DC Superheroes 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[psqidexslizer]

32 minutes ago, Lionbear8 said:

ok, hope still lives! 

Hope? In the DC theme??? In 2026?!

Buddy, you’re in the wrong thread. 

 

[calebcold3]

Given that we know most of the remaining Marvel sets of this year, and how we are likely going to get, at most, 1 more set for DC this year, what would you all expect the potential last DC set of 2026 to be, likely a D2C? 

I'm expecting it to be a D2C Batmobile, either based on Pattinson, or even possibly based on BvS. Since a DC modular hasn't been denied yet, that leaves some hope for a Wayne Manor Modular or a Daily Planet Modular, but I'm also taking @BrickBob Studpants word on how those shouldn't be something that we hold our breath over. 

But I could see it being something not a single one of us asked for, like a Buildable Batarang or a Buildable Batman Suit 

[psqidexslizer]

7 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Given that we know most of the remaining Marvel sets of this year, and how we are likely going to get, at most, 1 more set for DC this year, what would you all expect the potential last DC set of 2026 to be, likely a D2C? 

I'm expecting it to be a D2C Batmobile, either based on Pattinson, or even possibly based on BvS. Since a DC modular hasn't been denied yet, that leaves some hope for a Wayne Manor Modular or a Daily Planet Modular, but I'm also taking @BrickBob Studpants word on how those shouldn't be something that we hold our breath over. 

But I could see it being something not a single one of us asked for, like a Buildable Batarang or a Buildable Batman Suit 

I’m betting we’re done for the year. We were told there was one more set and that it was going to be the Technic RC Tumbler. The only other rumor was a modular building for Black Friday which got shot down immediately.

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I’m betting we’re done for the year. We were told there was one more set and that it was going to be the Technic RC Tumbler. The only other rumor was a modular building for Black Friday which got shot down immediately.

Exactly. It’s no impossible for another DC to show up later in the year, but not very likely either. This is most likely it for DC this year

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I’m betting we’re done for the year. We were told there was one more set and that it was going to be the Technic RC Tumbler. The only other rumor was a modular building for Black Friday which got shot down immediately.

Not to mention the superheroes team does share a budget, and this year has direct sequels to the two marvel franchises with the highest-grossing marvel movies of all time. In hindsight this year was always going to be extremely light on the DC side.

[BrickBob Studpants]

19 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

In hindsight this year was always going to be extremely light on the DC side.

Not for that reason though. 2019 also saw the release of new Avengers and Spidey movies, and yet we got a fair number of DC sets that year  Sure, the sets based on Doomsday and BND were always gonna be a high priority for the Superheroes team, which doesn’t help DC’s case at all, but DC merely getting tablescraps has other reasons.

[psqidexslizer]

21 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

Not to mention the superheroes team does share a budget, and this year has direct sequels to the two marvel franchises with the highest-grossing marvel movies of all time. In hindsight this year was always going to be extremely light on the DC side.

It’s more surprising to me just how light they’re going on the new films. Brand New Day is only getting 2-3 sets and Doomsday 3-4. If even Avengers and Spider-Man only get a couple of movie tie-in sets, the odds of Man of Tomorrow getting more than a 4+ comic based tie-in are pretty slim.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Not for that reason though. 2019 also saw the release of new Avengers and Spidey movies, and yet we got a fair number of DC sets that year  Sure, the sets based on Doomsday and BND were always gonna be a high priority for the Superheroes team, which doesn’t help DC’s case at all, but DC merely getting tablescraps has other reasons.

Yeah I’m not saying it was the only reason, just that in the current era of DC sets, having two major marvel movies coming out was always going to be a rough year. At a time when there’s enough to go around, big movie releases isn’t a problem, but when even marvel skips movies and DC barely gets scraps, I do think that having a spider-man and avengers movie in the same year was going to hurt DC’s chances.

25 minutes ago, psqidexslizer said:

It’s more surprising to me just how light they’re going on the new films. Brand New Day is only getting 2-3 sets and Doomsday 3-4. If even Avengers and Spider-Man only get a couple of movie tie-in sets, the odds of Man of Tomorrow getting more than a 4+ comic based tie-in are pretty slim.

That’s pretty standard for spider-man movies- homecoming had two, FFH had four (but one was a blister pack), and NWH had 3 where one was 4+. Honestly, in terms of piece count/price this is probably the most coverage we’ve gotten.

 

doomsday only getting 3-4 is stranger, I think every avengers wave has had at least 5 sets (except maybe the first one all the way back in 2012?), but I also wouldn’t say for sure it’s only getting 3-4 sets.

 

but either way there’s little chance man of tomorrow gets more than a Superman car or something, like you said.

[CloneCommando99]

Listen up Poozers! Gunn has confirmed the Lanterns teaser is tomorrow. I repeat my fellow corpsmen. Lanterns teaser is tomorrow. This is not a drill.

 

Time to see if we can finally leave Ryan Reynolds behind. And what Lego’s been missing out on by not making a GL mech this year.

