In 2009 LEGO released 10 Education sets across 3 subthemes. The largest Education set from 2009 was
9686 Simple & Powered Machines Set with a piece count of 396 and a retail price of $135.00. The current estimated value of all these Education sets from this year is about $1,953.27 which represents a 284.8% growth.
Education is a LEGO theme designed specifically for schools that concentrates sets that can be used by education institutions and includes sets the focus on DUPLO and TECHNIC themes and contain larger amounts of pieces. Initially LEGO Education was known as Dacta.
2009 LEGO Sets
In 2009, LEGO Star Wars celebrated its 10th Anniversary with the release of its 10th Anniversary sets. But even more important, LEGO celebrated its 50th anniversary of the LEGO Brick. A number of new themes were first introduced including BIONICLE Glatorian, Space Police III, Power Miners, Agents 2.0 and LEGO Pirates was re-introduced. Some themes that were retired in 2009 by LEGO included Mars Mission, the original and highly collectable Batman sets. Exo-Force and Belville where also discontinued in 2009.