I always loved exploring the interior of the sandcrawler in Lego Star Wars the complete saga. So much history in there, and forgotten bits of ancient machinery lurking in dark corners.
Damn, a brand new sand crawler cost the same as a single x-wing? Crazy. Seems like the metal it's made of alone would cost more. Either x-wings are way better than I realized or sand crawlers are shittier than they look.
Well, brand new fighter jets can cost 100 million dollars each. A contemporary vehicle to the sandcrawler might be something like a bucket wheel excavator like Bagger 288, which casts as much.
Just think how much an aircraft carrier cost compared to a jet. Aircraft carrier almost 13 billion dollars compared to an F-22 Raptor at 1.67 billion or the B2 at 2.2 billion
The yearly swap meets would also be a chance to exchange tribe members and prevent inbreeding - human tribes did the same (some that have survived still do) As for why they are on Arvala - 7, most likely some Jawas got their hands on a planetary database and look for a planet similar to Tatooine, and that has the added advantage of _no Sandpeople._ With their main threat not present they can expand their population without predation. It's like ancient humans finding a map that shows a new land where there are no big predators, except instead of constructing canoes, they turn their entire village into a ship and then turn it back into a village once on the other island. Scrap a Freighter, install the space bits, get to Arvala - 7, remove and sell the space bits to the local humans for supplies and their sandcrawler is now on a Sandpeople free planet. Unless the little buggers were employed by a galactic mining company and transported to several desert worlds, and the company went bust, leaving them stranded with the company assets. Kind of makes sense, they are hardy and suited for desert survival, and their small size makes logistic easier - you can't stick a dozen humans in a closet unless you chop them into fine pieces first, and then their usefulness as employees is seriously downgraded. But Jawas would make low cost employees for a company that was working on the margins and needed low overheads.
@@kvoltti agreed... honestly doubt there would be any sandcrawlers that haven't been modified to some extent over the many, many years that the Jawas have been operating them.
I independently came up with the second theory: that Jawas are not native to Tatooine and were brought there (and to many other worlds) by an interstellar mining corporation either as workers or slaves. Once the company went belly-up, every planet they were present on had one or more tribes of Jawas in their sand crawlers.
ok, so this is really cool and all, but if Jawas didn't build them, how come the ceilings inside the control room are the exact height of the Jawas? i can only explain this that in 4000 years they completely rebuilt the Czerka sandcrawler to fit Jawa's specific needs. in any case great video.
My theory is that the Arvala-7 Jawas came to the planet with other travelers; but I believe the reason they were so spread out and casual on their sand crawler is because, outside of the Blurrgs and the Mudhorn, Arvala-7 didn't seem to have dangerous wildlife or even there doesn't appear to be any deadly Sentient Species. They were probably so used to bounty hunters dying trying to capture the child that they would scrap their ships once they got far enough away and sell the weapons and other useful scrap to the Mercenaries that killed said bounty hunters.
Internal logic that doesn't make sense is _why weren't the Sand people wiped out?_ Genocide isn't a real ethical issue in the Star Wars universe and on the outer rim no one would complain even if it was. And the technology and superior firepower is there to do so, you don't even need a coordinated military campaign (although the Empire or even just the Hutts could do it easily), just put a bounty on Sandpeople and hunting parties will form to cash in. Especially with the availablity of heavy weapons in Star Wars to civilians, a couple of light freighters converted into gunships or even surplus real gunships from a war could exterminate a tribe without any fuss. They then move on to the next tribe. Even without that, a group could set up shop as Sandpeople pest control - getting raided by a tribe, give them a call and for a reasonable fee they will wipe it out, or just retaliate enough to deter future attacks. Besides Anakin wouldn't be the only one to have their mother killed by Sandpeople, a group of vengeance minded killers could form to well… take revenge. Seriously, Vader could've had the species gone with a order, as a training mission for a legion, or just go on hunting holidays on Tatooine to get some anger and aggression out. Although that could be awkward if his spider sense started tingling… and apparently it's canon in a comic that he went back and killed Watto.
Because Tatooine is for star wars what an abandoned building in the outskirts of a city in a third world country is for us. Lots of trash, nothing worth salvaging for any serious company or faction. Some ocasional drug addict or gang hideout. And very, very poor or uncaring inhabitants. People who cares about the sandpeople would not have the resources to wipe them out. People who have the resources to obliterate them wouldnt care about them in the first place. Why would the empire or the hutts give a damn about a bunch of savages in a shitty rock? They were there in the first place only to find the escape pod with r2 and 3po
Vampire Count Jabba the Hutts literal palace is there, so you’d think that he’d want to do some sand people pest control because they’re literally in his backyard.
