(Those side compartments just didn’t look right empty or occupied by Death Squad Commanders.) The troop transporter ferried bad guys to the battlefield, brought prisoners back from it (in restraint hoods), and it could make six noises including blasters, stun bolts, and R2-D2 beeps. Santa was good to me, and the troop transporter became a mainstay in my Star Wars adventures, as well as an excuse to beg for more stormtroopers. It also offered a pretty amazing feature for an era before YouTube and MP3s: realistic sounds from the movie. It was a deadly-looking vehicle that reminded me of a shark, with a dorsal gun turret and six side-mounted compartments for stormtroopers. That didn’t matter, because Kenner’s Imperial Troop Transporter was cool enough to hold its own alongside landspeeders and TIE fighters. The top item on my Christmas list for 1979? Oddly, it was a Star Wars toy without a second of screen time in the movie. Unfortunately the vehicle's role is now reduced to one picture in the SW:TOR videogame, in Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant.
But I'll surely build it any time soon -) I also made a short video of the vehicle, which you can find hereĪlbeit being in the test version of the vehicle, it never made it to the final game - it was replaced by the Manka-Class Armored Transport instead. It features the same opening construction of the backside:Īnd it carries quite a few HAVOC troopers - with their weapons. Splendid! I decided to build this vehicle for my fresh troops. It also carried a very peculiar way of opening the backside: Searched a bit on the Internet and found out there was a big Walker in the SW:TOR videogame that was exclusively there to carry troops: I bought the corresponding helmets from and ended up with ten minifigs looking like this:īut what to do with all these figures? I decided I needed a vehicle to put all these figures in. So quite a while ago I landed on the odd chance to buy a batch of HAVOC Trooper outfits from the LEGO Star Wars set 9497. LEGO Digital Designer and other digital tools
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