That's pretty much it. If I remember correctly, the designer said he just took a WWII 105mm Flak 38 anti-aircraft gun, gave it a gun shield, and strapped two legs at the bottom.
That's not even the worst part. These things are delivered to worlds using hyperdrive-equipped orbital drop pods, similar to the probe droid seen in Episode V. Imagine being a rebel just resting on top a mountain, see this 18m tall egg drop from orbit, pop open, and this massive mechanical droid spider comes out and starts running towards your position at great speed while opening fire with a heavy laser cannon.
AT-TE, one of the best and actually usefull walker designs in all of Star Wars, just scale it up and modernise it and it will dominate over pretty much all the other ealkers when it comes to raw power and resilience.
@@Vintenuthewizard yep. IIRC, it's "toes" were on joints that let them turn into what were basically giant climbing claws, in addition to the magnetic functions implemented into the feet, as well
I remember there was a giant mining rig that Lando had built for him in one of the Legends book series that consisted of a massive refinery that was grafted onto a large number of AT-AT chassis...
Yea it was a walking refinery that could march across the surface of an asteroid to always stay on the cool side away from the boiling sunlight. Such a cool idea :)
In Legends, repulsorlift engines could be disrupted by magnetic fields and ion charges fairly easily and some missiles had sensors that let them lock on to repulsorlift signatures like modern missiles can home on radar emissions. Also, the heavier the object you tried to lift, the bigger and more powerful engine you needed to make it accelerate. So you sometimes need the right tool for the right job.
Because that's all they can do. "Death Star? How about a Death Star that shoots 7 lasers at once?!" They either do that, or create something generic like the imperial transports or those dumbfuck bombers from TLJ
I think you think it's cringe just cuz you don't like the sequels. It makes sense that with progress in technology, stuff slowly gets bigger with time. It's something that is consistent with the change from prequels to ot as well, venators turn into larger star destroyers, that big ball thing on geonosis turns into a death star, the at-te turns into an AT-AT. So why is it "cringe" when the sequels just do the exact same thing as what the prequels did?
@@stoopidapples1596 my view is some of the vehicles in the sequels looked good… but I agree with other comments about where they got the resources, an imperial remnant making their own death star is hard enough but then making it 10 times bigger and in a planet? You can see why I’m sceptical. My main issue with the sequels isn’t the vehicles they just sized up, it’s what they did with them. Episode 7 was a carbon copy of a new hope that did a poor job convincing me that the new republic could fall in a single day, they could have done something clever and reversed the typical roles, the new republic with all the resources trying to search for and destroy imperial remnants who now have very few resources. 8 was a boring car chase that shat all over physics in the space battle at the start, ships randomly stopping for some reason and then the manoeuvre at the end should have destroyed half the galaxy as RKKVs tend to do. I watched 9 because I had to see it off and felt no joy in doing so, although the end of that movie can be summed up with the word “more”… palpatine has more power, Rey has more power, more ships, more deathstar beams, more rebels… bigger isn’t always better
I love the SPHA-T. It’s such an underrated walker. The Republic wouldn’t have won the first battle of Geonosis if they didn’t have them on their side. Plus, they truly are a staple of early 2000s sci-fi machinery with their mix of exposed industrial features and their smooth, streamline features. I’m still waitin on Lego to make my SPHA-T set. 😤 I don’t care if it’ll be huge! If y’all made a AT-M6 set back in 2017 you can make a SPHA-T set.
I gotta say, the one good thing that came out of the sequel trilogy was the AT-M6, its a really cool looking walker in my opinion, one of the best even.
When last Jedi was releasing there was so much hype around the at m6 people were wondering if they would do a comedy bit where the at m6 crushes an at at with one leg as they were so big. plus people called them gorilla walkers because of the front legs resembling a gorillas arms.
@Biden and the gang I thought the front legs looked like gorillas which I thought was awesome. It would have been cool to see an AT-M6 crush an old AT-AT. Such a shame we didn't get to see them do more than just fire lasers at a projection of Luke Skywalker.
I honestly don't like the design. The way they walk is cool but design of the body and head are ugly. Plus i feel it's just a bigger, even more ridiculously impractical version of the AT-AT, a vehicle which is itself, canonically, huge and impractical. Thats the biggest problem with a lot of the disney movie designs. Starkiller was a bigger deathstar, the M6s were bigger AT ATs, those ships palpatine had in the last film were just bigger, stronger Star Destroyers. There's no real creativity or passion behind it, its just "Make it Bigger." I guess you could apply that problem to the Disney films as a whole though, not just the designs.
The MT-AT is such a sweet design. Its a shame its up there with the K-Wings and the Nebula Class Star Destroyer on the list of awesome legends stuff that will never get used by disney.
A caterpillar-type walker with a long segmented body and legs would be cool. I've always liked the AT-TE's design and I feel like there should be more multi-legged walkers in star wars.
I like in the last jedi, they brought an at at. I missed it at the theaters, but caught it on dvd. Its like a puppy barking along side its parents. I loved that scene
Well they were the easiest to mass produce just like the ties. The empire used the quantity over quality mindset. The first order was at least thinking bigger with it's AT-M6 walkers
@@Spiralredd Just out of curiousity, where do you take this info from? Is this new Disney lore? Do you know how many of those were in the original pre-disney movies?
The AT-ATC and AT-M6 are so ridiculous. I can just imagine a junior artist presenting some unique design but the director crumples it up and says "nah let's just take the AT-AT and make it BIGGER!"
Tbh I don't mind the AT-ACT because I always saw it as more of a cargo walker that's used to carry heavy materials in dangerous areas, rather than something that's actually sent out into battle, which is a concept I quite like. And it would make sense that the AT-ACT is bigger since that means more storage space inside it. I agree on the AT-M6 tho. The front legs are cool but besides that they're just a knock-off AT-AT
@@tk-6967 Which is false because the design still doesn't make sense. One moderately powerful explosive to a leg and the whole thing comes crashing down
@Georgiy Kireev By moderately powerful explosive you must mean a heavy turbo laser barrage from orbit, because nothing else would destroy those legs. If you were thinking of destabilising the walker, they have countermeasures in place already
@@tk-6967 I'm just saying that the design is objectively stupid and needs silly "anti-everything shield" type abilities to not look goofy. And even those fail. Silly to build a huge, tall land vehicle that will attract a ton of attention from artillery and aircraft and won't really be able to go anywhere except open plains with no cover. Take away plot armour and they get taken out almost immediately by any half decently armed force
Me, recognising almost every walker: "Yo whats up guys!" The walkers: "Heyyy how's it going ! What's up dude!" The MT-AT: "Yo" Me: "WHHHATTTT THE FUCK ARE UUUUUU"
