DC Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, icm said:

Since the midi scale AT-AT is still labeled as part of the Starship Collection, we may rest assured John Lego isn't a stickler for precise labels.

Clearly they're referring to the 12 piece snowspeeder, the AT-AT is just a side build.

14 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

YOU CAN’T STOP ME FROM SWOOSHING AROUND MY AT-ATs

If you're doing it to the UCS one, gravity will stop you unless you keep it mostly upright.

[Toast]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Ah, a discernable reason, just a stupid one. 

That's definitely possible- three whole batmobiles is just too generous for lego DC, we probably only got that much this year because of the game. I guess it's also possible they throw in the 1989 batwing- I know it says legendary BATMOBILE collection, but at this point I would not at all be surprised if the designers/marketing team forgot how to read.

There's a wide time variance, but rest assured, whatever news we do get won't be relevant to batman. (I'm pretty sure it's Oscorp, but it's 100% a marvel modular)

What makes you say that? Educated guess? I was really hoping Oscorp would be out in a few years as a corner skyscraper modular since the proto-type of the Daily Planet was already built and probably put on hold due to the long shelf life of Daily Bugle and last year was the year for a corner.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, Toast said:

What makes you say that? Educated guess? I was really hoping Oscorp would be out in a few years as a corner skyscraper modular since the proto-type of the Daily Planet was already built and probably put on hold due to the long shelf life of Daily Bugle and last year was the year for a corner.

Educated guess primarily based on the Bugle retiring (hence they can slot in a new spider-man modular), the spider-man sets this year providing more minifigures to put in, and process of elimination. Another DC one is out of the question, and the figures availible to use in a modular would rule out a comic-based avengers mansion (they'd only have like 2-3 figures to put in), an avengers compound (we'd have seen endgame sets in the january 2026 wave), etc. Oscorp makes the most sense.

Not to be blunt but the daily planet was never going to happen this year and I'm not entirely sure where you're getting that they have a prototype made from. There are literally two minifigures they could use, and unlike Arkham they can't re-use the same torso and legs for 60% of the figures. One film wouldn't be enough to bring superman from "can barely get a mech as his only set in five years" to modular territory even if it had been an Endgame level hit, and it certainly wasn't that. The mech itself is retiring early, implying poor sales.

[BatDeanj]

Apart from the polybag, do we know everything that is coming out in 2026? Could there be a surprise set/wave?

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, BatDeanj said:

Apart from the polybag, do we know everything that is coming out in 2026? Could there be a surprise set/wave?

We don‘t know yet what the 2HY sets will bring, but I‘d keep my expectations real low  Probably another large-scale Batmobile and that‘s it.

[Toast]

10 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Educated guess primarily based on the Bugle retiring (hence they can slot in a new spider-man modular), the spider-man sets this year providing more minifigures to put in, and process of elimination. Another DC one is out of the question, and the figures availible to use in a modular would rule out a comic-based avengers mansion (they'd only have like 2-3 figures to put in), an avengers compound (we'd have seen endgame sets in the january 2026 wave), etc. Oscorp makes the most sense.

Not to be blunt but the daily planet was never going to happen this year and I'm not entirely sure where you're getting that they have a prototype made from. There are literally two minifigures they could use, and unlike Arkham they can't re-use the same torso and legs for 60% of the figures. One film wouldn't be enough to bring superman from "can barely get a mech as his only set in five years" to modular territory even if it had been an Endgame level hit, and it certainly wasn't that. The mech itself is retiring early, implying poor sales.

It was discussed on Reddit over the summer with someone that worked with Lego, but Brick Clicker talks more in depth about it around the 7:25 mark.

I wouldn’t worry so much about figures since these D2Cs use lots of new and exclusive prints and a building like the Daily Planet can get away with using civilians to fill up the model.

[SoupOrFishOil]

Yeah, Lois, Jimmy, Perry, Cat, etc. would very likely be kitbashes, like many of Peter's coworkers in the Bugle. Which is fine, I think.

