DC Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Lionbear8]

14 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I don't think that sort of reference usually means anything. Daredevil was referenced in an Infinity War set, and I doubt they were planning his inclusion in the Bugle 3 years out. Kingpin was referenced in the bugle but hasn't shown up since. 

I thought it was a different piece at first, but comparing the two they look identical to me. That said, I don't think it actually means we're getting a new WW. She'd have to be RIGHT around the corner if the mold was resurrected for her as opposed to just fitting the character the CMF team wanted to make.

As for the classic superman hair, it never actually left circulation- it was used pretty commonly in the early 2020s and of course has shown up recently a few times (though oddly enough not on superman himself last year.)

What difference are you seeing? I've been comparing the two and they look identical to me, though it's a little tough to make out exact details from the BL images of the black hairpiece.

I may be wrong but I believe licensed technic sets "count" under the technic theme rather than the license, so there's no concern of that. But we could also just not get a large DC set this year.

My guess is still something like a UCS BTASmobile, though.

I see. I hope its a modular Superman or Batman,  but then they seem to be flooding the market with vehicles, so can see another D2C batvehicle.  

 

really surprised we have not got the minifguare scale bat pod, the bat vehicles, or a D2C play set based the DK Trilogy. 

 

[CF Mitch]

On 1/18/2026 at 6:23 PM, psqidexslizer said:

Forget buying, most kids couldn’t name any of these.

Hmm, alright. 

On 1/18/2026 at 9:33 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

Unfortunately, that's the truth of the matter. If even superman's getting his $15 set retired early, nobody who isn't named Batman stands a chance.

The only sales would be hardcore DC fans who buy all the batmobiles anyway, and anyone willing to spend $23 on the "it was me, Barry, I *insert hilariously petty action*" meme.

Alright, noted.
It's just... I remember people saying kids like things with bright colors and such, so superhero minifigures in general seemed like a good thing for that.
I take it that notion (kids liking bright colors) is not the case anymore, or not nearly enough anymore?

And regarding LEGO's choices, could it be said they created their own sort of vicious circle by choosing only Batman related minifigures and sets?
My point being, if LEGO would've kept making general DC sets with lots of superheroes and their sidekicks and villains and whatnot, regardless of movie popularity et cetera, would the decay of interest in DC LEGO not have gone this fast?

Or am I missing a lot of points here?  

Regards,
Mitch

[Renny The Spaceman]

37 minutes ago, CF Mitch said:

I take it that notion (kids liking bright colors) is not the case anymore, or not nearly enough anymore?

No, I think that's still true, it's just this is IP land, kids want the characters they see in cartoons, games and movies. Every DC set is competing for kids attention with every marvel set as there's a lot of overlap with capeshit. Kids will take Spider-man or Captain America over Superman most of the time, Batman however is DC's big character who doesn't play the same game as every other hero. Batman is an exception to most rules with superhero crap as he has more DNA with detective and pulp heroes of the 40s. It's why you get more big actors, directors and such who usually wouldn't touch superhero stuff wanting to do Batman projects than even an equivalently popular hero like Spider-man. 

Tldr, even if every DC character was grey or Batman wore his rainbow suit in sets nothing would change, colours aren't the issue, DC not being an in trenched brand in the way marvel is means sets don't sell as well, Batman is an oddity toyetic and popular enough to survive this

[CF Mitch]

On 1/20/2026 at 6:53 PM, Renny The Spaceman said:

No, I think that's still true, it's just this is IP land, kids want the characters they see in cartoons, games and movies. Every DC set is competing for kids attention with every marvel set as there's a lot of overlap with capeshit. Kids will take Spider-man or Captain America over Superman most of the time, Batman however is DC's big character who doesn't play the same game as every other hero. Batman is an exception to most rules with superhero crap as he has more DNA with detective and pulp heroes of the 40s. It's why you get more big actors, directors and such who usually wouldn't touch superhero stuff wanting to do Batman projects than even an equivalently popular hero like Spider-man. 

Tldr, even if every DC character was grey or Batman wore his rainbow suit in sets nothing would change, colours aren't the issue, DC not being an in trenched brand in the way marvel is means sets don't sell as well, Batman is an oddity toyetic and popular enough to survive this

Thanks for the elaborate explanation!

Captain Obvious Alert: I think it's just an enormous shame. Overall, DC has SO much potential. I think of plenty of sets they can make and new minifigures and varieties based on different outfits they can produce...
Oh well 

Regards,
Mitch

 

[psqidexslizer]

So apparently Joker and Harley are playable characters in the new Lego Batman game… if you buy the DLC.

 

[Lionbear8]

All this Marvel leaks and nothing for DC. Just sad. 

[Lego Nostalgia]

What is the likelyhood that we'd get more Batmobiles/Batman playsets in summer this year ?

I'd really like the Arkham Knight Batmobile, it is in the new lego game

A Bat-Pod would be nice too

[BrickBob Studpants]

41 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

What is the likelyhood that we'd get more Batmobiles/Batman playsets in summer this year ?