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Listen up Poozers! Gunn has confirmed the Lanterns teaser is tomorrow. I repeat my fellow corpsmen. Lanterns teaser is tomorrow. This is not a drill.

 

Time to see if we can finally leave Ryan Reynolds behind. And what Lego’s been missing out on by not making a GL mech this year.

Trailer has leaked. 

On the plus side, it’ll be really easy to make purist versions of Hal and John.

[CloneCommando99]

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Trailer has leaked. 

On the plus side, it’ll be really easy to make purist versions of Hal and John.

Where’s the green Gunn? Not a single construct. 

Spoiler

I take back everything I said about Guy’s LordTech suit. At least that stuck to the GL colour palette, just with too much white. I mean. What is with the gold? Parrallax? The people who are defending this by saying it is based on Earth One haven’t read Earth One because that was black with silver accents which worked as the silver reflected the green energy. I’d have preferred a Earth One black jumpsuit with the armour to this.

 

Though on the bright side, the sigil looks great. Definitely the best live action symbol yet.

Since I don’t want to be overly pessimistic, it does look like a fun show that will probably be good due to HBO’s brand. Just not what a GL show should be. But then again, we haven’t seen Sinestro or John’s suit yet so maybe they’re trying to pull a Minecraft Movie here. I’m still holding out hope that this will at least be a good series and portrayal of Hal and John’s characters.
 

And Ch’p or Bd’g are confirmed to exist. So that’s a bonus!

[Mandalorianknight]

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Just not what a GL show should be.

I really didn't want to come in here and stomp on your hype so I'm glad we had the same thoughts. This isn't a GL show.

I'd add that neither Hal nor Jon act how I think the characters should act. Hal seems like he's a bitter and broken old man, which I guess could work if it wasn't the first live-action version of the character since Ryan Reynolds, but even in that case it makes stuff like the stunt at the start come off as caustic and mean more than chaotic training. When I think of Hal's personality, I either think of the hilarious Nathan Fillian version, or the more military-esque good soldier. This guy just seems... cranky. 

John just doesn't seem like much of a personality at all- I have no idea why they've had such a hard time making him work since JLU's perfect version of him. I think he fundamentally doesn't work well in the rookie role.

10 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

On the plus side, it’ll be really easy to make purist versions of Hal and John.

It is funny that even in a world where lego DC got plenty of sets, we would never have received one for this show.

[BrickBob Studpants]

The only things I know about GL are from the 2011 movie (plus the other appearances in JL and Soup) and the LEGO games, so I agree that this doesn’t look much like what I’d expect from a GL show.  It looks more like a generic gritty cop show than anything. I understand they don’t want to have goofy-looking constructs all the time, but I’d still expect them to embrace the comics like Soup and Peacemaker did!

[CF Mitch]

Not really sure what tot think of the trailer, either...

I agree with the last three sentiments in this topic that it does not feel like a Green Lantern series at all and Hal Jordan and Jo(h)n Stewart behave nothing like what I anticipated from the comics and animated or live-action media.
In a very general sense it does seem like an interesting story, but that's about it. 
I read earlier somewhere that this series was supposed to be a more grounded story, and I can only guess that's to save costs on special effects/CGI (or whatever it's called these days ) and that will really hurt the show and (needless to say) is what takes away the GL-part of it...

Still, apparently Sinestro and known characters are said to appear, so who knows.

Regards,
Mitch

[CloneCommando99]

15 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I really didn't want to come in here and stomp on your hype so I'm glad we had the same thoughts. This isn't a GL show.

I'd add that neither Hal nor Jon act how I think the characters should act. Hal seems like he's a bitter and broken old man, which I guess could work if it wasn't the first live-action version of the character since Ryan Reynolds, but even in that case it makes stuff like the stunt at the start come off as caustic and mean more than chaotic training. When I think of Hal's personality, I either think of the hilarious Nathan Fillian version, or the more military-esque good soldier. This guy just seems... cranky. 

If they really wanted to do a more grounded series, it should have been about Hal’s early days when he first got the ring from Abin Sur and was figuring out how to use its basic functions. They could have taken a cue from New Frontier, as in Hal is on his own and oblivious to the GLC until the guardians contact him and tell him his new purpose. Include a bunch of low level villains over 8 episodes, bringing back Javelin, introduce Hector Hammond and Black Hand (before Black Lantern) with the finale villain be the Manhunter. The season ends with him saying goodbye to Carol and launching off into space to begin his true training on Oa. And the suit is actually green in it or at least is similar to this fan edit which I think rocks white much better than Guy’s suit:

Spoiler

As long as the boots and gauntlets/ gloves were green ofc.

Honestly, how the plot of Lanterns sounds and how it looks would be better for Hard Travelling Heroes rather than 2 GLs. And even then only a tiny bit and still not be entirely suitable.

 

As for character acting. John should be fine as he doesn’t really have a personality most of the time, so having any will be a plus./s (War Journal is his only good solo story in the last 20 years)

Hal’s a bit of a mixed bag so far. He seems too much like a jerk in some areas (which is Guy’s trait not his btw) but on the other hand, the car stunt and not retiring bits do seem quite in line with his character for me. But the former is what I’d expect from Year 1-3 Jordan, not a 20+ year veteran.