And let's be honest, I don't think it would be completely out of the question for Batman to show up in the Bugle with a couple of his enemies like Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Joker, or Harley. But if it happens, I wouldn't expect Bat-characters to outnumber/overshadow the Superman ones. If Joker and Harley appear as reuses, it would be seem fair that Brainiac and Bizarro get some new prints. ...right?

[psqidexslizer]

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Educated guess primarily based on the Bugle retiring (hence they can slot in a new spider-man modular), the spider-man sets this year providing more minifigures to put in, and process of elimination. Another DC one is out of the question, and the figures availible to use in a modular would rule out a comic-based avengers mansion (they'd only have like 2-3 figures to put in), an avengers compound (we'd have seen endgame sets in the january 2026 wave), etc. Oscorp makes the most sense.

Not to be blunt but the daily planet was never going to happen this year and I'm not entirely sure where you're getting that they have a prototype made from. There are literally two minifigures they could use, and unlike Arkham they can't re-use the same torso and legs for 60% of the figures. One film wouldn't be enough to bring superman from "can barely get a mech as his only set in five years" to modular territory even if it had been an Endgame level hit, and it certainly wasn't that. The mech itself is retiring early, implying poor sales.

I agree that the Daily Planet is very likely not going to happen simply because Lego has zero confidence in Superman sets selling (and it seems they may be correct in that assumption). But, I don’t think it would be impossible to pull off, minifigure-wise.

Looking at, for example, the X-Mansion, we got a total of ten minifigures with four being repeats (with some minor modifications to two of them), one being purist, and five being new.

If the Daily Planet followed the same route of the Daily Bugle by including a bunch of civilians using purist minifigures, we could easily see, as a lineup:

Superman (reuse, new legs)

Lex Luthor (reuse)

Lois Lane (purist)

Jimmy Olsen (purist)

Perry White (purist)

Steve Lombard (purist)

Clark Kent (purist)

Supergirl

Superboy (Jonathan Kent)

Brainiac

Bizarro

Lobo

which would give us the same number of new minifigures as the X-Mansion (probably with less print too) but more minifigures overall (and they could include other purist characters like Cat Grant and Ron Troupe, if they really wanted to push the minifigure count up without any new prints).

 

[Mandalorianknight]

55 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I agree that the Daily Planet is very likely not going to happen simply because Lego has zero confidence in Superman sets selling (and it seems they may be correct in that assumption). But, I don’t think it would be impossible to pull off, minifigure-wise.

Looking at, for example, the X-Mansion, we got a total of ten minifigures with four being repeats (with some minor modifications to two of them), one being purist, and five being new.

which would give us the same number of new minifigures as the X-Mansion (probably with less print too) but more minifigures overall (and they could include other purist characters like Cat Grant and Ron Troupe, if they really wanted to push the minifigure count up without any new prints).

The issue being (this applies to @Toast too) that despite having about the same total number of figures as the x-mansion and about the same proportion of generic civilians as the bugle, the daily planet by combining the two ends up with a really lackluster figure selection for a modular. 

The X-mansion has just 10 figures, but they're 9 costumed superheroes and Professor X, who while not costumed is still a pretty major superhero and the leader of the X-men. It's ten hydrogen bombs.

The Bugle has 10 civilians, sure, but it also has FIFTEEN costumed superheroes and villains (and one of those civilians is JJJ, who personally I'd consider well above any other civilian figure). 

The proposed figure selection for the Planet has 12 minifigures, almost half of them generic purists (and let's be clear- Perry White is no JJJ). When we look at the modulars, when they have that few figures, they're all superhero/villain figures. When they have twice as many figures total is when you start getting more civilians. Even the hypothetical  Daily Planet figure selection would be by far the weakest of the modulars, and when your building is the daily planet as opposed to something like Avengers Tower or the X-mansion, I don't think you can also have the weakest figure selection.

