In 2005 and 2008, Lego released models of Death Star II and Death Star I, respectively.

* Lego braces for big changes, a July 2005 International Herald Tribune article

The Scarecrow appears in nine video games: Game Boy's Batman: The Animated Series, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive / Genesis's The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Batman Begins ( a tie-in to the 2005 movie, voiced by Cillian Murphy ), Lego Batman: The Videogame, Batman: Arkham Asylum, " Batman: Arkham City " Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame, DC Universe Online and plays a brief boss in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.

* Lego Star Wars: The Video Game ( 2005 )

In 2005, Lego started selling Duplo trains themed as Thomas the Tank Engine.

The park was acquired by Merlin Entertainments in 2005, who now operate the park, with the Lego Group retaining part ownership ( 30 %).

In April 2005, Lego made the decision to sell the Legoland parks, due to rising losses across the whole company.

Lego Star Wars was first released on April 5, 2005, a full month before the final Star Wars film premiered, it was the only Lego game from TT Games to be rated E by the ESRB for consoles ( handheld version of TT's Lego Games may have an E rating ) while other Lego games 2006-onward are E-10 until Lego City Stories.

Lego Star Wars was billed as a kids ' game and received the " Game of the Year " award from Kidzworld. com It received generally positive reviews ( PC version Metacritic score was 77 ) and peaked at the top of the UK charts during early May 2005.

Lego Star Wars was the thirteenth best-selling game of 2005.

Adjoining the release of the final Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Battlefront, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords ( both in 2004 ), Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Lego Star Wars ( 2005 ) were released.

* Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick, a 2005 mini-movie based on the Lego theme

In July 2005, The Lego Group announced that it had reached a deal with private investment company the Blackstone Group to sell all four parks for € 375m to the Blackstone subsidiary Merlin Entertainments.

Between 1999 and 2005, Lego opened 24 further stores in North America, and in 23 US states by 2011.

In 2005, The Lego Group reported a 2004 net loss of DKK 1, 931 million on a total turnover, including Legoland amusement parks, of DKK 7, 934 million.

In 2005, Lego released Bionicle playsets, with minifigure variations of characters that had previously been produced in the larger Bionicle scale, notably the Toa and Visorak characters.

Alpha Team is a building toy line manufactured by Lego, first released in 2001 and discontinued in 2005.

One section of a massive Lego train layout at the National Train Show in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 9, 2005

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

Since 2005, he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

Atari has had significant financial issues for several years now, posting losses in the tens of millions since 2005.

A Voices Only album has been released every year since 2005.

Since 2005 Alicante has been home to Ciudad de la Luz, one of the largest film studios in Europe.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

This has happened three times: 1972 under Chancellor Willy Brandt, 1983 under Chancellor Helmut Kohl and 2005 under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.

Following reform in 2005, the governor lost exclusive responsibility regarding decisions of external relevance ( i. e. banking and financial supervision ), which has been transferred to the Directorate ( by majority vote ).

Since 2005, Lee has written the Boston Herald's poker column every Sunday.

Pendragon ( acquired in 1998 by Green Knight Publishing, and 2005 by White Wolf ), while related, has sufficiently different mechanics that it can be seen as a separate system.

The channel's journalistic output has been overseen by Controller of the channel, Kevin Bakhurst, since 16 December 2005.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

The Lodge has been in the news periodically since 2005, because the Queen often spends the first few days of her summer holiday in the lodge.

In particular, the conflict-driven MiniSAT, which was relatively successful at the 2005 SAT competition, only has about 600 lines of code.

Since 2005 BJU has been accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, a national accrediting organization recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

The name " Republic of China " was briefly added on January 27, 2005, but has since been changed back to " none ".

Since 2005, the world's top selling brand of inkjet and laser printers has been HP which now has 46 % of sales in inkjet and 55. 5 % in laser printers.