@@spacemarinechaplain9367 why? They cant do shit to jaba palace. I think they wouldnt even try to mess with jaba. They are fanatics but not retarded. And its actually good to have some hostile wildlife around if they cant harm you. It makes it less likely someone will find his hideout
@@vampirecount3880 you also forgetting the sand people had their other uses. They were good sport for hunting when a Hutt fancied themselves a bounty hunter or a sport hunter. They kept the locals afraid, which made it easier for the Hutts and Empire to control them. Then they also made pod racing more interesting, after all they did like to take pot shots at the racers, which adds an extra element to it, increasing its popularity. As for not wiping them out, a suitably equipped military could likely do it relatively easily, but why bother, they aren't a threat to the military or anyone capable of paying them to do it. And as was shown in a new hope, they make for excellent fall guys should the military want to do some thing dodgey.
Mate of mine is looking at getting a mobile home, what sort of licence do you need to _drive a sandcrawler?_ He has a heavy vehicle license but may want some of us to take turns behind the wheel on long trips… And are there restrictions on parking spaces, obviously height clearance is an issue and we can forget about tunnels.
At 19 mph, anywhere he goes is going to be a long trip... And Walmart doesn't let people park their sandcrawlers in their lots overnight anymore, so there's that to contend with.
This is actually a very good chassis for a heavy tank or tank destroyer - good terrain crossing capabilities and spread out ground pressure. Make the hull lower, and add a huge cannon, and this thing will rival the AT-AT.
You know you have a winner with Sci-Fi design. When it almost starts a war between two countries. Though in Star Wars Lore. I like to think. The Jawa Spacecraft is real. As the Jawa are known to scavenge and repurpose tech. I can see them taking a Sandcrawler. Taking any Spaceship parts they could find. Also, any parts they could make. Getting their Sandcrawler rebuilt into a Spaceship. After surviving the trip and managing to not die on landing. They break it all down and rebuild the Sandcrawler. To which they start roaming the planet once again.
Kinda makes sense. They get their hands on some planetary databases and look for a planet similar to Tatooine, and that has the added advantage of _no Sandpeople._ With their main threat not present they can expand their population without predation.
Wasn't there that one cargo ship in the clone wars series, and probably other places too but that's where I remember it from, that had a similar body design to the sand crawler?
I FINALLY get why MetaNerdz Lore tell everyone how many dewbacks, Hutts, Rancors, Wookiees, Ewoks and so forth can fit inside each vehicle. EVERY vehicle in Star Wars is secretly an abattoir
ONe of my favorite races and vehicles! I've loved the Jawa since I was a wide eyed 5 year old introduced to Star Wars. I'm glad I'm not the only one questioning how a people and vehicle, supposedly exclusive to Tatooine, seem to suddenly exist all over the galaxy!
The first thing I thought when I saw them in that episode was: "How the hell did they get there?? With their sandcrawlers??" I always assumed the Jawas were indigenous to Tatooine, and I never imagined them as a space-faring culture.
6:52 This is why bounty hunters should work in teams, or at least have a copilot that _guards the ship_ and can come do pickups for a quick getaway (or fire support) in an emergency. I'm thinking Serenity (from the movie of the same) doing the barn door pickup when the mule sled is being chased by Reavers. Or Christopher's kid from District 9, who stayed with the dropship. Maybe baby Yoda can keep an eye on the Razorcrest when he gets a little older. Jango and Bobba had the same setup.
@@THENEVERDEADIV you can see the inside of a sandcrawler in a game? Which one exactly? i might try making a model of one or something, and having something like that as reference might help *significantly*
Oh man i remember that Kotor quest. Or the one with the guy whos wife left him in a mine field. Ah yeah good times. Exept for all the times you would have to run back to town. Just to pick up one more quest. then back... and back again... Still good stuff.
I remember playing Super Star Wars on the SNES as kid and wondering why there was molten metal or a lava in the bottom of the sandcrawler where you fight the boss about level. I always found this to be way absurd and unbelievable, but now that you mention that this was used as a mining vehicle and the facilities for melting or and scrap metal, it all makes sense. Thanks for clearing up a nearly three decades old mystery.
I feel like the Sandcrawler could make a "Rolling Fortress" template.. Add some windows on the side and stick heavy repeating blasters on them, thicker armor plating, point defense turret on the side, top, back and front, a shield generator, maybe a smaller reactor for extra power, and a pretty big troop bay, able to fit around 100-200 troops or some speeder bikes or even small assault vehicles
I imagine a clever smuggler negotiating a relocation of the whole clan and crawler to a virgin settled sand planet in exchange for some valuable salvage they had found. plenty heavy freighters that could handle the load.
