THE GALACTIC SENATE

The ATAT is coated with heavy duralium armour that is strong enough to withstand snowspeeder blasters...so when they trip it up, how come snowspeeder blasters can then penetrate the armour??? It jus doesn't seem to make sense...Can explain? Anyone???

If you look carefully the downed ATAT only exploded when the snowspeeder's blasts hit its neck area, behind the cockpit/head section.

every armour has its weak points, and they're usually at the joints where practicality dictates that these joints can not be clad in heavy armour so as to impede their movement.

That being said, a blast to the neck area should not cause an explotion since the ATAT's power generator is located at the aft section of the body...

Maybe the neck section houses the reactor or ammo?

Another reason is for the special effects...so to blow all brainless viewers' heads away!

Plo Strax-Avix wrote:If you look carefully the downed ATAT only exploded when the snowspeeder's blasts hit its neck area, behind the cockpit/head section.......

This reminds me of the game, probably Atari, where one pilots the snowspeeder against the At-Ats. The way to blow them up was to hit them at the neck..... That's the time when Pacman was really popular

i also play before a game that also shoot the at at neck.. don;t know is the same as u say..

May be the AT-AT commander activate a self-destruct ... Imperial order: Never Surrender!

My theroy is this, They have some kind of shield or another, that surrounds the AT-AT, though, if they tripped it, it deactivates?? :\