The LEGO Ideas theme, which started in 2008 as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo, then formally known as LEGO Cuusoo, is based around a website which allows users to submit ideas for LEGO products to be turned into potential sets available commercially. If fellow users in the LEGO Ideas community up vote the project to 10000 then LEGO Group has a committee which votes on whether to build the set and release it. If the project is approved and cleared for production, it is developed and later released as an official set under the "LEGO Ideas" banner and the original designer receives 1% of the royalties and a number of free sets. Typically, a few projects are approved a year and most are rejected due to various restrictions.
2019 LEGO Sets
In 2019, LEGO Star Wars celebrated its 20th anniversary, marking two decades as one of LEGO’s most successful and collectible licensed themes. To commemorate the milestone, LEGO released special anniversary sets, featuring modern remakes of classic Star Wars sets, each including exclusive minifigures with retro-style prints, making them highly sought after by collectors.