So, the Jawas where the best beings of the the Universe, they where peaceful they collaborate with their own and with other species, they where technologically advanced, I would love to see a Jawa Jedi master, and bring some respect to their kin.
Question, do you think the Jawas did modifications to the cockpit? In the mandalorian it fit the Jawas but the mandalorian was to big? The Jawas weren’t the original user and I would think a human would fit
My guess around that new planet is that those sandcrawlers were VERY common in many planets. Keeping any interstellar nation/kingdom/empire requires interstellar amounts of resources. Just so happens that Jawas found ways to get there in mining operations, probably thanks to their mining skills, and at some point the planet was not needed anymore (maybe the wars hit someone's economy and keeping an interplanetary mining operation became more expensive than the whole logistics of sending supplies and returning the goods). The planet got abandoned, but since the Jawas were not particularly harmful as long as you are willing to trade with them, they were left there. Of course it became somewhat independent and being neutral meant a good deal of the galaxy would go there to get minerals, despite the mining operations being officially terminated. And whoever abandoned the planet would also leave the Jawas there because, in case they needed it back, functioning sandcrawlers and skilled miners were already settled.
50 tons is way too low for a cargo capacity of a vechicle this huge. Especially if this was meant to be a ore carrier it would be extremely inefficient to use it.
well, if it refines it onsite, and only carries the pure ore with it, then well, if u was out and mined, and had to return to base because you was full of 50 tons of gold, i dont think u would be sad.
@@magnetmannenbannanen yep many ores have pure metal content in range of single digit % soo 50 tones of copper ingots would be equal to 5000 tones of most common copper ore.
@@paweplaczek2191 so if u can fit a washplant on top of a exavator, and keep it all from leaking out the water , u could have such a vehicle mining gold and smelting it onsite. bringing only the gold back to base.
Nice! How will our firearms be like in different battles inside the Star Wars Galaxy? Will many fair nicely in combat with slight jamming issues and somewhat superior to almost all kinds of blasters despite can't carry lots of ammo?
50 tons of cargo isn't very much for a vehicle of that size and build. A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft can carry nearly twice the load (85 tons) and is a lot smaller and (obviously) faster in comparison.
After seeing this video and learning who designed and built the Sandcrawlers seen in Tatooine I was surprised they were created by the Corellian Engineering Company the same people who were responsible for the creation of they're greatest products the YT series ships and the CR90 Corvettes and before I saw this video I didn't even know that and it was funny that the Tusken Raiders would help the Jawas get they're hands on the things.
During the 1,000 year rule of the Pius Dea how powerful was their military and advanced were they since this is 5,000 years before the 100 year Darkness war?
Pretty much every mine on earth uses haul trucks that are, if not the same make, similarly styled. CEC made something similar i reckon; being cheap meant smaller operators could afford one and larger operators could buy several, being reliable meant a good reputation and more potental customers, and being ubiquitous meant finding parts was easy and thats a Godsend when you're mining in the outer rim and ordering a new wheel bearing from Corellia means 3 months shipping. Wouldnt surprise me if they were still being made, or at least the parts were.
I didn’t know something such large vehicle would even cost the exact same as a small X-Wing. Also pretty weird the X-Wing costs 50% more than the Millennium Falcon, which is larger than the X-Wing....
Robocop 2 I think I read the cost of the X Wing came from it’s extremely expensive scaled down version of its FTL propulsion system along with its extended life support system on board.
Mayby in Sandcrawler data banks was some information about anothe,r similar to Tatooine planets where Czerka use Sandcrawlers. And some javas bought ship and fly there, found and repair crawler(s). Mayby If ther is too much Javas in on place they send a group to find new home ;)
So... mobile fusion engines capable of continual use for over 4,000 years were so inconsequential that they were just abandoned in situ and written off when the mining project ended?
I feel like the Star Wars universe is going to have jawa and sandcrawlers on every desert planet with minerals for the same reason that here on contemporary Earth there are people of African descent living on every island that can grow sugarcane.
But those rigs dont have living quarters, food, water, etc, a clan of Jawas living in it, and the droid machinery. The Sand crawler is like an apartment building and factory in one
Yes but originally they were mining vehicles designed to transport ore and supplies. Jawas just adapted them for their own use. I assume 50 tons is the original advertised cargo capacity, if so it's tiny for something so big and heavy.
