DC Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Lionbear8]

6 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

In Lego’s defense, sets are designed over a year in advance, so the success of Superman over Fantastic Four wasn’t known when the set was designed. And actually, projections had Fantastic Four doing better up until the film actually hit theaters so Lego would have been justified in assuming that film would do better.

If we do see anything from the success of Superman, it won’t be until next year. But given the Superman mech retired after only one year, I really don’t have high hopes.

Now that you brought it up, a buildable Krypto with a Superman figure seems like a no-brainer. 

that same old story,  Iets see next year. FYI, the mechs have a shelf life of 1 year it goes for Marvel as well. 

 

the fact there is no Modular yet and they had to get a set under another sub theme ( technic) bedazzles me. 

maybe they do another tin set megazine for Supergirl.  

 

 

[PastaChef]

Aside from the Arkham D2C does anyone know the last time we actually got a dc play set?

[psqidexslizer]

33 minutes ago, Lionbear8 said:

that same old story,  Iets see next year. FYI, the mechs have a shelf life of 1 year it goes for Marvel as well. 

 

the fact there is no Modular yet and they had to get a set under another sub theme ( technic) bedazzles me. 

maybe they do another tin set megazine for Supergirl.  

 

 

The mechs do not have a shelf life of one year over at Marvel. Both the mechs that released alongside Superman are still available for purchase.

As for the modular, I wouldn’t be surprised if there just isn’t one this year.

6 minutes ago, PastaChef said:

Aside from the Arkham D2C does anyone know the last time we actually got a dc play set?

Depends on whether or not you count the giant black eyesore from 2023 as a playset. 

[Mandalorianknight]

8 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

In Lego’s defense, sets are designed over a year in advance, so the success of Superman over Fantastic Four wasn’t known when the set was designed. And actually, projections had Fantastic Four doing better up until the film actually hit theaters so Lego would have been justified in assuming that film would do better.

If we do see anything from the success of Superman, it won’t be until next year. But given the Superman mech retired after only one year, I really don’t have high hopes.

Not to bring up the question about how well superman actually ended up doing again, but even if it had been a super hit, the mech retiring early implies that success in no way translated to sales of the superman set.

2 hours ago, Lionbear8 said:

that same old story,  Iets see next year. FYI, the mechs have a shelf life of 1 year it goes for Marvel as well. 

maybe they do another tin set megazine for Supergirl.  

The marvel mechs are still up on lego.com for sale. The superman mech retired earlier than it's marvel counterparts, implying sales were not as much as lego had been hoping for.

Unfortunately I don't believe we've ever had a figure with exclusive prints in one of those magazines.

1 hour ago, PastaChef said:

Aside from the Arkham D2C does anyone know the last time we actually got a dc play set?

If we're not counting D2Cs or 4+ it would have been the last system batcave in 2021, the one from the The Batman movie. Every single standard system set since then, with the exception of the supermech, has been a bat-vehicle.

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Not to bring up the question about how well superman actually ended up doing again, but even if it had been a super hit, the mech retiring early implies that success in no way translated to sales of the superman set.

Yeah, despite Superman being a success, it’s pretty clear the mech didn’t sell well just by the fact it was discontinued so early. I think at this point it’s just a question of how Lego will react moving forward. Will they assume the problem was with the set itself and try to produce sets they think people will be more interested in or will they conclude that there isn’t a market for anything Superman related? I think we’ll get a pretty definitive answer to that question next year.

[Lionbear8]

10 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Yeah, despite Superman being a success, it’s pretty clear the mech didn’t sell well just by the fact it was discontinued so early. I think at this point it’s just a question of how Lego will react moving forward. Will they assume the problem was with the set itself and try to produce sets they think people will be more interested in or will they conclude that there isn’t a market for anything Superman related? I think we’ll get a pretty definitive answer to that question next year.

or maybe they sold out and the Marvel ones they still had stock. you will never truly know unless you worked in one of there key departments that monitor the sales. 

I am convinced at lego land

1. the marketing team only sees Batmobiles as sales 

2. the designers are brainwashed into Marvel lore

3. some designers want more Batman Sets  but hands are tied due to marketing executives.

on another note  all the lego bloggers who get invited yearly,  should be pushing harder for a clearer direction where the theme is headed and how many sets you should expect on a yearly basis.  in the video they were teasing a potential 2 face figure in more sets  maybe we get something else maybe we don't this year 

My solution,  release a book with DC sets that never got passed for release and include a digital instructions link. 

again so much wasted potential for this theme. 

