BODY: Six orange spheres sit on a table. A seventh rolls into frame. Then the original Dragon Ball logo appears โ and that is all Lego is willing to say for now.
The teaser video went up on September 22, 2026, on the Lego Group's Japanese social media account. There is no product page, no price, no release window, and nothing at all on Lego's official website. But the imagery is about as unambiguous as a tease can get: the Dragon Balls only assemble when something big is about to happen, and Lego clearly knows it.
The timing follows a pattern. Lego's One Piece line launched in the wake of Netflix's live-action adaptation and has kept expanding through 2026, with a posable Tony Tony Chopper set selling worldwide for around $70 and further sets arriving earlier this year. One Piece proved that a shonen license could carry a full Lego theme rather than a one-off novelty, and Dragon Ball is the obvious follow-up โ a property with instantly buildable silhouettes in Capsule Corp., the Lookout, Kame House, and the Dragon Balls themselves.
Dragon Ball remains busy on every other front, too. The manga is handled internationally by Viz Media, recent anime adaptations stream on Crunchyroll, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 is slated for PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC in 2027. A Lego line would slot into an already-crowded calendar rather than revive a dormant brand.
The insider take
From Tokyo, the detail worth noting is that this came from Lego's Japanese account first โ not the global one. That ordering matters here. Japan's character-goods market treats Dragon Ball as a multigenerational staple, and the domestic collector audience skews toward adults who grew up with Toriyama's work in the 1980s and 90s. Lego has spent years courting exactly that demographic with its 18+ display sets. Expect the first wave to lean toward adult collectors rather than the toy aisle, and expect Bandai's long-dominant grip on Dragon Ball figures in Japan to be the real competitive backdrop, not the plastic itself.
Originally reported by Siliconera (English).