@@Murgoh 50 tons is the CURRENT rating for each Sandcrawler, due to their modifications. Before becoming what they are used for now, they probably had 10 times the cargo space.
The Sand Crawlers made by the Czerka Corporation are actually called the Multi-Environment Tracked Transport, and I honestly think it looks cool. I have read the Wookieepedia and it states the METT ( that is what I abbreviated it to ), has a top speed of 40 Km/h which is approximately 24.8 mph.
I always loved exploring the interior of the sandcrawler in Lego Star Wars the complete saga. So much history in there, and forgotten bits of ancient machinery lurking in dark corners.
Damn, a brand new sand crawler cost the same as a single x-wing? Crazy. Seems like the metal it's made of alone would cost more. Either x-wings are way better than I realized or sand crawlers are shittier than they look.
Well, brand new fighter jets can cost 100 million dollars each. A contemporary vehicle to the sandcrawler might be something like a bucket wheel excavator like Bagger 288, which casts as much.
X-wing: life support. Hyperdrive, a very fast and deadly fighter. Those three can drive them up
@@ZachCremisiSky especially the weapons systems.
You need to account for inflation. That 150k credits in 4000 BBY would likely be a lot more by the time the X-Wing was around.
Just think how much an aircraft carrier cost compared to a jet. Aircraft carrier almost 13 billion dollars compared to an F-22 Raptor at 1.67 billion or the B2 at 2.2 billion
The yearly swap meets would also be a chance to exchange tribe members and prevent inbreeding - human tribes did the same (some that have survived still do)
As for why they are on Arvala - 7, most likely some Jawas got their hands on a planetary database and look for a planet similar to Tatooine, and that has the added advantage of _no Sandpeople._
With their main threat not present they can expand their population without predation.
It's like ancient humans finding a map that shows a new land where there are no big predators, except instead of constructing canoes, they turn their entire village into a ship and then turn it back into a village once on the other island.
Scrap a Freighter, install the space bits, get to Arvala - 7, remove and sell the space bits to the local humans for supplies and their sandcrawler is now on a Sandpeople free planet.
Unless the little buggers were employed by a galactic mining company and transported to several desert worlds, and the company went bust, leaving them stranded with the company assets.
Kind of makes sense, they are hardy and suited for desert survival, and their small size makes logistic easier - you can't stick a dozen humans in a closet unless you chop them into fine pieces first, and then their usefulness as employees is seriously downgraded. But Jawas would make low cost employees for a company that was working on the margins and needed low overheads.
And notice how the Sandcrawler on Arvala 7 seems to have been designed with Jawas in mind, as seen in the bridge/cockpit area.
J17 it may have been modified by the jawas
@@kvoltti agreed... honestly doubt there would be any sandcrawlers that haven't been modified to some extent over the many, many years that the Jawas have been operating them.
casbott Nonsense.
I independently came up with the second theory: that Jawas are not native to Tatooine and were brought there (and to many other worlds) by an interstellar mining corporation either as workers or slaves. Once the company went belly-up, every planet they were present on had one or more tribes of Jawas in their sand crawlers.
You are now the proud owner of one kickass sandcrawler!!!
Even though it’s like a building sized dumpster full of robots on treads, There’s something about the sand crawler that gives me a comfy feeling
ok, so this is really cool and all, but if Jawas didn't build them, how come the ceilings inside the control room are the exact height of the Jawas?
i can only explain this that in 4000 years they completely rebuilt the Czerka sandcrawler to fit Jawa's specific needs.
in any case great video.
I too was thinking about this. Mayby deck was high, design not only for humans but for taller species. And Javas just cut it in half.
Maybe ugnaughts were pilots
@@goodmind4940 no ugnaughts, because Czerka Corp. was anti-alien.
@@Wazgrel rip
they customized it to their needs. The human quarters were all reconfigured for their size hosting more comrades per lodging.
My theory is that the Arvala-7 Jawas came to the planet with other travelers; but I believe the reason they were so spread out and casual on their sand crawler is because, outside of the Blurrgs and the Mudhorn, Arvala-7 didn't seem to have dangerous wildlife or even there doesn't appear to be any deadly Sentient Species. They were probably so used to bounty hunters dying trying to capture the child that they would scrap their ships once they got far enough away and sell the weapons and other useful scrap to the Mercenaries that killed said bounty hunters.
Internal logic that doesn't make sense is _why weren't the Sand people wiped out?_
Genocide isn't a real ethical issue in the Star Wars universe and on the outer rim no one would complain even if it was.
And the technology and superior firepower is there to do so, you don't even need a coordinated military campaign (although the Empire or even just the Hutts could do it easily), just put a bounty on Sandpeople and hunting parties will form to cash in.
