DC Superheroes 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[spiderfan2000]

For another comparison, Across the Spider-Verse was released in June 2023, but didn't get a single set until January of this year. So early 2027 for Superman set(s) seems like a reasonable guess if LEGO gets started on development now.

[Rwbricks]

I’m hoping that with the positive reaction to Superman and perceived excitement for Supergirl, since the latter is a year away, LEGO will try to get some sets in around next year. 
 

A Clayface minifigure has long been wanted, and he’ll be getting his own movie next year, too. Aside from that fact that it’ll be a horror movie, this would be the perfect chance to finally get him, at least as a comic set tie-in. 

[Swordy]

13 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Amazing how this thread has kept pace with the Marvel one just off us talking about how much Lego hates DC.

It was insane when the Aslume thread kept pace with the 2024 Marvel one just off us jonkling off topic. To be blunt, it’s outstanding that this thread can keep pace just because of one movie that didn’t get any sets.

Haven’t seen the movie yet, but that wishlist @CloneCommando99 dreamed up sounds exciting enough, even to an extremely ignorant fan of DC. Hope for the best… and I always wish I could send off with “Excelsior” but this ain’t Marvel!

[Sinistereo]

On 7/14/2025 at 3:51 PM, Robert8 said:

Its only doing well in the US

Out of the US, not so much....

it already made more than it cost to make, it is projected to end it's run on 600 million. WB considers it a success 

Also, no DC sets in January 2026 :( all those superhero set numbers are Marvel

[THELEGOBATMAN]

No DC sets in January?!

It's getting so much worse. Is this theme actually dead?

[psqidexslizer]

LEGO DC IS BACK…to 2009

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Another day, another "David Corenswet asking for LEGO Superman" video:

[Sinistereo]

3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Another day, another "David Corenswet asking for LEGO Superman" video:

I can't wait for the 200th batmobile to come out next year 😭

[hvader]

I’d love it if the YouTubers, in their next interview with the Lego superheroes team, could ask them about all of this. I’d be very curious to hear their rationale behind these baffling decisions

[psqidexslizer]

53 minutes ago, hvader said:

I’d love it if the YouTubers, in their next interview with the Lego superheroes team, could ask them about all of this. I’d be very curious to hear their rationale behind these baffling decisions

DC’s last six films all bombed at the box office. Marvel is releasing a sequel to the highest grossing film ever next year. As much as it sucks, it’s not hard to understand why DC is getting shafted next year.

[Rwbricks]

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

DC’s last six films all bombed at the box office. Marvel is releasing a sequel to the highest grossing film ever next year. As much as it sucks, it’s not hard to understand why DC is getting shafted next year.

I do agree with this, but I still find it baffling that we got sets for 2025 and not 2026 when the only difference is that between them, we would have actual DC content for 2026. 
Hopefully the summer wave will be better (assuming there’s nothing in the spring). 

[Lego Nostalgia]

16 hours ago, Sinistereo said:

it already made more than it cost to make, it is projected to end it's run on 600 million. WB considers it a success 

Also, no DC sets in January 2026 :( all those superhero set numbers are Marvel

Marketing has to be taken into account too not just the budget, plus that budget might not even be the real one, there was a UK tax thing that said it was 300M

[psqidexslizer]

33 minutes ago, Rwbricks said:

I do agree with this, but I still find it baffling that we got sets for 2025 and not 2026 when the only difference is that between them, we would have actual DC content for 2026. 
Hopefully the summer wave will be better (assuming there’s nothing in the spring). 

I think the lack of sets for next year has more to do with Lego prioritizing Doomsday over everything else. There’s something like 60 named characters that we know are going to be in there. That’s a lot of minifigures. We certainly won’t be getting all of them. But, even if we get 20, that’s a lot of the budget for superheroes. Cuts need to be made somewhere. Makes sense they’re made to DC.

Also, as for 2026 content, we’re talking about Supergirl and Green Lantern. They’re certainly not nobodies, but they’re also not characters I’d expect sets for (especially when Superman can’t get more than a comic tie in).

[Lego Nostalgia]

Anyway as someone who loved Man Of Steel, Batman V Superman and ZSJL, I really loved this new Superman film, hope we really see more from this universe

I love The Batman 2022 and Battinson and I'd wonder if there is a possibility to him joining the DCU although I prefer to keep him grounded

Also no DC sets in January is so sad but expected, and I don't want to hear the excuse of the movies did bad, old movies and comics exist

I'm grateful for a new Arkham at least

[Renny The Spaceman]

10 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I think the lack of sets for next year has more to do with Lego prioritizing Doomsday over everything else. There’s something like 60 named characters that we know are going to be in there. That’s a lot of minifigures. We certainly won’t be getting all of them. But, even if we get 20, that’s a lot of the budget for superheroes. Cuts need to be made somewhere. Makes sense they’re made to DC.

