LEGO Star Wars, The Clone Wars is one of the subthemes of the Star Wars theme and was released in 2008 to coincide with the release of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and TV series. The Clone Wars sets recreate various vehicles, characters, and locations from the Star Wars universe in which the Clone Wars existed. The Clone Wars was a conflict fought between the Confederacy of Independent systems known as the Separatists, and the galaxy-governing Galactic Republic for control of the galaxy.
2012 LEGO Sets
2012 was a very important year for LEGO license themes, namely, the contract with Lucasfilm was renewed to extend Star Wars sets until at least 2022. The LEGO Group also celebrated its 80th anniversary in August of that year. 2012 also marked the year for one of the largest number of new and important themes being released which included The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Marvel Super Heroes, DC Super Heroes, Monster Fighters, Friends and LEGO Friends. With the introduction of all these new themes LEGO did discontinue a number of beloved themes in 2012 which included Alien Conquest, Atlantis, Pharaoh's Quest, Kingdoms and Harry Potter which did make a return six-years later, thankfully.