Random set of the day: AT-AT Walker
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 20018 AT-AT Walker, released in 2010. It's one of 30 Star Wars sets produced that year. It contains 83 pieces.
It's owned by 1794 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I’m enjoying Huwbot’s taste as of late.
Pretty good mini, not much to joke about or praise.
As Star Wars micro-sets go, this one's not bad. It looks like it has some heft, and when I first saw the thumbnail (mind you, I am on my phone) I couldn't immediately tell the scale, which is a good sign.
A sight more pieces here than in Bernard Bear's set the other day...
Yeah, Huwbot was on a Star Wars kick last week, as well.
Huwbot's been on a bit of a Star Wars kick this month hasn't he?
Given how often Star Wars remakes sets, I wonder if we'll ever get two of the same ship from like three or so years apart back to back. That'd be funny.
Darn nice for a baby AT-AT. It'd be cute to get several of these, some plastic eggs, and a regular mini-fig AT-AT and pretend these are little hatchling AT-ATs.
B- maybe a B grade.
Okay, so last week Huwbot picked two Star Wars sets from 2007. Now, it's 2010. Very interesting.
On another note, this isn't a bad rendition. All the parts of it are terrific.
@guachi:
Do AT-ATs nurse? Or maybe have a line of them following the big one like ducklings.
Star Wars streak hope he chooses a sports set
Hey my cousin had this. We put a 'cow horns' piece on the head and had a stormtrooper captain riding on top of it.
"Aye-Tee Aye-Tee" or "At At"? Well, I think we can all agree that "AT-AT Walker" is a bit redundant.
Is "Walker" the surname?
ah man that captain rex boxart gives me so much nostalga...
@GSR_MataNui: Or the same ship at two different scales, like minifig scale and Mini, or UCS and Microfighter.
@PDelahanty said:
""Aye-Tee Aye-Tee" or "At At"? Well, I think we can all agree that "AT-AT Walker" is a bit redundant.
Is "Walker" the surname?"
I always thought it was the former (“Aye-Tee Aye-Tee") as otherwise the pronunciation of the AT-ST and other vehicles would be very weird. But I’m no SW expert, so what do I know?
And unless its title is “Texas Ranger,” I don’t think Walker is the surname.
Definitely not an AT-AT runner. Great that it's still fully posable and the side hatches open at this scale. I like the comparison with the original in the far distance on the packaging art work.
"ehy-tee ehy-tee" or "at at" in these parts. "aye" as in "I" doesn't sound right IMO
pretty sweet micro though, perhaps the best rendition in that scale
The BrickMaster series had the best microscale SW vehicles and excellent Creator sets as well.
There always seems to be a mini/polybag/advent calendar version of this I haven’t seen before. I swear they must be multiplying like gremlins
There's nothing like a slow moving, heavy at the top, large target from a supposedly advanced armed force to attack a small base. Surely they could have sent 100000 aircraft fighters to blow up the generator and call it a day (if they could bring down those behemoths - and the ships that carry them, they could have sent large fighters). That's the thing with Star Wars, they have laser and shields and all the goodies but most of their ground force moves at snail pace (except maybe the clone turbo tank). Got to do it that way otherwise there would be no story at all! That said, as a coolness factor, the AT-AT is right up there with the Millennium. For its size, this model is a pretty good rendition.
@HOBBES:
It’s a known military fact that you can’t hold territory with aircraft. For that you need ground troops. It’s also noted in Ep5 that the Rebels were having difficulty adapting their vehicles to the cold climate on Hoth (hence the Wampa-bait). I expect that would be an issue for the Imperial forces. Even if it wasn’t, the shield over the base would (remember what happened to the first wave of Rebels to charge the second Death Star in Ep6).
@HOBBES said:
"There's nothing like a slow moving, heavy at the top, large target from a supposedly advanced armed force to attack a small base. Surely they could have sent 100000 aircraft fighters to blow up the generator and call it a day (if they could bring down those behemoths - and the ships that carry them, they could have sent large fighters). That's the thing with Star Wars, they have laser and shields and all the goodies but most of their ground force moves at snail pace (except maybe the clone turbo tank). Got to do it that way otherwise there would be no story at all! That said, as a coolness factor, the AT-AT is right up there with the Millennium. For its size, this model is a pretty good rendition."
The Empire cannot dispatch fighters or employ the planned orbital bombardment because the Rebels activate an energy shield upon the Imperial arrival. They must therefore deploy ground forces outside the shield because their slow pace allows AT-ATs and AT-STs to pass through unharmed.
One thing which I love about the Original Trilogy is the tactical soundness of most battle plans. Both factions usually employ appropriate tactics and explain why those tactics are necessary.
@CapnRex101 said:
"One thing which I love about the Original Trilogy is the tactical soundness of most battle plans. Both factions usually employ appropriate tactics and explain why those tactics are necessary."
So when evacuating transport vessels, a few shots from a large laser cannon are sufficient to ensure their safe departure? I guess there was just nothing the Empire could do. Don't even bother opening fire on those transport ships.
@PDelahanty said:
" @CapnRex101 said:
"One thing which I love about the Original Trilogy is the tactical soundness of most battle plans. Both factions usually employ appropriate tactics and explain why those tactics are necessary."
So when evacuating transport vessels, a few shots from a large laser cannon are sufficient to ensure their safe departure? I guess there was just nothing the Empire could do. Don't even bother opening fire on those transport ships."
That was an ion cannon, deactivating the Imperial Star Destroyer before the Rebel transports moved into range. If the ion cannon had missed, the transports and fighters would have been massacred.
@CapnRex101:
Futurama did that to an absurd degree in one episode. A group of hostile ships formed a circle around Bessie, Zap announced over comms that he had them surrounded, and Leela responded by making the ship go up above the plane of the circle before flooring it out of there.
@PDelahanty:
To add to what @CapnRex101 said, if you watch that scene, they do identify the huge ball turret as an ion cannon rather than a laser blaster. When it fires on the ISD, you see waves of electricity race over the unharmed hull before the ship starts to drift sideways into the path of the other ISD, forcing the functional ship to abandon its prey while performing evasive maneuvers. The ion blast just overloads the circuitry onboard, without causing permanent damage. You can see much a smaller ion blast in Ep4, when the Jawas capture R2.