What could the 2025 LEGO Modular Building be? I’ve predicted the last 2 correctly, so 3rd time’s the charm right?
I’m currently typing this from 10,363m up in the air, en route to Billund for Fan Media Days 2024. Fan Media Days is an annual event hosted by the LEGO Ambassador Network every year where they invite a select few LEGO media channels and content creators to LEGO HQ to meet designers, and also preview some of the major upcoming launches in the next few months.
I’m very privileged to be able to get to learn and see sets that haven’t been announced yet and also chat to some of the designers that worked on them.
Because they show us so many sets, far in advance of when retailers get information, the sets don’t usually get leaked yet, so it’s often the very first time we learn of something which is super exciting as a fan.
A fun thing I like to do is predict what we see, and one of the areas where my crystal ball has worked well in the past is Modular Buildings!
I’m currently 2 for 2 so I’ll attempt to predict the upcoming 2025 one. When I say 2025, I mean the new one, as LEGO seems to have shifted their release schedule for Modular Buildings a month early, so they now release in December, instead of the customary 1 January date.
I will preface this by saying, I’m not particularly confident about this year’s prediction as I don’t have much to work with!
I don’t think there have been many clues or breadcrumbs left behind in the most recent Modulars, so I’m going to use the Categorisation Method to make an educated guess.
Just like the 2024 Prediction, I’ve sorted every LEGO Modular Building into the following categories:
- Commercial (Services)
- Commercial (Shopping)
- Entertainment
- Food & Travel
- Municipal Buildings
- Residential
- Education/Science/History
Looking at all the previous Modulars in their respective categories, there’s only one clear gap in which I can see LEGO filling – the Residential section.
There are only 2 categories with two Modulars in each, Residential and Entertainment. It’s safe to strike out entertainment as we only just got the Jazz Club in 2023, so it’s way too close for another repeat, which leaves Residential as the next likely option.
Like many others, I’d LOVE a Post Office, or Library, but I don’t think this is the right year for one.
I think the 2025 LEGO Modular Building will be a Residential Building of some sort!
I played around with generative AI to try generate some ideas of what I think it could look like. Here’s what ChatGPT and Gemini came back to me with.
We haven’t really gotten pure-play apartments or homes in a Modular Building format, before so I think there’s a high chance we get one this time.
After all, minifigures that live, work and play on Modular Street need more places to live right? Housing affordability in this fictional point in time must be atrocious with such low supply, so I’d really like there to be more Residential options.
Of course, just an apartment or flat might be a little boring, so LEGO might turn it into a mixed-use residential building with some stores or services provided, but we’ll see!
I’m not super confident with this prediction, but with Fan Media Days officially starting on Monday, I need to get this prediction piece out!
Let me know what you think and if you have any predictions yourself of what the 2025 Modular Building will be!
