Really? I paid $80-$95 per season a couple of years ago. I thought this was a steal. I had heard they re-released them in slim line cases for cheap recently. Were those cheaper than this set?

The slim re-releases have an MSRP of around $45-$50, and can regularly be found for under $30 apiece. It's a great deal, even though fans have grumbled about the lack of several bonus discs. For those who don't need all the extras and want to save shelf space, they're quite a bargain.

As for me, I own Seasons 1-8 of the original boxed sets, but I bought them used for roughly $40 each. I'll probably stick with what I have.

Wow. Guess it paid to wait. Personally, I love the show so much I wanted every nugget of info available so, I am glad I got the sets I did but, getting them at your price point would have made the wife happier

Yeah, you can't worry too much about price drops. (I got them for 10$ each at BB, but had to wait a long time for that deal)

I love these complete series sets because it allows for me to get caught up on shows that have substantial buzz that I missed during their broadcast.

I already own all 9 season sets of X-Files, but I'm sure there will be new owners and fans of the show because of the availability of this set.

Too pricey for me to purchase as a gift for anyone, but I'll pass on the word.

Same here, it looks great, but I can't justify buying it.

I found this on www.thedigitalbits.com :

"Fox has also revealed The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition, which is a 61-disc box set due on 11/6 (SRP $329.98). The set will include all 198 episodes of the series along with The X-Files: Fight the Future feature film, plus a Season One comic book, art cards, a poster for the theatrical film and an additional bonus disc of extras. It appears that each of the episode discs will include all of the bonus material that was on the original DVD releases (deleted scenes, audio commentaries and more), including the extras disc for each season (that featured TV spots, deleted scenes, DVD-ROM interactive features and often a documentary featurette on the season). The movie disc contains all the bonus features on that release as well (including the DTS audio track and director's commentary). Finally, the exclusive bonus disc gathers all of the Threads of Mythology featurettes from the more recent Mythology DVD collections, including Abduction, Colonization, Black Oil and Super Soldiers. All of it comes packaged in a custom slipcase. It's a lot of money to be sure, but if you're an X-Files fan, this thing includes everything you'd ever want. We're hoping that Fox will eventually release this series on Blu-ray as well."

well this looks like it will be my very first complete series on dvd purchase, SOLD.

Why is the bonus disc "exclusive" if you can get those features on the mythology sets? It looks like nothing unique to this release except a comic book, art cards, and a poster.

Do the episodes contain the commentaries that were unique to the mythology sets?

Sold. Sold. Sold.

Sold to INFINITY for me.

I'm assuming the additional bonus disc of extras is the exclusive one that they refer to later on in the description. So, the mythology featurettes are not exclusives, but possibly the rest of the extras on the additional bonus disc are.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. When describing the bonus disc, all it mentions is putting the mythology featurettes together and nothing more:

I'm soooooo close to been sold right now.

I figure if I can offload the current releases I have, which are the original releases and get something from them, coupled with the first weeks release price which is usually cheaper, and who knows, hopefully will coincide with DD's sale, then it's possible I might not be out of pocket that much when all is said and done.

I was pleased to read that the releases will include all bonus features and since I didn't get any of the Mythology series, I'm assuming that the bonus content on their will hopefuully something that isn't already on the original releases.

Yeah it looks like the extras discs from the original digipak releases (dropped from the slim case reissues) will indeed be restored, as long as the disc count of 61 discs is accurate. Seasons 1-4 and 9 were 7 discs; season 5-8 were 6 discs. That's 59 discs, and FTF and the disc of featurettes make 61.

I doubt that they're going to put the commentaries from the Mythology sets on the episodes with the regular discs, as that would require them to repress new discs and alter menus, etc.

Oh well, so, essentially it looks like for people who own the original versions of all 9 seasons and have all 4 mythology sets, there are no new DVD-based extras in the Complete Collection.

My wallet just smiled.

I only have season 1 purchased so far since I've been slow getting into the series... I'm glad I waited so long! This is definately a no-brainer purchase for me...

As much as I would love to have this, i cannot justify the price after having just bought all the slim sets for 20 each. They satisfy my x-files urge enough.

I'm getting this set. I've been waiting years for something like this for this show. I purchased the mythology sets, but this set is a no-brainer for fans and newbs alike to get.

Definitely getting this. The only sets I have now are the fat ones for Seasons 1 and 4. I can get rid of them fairly easily.

JUst saw the official press release on tvshowsondvd.com. Looks like all the audio commentaries and bonus materials/documentaries from the digi-packs are being included on this monstrosity of a set.

Sold!!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7850

For reference, in case somebody finds a detailed list of commentaries included, the following commentaries were the new ones that were done from the 4 "Mythology" sets:

Commentary by director David Nutter on "Little Green Men"
Commentary by Chris Carter on "Duane Barry"
Commentary by Frank Spotnitz on "End Game"
Commentary by Bob Goodwin on "The Blessing Way"

Commentary by director R.W. Goodwin on "Talitha Cumi"
Commentary by director Rob Bowman on "Memento Mori"
Commentary by director Kim Manners on "Max"

Commentary by Chris Carter on "The Red and the Black"
Commentary by Frank Spotnitz on "One Son"
Commentary by Kim Manners on "Closure"
Commentary by Kim Manners and Robert Patrick on "Within"

Commentary by Frank Spotnitz on "Deadalive"
Commentary by director Rod Hardy on "Vienen"

I'll truly be interested to see if they include them, seeing as how the original season sets did not have commentaries on any of the same episodes as the "Mythology" sets except for "Memento Mori" where it had a commentary by Writer/Producer Frank Spotnitz.

Nice. I'm officially going to buy the shit out of this set.

The X-Files: Fight The Future is going to be the exact same disc that was released individually, yes? I'm assuming it will be the anamorphic re-release and not the original widescreen release, but the press release only lists it as 2.35:1 Widescreen... how would I go about finding this out? I don't know if I should keep the movie I have already or just go ahead and sell it in preparation... although I'll probably only get like $2 back, so it might be better to just keep it and wait and see...

Somewhere in this thread I thought someone mentioned Blu Ray - any chance this will be re-released again in Blu Ray? I'd hate to buy it and then a better version comes out in a year or two.

And, how do the original digipacks sell for? If I were to unload 1-6 what would I get for it?