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

We don‘t know yet what the 2HY sets will bring, but I‘d keep my expectations real low  Probably another large-scale Batmobile and that‘s it.

I'm guessing either a UCS BTASmobile or a UCS Pattmobile. Movie's coming the year after, I know, but you'd think the same issue would apply to the system scale one.

Edited December 18, 2025 by Mandalorianknight

[psqidexslizer]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The issue being (this applies to @Toast too) that despite having about the same total number of figures as the x-mansion and about the same proportion of generic civilians as the bugle, the daily planet by combining the two ends up with a really lackluster figure selection for a modular. 

Yeah, but it’s also a Lego DC set. Lackluster figure selection is a staple. Just look at the four sets we know are coming next year:

Batman v Superman Batmobile: Batman

Batman and Robin Batmobile: Batman

The Batman Batmobile: Batman

Batman logo: Batman and Batman

It’s still hilarious to me that two of those sets are based on movies where Batman isn’t the only titular character and even that wasn’t enough for them to make an appearance. The biggest issue with my hypothetical Daily Planet lineup isn’t that it’s lackluster, it’s that I didn’t include five different Batmans!

[Mandalorianknight]

19 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

Yeah, but it’s also a Lego DC set. Lackluster figure selection is a staple. Just look at the four sets we know are coming next year:

It’s still hilarious to me that two of those sets are based on movies where Batman isn’t the only titular character and even that wasn’t enough for them to make an appearance. The biggest issue with my hypothetical Daily Planet lineup isn’t that it’s lackluster, it’s that I didn’t include five different Batmans!

Which is part of my point: we only got Arkham with as many figs as it had because it was A: Batman and B: the jumpsuits meant you could put out a ton of characters with identical torso and legs (or just the torso in penguin's case), with 7 new prints in total across the six villains in jumpsuits. And even then, they were only able to get 17 figs total in the set. The daily planet lacks the ability to do that, unless we're doing the F4 "everyone has the same body type even the guy made of rocks and also let's ignore slight differences in costume" and we re-use the same print for Clark, Kara, and Jon, then throw in superlois and the eradicator. It's also a newspaper building, not exactly Avengers Tower or the X-mansion. Like the bugle- arguably more than the bugle- it would need a kick-megablocks minifigure selection to stand a chance, and unless they really upped the budget it'd arguably have the worst figure selection of any modular. Even in a hypothetical scenario where Superman's mech WAS a smash-hit, you'd need to lay the groundwork with more superman or at least justice league sets before you could really have the figure groundwork for a solid daily planet modular.

Edited December 19, 2025 by Mandalorianknight

[Swordy]

On 12/13/2025 at 12:49 PM, psqidexslizer said:

The Superman mech set is already retiring. I don’t think that’s a good sign for future non-Batman sets.

So is the Iron Man vs Ultron mech—and I believe the Spider-Man vs Anti-Venom too, but I could be wrong on that one. I see this as either A) the LEGO Group is seeing decreasing sales of mech sets, or B) TLG simply want to make mechs more collectible. I don’t see this as a failure of Superman in LEGO (a spoiling of Soup, if you will), but a mere casualty of the current release cycle of LEGO: overwhelm with new sets at the beginning of the year, overwhelm with retiring those new sets at the end.

Regardless, I did my part; I bought the mech, I photographed the mech—why, I took the mech out to dinner. We’ll see soon enough if the sales numbers will influence TLG toward absolute Batman—er, absolutely anything besides Batman.

[CloneCommando99]

2 hours ago, Swordy said:

Regardless, I did my part; I bought the mech, I photographed the mech—why, I took the mech out to dinner. We’ll see soon enough if the sales numbers will influence TLG toward absolute Batman—er, absolutely anything besides Batman.

No no. Absolute Batman is just better than current main earth Batman. And should be getting sets. 

