News Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: Behold, the Battle of Hoth Storyboard That Features Prancing AT-ATs The fight sequence in The Empire Strikes Back is a memorable one, even without AT-ATs that skip across the snow By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 10, 2026 Screenshot: Lucasfilms Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Lucasfilms Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back contains many great moments, one of which is the Battle of Hoth, which features some memorable fighting between the Resistance and the Empire’s forces (which include the imposing All Terrain Armored Transports, aka AT-ATs). If you’ve wondered how some of those sequences came together, Lucasfilm released a video today that will delight you. The two-minute clip features the battle we see on screen on one side, while the other side is the synced storyboard put together beforehand. It’s a fun watch, not only because it’s amazing how close the storyboarding hews to the final sequence, but also where it doesn’t. At around the sixteen-second mark, for example, you see an AT-AT galivanting in the background, almost prancing across the snow. The AT-ATs we’ve come to know are not nearly agile enough to skip along their path of destruction, and I’d argue that’s perhaps for the better. The last part of the sequence, where the AT-AT that is tangled in the lines falls over, also hits better in the final version, where the four-legged tank falls over straight-legged rather than having its legs crumple underneath it. I can’t help but wonder why those changes occurred. Was it an artistic decision? Or was it driven by the practicalities of the technology of the time? It’s something to ponder, perhaps, while watching the video. May the Force be with you. [end-mark] The post <i>Star Wars</i>: Behold, the Battle of Hoth Storyboard That Features Prancing AT-ATs appeared first on Reactor.