Lego AT-AT

I decided to build the Lego AT-AT Mini Building kit. It turned out to be a very neat kit.

The AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport ) is a large, four-legged walker introduced in The Empire Strikes Back and also appearing in Return of the Jedi. The AT-AT, designed to favor "fear over function", is manned by two men to drive the vehicle and can carry up to five speeder bikes and 40 Imperial stormtroopers.[6] The walkers themselves carry two blasters and two laser cannons.

The AT-AT is the primary assault vehicle during the Battle of Hoth, first depicted in The Empire Strikes Back. In the film, the AT-ATs are responsible for destroying the shield generator protecting the Rebel headquarters, taking out many soldiers, vehicles, and installations in the process. 

One walker is destroyed when a Rebel Alliance Snowspeeder wraps a tow cable around the legs, causing its collapse. Another AT-AT is destroyed by Luke Skywalker, who damages critical systems underneath the walker with his lightsaber and a grenade. The AT-AT also makes a cameo appearance in Return of the Jedi, where one guards a landing platform on Endor. (Walkers on Wiki)

The Imperial AT-AT Walkers at the Battle of Hoth were created using go motion photography. Go motion is a variation of stop motion animation, which incorporates motion blur into each frame. Stop motion animation can create a disorienting, and distinctive staccato effect, because the animated object is perfectly sharp in every frame, since each frame of the animation was actually shot when the object was perfectly still. Real moving objects in similar scenes of the same movie will have motion blur, because they moved while the shutter of the camera was open.

Go motion was designed to prevent this, by moving the animated model slightly during the exposure of each film frame, producing a realistic motion blur. The main difference is that while the frames in stop motion are made up by images of stills taken between the small movements of the object, the frames in go motion are images of the object taken while it is moving. This frame-by-frame, split-second motion is usually created with the help of a computer, often through rods connected to a puppet or model, which the computer manipulates to reproduce movements programmed in by puppeteers. (GoMotion from Wiki)

This kit came with the cockpit part for the Y-Wing model.