I was looking through old Star Wars comics to see what might be interesting, and the classic Empire Strikes back adaption includes some bonus concept art in the back.
I really love the AT-ST design that ended up in the movie, but this sleeker more rounded version looks neat too. It looks faster and more agile, to me it looks like a single seater instead of the AT-ST double seater.
There’s also some kind of sketch of an AT-AT walk cycle.
I thought that at first too! Then I went and actually looked at an AT-PT again. Aside from the vague shape of the vision slit area/cockpit windows, the AT-PT doesn’t really take anything from this concept. That thing is a refrigerator on legs. The concept AT-ST really looks elegant and graceful.
True, but the AT-DP on the other hand is basically just this concept redone.
Yes, that’s exactly it, right down to how the feet socket into the legs. I haven’t kept up deeply with Disney produced canon. This looks like it showed up in the Rebels cartoon a few times? I know that show has used other old concept art and reintroduced it.
That’s exactly what that is. We can honestly thank Filoni and Favreau for bringing somewhat obscure Star Wars lore and concepts to the new canon.
In Andor they specifically mention the Rakatan Empire from before the Old Republic.