Why Disney Hates This Ship 

So the famous Snowspedder is now only good enough to transport human waste. Awesome! Do Lucasfilm hate George Lucas or just his creations? Let me know in the comments. And as always, if you want to have more success this week as well as more action, remember to Like, Subscribe, Share and Bell this video. Cheers my crazy friends!

Imagine a company you named after yourself goes out of its way to hate you, your characters, and everything you stand for when it's no longer in your hands.

Disney spent billions to purchase Star Wars and millions more to merchandise it, yet they can’t be bothered to hire halfway decent writers

The problem with the Hoth scenario with regards to the Star Destroyer is that, because of Admiral Ozzel's incompetence, the rebels had their shields up which meant that the empire had to send in slow moving walkers to get in close enough to take out the shield generator

Overall lore for the T-47 "Air Speeder" is that it was a light Cargo Hauler. The tow cables shown in ESB were used to latch on to repulsor-fitted containers. (we see Speeder Bikes do this in Star Wars Rebels.) The "Snow Speeder" shown in ESB is a heavily armored and modified version of the original civilian-sold T-47. The arctic variants are literally the Rebellion slapping crap together on a sub-standard airframe and praying it didn't fall apart (which was more than 70% of their Starfighter Corps at the time)

I miss when Star Wars as a franchise tended to have intimidating villains. Even Admiral Piett had a sense of professional Imperial about him. None of these new clowns do at all.

Wade, a character with no screen time before his death scene, got more moarning time than Han, or Luke, or Leia. Disney Star Wars, everyone.

Weird how no one knows the origin of this famous ship, it was originally a forklift/towtruck for shipbuilding yards in space, it's even mentioned in Empire, Luke tells everyone when fighting the walkers to "use their tow cables" and seeing as how the rebels had limited resources they attached guns on the sides so it is basically a "technical"

True, the Falcon was in episode 3, but two things. First, the YT-1300 was mass-produced as a freighter and it could easily be another one operating during the clone-wars. Second, canonically, that WAS the falcon in episode 3 because it's an older model, however importantly Lando HEAVILY upgraded it with top of the line systems and restored it to near mint condition as his personal transport and smuggling vessel before Han won it in a game of sabaac (in the old canon, Lando said he could pick any ship on the lot of his starship junkyard and intended Han to pick one of the shiny hot-rod type ships and not the ugly looking freighter he was secretly upgrading with military grade hardware.)

the part where the random pilot who we knew for like 5 seconds died, and then everyone mourned him for like 4 minutes, and it was poised as like a major tragedy, was pure comedy

I respectfully disagree with the criticism about “parking a star destroyer” on hoth, the rebels were defended from orbital attack by a shield and an ion canon, which was used to disable a star destroyer in the movie. The AT-ATs were sent in to destroy the shield, which would allow the star destroyers to target defensive systems, like the ion canon, from orbit

2:03-2:27 Actually, there's a possible explanation for why Hoth, and Jedha were the way they are. Here's a little EU Lore, mixed with what was directed mentioned in Empire Strikes Back itself. At Hoth, The Rebels were protecting their base with a powerful deflector shield, so that in case The Empire discovered their location, they couldn't just shoot down to the planet's surface, and blow up the rebel base from orbit (A tactic known as "Orbital Bombardment"). Due to Admiral Ozzel's complete incompetence (Which Vader took care of soon after), The Rebels were alerted to an Imperial Attack, and raised the shield, thus forcing The Empire to attack them on the ground with their walkers. Why couldn't The Empire fly through the shields with The Star Destroyers, but the walkers could get through? Here's where The EU lore comes in. In the lore, not only could energy weapons not break through the shields, hence why they were used defensively in the first place, but ships, and vehicles with Repulsorlift Technology (Think Luke's speeder on Tatooine in A New Hope, the vehicles flying through Coruscant's skyline in The Prequel Trilogy, and The Cloud Cars on Bespin in ESB, for example) couldn't either. This is why The Trade Federation Droid Army, specifically their tanks, couldn't just ignore The Gungan Shields in The Phantom Menace, and mow down all The Gungans like a lawnmower does with grass, because they relied on Repulsorlift Technology too. That's why they had to deploy the droids themselves to get through the shield, and slaughter The Gungans up close, because the droids themselves didn't rely on that technology like their tanks did. When Flying in Space (Where there is no gravity), The Star Destroyers would just fly like normal Spaceships would, but when in atmosphere, and thus under a planet's gravitational influence, they would need to use Repulsorlift Technology to stay in the air, otherwise they would crash onto the planet, and (possibly) never fly again. Therefore, they could not go through The Rebels' shields, unlike their walkers, which didn't rely on that technology, and had legs to "walk" on to move around, instead. But, Jedha didn't have a planetary shield, in fact, it wasn't technically an enemy world, since The Empire would mine certain minerals, and resources on it, so why would it need to activate its shield against an allied force? Without a shield like that, The Star Destroyer would have no problem flying over a city with its Repulsorlifts keeping it above the ground at all times. That's my reasoning for it, anyway.

