Star Wars Star Wars is a current licensed theme introduced in 1999 . The theme is based on material from the " Star Wars " franchise of films , cartoon series , comic books , video game s , and other media . The theme covers all eight main films , along with movie and TV series , the TV series , and anthology films such as . Also , some sets have been released , with four " The Old Republic " sets released in the second wave of 2012 , the first and second wave of 2013 , and one " The Force Unleashed " set released in 2008 . The current licence for LEGO Star Wars will expire in 2022 . Background . The Galactic Republic was a peaceful government led by the Galactic Senate that lasted for more than a total of twenty - five thousand years . However , in the Republic Classic era the Trade Federation ( later known to have joined with others to form the Separatists ) , a trading group , was convinced by the evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious , who was actually an alias of Senator Palpatine , to attack the world of Naboo using their Droid Army . They attacked , but Obi - Wan Kenobi and Qui - Gon Jinn were called in from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to negotiate with Nute Gunray ( the leader of the Trade Federation ) , and they freed Queen Amidala , her advisers and pilots from the droids and fled back to Coruscant , but had to stop at Tatooine for repairs after they broke through the Droid Navy blockade at Naboo . Later , they met Anakin Skywalker , a Force - Sensitive slave on the world . After going to his house and meeting his mother , Shmi Skywalker , and Anakin ' s protocol droid , C - 3PO , Qui - Gon Jinn realized the potential that Anakin had in himself and believed that he was the chosen one . Later on Anakin entered a podrace and won first place and enough money for the others to repair the Queen ' s ship , allowing Anakin to leave Tatooine with the others to grow up and become a Jedi Knight . The Queen had asked Supreme Chancellor Valorum for help regarding the invasion of her planet , but the senate was fooled by the Trade Federation . However , dissent in the senate caused a new Chancellor to be elected , Palpatine . With no help from the Republic , the only thing Amidala could do was ask the Gungan army for help . Meanwhile , Qui - Gon tried to have Anakin become a Jedi , but he was rejected by the Council for being too old and having too much fear . So they all went back to Naboo , where the fight was becoming the Battle of Naboo , featuring It was the Gungan Army and the Naboo Security Force ( and some civilians ) against the Trade Federation ' s Battle Droids . However , as they reached the hangar of the palace they were trying to take , they ran into Darth Maul , Sidious ' apprentice , so Qui - Gon and Obi - Wan fought them off while the others dealt with the droids . Meanwhile , Anaking stumbled into a Naboo starfighter and accidentally launched into space with the rest of the Nabooian fighter squadrons . In the battle in space , Anakin destroyed a Trade Federation Lucrehulk - class Droid Control Ship and saved the Gungans from certain defeat , and possibly death . Meanwhile Qui - Gon was killed by Darth Maul , which lead to Obi - Wan grabbing his master ' s lightsaber and bisecting Maul from the waist . Qui - Gon ' s sacrifice inspired the council to allow Anakin to become a Jedi youngling . There was then a massive celebration on Naboo to celebrate the victory and the peaceful reuniting of the Naboo and the Gungans . 10 years later the Sith Count Dooku hired two notorious assassins , Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett and Clawdite assassin Zam Wesell , to assassinate the Senator of Naboo , Padme Amidala after she ruined Darth Sidious ' plans for control of the Naboo system in the Battle of Naboo . After the attempt was quelled by her bodyguards , Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi and Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker , Kenobi went to Kamino to track Jango Fett and Skywalker was assigned as Amidala ' s personal bodyguard . While he was there , Kenobi discovered that a clone army was being created at the request of the now dead Jedi , Master Sifo - Dyas . Obi Wan found out that the newly - found Separatist Alliance led by Count Dooku was building a droid army on Geonosis , so he tried to inform the Jedi Council , but was then captured by the hostile Geonosians . Anakin , Padme and R2 - D2 ( an astromech that helped Anakin in the battle of Naboo ) were on Tatooine because Anakin was searching for his mother , who he found captured by Tusken Raider s . When she died in his arms , Anakin became so angry that he slaughtered all of the Tusken Raiders . . When he returned to the Lars ' homestead , where his mother had stayed as the wife of Cliegg Lars , who had bought her and then freed her , they received Obi - Wan ' s message . While they did send the message to the council as instructed , the two went to Geonosis to help anyway . However , they were captured , and a strike team of 200 Jedi led by Jedi Master Mace Windu came to rescue them and destroy the droids . After a large fight in which the 200 Jedi were reduced to roughly 30 , Master Yoda arrived with the Clone Army to rescue the Jedi . Then Anakin Skywalker and Obi - Wan Kenobi attempted to capture Count Dooku , who was escaping . After a short but intense duel , Dooku was forced to retreat by Yoda , but not before wounding Obi Wan and cutting off Anakin ' s right arm . As a result of the Republic ' s victory in the First Battle of Geonosis , the Clone Wars had begun . Afterwards , Anakin and Padme got married in secret , and Anakin replaced his arm with a robotic one . The Clone Wars waged for some three years , during which time the Jedi and their Clone Trooper s fought against the Droid Armies of the Separatists . Among the enemies they would face during this time would be Dooku ' s Force - sensitive assassins , Asajj Ventress and Savage Opress ; Pre Vizsla and his Death Watch ; and the return of Darth Maul , who was revealed to have survived his apparent demise on Naboo . Later , in 19 BBY , Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker , and the Republic ' s Open Circle Fleet fought against a large Separatist Navy fleet in orbit of Coruscant after the Separatists had led a lightning - fast invasion and captured Chancellor Palpatine . They boarded cyborg General Grievous ' s flagship , the Invisible Hand , and dueled Count Dooku , resulting in Kenobi getting minor injuries and Anakin killing Dooku at the request of Chancellor Palpatine . They freed Chancellor Palpatine from him , who was being held prisoner on the bridge . While Grievous escaped , the three and R2 - D2 managed to safely " land " the ship on Coruscant . When they got back , Obi - Wan left to report to the Council , while Anakin went to see Padme , who revealed she was pregnant . Later , Palpatine told Anakin he wanted him to be his personal representative of the Jedi Council . The Jedi approved , but did not grant him the title " Jedi Master " . Anakin became angry at the Jedi Order for not letting him become a Master , and got even angrier that Palpatine , who was Anakin ' s friend , was not trusted by the Order , and they wanted Anakin to spy on him . Anakin refused , but he also refused to spy on the Order for Palpatine , who had asked him to . Later Kenobi and the 212th Attack Battalion was sent to Utapau , a world where Grievous had been spotted , and Anakin had to stay on Coruscant . Meanwhile , Yoda went to Kashyyyk in the Outer Rim to defend it from the invading Separatist forces alongside the Wookie s . Meanwhile on Coruscant , Palpatine revealed to Anakin that he was the Sith , Darth Sidious , and that he knew about Anakin ' s visions of Padme dying , and that he could help . This lead to Mace Windu leading a team of Kit Fisto , Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin to lead an attempt to arrest Palpatine . All but Windu were cut down in a matter of seconds , but Palpatine was fought to a stalemate by Windu . Anakin then arrived and Palpatine took the opportunity to turn him to the Dark Side once and for all by telling him the Sith could help him save his wife . After Anakin sliced off Windu ' s sword arm , Palpatine took the chance to blast him with Sith Lightning and throw him out of a window . Anakin ' s soul was lost , and in its place the Sith Darth Vader was born . Sidious then gave the clone troopers across the galaxy an order to execute Order 66 , a contingency order that branded the Jedi as traitors to the clone troopers . Clones across the Galaxy turned on their Jedi Generals and killed them including Commander Bacara killing Ki - Adi - Mundi on Mygeeto , Commander Neyo killing Stass Allie on Saleucami , Captain Jag killing Plo Koon on Cato Neimoidia , Commander Bly killing Aayla Secura on Felucia , and thousands of others with only a few surviving including Ahsoka Tano , Kanan Jarrus , Yoda , Luminara Unduli , and Obi - Wan Kenobi . Palpatine then called an emergency meeting in the Senate , where he said that the Jedi had tried to kill him and take control of the Republic . To prevent any further attack , he then re - organized the Republic into the first Galactic Empire . Vader was then sent by Sidious to the volcanic world of Mustafar where he was to " take care " of the Separatists . Then Padmé arrived and told him that Obi Wan told her Anakin had killed younglings and turned to the dark side . Obi - Wan , who was secretly aboard , emerged from the boarding ramp and Vader force - choked Padmé due to him believing that they were both conspiring to kill him . While this happened , Yoda left to confront Sidious , but he