{"id":1904,"date":"2018-10-04T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T20:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:30:42","slug":"star-wars-rebel-combat-speeder-why-did-i-not-know-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2018\/10\/star-wars-rebel-combat-speeder-why-did-i-not-know-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Rebel Combat Speeder &#8211; Why did I not know about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YeB-uXGGaEU\">the recently-added-to-Youtube Empire Strikes Back documentary<\/a>, I noticed a quick clip of this vehicle being driven across the snow during the filming of the Hoth battle.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L7xC97J.jpg?1\" width=\"800\" height=\"411\"><\/p>\n<p>I definitely didn&#8217;t recall seeing that vehicle in the film and I don&#8217;t think there was a toy released for it either. It&#8217;s a pretty cool looking piece of equipment but I think I see the reason it wasn&#8217;t featured in the film &#8211; it moves a little slow and more like a snowmobile than a speeder.<\/p>\n<p>A quick Google search lead me to more photos, mostly from a Lego collector&#8217;s forum:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uKsmnSJ.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">rebel combat speeder<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7gRC9NQ.jpg?1\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/992.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"419\"><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this little vehicle will be my first scratch build model?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was watching the recently-added-to-Youtube Empire Strikes Back documentary, I noticed a quick clip of this vehicle being driven across the snow during the filming of the Hoth battle. I definitely didn&#8217;t recall seeing that vehicle in the film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2018\/10\/star-wars-rebel-combat-speeder-why-did-i-not-know-about-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}