How the DCEU KILLED the Future of Lego DC - Brick Failures 

Does LEGO DC even have a future?

My one problem with LEGO and there obsession with Batman is how they refuse to put any other hero in a Batman set. Like do they think if they make a Batmobile set that has Batman and Superman in it, it will sell less than a Batmobile set with only Batman in it. It just doesn’t make sense to me

I'd say that Lego DC from 2006-2016 was quite good. I also do like the Justice League sets and some DC sets from 2018. I also do enjoy the 2019 Batman sets a lot. But after that, Lego DC really went downhill. I miss those years of getting fun, comic book sets with characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, even if most of them had Batman.

Imagine if they did a full Arkham Asylum building set like Daily Bugle, with minifigs of Batfam and multiple villains.

The original LEGO Batman theme and the DC Superheroes theme from like 2012ish were amazing. They always remind me of the first and second LEGO Batman games (some of my favorite games ever) and fill me with so much nostalgia. It's a shame what happened after that once the DCEU became a thing and ruined it all. I really hope that the theme can recover. Doing sets based on The Animated Series and Batman Beyond would be a great start. Same with making sets from all of the movies outside of the DCEU.

It's a shame there probably won't be Superman: Legacy sets. Knowing James Gunn, there is a huge chance there'll be pretty cool looking setpieces, machinery or vehicles that would make for great sets (look at the GotG lines).

Honest, if Lego and Dc were to make new sets based on Wonder woman, Superman and the Flash and their villains for a few sets, then both companies would be able to see some success. I mean the colorful foes of the Flash and even a giant Giganta vs Wonder Woman fight and a Superman vs his foes sets would be an amazing thing to see.

If Warner Bros hadn't rushed their cinematic universe they wouldn't be in this position. They didn't need to play catch up with Marvel. Which is why their future with Lego is non-existent now.

I just wish we had more faith in Green Lantern. He's my favorite DC character, and DC has used the laws of the rings n stuff to form their universe. If we got a Brightest day esque film the merchandising would be off the charts, Green Lantern was made for LEGO!!!

I never understood WHY LEGO NEVER DID ANY SETS about the Arrowverse(despite the lego games constantly featured characters & vehicles from it),considering its great succeed during the 2010's & being what got a new generation to DC comics, but they did TON for the corpse that was DCEU post 2018

The problem is there are lots of Batman in the DC in LEGO

Apparently the Incredibles 2 sets, are also part of the Super Heroes theme, according to Wikipedia. And since Disney said they're gonna be doing a mix of Sequels and originals, and that the Incredibles 3 is rumoured to be in development, I hope that if we do.get Incredibles 3, that the sets aren't just 4+, since most of the Lightyear sets weren't 4+.

Imo, Lego would've been 1,000,000x better off trying to do sets based off of *only* the comics and animated shows, not the DCEU and Batman only stuff

It's a shame Lego never made Arrowverse sets back when it was a thing. I get that wasn't very toyetic, but at least a set or two based on each show probably would have sold decently.

I’m really hoping we get sets for Superman Legacy. I want an official Lego Mr Terrific

Why can’t they just re-release their last sets from so long ago and sell them because I still miss them especially the Nightwing and man bat set.

It's awesome how both you and pen made a video on this, and nick 6 months back. Hope that means we're getting more dc sets.

Its sad because I want to use minifigures in a Lego DC city; but everythings expensive as hell. If they dropped great non-batman sets, or even ones including villians from Batman we dont typically see, id snag them like hell. But yea, not looking like it now. What i can see is, if Superman is a hit, then another film is released, and then Batman the Brave and The Bold, we might slowly see an uproar in sets - however, i think well only ever get more dc sets for movies if superman and some of its following ones are hits (barman the brave and the bold will likely still get tie in sets tho)

It's insane that Lego was actually willing to make characters beyong the world of Batman for a set dedicated to The Flash movie (albiet, still mostly a Batman set), but Ezra Miller had to ruin it... Hope we can still get the Sasha Calle Supergirl fig one day in a polybag or something.

9:38 No way that's so cool. If only my stores kept Lego sets from previous years that didn't sell well. My local Barnes and Noble used to have basically the entire theme of Legends of Chima back in the summer of 2016. But they got rid of it a few months later. They really should've kept them up.

Not gonna lie it was kinda a missed opportunity that we didn’t any Lego sets for Shazam Fury of The Gods, yeah the movie itself was mediocre but it would have been at least cool to have Lego sets of greek mythology monsters.

