DC Superheroes 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[calebcold3]

1 minute ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

@Lego_Minecraft_Goat said that the Black Friday set is something else, so this specific rumour is false. He also said he currently can’t confirm or deny whether there is a SH modular this year, but yeah, not holding my breath

Superman taught me to have hope, but LEGO has taught me to expect the most Aslume thing Imaginable.

It’s Hard.

Well, since we are getting a Black Friday Set in General, I wonder what it could be? (it’ll probably be Marvel)

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 minutes ago, calebcold3 said:

Well, since we are getting a Black Friday Set in General, I wonder what it could be? (it’ll probably be Marvel)

It’s a D2C set, but the theme isn’t consistent. Last year, it was the Enterprise-D, for instance

[psqidexslizer]

Sounds like the Black Friday set may be Godzilla.

Interesting that nobody seems to be denying that there could be a superhero modular, although we already know there isn’t one for Marvel.

As for what a modular could be, I’d bet on Wayne Manor. There’s already a large swath of villains and some heroes that can be recycled from Arkham. They could throw in some new torsos for the villains and a few new heroes like Batgirl and Nightwing and I think most people here would be happy.

Daily Planet doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t see why they wouldn’t just wait to release it next June when there’s a Superman film in theaters to help boost sales.

Hall of Justice, IMO, makes more sense than the Daily Planet. For one, it’d appeal to a larger group given it’s associated with multiple DC heroes and not just Superman. For another, it’s arguably a more ironic and more exciting location as opposed to Superman’s workplace. Minifigure roster is probably the biggest hurdle this set would have to clear. Sure, we already got Batman, a Robin, Superman, Lex Luthor, and a handful of Batman villains that can help flesh out the roster. But, I feel like, at a minimum the set would also need Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and at least one villain for each of them. Eight new figures is a lot to ask for a modular building, much less a DC set.

Anything else I think we can all agree has a zero percent chance of happening.

[CloneCommando99]

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Hall of Justice, IMO, makes more sense than the Daily Planet. For one, it’d appeal to a larger group given it’s associated with multiple DC heroes and not just Superman. For another, it’s arguably a more ironic and more exciting location as opposed to Superman’s workplace. Minifigure roster is probably the biggest hurdle this set would have to clear. Sure, we already got Batman, a Robin, Superman, Lex Luthor, and a handful of Batman villains that can help flesh out the roster. But, I feel like, at a minimum the set would also need Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and at least one villain for each of them. Eight new figures is a lot to ask for a modular building, much less a DC set.

I agree. But minifigs aren’t too much of a hurdle as it could have a very similar situation to the X-Mansion and only really needs a 10 minifig roster at minimum.

Reuses: Batman, Jonkler, Superman and Lex/ Rogue, Wolverine, Cyclops and Storm 

New: Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkgirl, Aquaman and one more villain or hero (probably someone well known like: Captain Cold, Sinestro, Mister Terrific or Green Arrow)/ Magneto, Professor X, Bishop, Gambit, Jean Grey and Iceman.

 

[psqidexslizer]

6 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

I agree. But minifigs aren’t too much of a hurdle as it could have a very similar situation to the X-Mansion and only really needs a 10 minifig roster at minimum.

Reuses: Batman, Jonkler, Superman and Lex/ Rogue, Wolverine, Cyclops and Storm 

New: Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkgirl, Aquaman and one more villain or hero (probably someone well known like: Captain Cold, Sinestro, Mister Terrific or Green Arrow)/ Magneto, Professor X, Bishop, Gambit, Jean Grey and Iceman.

 

Yeah, on further thought, I could see something like this working. In Arkham, we got seven new torso prints, 3 new leg prints, 9 new head prints, and 1 restored mold.

