In 2015 LEGO released 4 Ideas sets across 2 subthemes. The largest Ideas set from 2015 was
21303 WALL-E with a piece count of 677 and a retail price of $59.99. The current estimated value of all these Ideas sets from this year is about $792.09 which represents a 352.1% growth.
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.
2015 LEGO Sets
In 2105 LEGO celebrated its 60th anniversary. This was the year if many reintroductions in addition to a number of new themes being released. In 2015 LEGO released Dimensions, Elves, Jurassic World and one of our collector's favorites, Scooby-Doo. LEGO also reintroduced sets for BIONICLE and Pirates. Also that year, LEGO City celebrated its ten-year anniversary and Star Wars released sets for Episode VII The Force Awakens. However, LEGO did retire two licensed themes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Hobbit.