Especially with the availablity of heavy weapons in Star Wars to civilians, a couple of light freighters converted into gunships or even surplus real gunships from a war could exterminate a tribe without any fuss. They then move on to the next tribe.
Even without that, a group could set up shop as Sandpeople pest control - getting raided by a tribe, give them a call and for a reasonable fee they will wipe it out, or just retaliate enough to deter future attacks.
Besides Anakin wouldn't be the only one to have their mother killed by Sandpeople, a group of vengeance minded killers could form to well… take revenge.
Seriously, Vader could've had the species gone with a order, as a training mission for a legion, or just go on hunting holidays on Tatooine to get some anger and aggression out.
Although that could be awkward if his spider sense started tingling… and apparently it's canon in a comic that he went back and killed Watto.
Because Tatooine is for star wars what an abandoned building in the outskirts of a city in a third world country is for us. Lots of trash, nothing worth salvaging for any serious company or faction. Some ocasional drug addict or gang hideout. And very, very poor or uncaring inhabitants.
People who cares about the sandpeople would not have the resources to wipe them out. People who have the resources to obliterate them wouldnt care about them in the first place.
Why would the empire or the hutts give a damn about a bunch of savages in a shitty rock? They were there in the first place only to find the escape pod with r2 and 3po
Vampire Count Jabba the Hutts literal palace is there, so you’d think that he’d want to do some sand people pest control because they’re literally in his backyard.
@@spacemarinechaplain9367 why? They cant do shit to jaba palace. I think they wouldnt even try to mess with jaba. They are fanatics but not retarded. And its actually good to have some hostile wildlife around if they cant harm you. It makes it less likely someone will find his hideout
@@vampirecount3880 you also forgetting the sand people had their other uses. They were good sport for hunting when a Hutt fancied themselves a bounty hunter or a sport hunter. They kept the locals afraid, which made it easier for the Hutts and Empire to control them. Then they also made pod racing more interesting, after all they did like to take pot shots at the racers, which adds an extra element to it, increasing its popularity.
As for not wiping them out, a suitably equipped military could likely do it relatively easily, but why bother, they aren't a threat to the military or anyone capable of paying them to do it. And as was shown in a new hope, they make for excellent fall guys should the military want to do some thing dodgey.
He went back and killed TUSKEN RAIDERS at least once after becoming Darth Vader. And for some reason The Tusken Raiders worshipped him as a god
First, the Tesla truck.
Now, the Tesla motor home.
When you don't have a drivers license why even have a tesla car ?
We make one
outside: pretty cool looking tank house thing
inside: literal rube goldberg machine
"The galaxy's most famous mobile home."
Lone Star's Winnebago?
[bon jovi plays in the distance]
Me: where's that boss music coming from
[winnebago approaches]
Mate of mine is looking at getting a mobile home, what sort of licence do you need to _drive a sandcrawler?_
He has a heavy vehicle license but may want some of us to take turns behind the wheel on long trips…
And are there restrictions on parking spaces, obviously height clearance is an issue and we can forget about tunnels.
At 19 mph, anywhere he goes is going to be a long trip... And Walmart doesn't let people park their sandcrawlers in their lots overnight anymore, so there's that to contend with.
@@Luthiart yeah but I don't think Walmart can tow a sandcrawler
In Europe, you'd need a Cat. H license, for tracked vehicles.
This is actually a very good chassis for a heavy tank or tank destroyer - good terrain crossing capabilities and spread out ground pressure. Make the hull lower, and add a huge cannon, and this thing will rival the AT-AT.
Just take the cannon from the last Jedi on crate and put it in the sand crawler
Sand crawler mobile fortress
You know you have a winner with Sci-Fi design. When it almost starts a war between two countries.
Though in Star Wars Lore. I like to think. The Jawa Spacecraft is real. As the Jawa are known to scavenge and repurpose tech. I can see them taking a Sandcrawler. Taking any Spaceship parts they could find. Also, any parts they could make. Getting their Sandcrawler rebuilt into a Spaceship.
After surviving the trip and managing to not die on landing. They break it all down and rebuild the Sandcrawler. To which they start roaming the planet once again.
Kinda makes sense.
They get their hands on some planetary databases and look for a planet similar to Tatooine, and that has the added advantage of _no Sandpeople._
With their main threat not present they can expand their population without predation.
Wasn't there that one cargo ship in the clone wars series, and probably other places too but that's where I remember it from, that had a similar body design to the sand crawler?
When it’s so thicc you almost mobilize a country against it.
