CatBus said:

The screenshots you provide actually have the silly little scurring animals etc in them--but they are not as distracting in your screenshot because they are not moving. In motion, the revised shot is definitely worse IMO. Parts of the shot are improved, I agree (I don't necessarily like all of the speeder changes either, but I'll throw a bone here), but taken as a whole, the shot was better in '77. Again, this is all a matter of opinion, but I truly and strongly prefer the original version of this shot.

Well, the creatures could be kept, but only have 1 or 2. And have them sniffing the ground. Since they'd be used to speeder and humans\aliens going to and from the place, they'd feel safe to just sit there. I agree that the new shot is not as good as the original, but an improvement it was. The one thing I dislike about the original is that R2 looks like he could fall of at any moment.