I hope they put a ridiculous amount of budget into the 78 different figures needed, it takes up the entire year's budget then the sets flop horribly. I think that'd be the funniest scenario. Does so catastrophically poorly, on like a sub-Galidor level, so all of Superheroes bar Spider-Man 4+ sets is folded into icons. 
 

[Lionbear8]

4 hours ago, hvader said:

I’d love it if the YouTubers, in their next interview with the Lego superheroes team, could ask them about all of this. I’d be very curious to hear their rationale behind these baffling decisions

love this, vent the sheer frustration that DC fans have, and stop telling us the same old BS story.  

[BatDeanj]

24 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

I think the lack of sets for next year has more to do with Lego prioritizing Doomsday over everything else. There’s something like 60 named characters that we know are going to be in there. That’s a lot of minifigures. We certainly won’t be getting all of them. But, even if we get 20, that’s a lot of the budget for superheroes. Cuts need to be made somewhere. Makes sense they’re made to DC.

Also, as for 2026 content, we’re talking about Supergirl and Green Lantern. They’re certainly not nobodies, but they’re also not characters I’d expect sets for (especially when Superman can’t get more than a comic tie in).

Is DC getting no sets next year then or do we only know about the jan wave? if theres nothing in the summer even a 4+ set thats worrying

[psqidexslizer]

39 minutes ago, BatDeanj said:

Is DC getting no sets next year then or do we only know about the jan wave? if theres nothing in the summer even a 4+ set thats worrying

Nothing in January for sure. Supposedly there could be 4 in summer, but they could also be Doomsday sets.

But it’s Lego DC, so expect the worst and you’ll only be disappointed a little.

50 minutes ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I hope they put a ridiculous amount of budget into the 78 different figures needed, it takes up the entire year's budget then the sets flop horribly. I think that'd be the funniest scenario. Does so catastrophically poorly, on like a sub-Galidor level, so all of Superheroes bar Spider-Man 4+ sets is folded into icons. 
 

https://tenor.com/68oA.gif

[Mandalorianknight]

3 hours ago, Rwbricks said:

I do agree with this, but I still find it baffling that we got sets for 2025 and not 2026 when the only difference is that between them, we would have actual DC content for 2026. 
Hopefully the summer wave will be better (assuming there’s nothing in the spring). 

Arguably we had more set-friendly DC content this year with the superman movie, which while I personally don't like what I've seen of, definitely had plenty of set potential.

3 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Marketing has to be taken into account too not just the budget, plus that budget might not even be the real one, there was a UK tax thing that said it was 300M

Yeah from what I've been seeing they need 600-700 mil at the box office to turn a profit, which doesn't seem like a guarantee, especially given whatever's going on with the non-US box office.

2 hours ago, Renny The Spaceman said:

I hope they put a ridiculous amount of budget into the 78 different figures needed, it takes up the entire year's budget then the sets flop horribly. I think that'd be the funniest scenario. Does so catastrophically poorly, on like a sub-Galidor level, so all of Superheroes bar Spider-Man 4+ sets is folded into icons. 

I've lost all hope for slopsday being good and at this point, this is what I'm hoping for in the movie:

1. It's morbius level content, just absolutely painstakingly terrible (you know what? let's actually give the morbster a cameo), and everyone except the thunderbolts is just awful.

2. The "invincible avengers" team that's supposedly being put together is A: put together entirely offscreen to culminate the lack of setup for sam's samvengers, and B: evolves from just generally uninteresting to so outrageously unlikeable that people actively root for Doom.

3 (and this is the most important). Yelena and Ava apologize for bullying John into switching out his hat for that stupid beret and he puts his old helmet back on. (This isn't a meme, I legitimately hate the beret and now even if we get the thunderbolts in doomsday sets, John won't be accurate to Thunderbolts, which is the best non-nostalgia marvel movie since infinity war.)

 

[psqidexslizer]

2 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Yeah from what I've been seeing they need 600-700 mil at the box office to turn a profit, which doesn't seem like a guarantee, especially given whatever's going on with the non-US box office.