- Batman (reuse)

- Robin (reuse)

- Superman (reuse, maybe new legs)

- Wonder Woman (new legs and torso, reuse hair from CMF in new color)

- Flash (new torso and head, bring back helmet mold)

- Guy Gardner (new torso)

- Aquaman (new torso)

- Mr Terrific (new head, torso, legs) 

- Hawkgirl (new torso and legs, new helmet)

- Joker (reuse)

- Lex Luthor (reuse)

- Giganta (brickbuilt)

- Captain Cold (new head, torso)

- Sinestro (new head, torso)

- Riddler (reuse)

- Poison Ivy (reuse)

This would give us around the same number of figures as Arkham with roughly the same number of prints (one additional new legs and one additional new torso, and one additional new mold, but 5 less new heads to even it out.)

But it’s probably also a moot point given Lego has shown zero confidence in anyone who isn’t Batman.

[brickbride]

On 2/13/2026 at 3:05 PM, psqidexslizer said:

Lego has sets that run out of stock all the time. They don’t retire those sets early, they make more.

More likely the set will still be available for purchase it just won't, you know, be available for purchase. Like the Lion Knights Castle or recently Gringotts - those sets were not available but they hadn't gone EOL either. You couldn't order them or if you could then your order would get cancelled, that's what I gather from people complaining in forums.

But those were all popular big sets. I agree that for a mech they'd likely be able to produce and distribute more fairly quickly.

On 2/13/2026 at 3:50 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

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.

The Daily Bugle is another example, reportedly the designer proposed it and LEGO went with it.

I'd say the reason Marvel gets more sets is because of their huge MCU with many popular characters. Granted the MCU is way past its heyday and that is reflected in the number of sets; we've had movies with just one token set released (like the Ant-Man construction figure or the overpriced mess that was the Hoopty) and even without any set released (Thunderbolts). But initially it had several characters like Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man that were each capable of carrying several movies (there wouldn't have been an Iron Man 2+3, Thor 2-4, and so on otherwise). The DCs hasn't had anyone capable of carrying more than one movie - other than Batman - for a long time. A popular and successful Superman movie is a start, but it's still not where the MCU used to be.

19 hours ago, CloneCommando99 said:

If Supergirl does well this year. I think that the DCU will have a 33% chance of taking the CMF slot away from Marvel if we get another Superheroes one in 2027. It’d be boring to do spider-verse again (33% chance) and while Marvel TV (33% chance) has had quite a lot recently much of it has either not been popular or R-Rated and I doubt they’d dedicate one to X-Men’97 as Doomsday sets will be bringing a lot of the characters anyway.  The remaining 1% goes to Invincible./s

I think we can rule out the Spider-Verse completely, I really wouldn't expect two in a row for that. As has been discussed on the Marvel thread recently, X-Men 97 did very well for an animated show, but "for an animated show" is key there. Reportedly even Echo had higher absolute viewer numbers (and no-one watched Echo). Plus the only X-Men 97 set, the X-Mansion, wasn't that well-received either. Presumably the more popular and well-known X-Men will be in Doomsday sets so people can get them that way (and Wolverine is also reported to be in the comic-based AC). I also don't think Marvel TV will get another CMF series as I don't think the last one did well. Plus what characters could they give us? Armor Wars has been cancelled. The most recent show was Wonder Man - that barely even had costumed characters and I don't expect them to make the Mandarin.

So theoretically the DC has a good chance, but there might also just not be a Superheroes CMF series in 2027.

Edited February 23 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

27 minutes ago, brickbride said:

So theoretically the DC has a good chance, but there might also just not be a Superheroes CMF series in 2027.

I think there not even being a Superheroes CMF series in 2027 in the first place is the most likely outcome  For next year, I expect the licensed CMF series to either be Disney S4, D&D S2, or something new altogether, like the Shrek series this year.

[psqidexslizer]

I don’t think there’s enough movie variants of Batman to fill an entire CMF. 

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

I don’t think there’s enough movie variants of Batman to fill an entire CMF. 

71017 ;-)

[psqidexslizer]

7 minutes ago, brickbride said:

71017 ;-)

Most of those aren’t Batman. 

