Is there a list of Limited and Special Edition sets from around 2006 to 2011?

[PaleozoicBricks]

So I want to research set from the 2000s that have the "limited Edition" or the "Special Edition" banners on them. The issue is I more or less have no idea where to start. 

Like when did the practice of putting a label or a banner like that start, not including multipacks. I know certain Exo force sets had the label, and I vividly remember the practice stopping in 2012 seeing i had 3 sets from that year that as a kid I know a year prior would have been labeled as such. 

If anyone can help me that would be great.

[Lyichir]

13 hours ago, PaleozoicBricks said:

So I want to research set from the 2000s that have the "limited Edition" or the "Special Edition" banners on them. The issue is I more or less have no idea where to start. 

Like when did the practice of putting a label or a banner like that start, not including multipacks. I know certain Exo force sets had the label, and I vividly remember the practice stopping in 2012 seeing i had 3 sets from that year that as a kid I know a year prior would have been labeled as such. 

If anyone can help me that would be great.

I think those banners usually related to sets that were limited to particular retailers (Toys R Us, Target, Walmart, etc.), which on Lego.com and in the Lego catalogs were usually marked as "hard to find". However, I'm sadly not sure of any database that makes it easy to look up that information—Brickset, while usually one of the top databases in terms of searchability, doesn't have an easy way to search for information on exclusivity like that.