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What could the 2025 LEGO Modular Building be?

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!

36 responses to “What could the 2025 LEGO Modular Building be?”

  1. Caroline WK says:

    Meinetwegen kann es gerne ein Wohnhaus sein. Vielleicht mit einer Kinderarztpraxis oder einem Augenarzt darin.
    Wie wäre es mit einem Gebäude, in dem Altenheim und Kindergarten vereint sind? Ein Mehrgenerationenhaus.

  2. Sally L McGrath says:

    I think a city Bath’s and gym would be good

  3. Bricks&Books says:

    I think we could be getting a school- it feels very overdue!

  4. Brickyy says:

    Precisamos de uma escola! Onde nossas crianças Lego irão estudar?

  5. MrSwissCheese says:

    If the leaks are right, it seems like you are right again.

    And I am honestly more excited about a residential townhouse than about last year’s slightly lacklustre museum.

  6. Alison says:

    I would love to see a hospital, I think it is long overdue and would be very well received. I can’t imagine a hospital on a corner though… not sure why not.
    I doubt there would be a post office modular in the same year as a winter village post office, but who knows??

  7. Micah says:

    Chat we need a hospital or a school both of those would be so cool to build on a extra wide baseplate

  8. Tony_Bob says:

    I don’t think you’ve included enough sets in the residential category. The bottom floor of Green Grocer is a Bodega, but the upper floors are residence, so it should definitely be included. Assembly Square and Parisian Restaurant each had a studio apartment in the upper floors, so arguably could be included. That said, residence is still a good guess, I’m hoping for upper floors to be high-rise condos with contemporary steel and glass siding built on an older stone ground floor, maybe a post office. A single large home, a mansion/manor featuring the gargoyles seen in the new Wednesday set, would also be cool.

  9. Andrew H says:

    With how focused LEGO has been on STEM and science, they might put out an addition to the museum, maybe a space museum…
    I love all the ideas about the Arcade, even though we sort of got one in the Rollercoaster. If the design team needs any inspiration, there’s a great museum called the Antique Coin Operated Museum in San Francisco, CA, USA! Schools and hospitals don’t seen to do very good on sales, but a Library would be pretty sweet!

  10. Karen Meredith says:

    They should do the Culbertson Mansion, New Albany, Indiana!

  11. Mr M Shirran says:

    They should do a Hospital.
    A&E and waiting room ground floor
    X-ray and operating theatre on the second floor with wards on the third floor.

    Or a Transport Museum would be good. With micro builds of trains, planes and aircraft.

    Or even better an official Lego Store.

  12. Naomi Wivell says:

    I’d love it to be apartments with a post office on the lower level. Maybe with small studio attic across a fourth floor for a slight change in height.

  13. Richard Dietz says:

    Lego can get stuffed if it dabbles in the idea of getting rid of paper instructions ( like the cursed videogame companies )

  14. Reader says:

    I’ve been hoping for something in the medical and/or technical fields. A hospital, pathology lab, research lab, etc. Something with medical devices, strange machines or colourful vials of chemicals. Given there’s a fire and police station, a hospital seems appropriate to complete the trifecta of emergency services (eventually).

    Based on your analysis, if 2025 is a residential modular, do you think 2026 might be another entertainment modular?

  15. im a mario fan myself but i want lego dimensions too

  16. Oliver says:

    I love the modular buildings. It would be very cool if lego could propose one which can be made as a regular one or as a corner one. I’ve seen spectacular lego rooms but my reality is the only way I can display them is either on a shelf (I have a long one running along my living room wall and they look amazing) or in a book case like many people do.
    As cool as corner buildings are, in reality they are not the best displays on shelves or bookcases (you can only see part of it).
    Your designs are really nice, hope for one of them. Also a school could be nice. In any case, thanks for your blog, first thing I read in the morning 🙂

  17. Martijn says:

    A supermarket corner building with residential above would be my guess. Maybe with a small take-away place as well

  18. Andrew Schmidt says:

    A corner building cries for a buisness. At least on the bottom floor. The two main things I want to see are a post office and a hardware store. The things im surprised Lego has not made yet is an ice cream shop, a general dr office, and kind of corner store. Yes we got the grocer but not the same. Out of these 5 I think the post office is coming really soon. There was just another mailbox in the museum…. Is the biggest clue. But I think they would dedicate a whole building or a 1/2 building for a post office rather than a floor. for me I would like the hardware store to be part of a eclectic detective office type build.
    Dream lineup
    This year corner ice cream shop or store with apartments above. Would love to see a blue color like the jazz club started as.
    Then a whole build post office with a small side buisness.
    Then an eclectic build of a hardware store and Dr office with a pass thru or different building shapes. This would also work as a 1/2 1/2 build Store w Dr above
    Hardware w apartment above.

