Ice Planet 2002 was a LEGO Space subtheme released in 1993 and released sets in two waves over a two year period before it was discontinued in 1994. A total of 10 sets were released. The Ice Planet 2002 story is based on a civilian space affiliation led by Commander Cold where they were conducting top secret research in rocket science on the hostile and icy setting of the ice planet Krysto.
1998 LEGO Sets
In 1998, LEGO released several new sets and themes, including the LEGO Star Wars theme, which was based on the Star Wars movies and featured models of characters, vehicles, and locations from the films. This theme was extremely popular and helped to boost LEGO's sales and popularity. 1998 was also the year that LEGO introduced the LEGO Mindstorms theme, which was a line of sets that allowed users to build and program robots using LEGO bricks and a computer.