New DC Lego Sets

Like lots of people I grew up with Lego. I have many fond memories of my childhood Lego sets and the stories I told with them. My tastes, then as now, tended toward the sci/fi and fantasy realms. The Lego Space and Castle themes were my favs.

Over the years Lego developed some interesting marketing relationships and finally in 2002 they made the connection with super-heroes, releasing the first Spider-Man sets, tied in to the Spider-Man movie.

Twelve years later and Lego has featured a bunch of Marvel and DC comics sets. Their hugely successful Lego: Batman games opened them up to the rest of the DC Universe and really Lego has done a great job creating sets for kids that expose them to a good number of DC heroes as a low price.

This year features two fantastic sets from the DC Heroes line. One is the 76025 Green Lantern Vs Sinestro. Priced at $19.99 it is damn cheap in Lego terms. It comes with a Green Lantern, Sinestro, and Space Batman, who looks pretty robotic & I would probably use as an extra villain. There is a Green Lantern spaceship, which seems superfluous since GL can just fly in space, but maybe he needs it in the theme of the set where Sinestro has stolen his power ring battery. Also you can just have Bats fly the spaceship since I don't think he could withstand all the rigors of interstellar travel in that jet-pack suit. Kidding aside this set is pretty rad. Two heroes, a villian, and a jet for 20 bucks. Worth the price. You are saddled with another Batman fig, but GL and Sinestro more than make up for it.