[brickbride]

True. However there were TWO minifig series just for LEGO Batman, this and 71020. And back then a minifig series had TWENTY slots, not twelve. If you just take the Batman variants from those plus the two Jokers and Harleys each (since LEGO recognises those two characters if no-one else) you'd have enough for twelve slots.

[psqidexslizer]

5 minutes ago, brickbride said:

True. However there were TWO minifig series just for LEGO Batman, this and 71020. And back then a minifig series had TWENTY slots, not twelve. If you just take the Batman variants from those plus the two Jokers and Harleys each (since LEGO recognises those two characters if no-one else) you'd have enough for twelve slots.

Yeah, but those also aren’t movie variants (Batfleck, Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, etc) which is all Lego makes now.

[Mandalorianknight]

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

So theoretically the DC has a good chance, but there might also just not be a Superheroes CMF series in 2027.

My guess is there just won't be one. I don't know why people are expecting there to be- the pattern for superhero CMF series is 2020, 2021, 2023. I don't see any pattern where we'd reasonably expect one in 2027.

If we did get one, my guess would be it'll be based on Doomsday/Secret Wars since those movies will have such a large roster.

4 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I don’t think there’s enough movie variants of Batman to fill an entire CMF. 

Unfortunately...

1. Batman (1960s movie)

2. Batman (Batman 1989)

3. Batman (Mask of the Phantasm)

4. Batman (Batman Forever)

5. Batman (Batman and Robin)

6. Batman (Batman Begins)

7. Batman (The Dark Knight)

8. Batman (Batman vs Superman)

9. Batman (BVS Knightmare suit)

10. Batman (Justice League- Tactical suit)

11. Batman (The Flash- Blue suit)

12. Batman (The Batman- Drifter. This is the chase suit since it can double as Bruce Wayne)

And I'm leaving off any suits used in 2025/26, as well as any functionally identical suits (Batman returns- 1989, TDKR- TDK, JL standard- Bvs).

[BrickBob Studpants]

21 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

[…] the pattern for superhero CMF series is 2020, 2021, 2023. I don't see any pattern where we'd reasonably expect one in 2027.

You’re forgetting a few  The full release schedule is 2017, 18, 20, 21, 23, and 25, although the TLBM ones are probably in a separate category. Nonetheless, we had one every second year recently, but of course that’s just a perceived pattern and not an actual one.

[psqidexslizer]

25 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

 

Unfortunately...

1. Batman (1960s movie)

2. Batman (Batman 1989)

3. Batman (Mask of the Phantasm)

4. Batman (Batman Forever)

5. Batman (Batman and Robin)

6. Batman (Batman Begins)

7. Batman (The Dark Knight)

8. Batman (Batman vs Superman)

9. Batman (BVS Knightmare suit)

10. Batman (Justice League- Tactical suit)

11. Batman (The Flash- Blue suit)

12. Batman (The Batman- Drifter. This is the chase suit since it can double as Bruce Wayne)

And I'm leaving off any suits used in 2025/26, as well as any functionally identical suits (Batman returns- 1989, TDKR- TDK, JL standard- Bvs).

Delete this before Lego gets any ideas. 

[doclord]

I can see it being Daily Bugle and LEGO is just late as usual.

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

You’re forgetting a few  The full release schedule is 2017, 18, 20, 21, 23, and 25, although the TLBM ones are probably in a separate category. Nonetheless, we had one every second year recently, but of course that’s just a perceived pattern and not an actual one.

I forgot spider-verse, but I wasn't counting the other two as all the lego movies got CMFs. That does make the every-other-year pattern better, but at the same time that's a marvel CMF every other year. The DC CMFs don't fit into the pattern and with how little this theme gets nowadays I'd be very surprised if they swung all the way around to a CMF.

2 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

Delete this before Lego gets any ideas. 

Lego if you can see this, give us a bionicle CMF and you can have the rights to the batman CMF I came up with.

19 minutes ago, doclord said:

I can see it being Daily Bugle and LEGO is just late as usual.

I would hope it's Oscorp rather than daily bugle, I don't want us repeating supehero modulars already.

