2008 / Star Wars

In 2008 LEGO released 20 Star Wars sets across 6 subthemes. The largest Star Wars set from 2008 was 10188 Death Star with a piece count of 3803 and a retail price of $399.99. The current estimated value of all these Star Wars sets from this year is about $7,070.44 which represents a 568% growth.

The LEGO Star Wars theme which was licensed and released in 1999 is based on concepts from the Star Wars franchise of films, comic books, video games, cartoon series, and other sources. The theme currently covers all main films, the anthology films, animated movie and TV series as well as the extended universe.

2008 LEGO Sets

In 2008, LEGO celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the Minifigure. It was also the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick. This year also marked the release of LEGO Cuusoo which eventually paved the way for the highly collectable LEGO Ideas theme. In 2008, LEGO and LucasFilm released the Indiana Jones theme, making it the second LucasFilm theme to be released along with Star Wars. Notable set's in 2008 LEGO released the now infamous Green Grocer (10185-1) which started the investments of other collectable modular building for decades to come.