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The sand crawlers are pretty similar to the spice mining vehicles in Dune.
They have Spice mines in Dune?! I thought those were strictly a Star Wars thing...
@@InventorZahran a lot of sw stuff is recycled from Dune, I highly recommend you read it
@@InventorZahran Well, spice harvesting. It's more scooping it off the surface than mining it.
@@InventorZahran What?? The Spice! The whole movie is about the spice, LOL
Not really bro, Dune miner have wheels and a vacuum system
I would also factor in Slavery, especially according to the game “the Old Republic”…
I FINALLY get why MetaNerdz Lore tell everyone how many dewbacks, Hutts, Rancors, Wookiees, Ewoks and so forth can fit inside each vehicle.
EVERY vehicle in Star Wars is secretly an abattoir
ONe of my favorite races and vehicles! I've loved the Jawa since I was a wide eyed 5 year old introduced to Star Wars. I'm glad I'm not the only one questioning how a people and vehicle, supposedly exclusive to Tatooine, seem to suddenly exist all over the galaxy!
The first thing I thought when I saw them in that episode was: "How the hell did they get there?? With their sandcrawlers??" I always assumed the Jawas were indigenous to Tatooine, and I never imagined them as a space-faring culture.
Now imagine they suddenly got "Juggernaut"?
Idk how they would but it would be a joy ride
Always had my interest. Never really looked deep into it. Love the vids. Keep it up!
6:52 This is why bounty hunters should work in teams, or at least have a copilot that _guards the ship_ and can come do pickups for a quick getaway (or fire support) in an emergency.
I'm thinking Serenity (from the movie of the same) doing the barn door pickup when the mule sled is being chased by Reavers. Or Christopher's kid from District 9, who stayed with the dropship.
Maybe baby Yoda can keep an eye on the Razorcrest when he gets a little older.
Jango and Bobba had the same setup.
Not even another bounty hunter. Security droids would do.
@@jamesjung8931 not droids, the jawas would nab the shit out of those within a millisecond
That's why Solo had Chewie...
I’d you played Super Star Wars SNES you (painfully) know what the inside of a sand crawler is like.
I though about including that lol
Have all 3 on a retro game system. I'm finding out now. LOL!!!
phantom menace on pc and ps1 had an easter egg but Jedi academy had the most accurate version of the inside
@@THENEVERDEADIV you can see the inside of a sandcrawler in a game? Which one exactly? i might try making a model of one or something, and having something like that as reference might help *significantly*
Oh man i remember that Kotor quest. Or the one with the guy whos wife left him in a mine field. Ah yeah good times. Exept for all the times you would have to run back to town. Just to pick up one more quest. then back... and back again... Still good stuff.
I remember playing Super Star Wars on the SNES as kid and wondering why there was molten metal or a lava in the bottom of the sandcrawler where you fight the boss about level. I always found this to be way absurd and unbelievable, but now that you mention that this was used as a mining vehicle and the facilities for melting or and scrap metal, it all makes sense. Thanks for clearing up a nearly three decades old mystery.
""some steam got a new vent."
You got a new vent, mate, if anyone did...
Lol
@@itsMrNoble no wait, i understand what he meant, the steam got a new vent to escape from
@@Kasunoske 10 months later
Jawas would have survived the Mandalorian if they have skill Share
rashiq spencer “How to avoid getting vaporized by a Mando 101”
Gah-lee! Somehow, I’ve never heard of the Sandcrawler getting actual countries sweating. I learned something, today!
I feel like the Sandcrawler could make a "Rolling Fortress" template.. Add some windows on the side and stick heavy repeating blasters on them, thicker armor plating, point defense turret on the side, top, back and front, a shield generator, maybe a smaller reactor for extra power, and a pretty big troop bay, able to fit around 100-200 troops or some speeder bikes or even small assault vehicles
I like the inclusion of facts & easter eggs at the end of each video.
The sandcrawler would make such a nice portable castle like it could hold weaponry and you could cover it with anti troop weapons.
Yeah that'd be crazy
You just gave me a idea
Holly shit this was just published. ...recently iv been thinking about making one of these
Would be awesome if the world goes apocalyptic
They could make a short series on this ship.. like deep space nine or something like that.
It looks like an oversized combine without the grain header. Still cool
Man I wanna go to the Jawa swap meet!!!
I've been subscribed you for a long time, love your vids keep it up
A Jawa swap meet would be awesome! I’d totally go.
I imagine a clever smuggler negotiating a relocation of the whole clan and crawler to a virgin settled sand planet in exchange for some valuable salvage they had found. plenty heavy freighters that could handle the load.