 

 

 

 

[psqidexslizer]

4 hours ago, Lionbear8 said:

or maybe they sold out and the Marvel ones they still had stock. you will never truly know unless you worked in one of there key departments that monitor the sales. 

I am convinced at lego land

1. the marketing team only sees Batmobiles as sales 

2. the designers are brainwashed into Marvel lore

3. some designers want more Batman Sets  but hands are tied due to marketing executives.

on another note  all the lego bloggers who get invited yearly,  should be pushing harder for a clearer direction where the theme is headed and how many sets you should expect on a yearly basis.  in the video they were teasing a potential 2 face figure in more sets  maybe we get something else maybe we don't this year 

My solution,  release a book with DC sets that never got passed for release and include a digital instructions link. 

again so much wasted potential for this theme. 

Lego has sets that run out of stock all the time. They don’t retire those sets early, they make more. When sets retire early, that isn’t a sign that the set sold too well, it’s an indicator that the set sold poorly and Lego is clearing up shelf space in their stores, warehouses, and factories for something which has the potential to sell better. If the Superman mech sold well, it would still be on the shelves.

As for the bias towards Batmobiles and Marvel sets, the designers don’t get to decide what sets we get. They are told what to make sets on based on, and that is dictated by sales data. The reason we get a few Batmobiles while Marvel gets a bunch of sets simply comes down to Marvel sets sell and DC sets don’t.

As for the bloggers, they’re not journalists pushing for answers from the company. They’re there to promote sets and that’s it. They don’t have any real power and Lego isn’t going to tell them anything about the future of the theme. Heck, Lego has spent the past decade cracking down on leaks because they don’t want information about what sets are coming out leaking before they officially announce it for a variety of reasons.

As for the book of instructions for sets that weren’t released, it’s rare for Lego sets to actually get cancelled once the get to the stage where the design is good enough to be an actual set, and typically that only happens if there’s some controversy surrounding the set that they don’t want to associate themselves with. So there’s no way Lego is going to release a book full of instructions for controversial content and models that don’t pass their quality standards. Not to mention they’d just be opening themselves up to backlash over fans who are upset certain sets didn’t get made. It’d just be a bad idea on so many levels.

[BrickBob Studpants]

32 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

As for the bias towards Batmobiles and Marvel sets, the designers don’t get to decide what sets we get. They are told what to make sets on based on, and that is dictated by sales data.

It’s not always that clear-cut though  There are instances where we know the push came from the designers (Krennic’s Shuttle and the Queer Eye sets for instance) and the design leads in particular have some power as well ^^

That said, in this case, it’s clear the divide between DC and Marvel comes down to sales and not the designers’ preferences  I know, looking for a devious villain to blame is human, but portraying the designers as Marvel fanboys is just misguided. I mean, what do we expect here? That the WB/DC representatives are pouting in their chairs while the designers happily break the company’s contractual obligations?

The reason we get so many Batmobiles is because they’re almost guaranteed to sell, while everything else is a gamble, and DC/WB agree.

[CloneCommando99]

Boy. The Green Lantern mech releasing this June is going to look great alongside the TIE Avenger Lego’s definitely making.

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Boy. The Green Lantern mech releasing this June is going to look great alongside the TIE Avenger Lego’s definitely making.

Yeah, let’s display them right next to all our other DCU sets, the Flash Batmobile, the Temple of Doom, and the Acolyte sets. Wouldn’t it be a bummer to live in a parallel universe where none of that existed?

[psqidexslizer]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, let’s display them right next to all our other DCU sets, the Flash Batmobile, the Temple of Doom, and the Acolyte sets. Wouldn’t it be a bummer to live in a parallel universe where none of that existed?

I couldn’t imagine living in a world where we didn’t get that super awesome Tower of Fate set back in 2022. Thank Lego Jesus we live in the best timeline.

[Juvellino]

On 2/11/2026 at 3:01 AM, calebcold3 said:

According to the new leaker (I forget his name but he's the new guy that has been backed up by other reliable sources), it's the only DC set we're getting this summer. 