  19. Håkan says:

    I think a proper hospital would make sense, but if it’d be a corner building, maybe a new hotel would be more likely. It’d be a repeat, I guess, but it’s been some years since the last one.

  20. Lyn says:

    I think corner residential with Post Office or Pharmacy at the bottom would be good

  21. Daniel says:

    @Andrew

    Great pickup!
    It’s most likely to be a corner building, as per the pattern you point out!

    Maybe a high rise apartment building (condominiums, for you Yanks!), with a shop or service (doctor?) on the ground floor.

  22. 9brickcity says:

    What about a bed and breakfast? Like the friends one? If residential? Ooh or an old Victorian haunted house similar to the haunted house but fits the modular line. Since it’s so large perhaps it will have multiple designs like the assembly square or maybe just maybe it will be a hospital like everyone has asked for for years?

  23. Tony says:

    A school is the one I wish for every year. I wouldn’t want the residents of Tonytown to be uneducated! A place of worship is probably too contentious with all the different religions about.

  24. Deborah says:

    I really would like a train station. Missed out on the Designer Programme one!

  25. Paul Avery says:

    I would like to see a modular corner park setting with clock tower &/or maybe a large water fountain feature .This to me, if placed next to the museum, would really enhance its appearance and provide some relief to the row of existing buildings, The forthcoming Ideas 21353: Botanical Garden set could then go on the other side of the park.

  26. LJ says:

    Residential is a good guess.
    I think we will be getting a corner, so my guess was a Bodega, with a gym or dentist office above it.

    Just leaving this here for glory if i am right – or to forget if i am wrong.

  27. Aljaž Mlinar Slemc says:

    @Felipe we got a dentist already in assembly square, and that set just got retired.
    @Kevin i doubt we’d get an arcade, unless they decided to push the bottom end of when the modulars exist up, like they did with the diner and corner garage. Before that all modulars were designed to be turn of the 20th century, now they’re something like 50s or 60s. I think if we’ll get something of the sort, we might get a bowling alley, but we already got a pool house… idk when arcades first started appearing and what they were like tho, so idk.
    I think Lego hasn’t reached out into other cultures much since they did the parisian restaurant. We got some distinctly East coast of america styled buildings, but not much in the style of japan or china(not counting the palace cinema or spring lantern festival. I’d love to see a japanese sushi place, they proved they can do wonders with asian architecture in ninjago city, so why not a full scale moc. Maybe make a Chinatown styled street cutting the baseplate in half and give us a standalone shop and some inverted corner buildings with shops at the bottom and residence at the top, and you can line the street with lanterns and the like. I feel they probably wont do it, as it’d compete with their chinese new year offerings, but maybe just maybe we could see something like that. I mean Indian/chinese/japanese all have very distinctive styles, and often restaurants around the world also have those styles, or an exaggerated version of them. I think they’d fit great.

  28. Andrew says:

    If you look at the history of all the modular buildings (omitting 10190 Market Street) the sequence has been a corner building followed by 2 straight buildings. On this basis the next one should be a corner but I don’t see it being a residential corner building (unless it is an upper floor).

  29. Erin says:

    Residential & newsagent / grocer on the bottom floor. There have been lots of dine-in options, but nowhere to get fresh food since the very first few models.

  30. Felipe L says:

    Has TLG included any medical offices to prior modular builds? If not, it would seem that our modular neighborhood could use some health services! A dentist or doctor office could make for some neat builds.
    Perhaps a medical office building with different practices? I’d love to see a Bob Newhart Show type psychologist’s office with a dentist next door.

  31. Kevin says:

    A modular type we haven’t seen yet is the arcade; either multi-level like the Sydney Strand or ground floor arcade with commercial/residential like the Royal in Melbourne. Better yet, put it on a 64×32 footprint and design it as a 64 stud deep modular. That way, if you’ve already got enough modulars to have some back-to-back, the arcade would straddle from one street to the other, as in real life.

  32. Harrison Knight says:

    I like your guess and I can see it happening with something on the bottom floor. I don’t see them splitting it up into 2 buildings as the Jazz Club is a recent build in this form. When LEGO comes back around to the Science, History, Education category I would love to see a Science Center. I have many memories going in Elementary school for fieldtrips. I was working on a MOC of a museum then LEGO came out with one and now I’m working on a Science Center, so who knows, but that would put 2 of the same category back-to-back.

  33. Richard Dietz says:

    I hope it’s a modern high-rise apartment complex condo thingy

  34. Fiona says:

    I would love to see a residential building. Perhaps it will have a post office at the bottom (after all, a town needs a PO to deliver all the Lego parcels)!

  35. Suzanne Nelson says:

    This theme was the one that got me interested in Lego. I just wished I started in 2007 and not in 2009. When I was a child in the sixties Lego was not a toy to purchase for a girl.
    I hope your designs are on the mark as that would be a stunning modular.

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