If you've got a Thunderbolt display as a docking station then you could just connect a DVD drive to one of its USB ports - even the "Macbook Air" SuperDrive addon, if you want to keep everything Apple-styled.
It will also work with a Mac Mini. The trend here is it will work with any Apple computer that does not have an optical drive. Assuming the new MBP's are sans optical drive, it will probably work with them, too.
That is a power issue. I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't include the over powered USB ports in the display since they use that for charging iPads and iPhones as well.