*"Skywalker, what are you doing!?!" -- General Rieekan*
I really enjoy all your videos and I joined today to help keep content coming.
wow the cyberbus looks great!!
We need a 1/18 scale version of this thing with actual treads
1/2 scale.
8:46 that Triple-Barrel-Jawa😂
From huge mining big Bois
To
Mobile improvised fortified house of merchandise and trading that encountered the goddamn *Mandalorian.*
8:47 lol that jawa is a real gangsta
The sandcrawler appears to be made of a form of durasteel that corresponds to our cor-ten steel, because it's unpainted and rust brown.
Can you make a video explaining how credits work, I mean this thing is the same price as a X-wing so there’s got to be something up with that.
Sandcrawler got an rc tiger motor that would make it do wheelies. "Hanz ze transmission is broke again"
i want ride a sand crawler at night, in the middle of nowhere. with the full moon up in the sandcrawler turret looking at the stars
So, the Jawas where the best beings of the the Universe, they where peaceful they collaborate with their own and with other species, they where technologically advanced, I would love to see a Jawa Jedi master, and bring some respect to their kin.
Question, do you think the Jawas did modifications to the cockpit? In the mandalorian it fit the Jawas but the mandalorian was to big? The Jawas weren’t the original user and I would think a human would fit
My guess around that new planet is that those sandcrawlers were VERY common in many planets. Keeping any interstellar nation/kingdom/empire requires interstellar amounts of resources. Just so happens that Jawas found ways to get there in mining operations, probably thanks to their mining skills, and at some point the planet was not needed anymore (maybe the wars hit someone's economy and keeping an interplanetary mining operation became more expensive than the whole logistics of sending supplies and returning the goods). The planet got abandoned, but since the Jawas were not particularly harmful as long as you are willing to trade with them, they were left there. Of course it became somewhat independent and being neutral meant a good deal of the galaxy would go there to get minerals, despite the mining operations being officially terminated. And whoever abandoned the planet would also leave the Jawas there because, in case they needed it back, functioning sandcrawlers and skilled miners were already settled.
This is my favorite video. As a kid I was spellbound by the Jawa Sandcrawler. I still am to some degree.
does anybody remember when billy and mandy did a episode with one of these? lol
Oh yeah! Completely forgot about that. Such a faint memory
I have always wanted to know about the sandcrawler. thank you for the video
50 tons is way too low for a cargo capacity of a vechicle this huge. Especially if this was meant to be a ore carrier it would be extremely inefficient to use it.
well, if it refines it onsite, and only carries the pure ore with it, then well, if u was out and mined, and had to return to base because you was full of 50 tons of gold, i dont think u would be sad.
@@magnetmannenbannanen yep many ores have pure metal content in range of single digit % soo 50 tones of copper ingots would be equal to 5000 tones of most common copper ore.
@@paweplaczek2191 so if u can fit a washplant on top of a exavator, and keep it all from leaking out the water , u could have such a vehicle mining gold and smelting it onsite. bringing only the gold back to base.
Well, it also refines the ores inside it and possibly dumb out the useless ones then keep the refined ones, it's pretty much a Smelter on wheels
That's because it's SPACE tons.
Nice! How will our firearms be like in different battles inside the Star Wars Galaxy? Will many fair nicely in combat with slight jamming issues and somewhat superior to almost all kinds of blasters despite can't carry lots of ammo?
The sand people on Tatooine use guns (in the Star Wars universe they are called slug throwers) for hunting.
50 tons of cargo isn't very much for a vehicle of that size and build. A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft can carry nearly twice the load (85 tons) and is a lot smaller and (obviously) faster in comparison.
So, basically Jawa Haggle Day is basically Tatooine Christmas?
The interior maybe dark and dusty but to me it looks kinda of cosy.
If they are the scavangers that we believe them to be, they could conceivably acquire space-faring technology.
The school bus mass equivalency of the sand crawler seems a bit off but otherwise, amazing video!👍🤷♂️🍻
Please do a breakdown, tour, and history of the Imperial Star Destroyer.
Yeah that's a big one I'm looking forward to
After seeing this video and learning who designed and built the Sandcrawlers seen in Tatooine I was surprised they were created by the Corellian Engineering Company the same people who were responsible for the creation of they're greatest products the YT series ships and the CR90 Corvettes and before I saw this video I didn't even know that and it was funny that the Tusken Raiders would help the Jawas get they're hands on the things.
