I haven't posted much here although I do enjoy the hangout and chatter.

However I feel I must throw in on the "AT-AT/SnowSpeeder" crushing.

I believe Ady is very much correct in that Empire is damn near perfect,But this particular scene REALLY needs a do over .

You can CLEARLY tell the "giant-prop AT-AT foot" is a cleverly disguised auto yard magnet dropped from a crane onto the prop Snowspeeder.

It SHOULD crush the speeder canopy and push further into the metal as the body of the speeder bends/sinks into the snow and the little tabs on the foot of the AT-AT push back against the "curling" metal as the foot falls and raises in one smooth motion, keeping the speeder's metal body from "sticking" to the footpad of such a heavy machine.

But what happens in the film just isn't convincing, It LOOKS like a "cleverly disguised auto yard magnet dropped from a crane onto a prop Snowspeeder" which doesn't react like metal but wood.

Also as shown in my description I feel it is precisely what those "tabs" were designed to do as the Quadra-ped tanks stomped across the battlefield stepping in wreckage.

Oh and just for the hellovit Here's the closest I ever got to a snowspeeder.