Here would be my ideal roadmap for future mechs:

2026: Green Lantern

2027: Lex Luthor and Absolute Batman vs Bane duel pack

2028: Wonder Woman (assuming that’s when the Wonder Woman film the Supergirl writer is working on releases)

2029: Cyborg (assuming that’s when the Titans movie releases)

2030: Batman (for TBatB)

5 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

It's also a newspaper building, not exactly Avengers Tower or the X-mansion. Like the bugle- arguably more than the bugle- it would need a kick-megablocks minifigure selection to stand a chance, and unless they really upped the budget it'd arguably have the worst figure selection of any modular.

Which is why a Hall of Justice is probably a better pick for a DC modular. It’s been established in the DCU, wait for it to be expanded on in MoT and then include a full roster of 9-12 minifigs. Batman, Superman, Joker and Lex could be reused. Make a GL mech to bleed in 1-2 more minifigs. And then add new versions of: Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl,  Flash and 3-4 other characters.

 

Also, on the comic side of things we’ve had 2 announcements:

1. Superboy Prime will be the lead of the main Superman title in the aftermath of DC KO.
2. Kyle Rayner is going back to earth and will be the main GL again. Big win. But this victory came at a cost…
   Spoiler

   

    

Edited December 19, 2025 by CloneCommando99

[psqidexslizer]

6 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Which is part of my point: we only got Arkham with as many figs as it had because it was A: Batman and B: the jumpsuits meant you could put out a ton of characters with identical torso and legs (or just the torso in penguin's case), with 7 new prints in total across the six villains in jumpsuits. And even then, they were only able to get 17 figs total in the set. The daily planet lacks the ability to do that, unless we're doing the F4 "everyone has the same body type even the guy made of rocks and also let's ignore slight differences in costume" and we re-use the same print for Clark, Kara, and Jon, then throw in superlois and the eradicator. It's also a newspaper building, not exactly Avengers Tower or the X-mansion. Like the bugle- arguably more than the bugle- it would need a kick-megablocks minifigure selection to stand a chance, and unless they really upped the budget it'd arguably have the worst figure selection of any modular. Even in a hypothetical scenario where Superman's mech WAS a smash-hit, you'd need to lay the groundwork with more superman or at least justice league sets before you could really have the figure groundwork for a solid daily planet modular.

I gotta disagree on this one. As I said before, the Daily Planet really doesn’t need as many new prints because of the number of civilians you could include in it. Now, are Perry and Steve Lombard character people would be excited about? Not really. But Lois, Jimmy, and Clark have all always been relatively popular, far more so than anyone at the Daily Bugle outside of maybe J. Jonah Jameson, but I’d argue Lois and Clark have him surpassed. You include even just those three alongside Superman, Lex, and 5-6 other characters (as is typical with these sets) and you’d have a minifigure selection that’s good enough for a modular building. 

As for the building itself being just a boring newspaper building like the Daily Bugle, I gotta disagree here too. For one, the Planet has been far more important to Superman than it has to Spider-Man. Half of the Spider-Man movies haven’t even bothered including The Bugle while I can’t think of a single Superman movie has hasn’t included the Planet. For another, the Planet has a very distinct look thanks to that iconic giant golden globe up at the top. The Bugle doesn’t have a distinct look or any iconic features. It is, as you correctly point out, just a big building those main selling point is all those Spider-Man adjacent minifigures. The Planet doesn’t have that issue as it’s iconic enough and has a distinct enough design to be its own selling point.

[BrickBob Studpants]

@psqidexslizer: In a vacuum, I‘d agree with you. The Daily Planet as a building is vastly more iconic than the Bugle and not enough minifigs being around that could „bleed“ into the set isn‘t that strong of an argument considering this year’s Arkham, for instance.

That said, the DC theme is not in a position to get two modulars in a row

Edited December 19, 2025 by BrickBob Studpants

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

@psqidexslizer: In a vacuum, I‘d agree with you. The Daily Planet as a building is vastly more iconic than the Bugle and not enough minifigs being around that could „bleed“ into the set isn‘t that strong of an argument considering this year’s Arkham, for instance.