It would make it a good choice for a troop transport or a moving base
Will need a breakdown of both DS'
So you’re telling me the Jawas are rolling around in 4000 year old cinderblock on treads
During the 1,000 year rule of the Pius Dea how powerful was their military and advanced were they since this is 5,000 years before the 100 year Darkness war?
Im more impressed that the crawlers still work after 4,000 years
I don't think they're the same sandcrawlers they were 4,000 years ago... Like the ship of Theseus.
@@Luthiart Ive never seen a new one either :/
“The egg! The egg! The egg!” 😂
Thanks, the Sandcrawler has always been a favorite of mine. Think you could do a video on the Ore Crawler (from rebels) next?.
That's just small World Devastator
Pretty much every mine on earth uses haul trucks that are, if not the same make, similarly styled. CEC made something similar i reckon; being cheap meant smaller operators could afford one and larger operators could buy several, being reliable meant a good reputation and more potental customers, and being ubiquitous meant finding parts was easy and thats a Godsend when you're mining in the outer rim and ordering a new wheel bearing from Corellia means 3 months shipping. Wouldnt surprise me if they were still being made, or at least the parts were.
I don't know if you made a videos about this one already but can you make you about some clone or cis battle tactics
Yeah that would be cool
Jawas are so cool and eco friendly 😁👍
A mobile home with a pool, a bowling alley, and an indoor bumper car ring.
The only Star Wars ground vehicle
lol nope
Get a ship that looks like the cis air transports to pick up and drop that thing off and you got yourself a jawa military
The story about Lybia never gets old!!!! LMAO
My favorite Star Wars vehicle. I keep a plastic model on my night stand.
So cozy looking!
I didn’t know something such large vehicle would even cost the exact same as a small X-Wing. Also pretty weird the X-Wing costs 50% more than the Millennium Falcon, which is larger than the X-Wing....
Robocop 2 I think I read the cost of the X Wing came from it’s extremely expensive scaled down version of its FTL propulsion system along with its extended life support system on board.
You know youre comparing the earth equivalent to a cargo plane and a fighter jet? Have a little rethink of your post mate.
@@Taboose7665 no. The falcon is a cargo ship of sorts and x wing is fighter. My point is correct your point isnt
Pretty cool
@ MetaNerdz Lore are the specs, breakdown for the Imperial escort carrier available in the star wars encyclopedia?
that complete vehicles book you listed under legends came out after disney already owned star wars,so, that one is considered canon not legends.
Correction: The phrase is "wreak havoc" not "wreck." Although the latter actually makes more sense phonetically, it's a common misuse.
I wonder if it’s technically possible to build one of these on earth today?
Because that would be bitchin!
Mayby in Sandcrawler data banks was some information about anothe,r similar to Tatooine planets where Czerka use Sandcrawlers. And some javas bought ship and fly there, found and repair crawler(s). Mayby If ther is too much Javas in on place they send a group to find new home ;)
Jawa learnt how to drive the sandcrawler from skillshare
MetaNerdz lore can you please do a video on moss Amanda species
So... mobile fusion engines capable of continual use for over 4,000 years were so inconsequential that they were just abandoned in situ and written off when the mining project ended?
Im a minute in and Im still watching sponsorship ads.
This is one beast of a cruiser man. Great mobel home lol
When STAR WARS almost caused a war in a galaxy not so far away.
I feel like the Star Wars universe is going to have jawa and sandcrawlers on every desert planet with minerals for the same reason that here on contemporary Earth there are people of African descent living on every island that can grow sugarcane.
That would be a gross failure of the imagination.
Can someone please tell me what the background music is called? I'm going crazy over this
Summertime madness by premium beats
That would be my dream sci-fi home, aside from the Tardis.
Such a massive vehicle and just 50 ton cargo capacity? Here in Finland we have big rigs that carry that amount, even more.
But those rigs dont have living quarters, food, water, etc, a clan of Jawas living in it, and the droid machinery. The Sand crawler is like an apartment building and factory in one
Yes but originally they were mining vehicles designed to transport ore and supplies. Jawas just adapted them for their own use. I assume 50 tons is the original advertised cargo capacity, if so it's tiny for something so big and heavy.
@@Murgoh 50 tons is the CURRENT rating for each Sandcrawler, due to their modifications. Before becoming what they are used for now, they probably had 10 times the cargo space.
The Sand Crawlers made by the Czerka Corporation are actually called the Multi-Environment Tracked Transport, and I honestly think it looks cool. I have read the Wookieepedia and it states the METT ( that is what I abbreviated it to ), has a top speed of 40 Km/h which is approximately 24.8 mph.
The Sand Crawler must use a lot of Diesel to operate.
please do another weapons lore video