It would have been really cool if we got all sorts of new ship designs for the sequel trilogy. Maybe a renaissance of ship design and innovation brought about by the New Republic. We could have got star fighters combining the best aspects of TIE fighters and X-wings, and a new line of Star Destroyers used by the New Republic.

Remember in classic star wars when Darth Vader would execute any incompetent officers for a minor mistake. Well now he let's them off in Disney canon for destroying his bases.

The amount of stupidity packed into every episode of The Adventures of Young Leia is simply overwhelming. I appreciate your efforts at documenting it.

I'm guessing that the ion cannon the rebels had set up on Hoth would have disabled any Star Destroyer attempting to breach the atmosphere, so a smaller ground force had to be sent to knock down the defenses. The Empire probably used drop ships that were too small to be effectively engaged by the massive cannon, but weren't large enough to be unaffected by ground fire, so they had to land a good distance away, then walk in.

Roddenberry said he and his creative team came up with the transporter because the ship was too big to just land. Seeing those star destroyers hovering like that made me want to science the hell out of them.

Reva “deflecting” literally looks like a child randomly swinging a sword at imaginary enemies. Some general advice for choreographing, blocks and deflects need to be reactions and they need to move from static to dynamic quickly. None of this constant twirling and twisting nonsense, it just highlights the green screen

The selling of Star Wars to Disney will go down as one of the greatest blunders and losses in human history.

Funnily enough, the Corellian YT-1300 (the most famous example of this model being the Millennium Falcon) is actually a very old design in legends. It was supposedly manufactured well before the Prequel Trilogy (+50 years). The Falcon in particular was originally in Lando's possession, then was lost to Han in a card game. The reason why we get to see the Millennium Falcon look like she did "new" was because Lando kept her nice. From what we gather from the Solo movie, he also kept her under a tarp for the most part. She may have even been "restored" at some point in time to look new, and even modified and retrofitted well before Han started chopping and splicing who knows what inside her. A good example and comparison of how the Falcon became a "piece of junk" in the Original Trilogy would be like a person who owned a pristine 1932 Ford Coupe, factory original and kept in a garage. They lose it to a bootlegger in a card game, and the bootlegger decides to not only take it for one heck of a test drive running and smuggling stuff (causing all kinds of body/mechanical damage from evading cops), but also chopping parts and pieces, welding new parts, and generally modifying it into a frankenstein (or rat rod) version of what it used to be. Then letting it fall apart while he's trying to "fix" it himself. That's pretty much why the Falcon looks like "junk" in the Original Trilogy. Mostly because Han really did a number on the poor Falcon putting her through all kinds of stress and abuse. He "tries" to keep her looking nice, but not hard enough. XD

I always just kinda rolled with the prequel ships being sleeker but your mass production theory makes total sense

The fortress had shields 5 years earlier when Cal infiltrated it. The writers just kind of forgot that the entire source for this structure was canon...

the fact that the Snowspeeders blaster bolts are kind enough to not explode on impact especially with the ground when fired at Reva to give her a fair chance just shows how honorable a piece of machinary it is. Snowspeeders are the true Knights of this universe.

In the rogue squadron video game they used snow speeders for covert missions as they could fly below radar. They were used in the mission on corelia when Trix Madine of the Empire defected to the rebel Alliance. So that could explain why radar did not pick them up.

Disney can't get embarrassed, that would require them to have self-respect.

What about the fact that the snow speeders are flying full speed into the hanger with no space to turn around? It’s like when Han pulled out of light speed on Starkiller Base and didn’t plow straight into the mountain? Unless they had a better version of Poe’s handbrake turn from TLJ (just as funny as the SpaceBalls scene mocking the physics of it) both of those snow speeders should have rammed straight into the back of the hanger…

I have to say I am amazed at how bad everything with starwars has become. I can't tell if it's actual incompetence or just genuine purposeful self destruction with everything they do or have done. Even the bad fan fiction stories of starwars are better than things I have seen disney "create" with the godawfully ugly and stupid Vespa scooter speeders, the t-47 snowspeeders which have no explanation on how they got there (as far as I am aware the t-47 doesn't have any space jump / hyperdrive capabilities so how did a rebel ship not get spotted on Imperial scanners? ) Even if you only payed attention 15% of the time to the original and the prequels trilogies you'd have a better chance at making a starwars show/movie than disney would at this point.

