Kurgan said:

Wait, the AT-ST's are gone... because of "continuity"?

Then again, it's much more fun to speculate where they came from in the first place. See, when a boy AT-AT and a girl AT-AT love each other very much...

We're not going to see how the big walkers got on the planet. We don't see what happened to all the walkers or how the soldiers get from inside them and then into the base. But this part is intolerable?

Just blow it up! Sheesh. :(

You don't see it showing up from far off like the AT-AT's...you don't see it in the long or wide shots of the battle.....its nowhere except in those 2 closeup shots. Its so much easier to take it out to fix continuity that it would be to put one into all the shots you'd need to put it into, even if you were only going to blow it up when it gets to those closeups.