I’m trying to keep an open mind, but so far it looks like a decent show but a bad GL adaptation. However, I’m hoping that people are right in speculating that the footage is only from the first two episodes as we know Sinestro and the Guardians do show up at some point. So I’m going to hold out hope and pray HBO didn’t spend all the budget on HotDS3. Besides, I guess we can count on MAWGL if the show goes completely south.

 

Edit: my apologies for the yapping. 

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The only things I know about GL are from the 2011 movie (plus the other appearances in JL and Soup) and the LEGO games, so I agree that this doesn’t look much like what I’d expect from a GL show.  It looks more like a generic gritty cop show than anything. I understand they don’t want to have goofy-looking constructs all the time, but I’d still expect them to embrace the comics like Soup and Peacemaker did!

Yeah, I was hoping for some green in my GL show.
 

Try GLTAS, it takes story beats from Geoff Johns’ run and is really good. Or hopefully the actual thing if DC locks in and makes some compact comics for Geoff Johns’ run or at least Rebirth.

 

 

Edited March 5 by CloneCommando99

[BrickBob Studpants]

So we have a Supergirl movie mostly set in space and a GL show mostly set on Earth. I think the two sets of writers bumped into each other in the hallway and mixed up some of the pages

The gritty grounded detective angle could work, but if the show is anything like most streaming-era Superhero shows, they’ll only show off the iconic costume/powers at the very end, which would suck. Sure, saves them a lot of CGI budget, but why make it based on GL at that point?

Also, again, I’m not too familiar with the source material, but how does having three active Green Lanterns on Earth, i.e., the same sector, work exactly? Granted, John might not have been given a ring and lantern yet, but Guy certainly has! And I hope the reference to Ch’p wasn’t just that!

[CloneCommando99]

16 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Also, again, I’m not too familiar with the source material, but how does having three active Green Lanterns on Earth, i.e., the same sector, work exactly? Granted, John might not have been given a ring and lantern yet, but Guy certainly has! And I hope the reference to Ch’p wasn’t just that!

There are 3 explanations that DC has given:

1. The Blackest Night Explanation: The White Lantern Entity is hidden in the earth’s core and therefore needs more protection.
2. The New 52’s explanation: The Guardians are afraid of the exponentially increasing number of meta humans on Earth and therefore want as many explanations as possible. (According to New 52 Soup run)
3. Dawn of DC’s explanation: Earth is what’s called a Crux World. Other Cux Worlds include/ included: Krypton, Xanshi, Mogo and Oa. Because so many universe ending events happen there, therefore it needs a larger garrison of lanterns than your standard sector.

Edited March 5 by CloneCommando99

[The Pearson]

Is the “Legendary Batmobile Collection” continuing past these three Batmobiles?

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, The Pearson said:

Is the “Legendary Batmobile Collection” continuing past these three Batmobiles?

Maybe, but certainly not this year! Unless the Technic Tumbler is part of that collection

[psqidexslizer]

9 hours ago, The Pearson said:

Is the “Legendary Batmobile Collection” continuing past these three Batmobiles?

That’s probably a safe bet. Batmobiles are the one thing we seem to consistently get from this theme.

[CloneCommando99]

Aaron Pierre has now been confirmed to return in Man of Tomorrow by THR.

If we get Guy as well we could be in for a great piece of GL content.

 

And if MoT gets sets…. Perhaps a GL mech with both is on the cards?

Like that’s ever going to happen. 

[The Pearson]

The Tin Tin set has a new dog mold that looks a lot like DCU Krypto

[psqidexslizer]

1 hour ago, CloneCommando99 said:

Aaron Pierre has now been confirmed to return in Man of Tomorrow by THR.

If we get Guy as well we could be in for a great piece of GL content.

 

And if MoT gets sets…. Perhaps a GL mech with both is on the cards?

Like that’s ever going to happen. 

At the very least, more exposure for the character ups the chances he’ll appear in a set. 

[DaredevilFan]

With all the leaks we’ve had lately I was really hoping to see something for DC but so far nothing 😂 John in MOT is exciting, the potential for sets is great but we shall see what happens

Also not too related but they revealed the OG 2006 minfig suits will be in the new LEGO Batman game, can’t wait to roam around Gotham like it’s 2008 again 

Edited March 12 by DaredevilFan

[CloneCommando99]

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

At the very least, more exposure for the character ups the chances he’ll appear in a set. 

It’s somewhat reassuring that if Lanterns doesn’t end up being cosmic enough, MOT is definitely going to deliver for GL anyway.

Is it just me. Or is the DCU shaping up to be a Superfamily and GL focused saga? If so, it’s a great change of pace from Batmania.

Superman is evidently the main franchise of films in the universe, and they feature Lanterns prominently. Gunn has described Lanterns as being important to the DCU’s overall story.