Thing about Empire is, I never once thought "how'd they do that?" I believed every second of it growing up.

Finally, a good explanation as to why the technology "looked" less advanced in the era after the prequals.

A little detail, if you look at Star Wars Encyclopedias, and check out the various spaceships' details, you can see the huge difference in world-bulding care/lore: Prequel and Original Trilogy vehicles/spaceships have detailed numbers listed (Star Destroyer: 60 turbolasers, 60 ion cannons 6 heavy turbolasers etc); Sequel Trilogy spaceships have random details (First Order Star Destroyer: turbolasers, ion cannons, point-defence turrets and missiles etc).

What pisses me off the most about this episode is that Cal Kestis broke into the fortress in the exact same way years earlier and no one thought it was a good idea to maybe tighten security in that area

The level of contempt KK has for the people who gave her a career is Sith-like. “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.Hate leads to suffering.”

Disney is inspiring millions of people. If the writers and editors of this show are considered "Professionals" then everyone else must be a phenom. I used to be self conscious of my own inadequacies when it comes to writing and editing..... but seeing what goes into 100+ million dollar projects... I'm feelin pretty confident.

The hoth energy shield and ion cannon prevented star destroyers from parking on top. "Land your troops beyond the energy shield and prepare your troops for a surface attack" That's why General Veers needed to target the power generator so that these two defenses would go down. The snow speeders were modified. Originally, they were civilian tow vehicles and quite old. Their canopies do open incorrectly though.

I cannot believe the Snowspeeder's just HOVER in mid-air, completely functionally contradicting the battle of Hoth where they're always going forward to make passes, and cannot just stop wherever they are to fire on a target. Seeing the speeder's do this in 'Kenobi' looked terrible and made no sense whatsoever.

Absolutely spot on. Pleased you mentioned Luke's one set of farm boy clothes and the Obi wan bad speedsters (my favourite ship) wrecked. Again spot on. Thanks.

LOL , "angry fashionista"... damn, you captured my feelings in the least number of words

Did not know about the whole different vehicles of different eras thing. That actually is really brilliant and does explain why things went from looking all flashy, new and the like to more utilitarian, with more focus on function over fashion.

Disneys hatred of Lucas is proving more and more how much of a genius Lucas truly is

I ask myself: "How in the world did Walter Cronkite not know the difference between 'intergalactic' and 'interstellar?'"

Amazing how Reva can continuously deflect two linked big anti-material blast cannons shots just in front of her...

9:32 *_"Whoever made this has no sense of size, speed, depth or direction."_* EXACTLY! That was simply horrendous! I couldn't believe they approved that sequence!🤯

They should have just rotoscoped Fat Star Wars Kid in for Riva. Would have been a much better (and more believable) lightsaber scene

I love this channel. Very rarely are videos so well edited and so on point with writing, soundbites etc. Thanks a lot for the work and passion you're putting into this, Mr. Head! Dankeschön! Greetings from Germany :)

Dude, they literally state in the episode of Kenobi that the Inquisitors were that cocky that they didn’t believe that anyone would attack them.

Not only did Lucas take style cues from classic cars in the prequels, he straight up used a few. Bail Organa's speeder in RotS is a Tucker Torpedo, and a Phantom Corsair can be seen on one of the landing pads. I also believe that the air speeder in AotC that Anakin "borrows" is a homage to Milner's duece coupes in American Grafitti.

The brilliant, innovative, ambitious Star Wars we knew is dead in all but name only now. If it were a restaurant, the chef and founder sold out and they turned it into a McDonald's, just didn't change the name, but everyone knows the food isn't the same.

7:58 to this person I would say “Ah yes because the US is still fielding the F-86 Sabre as it’s top of the line interceptor in the modern era now huh?”

The hoth battle still makes me N U T when I see it even today and seeing arguably the coolest atmospheric ship in star wars with one of the coolest forms and creative weapons in the tripping line turned into a plot divice makes me want to die

In one episode Darth says to Obi "I am what you made me!" Basically blaming Obi for him becoming Darth Vader. Then in the last fight in the last episode, it's suddenly "Nah, you all good Obi. I, Darth Vader, killed Anakin" So which fucking one is it Disney? Huh!? lol

The massive dip in quality and consistency with Star Wars is sorely felt without George's mind and creativity. What a shame.

This whole hanger scene haunts me to this day. Sooooo freaking bad.