Where can I find DC leaks like this?

[psqidexslizer]

I decided to recolor one of the Lego Hulkbusters to make a mech for Lex Luthor (since we will never get another Superman set again, much less a set based around a villain). NGL, I think it looks better than the mechs we got for Lex in the past. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU24snDDm7Z/?igsh=MWRvYjljZHgxenk5Zw==

Edited Tuesday at 12:48 PM by psqidexslizer

[BrickBob Studpants]

11 hours ago, Juvellino said:

Where can I find DC leaks like this?

We can’t directly link to these sources here, but there are subreddits dedicated to LEGO leaks, leakers you can follow on Instagram, and the Brick Tap Discord server, with a large overlap between them since a lot of leakers are active across all three platforms

48 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

(since we will never get another Superman set again, much less a set based around a villain)

Never say never  I’ve brought it up before, but we have a saying in German: those condemned to die live longer  And indeed, the DC theme keeps on living, no matter how much we insist it’s already dead. I don’t think we’ll return to the glory days anytime soon (if ever), but it can’t be ruled out either.

The true test will be Man of Tomorrow next year. If we get zilch for that movie, it’s gonna be nothing but Batman from that point forward. At least there are The Batman II sets to look forward to!

[PastaChef]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The true test will be Man of Tomorrow next year. If we get zilch for that movie, it’s gonna be nothing but Batman from that point forward. At least there are The Batman II sets to look forward to!

I thought with Soup specifically getting a new design and added to Lego Fortnite it’d of been a good indication of something in the pipeline 

[BrickBob Studpants]

8 minutes ago, PastaChef said:

I thought with Soup specifically getting a new design and added to Lego Fortnite it’d of been a good indication of something in the pipeline 

There are a ton of IPs though that got and are still getting Fortnite skins and will likely never have actual sets, so that by itself sadly doesn‘t mean much

[calebcold3]

IF we get a Man of Tomorrow Set next year, I could see it being a Monkey's Paw where we only get 1 MOT set and only 1 Batman Part II set (AKA 2 DC Movie sets for Next year, and the rest of the DC Sets next year are 3 Legacy Batmobiles) 

[PastaChef]

1 hour ago, calebcold3 said:

IF we get a Man of Tomorrow Set next year, I could see it being a Monkey's Paw where we only get 1 MOT set and only 1 Batman Part II set (AKA 2 DC Movie sets for Next year, and the rest of the DC Sets next year are 3 Legacy Batmobiles) 

It sucks but your probably right…

I feel like we’ve had every version of the Batmobile now with the Batman and Robin one coming. In the last couple of years. As much as I like Batman I’d hate to get another remake of the 89 or the tv series

[CloneCommando99]

2 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

IF we get a Man of Tomorrow Set next year,

You’re funny.

 

If Lego wanted to do something interesting with Batman, they should do some Absolute stuff. Give me the Bat-Dump-Truck (which isn’t Dick Grayson in Absolute)

Give me Absolute Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension (Ivy and Jonkler)

Give me Absolute Cinema (Batman riding Killer Croc to fight kaiju Bane) 

 

[psqidexslizer]

8 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

IF we get a Man of Tomorrow Set next year, I could see it being a Monkey's Paw where we only get 1 MOT set and only 1 Batman Part II set (AKA 2 DC Movie sets for Next year, and the rest of the DC Sets next year are 3 Legacy Batmobiles) 

I don’t get how this is a monkeys paw. I’d happily take zero sets based on The Batman part 2 if it meant getting a Man of Tomorrow set.

Edited Wednesday at 03:29 PM by psqidexslizer

[Mandalorianknight]

9 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

IF we get a Man of Tomorrow Set next year, I could see it being a Monkey's Paw where we only get 1 MOT set and only 1 Batman Part II set (AKA 2 DC Movie sets for Next year, and the rest of the DC Sets next year are 3 Legacy Batmobiles) 

This would be a monkey's paw if it was a tradeoff between two marvel or star wars movies or something but at this point getting any content not based on legacy batman films would be a massive win for the theme.

Given the maturity of the first film, lego's overall decline in the number of direct movie tie-ins, and the state of the theme, I think we have to call into question whether or not we're even getting Batman Part ll playsets.

Edited Wednesday at 04:41 PM by Mandalorianknight