realized that the Sith had evolved in the past two - thousand years , and the Jedi had remained the same . Thus , Yoda retreated , knowing he could not win . The two former friends on Mustafar continued to battle , and Vader lost . His legs and remaining arm were cut off , and he then fell near a lava river , but was rescued by Sidious and a squad of Shock Trooper s after being burned severely . Padmé was taken to a medical center , where Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa ( later Leia Organa Solo ) were born . Padmé died after naming her twins , having lost the will to live after Anakin ' s fall to the Dark Side . Vader was brought to Coruscant and was sealed in a new suit and helmet to keep him alive . Yoda exiled himself to Dagobah , Senator Bail Organa adopted Leia , and Luke was brought to his uncle and aunt , Owen Lars and Beru Lars on Tatooine where Obi Wan would watch over him until the time would come for Luke to become the first in a new Jedi Order . But Obi - Wan also was training with Yoda to survive beyond death , where he could retain his consciousness if his physical form was lost . The following years saw the rise of numerous groups of rebels , who eventually joined together to form the Rebel Alliance and oppose the Empire . These rebels included Kanan Jarrus , Hera Syndulla , Chopper , Zeb Orrelios , Sabine Wren , and Ezra Bridger , who would face such Imperial adversaries as Agent Kallus , The Inquisitor , Darth Vader , the Fifth Brother , the Seventh Sister , and Grand Admiral Thrawn . It also fell to this group to deal with the return of Maul , who survived the events of the Clone Wars , while working alongside such heroes as Ahsoka Tano , former Jedi apprentice of Anakin Skywalker , who later faced her former master in a duel . Another group of rebels consisting of Jyn Erso , Cassian Andor , Bodhi Rook , K - 2SO , Chirrut Imwe , Baze Malbus , Pao , Bistan , and others later stole the plans to the Death Star , and handed them to Princess Leia Organa . After the theft of the Death Star plans , Princess Leia , who was a member of the Rebel Alliance , and her ship , the Tantive IV , was pursued by Vader ' s flagship , the ISD Devastator . She was captured after Stormtrooper s , Imperial soldiers that some of were human and some of were former clones , boarded the ship and killed everyone on board . She put a message for Obi - Wan Kenobi and the Death Star plans ( plans to a devastating weapon ) in R2 - D2 . R2 - D2 and C - 3PO had been gifted to Padme for a wedding gift , and when she died Bail Organa gave them to Leia , but secretly giving them to the Rebel Alliance as both he and Leia were part of it . The two escaped to Tatooine in an escape pod and wandered in the desert , But they were captured by Jawa s , and the Empire sent troops to find them . Luke Skywalker was a teenager by now , and was still living with Owen and Beru on the desert world of Tatooine . He wanted to go to the Imperial Academy , but his aunt and uncle didn ' t let him for fear that he wouldn ' t be able to stay with them and help the family farm , also not wanting him to get involved in the Galactic Civil War , which raged on between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire . Later , Owen purchased the two droids , R2 - D2 and C - 3PO from the Jawas to work around the farm . However , R2 - D2 went to find Obi - Wan shortly after , and Luke and C - 3PO went after him . They found him but were attacked by Tusken Raider s , and were rescued by Obi - Wan , who called himself Ben Kenobi to hide from the Empire . Luke found out that Kenobi was a Jedi , and Kenobi told him he was Force - sensitive , and he should train to become a Jedi . The four stumbled upon a destroyed Jawa sand crawler upon trying to return the the farm , and they identified the sandcrawler as the same one that sold the droids to him . Luke went back to the farm in a panic and saw that everything was destroyed , and Owen and Beru were dead . He decided to leave with Ben to the world of Alderaan as per instructed by the message Leia left with R2 - D2 . They paid Han Solo and Chewbacca to take them there after getting to a spaceport , but then found that the planet had been destroyed by the Empire ' s ultimate weapon , the Death Star . They were captured by it , and rescued Leia from the prison while Ben turned off the Tractor Beam . But he was killed in a final duel with Vader . The others escaped to the Rebel base on Yavin 4 , where pilots such as Jek Porkins and Biggs Darklighter prepared to attack . As expected , the Death Star came in system , and after an assault the Death Star was destroyed , but Vader and a few others managed to escape . Luke , Han , and Chewbacca were then commended by the Alliance in a huge medal ceremony . Later , Luke joined the Rebellion and was patrolling around Echo Base on the frozen ice