"physically fit" Lmao tell that to Porkins in the first movie lmao

Yo nothing worse for my sleep schedule and college homework than refreshing my home RU-vid page and seeing Robot Head. We gonna watch this all the way to the end. Bye bye sanity...

you also see 3 Millennium Falcons in Attack of Clones on Naboo almost like they were new during the Clone Wars era of Star Wars

15:07 We all knew the Grand Inquisitor wasn't dead. Because he had to appear in Rebels which takes place years after this show. So it wasn't even a good fake-out as a CONCEPT!

you know people don't watch the sponcered segments when the most replayed part is the end of the sponcer

Hey! No making fun of Mr. Kim. He gave up his Convenience store to be a X-Wing pilot.

The fact George Lucas doesn’t get more respect from the company he founded is sad. If they really respected him, the state of “Star Wars” would not be the way it is right now. Just goes to show that once he walked away from the franchise and they made the trilogy, spin-offs and shows without his involvement in any major way from beginning to end that he is the true heart and soul of Star Wars. Without him, it’s just an empty shell. Might look nice visually, but there really isn’t much substance to it.

It's important you keep these kind of videos coming, Robot Head - giving a voice to the people who share your opinion. Thank you for your service in an effort to get rid of low quality. We still have a long way to go, but you are the spearhead of this community.

One complaint on the deal with Star Destroyers landing, and also sorta this whole video, firstly, ISDs have always, always been able to enter orbit. I mean, hell, Tarkin landed his ISD on a crown of protestors in an comic pre-Disney. It's just implied they don't do that commonly because it'd be really hard for them to get up from the ground. Secondly, the Snowspeeders were ALWAYS implied and outright stated to be uparmored, upgunned and repurposed cargo haulers that the Rebels repurposed because they had nothing better. That really defuses the first few minutes and complaints, but the rest I do totally agree with.

It's like all the Hollywood rejects who got turned down some odd years ago ended coming back and nobody remembered them. Now talent in every aspect of entertainment has all but disappeared and replaced with hacks and ineptitude

You forgot to talk about the last scene where Disney expects us to feel emotion for a character with 4 lines of dialogue. Like when I first watched this I was like “why is everyone sad”.

few years ago i had a 87 starion! sold it but it made me happy seeing it mentioned! such a dope car

To one of your early points about flying the star destroyer down during the battle of Hoth: the rebels at that base were using a powerful shield generator (which the empire detects and we hear them say acknowledge it) which is why they sent the walkers instead. Otherwise yeah they would’ve just sent a bunch of ships and landed troops at the door immediately (like we see after the generator is destroyed), but the walkers had to be brought down outside the shield and then move in to disable it. That all just makes TLJ even worse. At least in ESB they had a reason for and explained it, but in TLJ he clearly just wanted to imitate Hoth. The base had no shields, no defensive cannon, nothing. Easily could have just dropped a ship on them and solved the whole problem. But nope Johnson thought it would be better to make everything “bigger and newer”.

Well, the ISD was always capable of going in atmosphere. The issue on Hoth was the shield generator. If there wasn't a shield generator, the Imperial Fleet would have just bombed the base, and everything within 10 km from orbit. It was just safer to keep the fleet in orbit as a net to prevent any escapees and send a ground force to infiltrate and destroy the shield.

The Hoth base was protected by an Ion cannon and shield. So no, they couldn't just drop a Star Destroyer above the rebel base. It's also why the AT ATs had to deploy so far away.

When it came to this series, I was most hyped to see the early-Empire spacecraft that were shown at the end of Revenge of the Sith, but nope. Instead we get Darth Shaniqua screaming at me like a TSA worker telling me to take my laptop out of my bag at LAX.

That battle scene from solo looks legit warhammer 40k

Didn’t OG trilogy have Porkins? There has always been one or two chunky pilots. Although I generally agree your main point you made there.

Aye, I really appreciate how Lucas was a rev head and it totally makes sense how he was inspired by different design eras. Both the 60s and 80s aesthetics really sing to me.

The joke in the stem ad was so good I actually watched the ad twice!

lol once again you're completely right. I never even noticed that correlation with Star Wars starships and car designs from the 60s -80s.

They dont need to make stories with rich characters, interesting dialouge, high stakes stories or anything else. All they need to do is to roll out the old star wars designs and show them to the fanboys and they love it. The only way they would say it was kinda bad is if the designs were still images. As long as they move about and shoot they are happy and give the show high praise.

People still try to argue with me asking why I don't like Disney Star Wars. I stopped trying to explain myself to them and simply ask them to watch your videos.

