Six early predictions for LEGO in 2025

From Star Wars TV show sets to a couple of firsts for the LEGO Group as a whole, here are six early predictions for what could come our way in 2025.

We’re rocketing towards the halfway point in 2024 faster than any of us would probably like, and that means we’ve already got a broad sense of what might be coming our way from the LEGO Group for the rest of the year (even beyond what’s already been officially confirmed). Call us premature if you will, but we can’t stop thinking about 2025.

It’s not baseless, either: all of these predictions are rooted in what would make most sense for the LEGO Group to pursue in 2025, whether as a result of already-announced projects or just with one eye on the wider pop culture horizon.

From the return of a couple of dormant themes to an awakening that feels almost inevitable now, dive into all six predictions below – and come back at the end of 2025 to see how well we did…

6 – LEGO Star Wars: The Acolyte sets

Let’s get an obvious one out of the way first. The LEGO Star Wars team has not hitched its wagon to every single Disney+ series from a galaxy far, far away, occasionally preferring to wait for the response to shows before launching products for them. Bankable characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka have enjoyed full waves of sets for their respective shows, but the LEGO Group is still playing catch-up on The Mandalorian Season 3 as recently as this month.

Sets for The Acolyte, meanwhile, are conspicuous by their absence. Even Andor received one set ahead of the show’s first season, but the LEGO Star Wars team has ignored the latest series altogether – so far. Given the number of new characters introduced in the show and their entirely different aesthetic, this might be just what the theme needs to feel fresh again. We’re putting our money on at least one or two LEGO Star Wars: The Acolyte sets come 2025.

5 – A full LEGO Horizon theme

A successor to 76989 Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck started to feel a lot more realistic when Sony and Guerrilla Games first unveiled LEGO Horizon Adventures, but it’s the early gameplay reactions that have made it sound like an inevitability. And not just one set, either, but an entire theme of buildable machines to collect.

That’s because every single piece of the game’s world is built from LEGO bricks. “Even though they’re made as digital assets, you could build them technically out of physical sets,” Guerrilla Games’ narrative director James Windeler told IGN. And with that one sentence, he’s basically told the rest of us that the LEGO Group has designed viable models for an entire menagerie of Horizon machines.

It seems mad to have a LEGO Horizon game on consoles without giving players physical products to buy too, so a new set feels like a sure thing for 2025. But here’s hoping it’s more than just one.

4 – Smart Mario Kart

The LEGO Group has already confirmed that LEGO Mario Kart is racing on to shelves in 2025, so don’t give us any points for guessing that one. The real prediction here is that the company could find a way to incorporate the newly-revealed smart brick into the sets, giving them even more functionality than the current course-building models, with which the Mario Kart sets seem sure to be compatible.

The smart brick appears to use similar technology to the digital Mario, Luigi and Peach figures – which is to say it can scan other LEGO elements to trigger sounds – and the possibilities seem pretty exciting. LEGO Mario Kart is still a bit of an unknown at this stage, but it’s fun to think about what the LEGO Group and Nintendo could be conjuring up for 2025…

3 – A renewed LEGO DC theme

The DC Extended Universe has taken a cinematic hiatus following Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s December 2023 debut, and will return renewed and rebranded as the DC Universe with 2025’s Superman, written and directed by James Gunn. If ever there was a catalyst for the LEGO Group to properly reboot its DC theme and expand its horizons beyond Batman, this must surely be it.

A wave of tie-in sets for Superman feels like an obvious choice, but we’d also love to see the LEGO Group take the opportunity to test the waters for comic book-inspired sets again, fleshing out the roster of DC characters and sets in the process. That might be too much to ask at this stage, though, so we’ll settle on just those Superman sets, please and thank you.

2 – The return of LEGO Avatar

Some licensed LEGO themes keep churning out sets between movies – see Jurassic World for one example – while others lie dormant until there’s something new to hook products to. We’re yet to see whether LEGO Avatar, which debuted along with The Way of Water in 2022, will join the latter category, but we’ll surely find out in 2025, when Avatar 3 hits cinema screens.

The LEGO Group cooked up tonnes of new moulds for the first two waves of sets, so it would be a shame to see those binned off entirely – and a quiet resurgence for every new film wouldn’t be the worst way to tackle a series that seems to command the entire public consciousness for only a couple of months at a time.

1 – The first LEGO Fantastic Four minifigures

This is the big one for Marvel fans. The LEGO Group’s tight focus on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in recent years has been to the detriment of the Fantastic Four, which have yet to appear as official minifigures, but their introduction to the MCU in 2025 is basically the best opportunity we’ll ever have to see Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm join the fray.

The Fantastic Four (as the MCU film is titled) hits cinemas on July 25, 2025, so we could have LEGO Fantastic Four minifigures in hand by this time next year. That’s one way to feel a little better about the rapid passage of time.

If you’ve got any other bold predictions for LEGO in 2025, drop them in the comments below.

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