Clayface movie doesn’t feel like the path to a LEGO minifigure

Perhaps the most overlooked Batman villain in LEGO history is getting his own movie later this year, but somehow it doesn’t feel like a realistic path towards a Clayface minifigure.

James Watkins, Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini’s Clayface movie arrives in cinemas on October 23 this year, and the first trailer has just dropped – teasing a film that feels as far away from traditional LEGO brand values as you’ll ever see from Marvel or DC. Billed as a body horror, the movie follows Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries), an actor who becomes disfigured and enlists the help of a scientist… who turns his body to clay.

It’s the classic Clayface origin story up on the silver screen for the first time, and what better excuse does the LEGO Group need to finally deliver a long-awaited Clayface minifigure? Well, probably a film that’s more in line with its primary target demographic. (And at least a little bit of desire to break away from Joker, Joker and more Joker in its DC sets, but that’s an issue for another time.) 

While Matt Reeves’ The Batman enjoyed an entire wave of tie-in LEGO DC sets, the theme famously ignored James Gunn’s Superman movie last year – save for a single comic book-inspired Superman mech – and it doesn’t look like we’re getting any sets for this summer’s Supergirl, either. The LEGO Group isn’t showing much interest in targeting these new DC Universe movies with sets, so a movie like Clayface feels even less likely to receive much in the way of tie-in material.

That said, 76302 Superman Mech vs. Lex Luthor felt like a clear sign of the LEGO Group hoping to leverage renewed interest in its characters (given Supes hadn’t been seen in LEGO since 2020), so perhaps there is a universe in which it capitalises on future DC movies with sets that just so happen to feature the same heroes and villains without being explicitly tied to them. That’s a strategy we’ve seen before, after all.

LEGO Clayface history

To date, the LEGO Group has resisted calls for a Clayface minifigure, so his three fleeting appearances in the LEGO Bat-canon since the Dark Knight first landed on shelves 20 years ago consist of two buildable figures – one in 2017’s 70904 Clayface Splat Attack and another in 76122 Batcave Clayface Invasion – and a sticker in 76300 Arkham Asylum.

That’s despite seemingly the perfect piece for a Clayface minifigure already in production thanks to LEGO VIDIYO’s Slime Singer, which we'll see again on shelves in 71052 Series 29’s Trash Monster. But the tease in Arkham suggests the LEGO DC team is at least aware of the desire to see him in minifigure form at last – so we can’t completely rule out getting a LEGO Clayface minifigure at all.

Chances are it just won’t be one tied to the new movie…

Clayface debuts in cinemas on October 23, 2026. Looking for LEGO DC sets? It’s all Batman, all the time right now, with three new Batmobiles and a Bat-logo landing in stores to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Caped Crusader in minifigure form. These sets also tie into TT Games’ upcoming LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, which arrives on consoles and PC next month.

LEGO DC 2026 sets

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