That said, the DC theme is not in a position to get two modulars in a row

Agreed. I should probably make it clear that just because I don’t agree with the arguments being made for why a Daily Planet modular couldn’t be made doesn’t mean I think it has anymore chance of happening than a Duplo Deadpool set. Just the state of the DC theme (DC as a brand, in general, honestly) is enough to rule out a Daily Planet modular.

If I had to rank the obvious choices for next year’s modular, it’d go like this:

1) Oscorp

2) Avengers Compound

3) Wayne Manor

4) Baxter Building

5) nothing

6) Daily Planet 

I’d love to be wrong, as a Daily Planet modular would be fantastic news, but I really don’t see it happening.

 

Edited December 19, 2025 by psqidexslizer

[BrickBob Studpants]

19 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

If I had to rank the obvious choices for next year’s modular, it’d go like this:

1) Oscorp

I think that‘s most people‘s #1 pick for good reason. Plenty of figures that can be reused (plus a few new ones), visually striking if done right, Spidey sells, and it‘d be some nice symmetry to first have an Oscorp playset sharing shelfspace with a D2C Daily Bugle, with their roles swapped the following year

As for the rest of your ranking, I‘d put ‚nothing‘ in 2nd place. Perhaps a cynical stance, but I honestly can’t see any of the other options standing a chance.

[Renny The Spaceman]

4 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Kyle Rayner is going back to earth and will be the main GL again. Big win. But this victory came at a cost…

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Yeah you're right, that is shit facial hair, character return means nothing now, honestly just put him in the fridge this time

[Mandalorianknight]

10 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Superboy Prime will be the lead of the main Superman title in the aftermath of DC KO.

Kyle Rayner is going back to earth and will be the main GL again. Big win. But this victory came at a cost…

  Reveal hidden contents

I wonder how long that lasts. 

You're crazy, that suit rocks and the facial hair looks cool.

9 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I gotta disagree on this one. As I said before, the Daily Planet really doesn’t need as many new prints because of the number of civilians you could include in it. Now, are Perry and Steve Lombard character people would be excited about? Not really. But Lois, Jimmy, and Clark have all always been relatively popular, far more so than anyone at the Daily Bugle outside of maybe J. Jonah Jameson, but I’d argue Lois and Clark have him surpassed. You include even just those three alongside Superman, Lex, and 5-6 other characters (as is typical with these sets) and you’d have a minifigure selection that’s good enough for a modular building. 

As for the building itself being just a boring newspaper building like the Daily Bugle, I gotta disagree here too. For one, the Planet has been far more important to Superman than it has to Spider-Man. Half of the Spider-Man movies haven’t even bothered including The Bugle while I can’t think of a single Superman movie has hasn’t included the Planet. For another, the Planet has a very distinct look thanks to that iconic giant golden globe up at the top. The Bugle doesn’t have a distinct look or any iconic features. It is, as you correctly point out, just a big building those main selling point is all those Spider-Man adjacent minifigures. The Planet doesn’t have that issue as it’s iconic enough and has a distinct enough design to be its own selling point.

I just don't think it's enough. Lois and Clark (I keep typing Loid by accident) or Jimmy just aren't a sell for a set, especially if they're purist (and if they aren't purist, we start losing costumed characters, which it desperately needs). And Perry/Cat/that guy who bullies clark/etc are Robbie Robertson/Ben Urich level. The Planet having the globe on top is slightly more dynamic and interesting than the bugle, but the daily planet also just isn't as iconic of a location as some of the other modulars because regardless of the current state of the DC theme, over the past few decades superman's popularity has faded. At the end of the day both the building and figure selection would be on the weaker side of the modulars, and you just can't have both- especially when we don't yet have a batcave, hall of justice, (Watchtower? While not a modular I feel like it would probably take that slot) or any of the many marvel modulars we could still get.