It’s probably on the lower end of that. The break even points I’ve seen estimated range from $530 - $750 mil. Films tend to make 50% of box office earnings domestically, 40% internationally, and 25% in China (opening weekend for domestic, at least, is also usually higher). Domestic numbers are strong while China is basically non-existent in terms of box office, meaning the studio is making a higher percentage off of the box office than usual. A 2.5x multiplier of the budget is typically standard, but in this case it’s probably much closer to 2x. So the actual number is probably closer to $600 mil.

Most CBMs tend to make roughly 3x their opening weekend, depending on how strong their legs are and extenuating circumstances. Superman has had strong legs so far and will probably make around $600M.

And that’s not taking into account merchandising deals (this film definitely seems to be moving Superman merch) and profits from physical copies, digital copies, and streaming services.

In short, this film is probably fine in terms of profit.

[Robert8]

Fantastic 4 will hit it hard next weekend

Im sorry to say I wouldnt be too optimistic about the upcoming weeks box office

I think the final box office will be around 530M - 550M 

[Sinistereo]

8 hours ago, Lego Nostalgia said:

Marketing has to be taken into account too not just the budget, plus that budget might not even be the real one, there was a UK tax thing that said it was 300M

100 mil for marketing

Edited July 21 by Sinistereo

[DaredevilFan]

Unless it’s delayed Brand new day also comes out next year as well, which will most likely get 3 sets. So with Spider-Man and Doomsday it was always gonna be a bit bleak but I thought Jan would have a few more sets then the end of the year would just be Marvel. I think having Marvel’s 2 most popular Franchises of Avengers and Spidey is the main reason for no sets. It also gives them more time to see how the Superman mech sold, how much Arkham is selling. 2027 we have a new Batman movie and if this years data is positive could be a decent comeback for the theme 

[BatDeanj]

1 hour ago, DaredevilFan said:

Unless it’s delayed Brand new day also comes out next year as well, which will most likely get 3 sets. So with Spider-Man and Doomsday it was always gonna be a bit bleak but I thought Jan would have a few more sets then the end of the year would just be Marvel. I think having Marvel’s 2 most popular Franchises of Avengers and Spidey is the main reason for no sets. It also gives them more time to see how the Superman mech sold, how much Arkham is selling. 2027 we have a new Batman movie and if this years data is positive could be a decent comeback for the theme 

The main reason I think there will be sets next year is they are reintroducing loads of collabs from Arkham with a lot needing printing and with Lego they will bleed them across multiple sets to get theirs moneys worth. So I recon they will resuse the villains in the summer even if we get 3 sets. Which 1 should be superman based

[Renny The Spaceman]

11 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

https://tenor.com/68oA.gif

It's not the world, like in the context of LEGO it's more like "some men want to watch Germany burn" we can live without Germany, for the bit.
 

7 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

 25% in China (opening weekend for domestic, at least, is also usually higher). Domestic numbers are strong while China is basically non-existent in terms of box office

Yeah, China isn't really into American blockbusters anymore, most franchises that relied on that. I think that's kinda the boring answer for why any superhero movie could do a billion in like 2019 but now the genre is struggling constantly. I think for the better, these things need to lower their budgets they're utilising them atrociously, like Disney Doctor Who level of allocating this stuff poorly, when the sky's the limit you just paint every canvas blue. 
 

9 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I've lost all hope for slopsday being good and at this point, this is what I'm hoping for in the movie:

1. It's morbius level content, just absolutely painstakingly terrible (you know what? let's actually give the morbster a cameo), and everyone except the thunderbolts is just awful.

2. The "invincible avengers" team that's supposedly being put together is A: put together entirely offscreen to culminate the lack of setup for sam's samvengers, and B: evolves from just generally uninteresting to so outrageously unlikeable that people actively root for Doom.

3 (and this is the most important). Yelena and Ava apologize for bullying John into switching out his hat for that stupid beret and he puts his old helmet back on. (This isn't a meme, I legitimately hate the beret and now even if we get the thunderbolts in doomsday sets, John won't be accurate to Thunderbolts, which is the best non-nostalgia marvel movie since infinity war.)

 

I have no idea what the 2nd one means, but yeah, if somethings gonna be bad make it memorable, unfortunately the most boring directors in the world are helming the project so big swings are off the table. They've done like 5 of the worst films ever made outside of their franchise stuff and they're all just endlessly boring. I need Disney to punt them off the project and get Neil Breen to direct it, please.

Haven't they done the little Captain America helmet piece in black?  Maybe this shows what I know about the theme but I'd imagine in one of his 78 minifigures they'd have done that?