Jokes aside I doubt it'll be the planet. If a $15 Soup Set had to take an early retirement I can't see lego being OK with a $300 one. That's territory wherein even if the Planet was in early development, they'd probably scrap it. (Which- not that I think the bugle was ever in active development, because I think in that case lego'd be confident enough in Soup for a direct tie-in set around it's release.)

[calebcold3]

Probably some of the only ways I could see LEGO making the Daily Planet the next Modular is IF:

A. Batman is in the minifigure line up 

B. Most of the Minifigures are made of reused pieces

C. The set is in the $275-$300 range. 

But If we somehow get the Daily Planet this year (since a DC Modular hasn’t been denied YET for 2026), I could see this being the minifigure line up:

1. Superman (Reuse from the Mech but with Red Boots)

2. Batman (Reuse from Arkham)

3. Clark Kent (Reused Pieces but with new head) 

4. Lois Lane (Reused Pieces)

5. Jimmy Olsen (Reused Pieces)

6. Perry White (Reused Pieces)

7. Lex Luthor (Reuse from the Mech)

8. General Zod (New Torso but has plain black legs and the Same Head as Doctor Strange)

[psqidexslizer]

14 hours ago, calebcold3 said:

Probably some of the only ways I could see LEGO making the Daily Planet the next Modular is IF:

A. Batman is in the minifigure line up 

B. Most of the Minifigures are made of reused pieces

C. The set is in the $275-$300 range. 

But If we somehow get the Daily Planet this year (since a DC Modular hasn’t been denied YET for 2026), I could see this being the minifigure line up:

1. Superman (Reuse from the Mech but with Red Boots)

2. Batman (Reuse from Arkham)

3. Clark Kent (Reused Pieces but with new head) 

4. Lois Lane (Reused Pieces)

5. Jimmy Olsen (Reused Pieces)

6. Perry White (Reused Pieces)

7. Lex Luthor (Reuse from the Mech)

8. General Zod (New Torso but has plain black legs and the Same Head as Doctor Strange)

I like the idea of a World’s Finest lineup, but I think I would add Supergirl, Batgirl, and Joker and drop General Zod given he hasn’t really been relevant since 2013. And maybe given only Supergirl and Batgirl are new, I would add one or two more Superman villains like Brainiac and Bizarro.

But I think most likely case scenario, if the Planet was planned for this year, is that it got scrapped after the Superman mech didn’t sell well enough. Which would explain why there doesn’t seem to be a modular for this year.

[brickbride]

3 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

But I think most likely case scenario, if the Planet was planned for this year, is that it got scrapped after the Superman mech didn’t sell well enough. Which would explain why there doesn’t seem to be a modular for this year.

I don't think there's that much overlap between the target groups for a EUR 15 mech aimed at kids and a EUR 300+ modular. More likely LEGO had been burned by the MCU several times (especially Eternals and Wakanda Forever which both got a number of shelfwarmer sets despite being surefire hits on paper), had no way of gauging the auccess of Superman beforehand, and therefore wouldn't commit to a Superman modular or even movie tie-in sets until the DC movieverse is better established. So no modular for DC just yet.

On the other hand I don't think the X-Mansion did that well, and there are no current popular heroes with iconic "homebases" like the Bugle or the Sanctum, so no modular for Marvel either.

Who'll get the next one might depend on the success of Doomsday vs Supes, and which movie can come up with an iconic, action-packed location featuring desirable characters that translates well into modular form.

Edited Wednesday at 04:39 PM by brickbride

[Mandalorianknight]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

I don't think there's that much overlap between the target groups for a EUR 15 mech aimed at kids and a EUR 300+ modular. More likely LEGO had been burned by the MCU several times (especially Eternals and Wakanda Forever which both got a number of shelfwarmer sets despite being surefire hits on paper), had no way of gauging the auccess of Superman beforehand, and therefore wouldn't commit to a Superman modular or even movie tie-in sets until the DC movieverse is better established. So no modular for DC just yet.