5 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I think that‘s most people‘s #1 pick for good reason. Plenty of figures that can be reused (plus a few new ones), visually striking if done right, Spidey sells, and it‘d be some nice symmetry to first have an Oscorp playset sharing shelfspace with a D2C Daily Bugle, with their roles swapped the following year

As for the rest of your ranking, I‘d put ‚nothing‘ in 2nd place. Perhaps a cynical stance, but I honestly can’t see any of the other options standing a chance.

It's gotta be oscorp, because nothing else really has the figure setup. I bet the Tower retires a few months after doomsday and then we get the Compound around the time of secret wars... which probably means some more endgame final battles to keep figures in production/provide new ones for a basis.

Though if I could dream, summer 2026 starts bringing us rivals sets, and 2027 brings us a Web of Life and Destiny temple modular (overdosing on copium, but hey they could throw in a non-M-rated deadpool here with a unique design, so that's something). Another one I wouldn't mind is Krakoa, again provided there's a good figure basis.

[6129c04]

On 12/17/2025 at 10:56 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

That's definitely possible- three whole batmobiles is just too generous for lego DC, we probably only got that much this year because of the game.

Heh generous is a word almost incompatible with TLG in any context, yes in this case it refers to the amount of Batmobiles...

I have/had my eye on 76332, it's closer in size to SC cars compared to 76181 which was almost like an SUV, obviously the looks are inferior to 76181 but still it looks respectable. But that price... OMG the same price as 76181 and a lot less content, ouch! This would need a clearance level discount to be worth it for me.

And the worst part is that the others, 76331 and 76333, have even less content for the same price, the worst offender being 76331 which is measly af. Including extra minifigs would've definitely helped these two, like Superman for 76331 and Robin for 76333. 

I mean ok, 20th anniversary and 20 $/€ would've probably been too generous, but then maybe 25 (amirite), wasn't Bruce Wayne a philanthropist and all that? Yeah... obligatory middle finger to TLG as always, they always ruin nice sets with bad prices. 

[CloneCommando99]

12 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

You're crazy, that suit rocks and the facial hair looks cool.

I think I’d like it a lot better if it still retained his signature armoured mask. Instead of just being Hal with pupils.

We’ve also now got some back shots of the suit. It’s pretty empty. I think they should have added the regular GLC logo or Kyle’s OG logo on the back.

 

I will say that it isn’t as bad as Guy’s Warrior redesign.

[CloneCommando99]

Braniac has been confirmed! I repeat, Braniac has been confirmed by the Gunn himself.

Hopefully we get cast news soon. It’ll be interesting to see if we get similar character announcements to the Justice Gang from summer 2023.

Only one confirmed is Hawkgirl

John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Supergirl, Metamorpho and Mr Terrific are all likely.

We’ll also probably see who the Justice Gang have recruited.

[psqidexslizer]

Exciting news about Brainiac! Maybe we’ll get lucky and Lego will include Superman on the box art for 2027’s Batmobile line.

[CloneCommando99]

Creature Commandos S2 news:

Spoiler

Captain Atom is going to have a role

So I’m going to hazard a guess that he may also be in MoT. 


I really wish Lego would make comic-based battle packs with all these characters who are taking leading roles in the DCU. Just one a year would be great.

Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Hal Jordan, Metamorpho, Booster Gold, Hawkgirl, Blue Beetle, Mister Terrific, Supergirl, Sinestro, whoever the female hero in MoT is, Braniac, Ultraman, Circe… and those are only the confirmed candidates.

Do packs of 3 heroes v 1 villain and they’d be amazing and probably sell well. Could even sneak in a cheeky Peacemaker for whenever the salvation run movie happens.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2025 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

With the Soup mech apparently underperforming, I guess it’s curtains for anything that isn’t Batman  Yeah, I know, this year’s Marvel mechs didn’t do so well either by the same metric, but this does not inspire any faith in the theme regardless 

I still enjoy following DCU news, but man it’s just not the same without LEGO sets to go along with these movies and shows.