I always wondered what the Snow Speeder really was because I have always remember the line in ESB where the tech said that they were having trouble adapting the speeders to the cold (on Hoth)

A ship used to transport sewage yet still has laser cannons on, makes sense

So stupid her swinging the saber behind her back, makes zero sense, and it's so sloooow, she's so bad at that.

Currently trying to figure out a way to say that this is like watching someone beat a dead horse without sounding like a heartless asshole who wants to see the dead horse get beat, quite hard but its completely deserved. Keep calling out disney robot, we need more people to realize the disney empire needs to collapse for the sake of the things they hold hostage that we love

Thank you for the fun facts about the cars. I had no idea GL design his ships after cars.👍

It’s actually not super simple to bring a star destroyer through the atmosphere like that. Has to be a really good reason.

Your intro never gets old. Those stomping AT-AT legs, the sound, the timing - soo cool :)

The design of the prequels is very underrated. The gradual transition from the Republic age of craft, uniforms and the Droid army to the militaristic Empire era was well thought-out, better than anything from the Disney era

"Sewage" The perfect description and encapsulation of Disney Star Wars.

Lmao I love this channel. The AT AT with that music intro and outro (idk why I love it sm but I do haha), the constant bashing of Disney’s Star Wars, and the hilarious jokes this guy makes with an Australian (I’m assuming) accent. I apologize if I assumed wrong haha but keep the good work up. Love your content :)

As an avid comic and manga reader, it astounds me on how terrible the framing was, especially for a million dollar production. Storyboards are necessary, but I can't believe they didn't use common sense to at least realize anything like how ridiculous the ship and Reva were placed and sized

Hard to believe Disney tried to shit something worse out than Book of Boba Fett. Gotta give them credit for trying to get under such a low bar. Fcking amazing

2:56 God I wish that this was how Rise of Skywalker actually ended

I like your Star Wars videos best. I watch and my life is ok for 15 minutes. Thanks so much!

The snow speeder was a civilian ship around the prequels that was used for various jobs. Without the towable used on the AT-AT's that would free up space in the back seat. But if it was used to haul shit it wouldn't need a backseat. And also wouldn't have guns mounted on it. Edit:(towcable*)

2:25 Vader couldn’t just park his Star destroyer over the rebel base on Hoth because it had a shield. That’s why they had to do ground attacks to take out the shields. They had control over Jedha city so shields weren’t a problem and they were mining the city for Kyber crystals so probably having a huge ship there would be really helpful as a base of operations.

They actually just wanted to park their star destroyers directly ver hoth but they couldn't because of the sheild so they sent the walkers in to destroyer it. After the sheild was taken out they could have moved their star destroyers closer but at that point it was better to just deploy troops normally.

It's a damn shame 'cause the Snow Speeder is one of my absolute favorite ships

Why are they so determined to Sh*t on previous content created in successful IPs rather than use and build on the good ideas??

Thank you for pointing this out. Every time I say that Disney Star wars is bad I get backlash from people claiming I just don't understand Disney's vision and I wonder if they even understand what they are defending and why. It's not just poor acting/writing. Its a genuine drop in quality of set design and universe lore. I bet everyone that worked on og trilogy and the prequels facepalms when they see the designs they worked so hard on being used in ways that are impossible.

Ah.....luv ya work, Robot! And the Aussie accent totally keeps it real, bro!

"Do Lucasfilm hate George Lucas or just his creations?" Disney: *Yes*

I was fine with the Star Destroyer being in low orbit in Rogue One as it wasn’t a battle scenario but not in TLJ due to the reasons stated in the video as they could’ve simply bombarded the blast door from orbit as it had no shield. This also highlights to robust battle tactics of the Hoth battle. Why couldn’t the base be blasted from orbit? Shielding explained within the movie with scripted lines. Why couldn’t the destroyer just deploy troops from low orbit on top of the base? The Rebel base v-150 planet defender turret depicted on screen and not within an additional companion book. Why were AT-ATs deployed? Due to their immense firepower, defence and all-terrain capabilities. The battle of Crait (don’t care for spelling) had none of these and thus collapses under any scrutiny.

You could probably cut the whole Fortress Inquisitorius part of the story out and the story doesn't really change. Just have Reva throw a tracking device thing on the ship Obi and Leia escape on at that mining town, like Obi once did to Jango, and you're good.

The X-Wing was revolutionary for it's time and is often lauded as one of the major reasons the rebellion won the war. Decently armored, quad cannons, proton torpedoes, a support droid slot, agile, and the biggest advancement of all, it was a fighter with shields. By the time of the sequels they should have refined or advanced that to something even stronger.