world of Hoth . The Empire was searching for the Rebel base and sent an Imperial probe droid to Hoth , but Luke thought it was a meteor crash ( the droid was later dealt with by Han Solo ) . He was attacked by a Wampa while looking for the droid , but later escaped from it and was rescued by Han Solo . Han had already decided to leave to pay off a debt to Jabba the Hutt , but had to stay , for it was too cold for any ship to leave . Later , the Empire came ( they had been tipped off by the droid ) , attacking with Snowtrooper s and massive All Terrain Armored Transport ( AT - AT ) walkers , led by General Veers . Luke lead a squad of snowspeeder s to take out the walkers ( really buy the Rebels time ) , but failed and the base was lost . However , they succeeded in buying the rebels time , and most of the Rebel troops evacuated . Luke escaped in his X - wing , and Han , Leia , Threepio and Chewbacca escaped in the Millennium Falcon . They were followed by a squad of Star Destroyers and TIE Fighter s while fleeing , and fled into an asteroid field hoping the TIEs ( the Star Destroyers were far behind ) would give up the chase . The TIEs did not , but the rebels managed to destroy them . They landed inside an asteroid , but realized it was a space slug , and quickly left . They then headed to Cloud City on Bespin , where Han ' s friend Lando Calrissian was the administrator of Cloud City . Later , Han was betrayed by Calrissian and captured by the Empire , as the Empire had forced Calrissian to give them the rebels or the citizens of Cloud City would die . Meanwhile , Luke left to Dagobah , as he was told to by the spirit of Obi - Wan . There , he finally met Yoda , who trained in the ways of the Force , but with much hesitance , as Luke was as reckless and impatient as his father . Han was taken by Jango Fett ' s " son " , Boba Fett , to the crime lord Jabba the Hutt and was frozen in carbonite . Luke had visions of this , and left to help his friends , though he did not complete his training . When he arrived , Vader was waiting for him . After a huge battle between the two , Luke lost his hand , and Vader revealed that he was Luke ' s father . Lando helped Leia , Chewbacca and the droids escape because he never wanted them to be hurt , all he wanted was for his city to be protected . But he had to leave , and they quickly rescued Luke before they left . When they returned to the Rebel Alliance , Luke replaced his hand , as his father had with his own lost hand . Lando and Chewbacca then left to go free Han . Leia tried to rescue Han from Jabba ' s palace on Tatooine but was captured . Luke came to try to rescue Han , Chewbacca , Leia , Threepio , and R2 , but was taken prisoner . He then was forced into a pit with a horrible rancor monster , but managed to kill the beast . Luke was to be thrown into the mouth of the Sarlacc with the others , but managed to get to Jabba ' s sail barge , destroy it , and escaped with Leia , Han , Chewie , Lando , and the two droids . They made it to the Rebel fleet , where the space attack on the Death Star II battle station over the Forest Moon of Endor was being planned . Luke left to Dagobah to complete his training , but Yoda said it was nearly done already . But before he could fully become a Jedi Knight , he had to kill Vader . Before Yoda died of old age though , he told Luke that there was another Skywalker . Obi - Wan then helped Luke realize that Leia was his sister , and with that he returned to the Rebel fleet . Luke , Han , Chewie , Leia , and the droids were to go down to the planet surface with a group of Rebel Commando s and destroy the shield generator bunker on the planet surface . They went to the world and made it past the blockade , and landed . They went to the bunker , but had to fight Scout trooper s on speeder bikes and Leia was lost and captured by Ewok s . Then , the strike team waited near the bunker while the droids , Luke , Han , C - 3PO and Chewie searched for Leia , but were captured by Ewoks , but freed and were made part of the tribe , thanks to the Ewoks ' misconception that C - 3PO was an Ewok god . They then attacked the bunker , and the fleet attacked the Death Star , and Luke told Leia that she was his sister and Vader was their father . He then left to Vader to turn him back to the light side . The bunker was destroyed after a battle , and Luke managed to destroy Darth Vader and revive Anakin Skywalker once and for all . But Anakin died while saving his son from the Emperor on the Death Star , as the Emperor had electrocuted him severely before falling into an exhaust shaft . Meanwhile , the Death Star II was attacked by Lando , Nien Nunb , Wedge Antilles and the Rebels . Luke managed to escape before the Death Star II was destroyed , along with Lando and Nien in the Falcon and Wedge in an X - wing . The Rebel Alliance , Ewoks , and