The set came with a battle-damaged Darth Vader, along with Galen Marek and Juno Eclipse, both of whom became the first minifigures in the Expanded Universe subtheme designed to be specific characters.Īfter a one-year break, the Expanded Universe line returned with the release of the 8087 TIE Defender in 2010. The Rogue Shadow, the space vessel that the set was inspired from, was the main ship in the story.

The next year saw the release of the 7672 Rogue Shadow, which was to tie in with The Force Unleashed, the Star Wars video game and multimedia project released in the same year. The 7664 TIE Crawler, the first full Expanded Universe set. The set also included two Shadow Stormtrooper minifigures which were also exclusively from the Expanded Universe. Unlike the 10131 TIE Fighter Collection, this set was the first to be purely from the Expanded Universe. In 2007, the 7664 TIE Crawler was released.

The 10131 TIE Fighter Collection, the first set to include Expanded Universe material. This set contained a TIE Advanced and two TIE Fighters, all of which were in the Original Trilogy however, the inclusion of a TIE/d Fighter made this set the first ever in the Expanded Universe line. The first set to be considered part of the Expanded Universe was the 10131 TIE Fighter Collection, released in 2004.