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Imperial Creative Engineering => Resources and References => Topic started by: StenHunter on October 19, 2018, 09:09:53 PM

Title: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: StenHunter on October 19, 2018, 09:09:53 PM

Hey everyone, I recently watched the "lost" ESB documentary and I noticed that during the Hoth Battle scene there is a tracked vehicle that the rebels have that I have never seen before..anyone else? is there a toy? If not, here are some reference images from the doco..

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Tamer on October 20, 2018, 04:44:22 AM

Woah, talk about not ever having seen this. I have to go watch that documentary.

I will post your question on the main pages as I would like to know more about it too.

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: krztfr on October 20, 2018, 05:08:33 AM

There's a pic of a deleted scene with Luke manning a gun on one of those in the base, I will try to see if I can find it.

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: krztfr on October 20, 2018, 05:11:37 AM

I think I attached it right?

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: krztfr on October 20, 2018, 06:12:13 AM

And a better view

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Jaeger45 on October 20, 2018, 06:18:08 AM

That was the pic I was looking for.  Sometimes pops up as a "Rebel Combat Speeder".

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Jaeger45 on October 20, 2018, 06:26:32 AM

This link has a couple more good pics, as well as frames from ESB where you can actually (barely) see this vehicle.

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/117938-moc-rebel-combat-speeder/

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Starchaser on October 20, 2018, 05:52:11 PM

Pretty cool find, and thanks for the excellent detective work everyone. I've not gotten into custom vehicles, but I may have to start with this one:)

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Darth More on October 21, 2018, 03:37:43 AM

I can only agree with Starchaser! Jaeger45, that's such a cool resource for references! I was just going to post a picture of LEGO set 8083, but that's definitely not necessary anymore! I always wondered where LEGO had gotten this idea from and I also didn't expect it was based on a vehicle that was actually on set in ESB! This MOC sharwd on Eurobricks however looks much more like it! So there is an official toy of this vehicle, indeed, StenHunter!
Thanks for sharing your careful oberservation and krztfr thank you for adding more references! This documentary is a true treasure!

- Philipp

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: Tamer on October 21, 2018, 06:16:22 AM

Between here and Facebook Sten Hunter ought to have a ton of resources. Cool vehicle.

Title: Re: Empire Strikes Back Hoth Rebel Tracked Vehicle
Post by: StenHunter on October 21, 2018, 11:23:32 AM

Thank you everyone! Now to figure out what to make this out of :P Kind of has a little jabba skiff in it.. the wiki says Luke used it in the Wampa battle..but I think this video has all those scenes but doesn't show it..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVcn8dRdMbo