Finally someone talking about the real issues

Honestly, given how bad superhero movies are these days, Lego would be much better off just making new DC sets based on the old stuff people actually like and the comics. Those were usually their best sets in the past anyway. They are smart not to risk their brand on the current state of Hollywood, which is, by all accounts, in terminal decline. Kids still like superhero stuff, so just make some more original sets, featuring comic versions of the characters. If they have to put Batman in every set, so be it, but at least go back to putting other DC characters in with those sets again. Also, make a new Lego Batman game and that would help boost sales enormously. Lego DC Villains was excellent, and they did almost nothing to capitalize off of that. Sadly, if (when) the new Superman film flops, I expect that Lego will give up on any non-Batman DC sets entirely, on the assumption that kids don't care about any other DC characters anymore. I don't think that's true, but, without good adaptations to get new fans into them, it won't translate into the kind of massive toy sales that Lego are looking for. Kids that do get introduced to these characters, will probably do so through their parents showing them the older stuff they liked as kids. That's partially why they're making safe sets based on The Dark Knight Trilogy, Batman 89, and BTAS. If we're lucky, that may eventually result in some more Justice League Animated Series sets, but I'm not getting my hopes up. It's a shame, because I always thought the majority of the DC sets were better than the Marvel ones, until recent years, when they really stepped up their game with Marvel.

Bro I thought he was going to say “BUT THATS JUST A THEORY A LEGO THEORY” at the end

Marvel is dead too but we still get plenty of sets. DC has years of comics to base sets on besides Batman. It’s a shame. Wonder if we’ll get some Superman: Legacy sets or new Superman sets in general. He deserves his own line too.

Let's be real the DCEU pretty much killed DC in general that's how bad it was.

i just dont understand why lego doesnt make sets for stuff from comics, cartoons, ect for DC and Marvel

Do you plan on making a Superman LEGO Ideas set?

Let's just hope 2025's Superman become a Box Office success and earned a profitable Lego sets for the film.

I’m Batman.

I don’t blame Lego, personally I think the nostalgic Batman sets have been some of the best dc sets since the 2012 wave.

Id like to point out that the dark knight rises did have a set. It was the tumbler and the bat. It had gordan, batman, and bane in it

Excellent video! I hope we do see superman legacy sets

This is all very sad, especially as someone who loves the early DCEU/Snyderverse, having Man of Steel as my favorite movie, and grew up with Lego. I do hope they expand the theme to the entire DC brand again instead of relying on Batman in the future. (I personally would love a 18+ set based on Zack Snyder's Justice League, or even a normal wave but with each set based on multiple animated shows new and old, like Young Justice, My Adventures with Superman, Green Lantern Animated Series, and even both DCAU continuities)

I don’t doubt the information but where did you get the information on mega blocks outselling them 2004.

All I’m asking for is LEGO Batman 4 (or 5 if we count LEGO DC Super-Villains as the fourth game). If new movies can’t carry the brand, why not a really solid video game?

Same exact thing happened with me as a kid, got the video game and a sticker book that prominently featured the batman characters but the sets were all gone by then

Try to collect DCEU BvS and JL sets now as DC fan but I didn't know there were Wonder Woman and Aquaman sets and Shazam poly bag

Okay but lego made roughly 40 sets, most of which were large for the lego batman movie. Over 50% of which went on clearance.

LEGO did make one Dark Knight Rises tie-in set. 76001

This makes me want a DCEU fails toys and merch video lol

Best sets have always been the comic-based ones ...

"Next video, how the DCAU caused my divorce"

wb just messes everything up. dc was doing so good with lego from 2006 all the way to atleast 2018. after that they fell off hard. yeah it has started to recover a bit with the new batman sets but it is a shadow of it's former self. the only set lego dc got in 2023 was a 4+ harley and batman set.

Every set he showed that said didn’t sell I had😭 didn’t realize I had almost all the sets until now

I wish the Snyderverse had a chance frr. Let’s hope Gunn does his magic and revive some Lego DC

UCS javelin with full justice league and darkseid in the new big fig style, hire me Lego

Well done video

Nice video I liked what your talking about today with Lego DC . I do feel bad for Lego DC because most of their sets looks great . However , due many outside factored it couldn't not controlled and even it's own lego company also played part of it as well , The Lego DC suffer from it as years goes on . While i do see Lego DC would still continue in the future , i think Lego would played it safe and mostly released simple and minimal set of DC stuff .