other planets ( like Tatooine , Coruscant , and Naboo ) celebrated the fall of the Empire . Luke saw the spirits of Yoda , Obi - Wan , and Anakin during the celebration . After watching them , he turned back to enjoy the festivities . Some thirty years later , the defeated Empire would be reborn as the First Order under the evil Supreme Leader Snoke , who would seduce Ben Solo , son of Han and Leia , to the dark side of the Force . After Ben - now known as Kylo Ren - and his underlings the Knights of Ren slaughtered Luke ' s new Jedi students , Luke went into self - imposed exile and was sought by both the First Order and Leia ' s Resistance , a group who sought to protect the New Republic from the First Order . Resistance Pilot Poe Dameron eventually received a fragment of a map leading to Luke ' s location , only to be captured by the First Order and escape with the help of a First Order Stormtrooper who became known as Finn . Finn later met up with Poe ' s droid BB - 8 , carrying the map , and a scavenger named Rey ; the trio later linked up with Han Solo and Chewbcca after stealing the " Millennium Falcon " . Eventually Rey was kidnapped by Kylo Ren while Poe and the others joined the Resistance , who launched a mission to take out the First Order ' s Starkiller Base . Rey escaped and was reunited with her friends , only for Han to be killed by his own son Kylo , who then injured Finn before facing Rey - a newly discovered Force sensitive - in a lightsaber duel . Rey won and Starkiller base was destroyed ; she then set out to find Luke while the defeated Kylo was taken to Snoke to complete his own training . Overview and history . At its start in 1999 , Star Wars was one of the first officially licensed LEGO themes released , alongside with Winnie the Pooh . The theme was originally planned to end in 2007 , but was renewed and slated for discontinuation in 2011 . Despite this , LEGO renewed the license yet again until 2016 . After that had been announced , Lego established another contract guaranteeing the continuing of the theme at least until 2022 . So far , from 1999 - 2011 , there have been 236 LEGO Star Wars sets , including regular sets , Star Wars Mini sets , Midi - scale sets , TECHNIC , Mindstorms and Ultimate Collector Series sets . In 2005 they changed the faces from Yellow to a flesh coloured face which also continued when Harry Potter used the flesh colour for the brand . " Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace " . " Main article : " The Phantom Menace is , chronologically , the first episode to the Star Wars movie saga and the start of the prequel trilogy , and was released in 1999 . The episode ' s events are featured in " " and " " . Many key events in the movie were integrated into released sets , including battles on and over Naboo , Podracing on Tatooine , and duels involving Darth Maul on both of these planets . " Star Wars Episode II : Attack of the Clones " . " Main article : " Attack of the Clones is , chronologically , the second part of the saga , and was released as the fifth film in 2002 . The episode is featured in " " , " " , and " " . The of the film was used for most of the set inspirations , with space battles and scenes on Tatooine also transferred to sets . " Star Wars : The Clone Wars " . " Main article : " The " " line focuses mainly on the events that occur during the three year gap between episodes " " and " " that take place during a galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars . Elements of the theme appear in " " , " " , and " " is based upon this subtheme . Some sets from this subtheme can also be considered as " Episode II " or " Episode III " sets . " Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith " . " Main article : " Revenge of the Sith is , chronologically , the third part of the saga , and the final movie to be released . The movie charts the final part of Anakin Skywalker ' s fall to the dark side and the reformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire . The episode ' s events appear in " " and " " . Star Wars : Rebels . " Main article : " This subtheme is based on the TV series , " Star Wars : Rebels " , which takes place between Episodes III and IV . Rogue One : A Star Wars Story . " Main article : " Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope . " Main article : " Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back . " Main article : " Star Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi . " Main article : " Star Wars Episode VII : The Force Awakens . " Main article : " Expanded Universe . " Star Wars Expanded Universe " is a Star Wars subtheme of sets which come from outside the Star Wars films and The Clone Wars animated series . Part of it is based on The Force Unleashed video game . This subtheme currently contains six sets , one of the smallest that a subtheme contains .