On the other hand I don't think the X-Mansion did that well, and there are no current popular heroes with iconic "homebases" like the Bugle or the Sanctum, so no modular for Marvel either.

Who'll get the next one might depend on the success of Doomsday vs Supes, and which movie can come up with an iconic, action-packed location featuring desirable characters that translates well into modular form.

There's not much, but if the $15 impulse buy is doing so poorly it has to be retired early, unless the $300 set is based on an IP that's geared almost exclusively towards adults like Dune, it certainly doesn't help the odds.

Superman just had the most exposure to kids he's had in the better part of a decade, and at least near me Superman action figures are the first "main hero" figs I've seen reliably on the clearance shelf, and they've got their own dedicated section there. (You'll see plenty of marvel and star wars guys, but aside from Eternals it's always been the side characters on clearance, not the main character.) And of course we can pretty concretely say his only lego set underperformed. I don't think he's gonna be modular ready unless MoT not only does well but manages to hold better comparative merch sales and streaming numbers than it's first entry.

I think Marvel's next best options are Oscorp (now that the bugle's retired, it'd be essentially it's replacement while still being a good option to pair with it) and then once the tower and X-mansion reach their EoLs, either Avengers Mansion or Avengers Compound. But even disregarding those and going with the superman or doomsday dichotomy (the film not the guy), I think there's a number of places where Doomsday already has the leg up:

1. It will almost certainly make more money than superman did- as cynical as we here on the forum can be, at this point I would be SHOCKED if this movie didn't crack a billion dollars within the first few weeks. It's an avengers movie, Cap is back, Thor is back, RDJ is back. We can say superhero fatigue and all that, but the "old popular heroes are back" movies are the main ones that have made billions since endgame, and this is being marketed as one of them. (I personally am still a little doubtful about it, but I'll still spend the $9 to go see what they've done with it.)

2. A potential modular could re-use a lot more minifigures. There are doomsday tie in sets, there will of course be secret wars ones, and if the modular was something like the compound they wouldn't even have to limit themselves to the figures included in those waves. A doomsday modular could easily have 30 or more minfigures, all heroes and villains, while we're stuck trying to figure out how they could get the daily planet to include more than like 12 figures, half of them civilian.

5 hours ago, psqidexslizer said:

I like the idea of a World’s Finest lineup, but I think I would add Supergirl, Batgirl, and Joker and drop General Zod given he hasn’t really been relevant since 2013. And maybe given only Supergirl and Batgirl are new, I would add one or two more Superman villains like Brainiac and Bizarro.

But I think most likely case scenario, if the Planet was planned for this year, is that it got scrapped after the Superman mech didn’t sell well enough. Which would explain why there doesn’t seem to be a modular for this year.

The thing is even in that scenario I don't think it's enough. We generally get either a modular where a big chunk of the fig count is comprised of kitbashed civilians, or one where there's only a few new figures. Unless they shove half of Arkham in there, a Daily Planet with the current availible figures would be the weakest fig count of any modular, which just feels like compounding risks beyond what's reasonable. I think if there's any indication of a daily planet coming, it would be if 2027 brought us either MoT sets or superman characters popping up in the batmobile sets. And regardless, I think the Hall of Justice just feels like both a safer and more visually dynamic choice.

[Lionbear8]

correct me if I'm wrong,  the new Marvel leaks confirm that there is no D2C Modular for DC, Marvel now? 

[psqidexslizer]

21 minutes ago, Lionbear8 said:

correct me if I'm wrong,  the new Marvel leaks confirm that there is no D2C Modular for DC, Marvel now? 

No. The Doomsday modular isn’t a D2C modular, it’s a mini modular like Oscorp and the Daily Bugle from this year.

[doclord]

-snip, wrong thread-

Edited Thursday at 08:40 PM by doclord

[Lionbear8]

1 hour ago, psqidexslizer said:

No. The Doomsday modular isn’t a D2C modular, it’s a mini modular like Oscorp and the Daily Bugle from this year.

ok, hope still lives!