To be fair Lego did release a classic aquaman vs Mr freeze set at the same time as the aquaman JL Lego set so it kind of stole those customers haha. I remember being a kid and holding them side by side and going with the classic

I always liked the more comic inspired sets for both marvel and DC. Here's hoping the upcoming DC movies revive Lego's interest in the dc superheroes line, I really wanna see some superman sets when that movie comes out

14:39 Why did they cancel The Flash LEGO set!? That would have been cool to play with and be cool to buy

I can’t wait the 300 dollar comic con super man figure you’ll have to review if your prediction is right

The DCEU was a yragedy that should've never happened.

Damn i never realized how much DC films were either screwed over or sucked.

I’m getting back into legos and I also prefer DC over marvel. So i’m hoping before I go to college I can get some new DC sets.

5:13 lego batman 2 and lego starwars clone wars 3 are peak lego gaming

6:50 A lot of these DC Batman sets were based on the LEGO Batman 3 video game at the time. You completely missed that point.

I don't know why they focused solely on the DCEU Lego used to make general DC sets so i don't know why they didn't go back to that upon the movie franchises failures. The older sets based on DC comics/a variety of DC Characters. I hate how LEGO DC is just Batman now and its sad.

I wish I had the 2006 LEGO Batman sets…

Really sad to see lego lost fate even to themself as otherwise we would probably just get a lego batman movie 2 and they will just sell more sets from there Or heck I do hope someday we get modular scale set like gcpd, arkham asylum, daily planet, Lex corp, Wayne manor

I really hope we get a least 2 sets for Superman, I trust James Gunn to make some cool vehicle designs and with other heroes in the film it would a shame to see the opportunity go to waste

It doesn't help that current toyetic DC content is in a drought. There is 1 show and it is not great.

Great video

We are probably going to get superman 2025 sets after the movie comes out, lego does that sometimes

BvS didn't have box office disappointment and it was massively successful even with the botched theatrical release lol

There could’ve been a Lego Justice League Movie

It’s such a shame they didn’t focus on the Arrowverse. Early 2010s would have been such a gold mine for Lego.

Lego should never be a movie tie in, they should be adaptations of these franchises not just "this but as lego" Lego Batman should just be batman, not DCEU or whatever else version of batman. Besides maybe just variations for collections.

like, i would’ve loved a lego cw flash and arrow sets

You know there’s a “closed caption” option so I don’t have to see your script popping up 2 words at a time like a strobe light.

#RestoretheWBLegoVerse #FireZaslav. #ReleaseCoyotevsAcme. #MaketheBatmanBeyondMovie.

Dc has had some of the best sets ever made not to be biased but I love all the LEGO dc sets and I regret not getting earlier marvel sets but I’m happy collecting both dc and marvel Lego sets nowadays

16:50 The timeline fits Gunn said that the strike didn’t affect their shooting dates

This mf just said part 2 on a 17 minute video lmao

Well you forgot the 2018 justice league cartoon wave

Yeah its safe to say that recently DC has been producing shit but, hopefully with these upcoming films they knock it out of the park hopefully.

ahhh so that's why I couldn't have the sets I saw in the first game- they weren't making them!!

This is wrong. It was The Lego Batman movie over saturating the market with over 2x as many DC sets that ended up killing Lego DC. There's an excellent video detailing this here on RU-vid. Edit: You stated that the Lego Batman 2008 sets did not get any representation in the first video game. This isnt true because all of the villain vehicles and designs appear in that game, including Joker's ice cream truck and Harley's hammer truck. These vehicles having smaller roles in the game likely has to do with the game being in development well before 2008.

I wish LEGO did sets for R rated movies, because I'd totally buy a Zack Snyder's Justice League set.

I like Batman but I need more heroes like Superman, flash, & green lantern

I hope we get dcu lego sets

Subtitles are wrong half the time.

Lego Dc Does have a future.

I hate that majority of lego dc sets are lego batman

hopefully the next superman flim changes this

My nephews started mixing their Batman sets with the Marvel sets.

It would be fine if Lego continued with just Batman sets, if they put in more interesting characters. At this point it just gets stale.

But they're literally making a Lego Batman game in 2024? Huh?

I mean... they don't have to do sets based on movies. They can make sets based on comics like 2015 wave for example🤷‍♂️

Is this clickbait?

Very nice speaking voice and flow. Not too fast but not too slow. Well done. I also enjoyed the content.

Gud vidio 🙀🙀🙀

Think you can do one on Despicable Me?

I rather want Lego Batman Game Trilogy again,but everyone is selling out Lego Batman Sets.

5:55 That’s not the actual color grading. It was adjusted l. This is the actual scene. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fhB0kD6vqMk.htmlsi=rS6YxrZ-9UBsMBnC

Do Scooby-Doo.

Spawn would save it.

Finaly Back again also first

3C FILMS CAMEO!!!!!