There are rumors of a new LEGO Star Wars UCS (Ultimate Collector Series) set that will be released in 2014. Chowren Toys has gotten word that LEGO will be releasing the UCS Sandcrawler (75059) sometime next year and will go for $299.99.
The original Sandcrawler (10144) came out in 2005 but there hasn’t been any others since. mb_bricks did a project on LEGO CUUSOO and it achieved 10,000 supporters last year but was ultimately rejected during the Review Stage. The release of next year’s set may be a reason why the project got rejected.
If these rumors are true, I’m very excited to see another UCS Sandcrawler released next year. There’s no word yet on the piece count or release date but we’ll be reporting on that information as it becomes available.
Update: BrickDancer on Brickset mentions that the above-mentioned UCS Sandcrawler will be released in Spring 2014. They also mentioned that the UCS Slave I will be released in Fall 2014. Again, these are just rumors going around and should be taken lightly. We’ll update more as details become available.
Update 2: It looks like the Sandcrawler will be a regular set albeit a much more expensive regular set. Huw from Brickset estimates it will be larger than the original 10144 set but small than the one proposed on CUUSOO.
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Better not have studs jetting out everywhere like that atrocious zit faced Jabba’s Sail Barge.
The set number seems a bit suspect. Aren’t all the UCS sets supposed to start with 10xxx? I’ve never bought obe that doesn’t…
I agree with Nick below (above?). As soon as you mentioned a non-“10-series) number, I doubted that it would be UCS. $300 is definitely expensive enough, but I feel that a UCS Sandcrawler would be bigger/more expensive. $300 could just be a really expensive, non-exclusive set. I had thought the Slave 1 was going to be the next UCS (rumors once again), and I doubt there would be 2 UCS models within half a year. More likely one would be in January and one in the fall.
I agree the set number is a little sketchy. On the 2 UCS sets in a year, LEGO has been releasing two a year the past couple of years within 5 months of each other with the first coming around May the 4th event. I expect they’ll do it again next year because people will buy them. Right now, I’m about 60% confident that the rumors are true. We’ll see in a few months what LEGO has in store.