show’s original cast. In honor of the show’s revival, Diamond Select Toys is launching a new line of The X-Files Select Action Figures, featuring Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in their new 2016 miniseries looks.

Each The X-Files Select Action Figure stands 7” tall, features up to 16 points of articulation, and comes packaged with character specific weapons and accessories. Mulder also includes an office floor and wall diorama, while Scully includes a desk and chair. While these figures are not expected to hit store shelves until July 2016, you can pre-order both Select action figures as a set at Entertainment Earth for $44.99 here.

The X-Files T-Shirt Collection by Threadless

The truth is out there, and the community at Threadless has designed it! Later this month FOX will be bringing back The X-Files, one of the network’s most beloved television series, as a 6 episode special event series with most of the show’s original cast. To celebrate the series’ revival, Threadless has released a really fun The X-Files T-Shirt Collection. Even Dana Scully and Fox Mulder would wear these terrific sci-fi and horror inspired t-shirt designs!

The X-Files T-Shirt Collection features 15 designs and comes printed on a variety of different colored t-shirts. All of The X-Files t-shirts seen here and many, many more are currently available for purchase from Threadless.com for $27 each, in guys and girls styles, sizes S-3XL.

The X-Files 2016 Revival Vinimates Vinyl Figures by Diamond Select Toys

This January, FOX will be bringing back The X-Files, one of the network’s most beloved television series, as a 6 episode special event series with most of the show’s original cast! To commemorate The X-Files’ return, Diamond Select Toys is releasing a new line of X-Files toys, including Select action figures, Vinimates vinyl figures and Minimates mini figures. For DST’s second wave of The X-Files Vinimates, they are releasing Scully and Mulder Vinimates based on the characters’ appearances in the upcoming The X-Files 2016 revival!

Each The X-Files 2016 Revival Mini-Series Vinimate 4” static vinyl figure by Diamond Select Toys features an action pose and a ball-jointed neck, and comes packaged in a full-color window box perfect for display. Although these two The X-Files Vinimate figures aren’t expected to hit store shelves until July 2016, you can pre-order them now at Entertainment Earth for just $9.99 each here.

The X-Files Revival Minimates 2 Pack by Diamond Select Toys

This January, FOX will be bringing back The X-Files, one of the network’s most beloved television series, as a 6 episode special event series with most of the show’s original cast! To commemorate The X-Files’ return, Diamond Select Toys is releasing this killer “Revival” The X-Files Minimates 2 Pack based on the show’s stars, David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully), looks in The X-Files reunion show. The “Revival” The X-Files Minimates 2 Pack includes Agent Mulder and Agent Scully.

Each The X-Files Reunion Show Minimates 2 Pack includes two 2” mini figures featuring 14 points of articulation and a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories (including guns, badge hands and display bases). While this set is not expected to hit store shelves until March 2016, you can pre-order it now from Entertainment Earth for $9.99 here.

The X-Files Classic Minimates Box Set by Diamond Select Toys

This January, FOX will be bringing back The X-Files, one of the network’s most beloved television series, as a 6 episode special event series with most of the show’s original cast! To commemorate The X-Files’ return, Diamond Select Toys is releasing this killer “Classic” The X-Files Minimates Box Set based on characters (and their looks) from the show’s original run. The “Classic” The X-Files Minimates Box Set includes Agent Mulder, Agent Scully, Flukeman, and the Cigarette-Smoking Man with a removable trench coat.

Each The X-Files Classic Minimates Box Set includes four 2” mini figures featuring 14 points of articulation and a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories. While this 4 piece set is not expected to hit store shelves until June 2016, you can pre-order it now from Entertainment Earth for $24.99 here.

The X-Files Mulder & Scully Vinimates Vinyl Figures by Diamond Select Toys

This January, FOX will be bringing back The X-Files, one of the network’s most beloved television series, as a 6 episode special event series with most of the show’s original cast! To commemorate The X-Files’ return, Diamond Select Toys is releasing a new line of X-Files toys, including Select action figures, Vinimates vinyl figures and Minimates mini figures. To kick things off, DST is releasing Fox Mulder and Dana Scully Vinimates 4” vinyl figures. These The X-Files Vinimates static vinyl figures are sculpted in the Minimates style and captures them in their classic X-Files appearances.

Each The X-Files Vinimate vinyl figure by Diamond Select Toys features a ball-jointed neck and comes packaged in a full-color window box perfect for display. Although these two The X-Files Vinimate figures aren’t expected to hit store shelves until March 2016, you can pre-order them now at Entertainment Earth for just $9.99 each here.

J.J. Abrams’ Fringe

Fringe, the latest series from TV wunderkind J.J. Abrams, debuts tonight, Tuesday, September 9, on FOX. While Abrams (Felicity, Alias) may have created one of my all time favorite television shows, Lost, I have no idea what to expect with his latest creation.


Described as an X-Files for a new generation, Fringe “centers on no-nonsense FBI agent Olivia Dunham, played by Australian newcomer Anna Torv, who explores odd occurrences of ‘fringe’ science. Her path leads to brilliant but mad scientist Walter Biship (John Noble), who must be extracted from a mental hospital, with the help of his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson), dragged reluctantly into the mix.” (link) The show also stars two of my favorite actors from the classic HBO series OZ, Kirk Acevedo and Lance Reddick.

My only problem with the show, and the main reason I am not more excited about it, is that it stars Pacey from Dawson’s Creek! Other than that, it sounds like a winner. Abrams explained to USAToday.com that he “wanted to do a show that had a procedural template, a sort of structure, but doing a procedural in the mold of CSI and Law & Order didn’t interest me.” (link) Instead, Abrams decided to go a rout more reminiscent of The X-Files, by “grafting a larger mythology onto the series that rewards loyal viewers but isn’t essential to any weekly episode.” (link) Basically it’s a version of Lost that’s more welcoming to new viewers and doesn’t take place on an island.

I’m not sold on Fringe yet, but FOX must be. Otherwise how can you explain the $10 million budget the network gave Abrams to produce Fringe’s two hour pilot. (link) Despite my misgivings, I’m going to have to watch tonight’s series premiere. I at least owe Abrams that much for giving the world Lost.

Fringe airs Tuesday nights on FOX at 8/7C.

The X-Files 2 Teaser Movie Poster

I was never that big of a fan of Chris Carter’s masterpiece The X-Files, but its run from 1993-2002 on FOX turned out to be pretty groundbreaking stuff. For someone who is really into science fiction dramas I just could never get into David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. I have managed to see the original X-Files movie though since it was replayed just about every day on FX during the first couple years of the channel’s existence. I’m sure I’ll see this one too when it debuts on FOX a few months after its release in theaters. For all you die hard X-Philes out there, here is the first teaser promotional poster for The X-Files sequel.


I’m thinking this second movie is a few years too late to make that big of a splash in theaters, so if you have any interest in seeing this movie in theaters you’d better show up on opening weekend! The X-Files 2 is due in theaters this summer on July 25th, 2008.