Only one set this summer is said to be a DC  one, but we don’t know which one. But yeah, most likely another Batmobile

[psqidexslizer]

38 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Only one set this summer is said to be a DC  one, but we don’t know which one. But yeah, most likely another Batmobile

Hear me out - TWO Batmobiles with TWO Batman’s, one based on Batman ‘89 and the other based on Batman Returns.

Edited Sunday at 04:05 PM by psqidexslizer

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Hear me out - TWO Batmobiles with TWO Batman’s, one based on Batman ‘89 and the other based on Batman Returns.

It's just a remake of the 2023 walmart combo pack, except they've removed the jokers so it's just the 1989 batmobile, batwing, and a little gargoyle with three identical batman minifigures.

[Lego Nostalgia]

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Only one set this summer is said to be a DC  one, but we don’t know which one. But yeah, most likely another Batmobile

Is it a D2C ?

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 minutes ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Is it a D2C ?

No, the upcoming D2C set is a Marvel one, allegedly a Helicarrier. With the recent update, I just checked the list of rumoured sets again and am actually not even sure there is still a DC set coming. There was a list of 4 sets a while back, with one of them said to be a DC one, but those 4 all seem to be for Marvel now

[Lionbear8]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

No, the upcoming D2C set is a Marvel one, allegedly a Helicarrier. With the recent update, I just checked the list of rumoured sets again and am actually not even sure there is still a DC set coming. There was a list of 4 sets a while back, with one of them said to be a DC one, but those 4 all seem to be for Marvel now

surprised nothing leaked for a DC D2C yet. maybe one of the leakers can share some light if we do get anything at all or we still have a chance. 

 

 

 

[Dolor]

Why you collect DC if LEGO has abandoned the theme?

 

 

[Mandalorianknight]

7 minutes ago, Dolor said:

Why you collect DC if LEGO has abandoned the theme?

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't really collect many of the DC offerings. I bought the 2021 Tumbler and some of the polybags and that's about it for this modern all-batman era. I would love it if lego would branch out into more heroes again- as of now I only have some batmen and robins, the 2014 Flash and the 2013 Soup- but as-is, I'm fine with my batman and batmobile and don't see the need to collect too many other batmen and batmobiles with my limited budget and space.

I may pick up the BvSmobile to mod into the Snydercutmobile because while I don't like BvS much, I'm apparently whatever the limited target audience was for the snyder cut (despite only being vaguely aware of it before the trailer) and would like a representation of that film -the best job any live-action DC has done at conveying that sort of new-mythological comic book event feeling-, but in general I'm just not looking to collect every batmobile. And since batmobiles are about all we get, it means I don't really collect much of the DC universe.

 

For people who do, I suspect there's almost an element of the limited offerings being more of an impetus to purchase the few things we do get- I'm sure there's many people who, if the coming 3 batmobiles and logo released alongside a wave of justice league stuff, would choose the justice league stuff. But since these 4 sets may well be the only options for the year, there are probably a number of DC fans out there who consider something better than nothing and pick them up.

Edited Monday at 09:10 PM by Mandalorianknight

[Murdoch17]

Speaking of the BvSmobile, Brickset posted a review of it today, in case @Mandalorianknight or anyone else was wanting to see it in depth. Personally, I wish it was more black and used the two old canopies instead.. but I understand the molds are long gone by now for that.

Edited Monday at 10:30 PM by Murdoch17

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Dolor said:

Why you collect DC if LEGO has abandoned the theme?

Because the few sets that we do get are awesome? Last years' Arkham is in my top 3 DC sets ever released, and the 3 Batmobiles launching in March are among the best if not the best they've ever done. Yes, it's become a literal Batman theme by this point, but the sets are still well designed

[psqidexslizer]

18 hours ago, Dolor said:

Why you collect DC if LEGO has abandoned the theme?

 

 

Nah, LEGO is close to restoring the theme to its former glory. Why else would they restore the Wonder Woman mold in a CMF? Because DC is coming back! But we all need to do our part. Only if Lego sees these sets sell well will they give us sets we actually want. That why I got a twelfth credit card and preordered five hundred copies of each of the new sets. 

[Mandalorianknight]

7 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

That why I got a twelfth credit card and preordered five hundred copies of each of the new sets. 

You gotta use the bat-credit-card. Impossible to max out. 

The joke does illustrate the issue LEGO runs into though. If they're only making batmobiles, and if the batmobiles do poorly, is that because people want wider DC stuff, or because even batmobiles don't sell anymore? Conversely, if they're a smash-hit, does it mean people want more batmobiles, or that they want more DC in general?

Unfortunately as much as we want to say LEGO should make wider DC/Justice League sets, kids just don't know or like the characters that much. The reason the 18+ sets generally have that same issue is, I would guess, a lot of the adult market is the guys who would, for example, get scared off if there were minifigures in the midi-scale star wars ships. I'm sure their research has found that there's a lot of adults who will buy the UCS batmobiles but think DC stuff besides Movie Batman is dorky or whatever. Hopefully Arkham does well and we can start to branch out again.

