I'm not really digging this stuff either.
The new walkers are indeed too simian-looking. The "face" and the hand-knuckles were a step too far. Just the hunched back and the overall gait would have been enough IMO.
Bigger walkers, bigger Star Destroyers, bigger Death Stars . . . meh.
What's next? Will Luke Skywalker's lightsaber blade be 6 feet long?
Those walkers served a very specific purpose in ESB. If you ask me, we never need to see them again.
Yeah, the new ones basically look like a robot, not a vehicle.The weird thing is that they already designed new walkers for TFA. Why not just use those?
I'm fine with walkers (as I said, I liked the AT-ACTs in R1) but these gorilla walkers look like something that creepy kid in math class used to sketch in his college ruled notebook. Kinda low-grade fan art. As least the "animal inspired" designs in the PT stayed true to the word "inspiration" and tried for something different.
They look like things an unimaginative person would make with a pile of star wars lego.I really hate these new designs. Most of the new stuff in TFA worked for me, the x-wings / tie fighters, but these designs are really poorly art directed. They just don't feel like SW, more like some other franchise referencing SW.
Godawful designs. The only good designs to come out of the new trilogy are the revised X-wing, and well, that's about it.
And the revised X-Wing is really just a McQuarrie/Johnston recycle. I'll give them props for Rey's speeder, the rectangular radar on the Falcon, BB-8 (though they could've made him a little less Artoo-ish), Phasma's armor, and Kylo Ren. All cool, albeit slightly derivative. Though not part of the trilogy, I also like the U-Wing and the AT-ACT.