On 1/26/2026 at 5:28 PM, Murdoch17 said:

Speaking of the BvSmobile, Brickset posted a review of it today, in case @Mandalorianknight or anyone else was wanting to see it in depth. Personally, I wish it was more black and used the two old canopies instead.. but I understand the molds are long gone by now for that.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Dolor]

15 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

LEGO is close to restoring the theme to its former glory.

Is this some kind of JOKE?

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, Dolor said:

Is this some kind of JOKE?

No, he‘s dead serious. All hail LEGO DC!! Lisan-al Gaib!!! To the LEGOcave!!

 

 

 

[psqidexslizer]

3 hours ago, Dolor said:

Is this some kind of JOKE?

[psqidexslizer]

11 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

You gotta use the bat-credit-card. Impossible to max out. 

The joke does illustrate the issue LEGO runs into though. If they're only making batmobiles, and if the batmobiles do poorly, is that because people want wider DC stuff, or because even batmobiles don't sell anymore? Conversely, if they're a smash-hit, does it mean people want more batmobiles, or that they want more DC in general?

Unfortunately as much as we want to say LEGO should make wider DC/Justice League sets, kids just don't know or like the characters that much. The reason the 18+ sets generally have that same issue is, I would guess, a lot of the adult market is the guys who would, for example, get scared off if there were minifigures in the midi-scale star wars ships. I'm sure their research has found that there's a lot of adults who will buy the UCS batmobiles but think DC stuff besides Movie Batman is dorky or whatever. Hopefully Arkham does well and we can start to branch out again.

I don’t think the lack of interest by younger audiences is a DC exclusive issue either (although, it definitely affects DC far more). Over at Marvel, they only get two types of sets, legacy sets and Spider-Man sets. The legacy sets started out as playsets but have morphed over time into dioramas and display pieces, aimed almost exclusively at older audiences, while the Spider-Man sets are the only sets really aimed at younger audiences. I think it’s clear that Marvel has lost the younger audience (except Spider-Man, who will probably still be popular with kids for at least the next century) and only sell non-Spider-Man sets based on nostalgia for the older movies.

I think next year will be a telling year for DC. Superman seems to have moved merchandise and generated interest in the character among younger audiences despite the Lego mech set seeming to be a failure. (But, then Lego has also stopped doing the three mech sets per year so maybe that’s an issue with the mech sets and not Superman). It’ll be interesting to see if Lego’s research shows any uptick in interest and if they decide to risk more Superman sets. Similarly, we’ll probably get to see Lego’s reaction to Arkham sales, good or bad, and if Lego believes there is interest in large minifgure scaled display models for DC that aren’t shaped like a giant black cube. 

[Renny The Spaceman]

42 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I don’t think the lack of interest by younger audiences is a DC exclusive issue either (although, it definitely affects DC far more). Over at Marvel, they only get two types of sets, legacy sets and Spider-Man sets. The legacy sets started out as playsets but have morphed over time into dioramas and display pieces, aimed almost exclusively at older audiences, while the Spider-Man sets are the only sets really aimed at younger audiences. I think it’s clear that Marvel has lost the younger audience (except Spider-Man, who will probably still be popular with kids for at least the next century) and only sell non-Spider-Man sets based on nostalgia for the older movies.

I think next year will be a telling year for DC. Superman seems to have moved merchandise and generated interest in the character among younger audiences despite the Lego mech set seeming to be a failure. (But, then Lego has also stopped doing the three mech sets per year so maybe that’s an issue with the mech sets and not Superman). It’ll be interesting to see if Lego’s research shows any uptick in interest and if they decide to risk more Superman sets. Similarly, we’ll probably get to see Lego’s reaction to Arkham sales, good or bad, and if Lego believes there is interest in large minifgure scaled display models for DC that aren’t shaped like a giant black cube. 

Probably veering away from lego but the issue is the cinematic universe venture only can last so long before getting insular, it doesn't open new storytelling possibilities, it's a gimmick to make you watch 38 of the same movie and that sorta gimmick really has diminishing returns. There are a lot of kids in peak lego age not born or who were too young to form memories in 2018, 2019. They have no reason to give a crap and no entrypoint to these films unless a parent sat down a kid and showed them all 49 films and 36 shows, and even then a kid might not care. Spider-Man and Batman are uniquely marketable but everyone else depends on nostalgia and the entrenched superfans who'll see anything with the logo. The DCU I think is gonna struggle because Gunn is going full Cinematic universe with 78 tv show characters apparently in Superman 2.

The Batman is funny because it's the only one of these films where the announcements are "This is a Batman Movie, it will star Batman character" instead of Spider-Man teams up with the Nightman to fight Purple Hulk or something 

[BrickBob Studpants]

21 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

Spider-Man teams up with the Nightman to fight Purple Hulk or something 

SPIDEY VS THE AMAZING BULK LET‘S GOOOOOOOO

Edited yesterday at 12:25 PM by BrickBob Studpants