SPECULATION Pod Racer Engines?

It's more than that... this is the second time we have seen them. They were in the dessert, and they were brought to the alliance base. There is definitely more to this than we know

 

Odds are Max Rebo is correct. Could either be props just to fill in certain backgrounds, or specifically to give people something to talk about (both before release and after).

We tend to put way too much importance on any ol' image we see.

 

It only makes sense that if production dollars went into making some pro engines that they get some mileage out of them. Fans are perceptive of reuse, but a general viewing audience isn't for a second going to pick out mechanical congruities like that. I mean, what do I know, maybe the engines actually do play a larger role within the story they are creating. However I'd imagine there is more to do with the practicalities of getting mileage out of their materials.

 

Maybe one of the "Rebels" just likes engines and happens to have one matching the one on Tatooine.

 

First, do we know they're identical? Someone should post the pics side by side.

Secondly, as I recall they seemed rather large for podracer engines.

 

Logically, the pod racer engines are built from parts that are manufactured somewhere. So with mass production, it would be expected to find the same parts/engine all over the galaxy.

 

Its possible that they are just important engines to the Rebel Alliance (like maybe these are the engines that power the Rebel Transports from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi), and that like there is Rebel activity or Rebel bases on both the desert planet (do we know that its Tatooine yet?) and on the Greenham Commons planet. Or just prop re-use, but generally the (good) Star Wars movies have had really strict internal consistancy.

 

why are we locked into the idea they are engines? While I generally try not to fall on rumors until they are confirmed, there have been may rumors about a new secret weapon... and while this one does not look powerful enough to destroy a star system, still...

 

Thank you for chasing the pics down. Yes, I would definitely say they are the same at each location AND I could see them as podracer engines. However, as Tidmadt said, I think we still need to leave our mids open as to what purpose they serve.

 

Ok, IFF we assume that the rumors about someone chasing down artifacts from Vader's past are true, then I can see where finding the engines from his podracer would be a HUGE find... not that I know anything about being obsessed with collectables... but I think it is a stretch.

Let me throw in another slant that I don't think anyone has explored (or at least from THAT point of view)...

There are pretty much two schools of thought about Driver... one is that he is this rich aristocrat who is obsessed with Sith artifacts. The other is that he is the child of Solo.

What if it IS Driver, but he isn't obsessed because they are Sith, he is obsessed because ITS HIS GRANDFATHER. Think about it, he isn't just the child of Solo, he's Leia's son as well... and Leia is Anakin/Vader's daughter. Not sure, but I kinda think with the fall of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic, Solo/Leia would be considered "an aristocratic family".

Now we have a plotline where Adam COULD be on the good side, wearing a rebel flightsuit, on the rebel base (walking down the ramp of a spaceship that could very well be the Falcon) AND the one who is searching for the artifacts... and he gets his hands on something that consumes him...

As for WHAT this item is, I am still not sold on it being Anakin's podracer engines. Here is a schematic I found:



Based on the somewhat official timeline, Episode VII is 66 years after Episode I. The podrace was, certainly, lifechanging for Anakin, but to everyone else it was just another podrace. Sure, the upstart kid beat the favorite, but would anyone have kept the podracer? In 66 years on a backwater world, I think it would have gotten scrapped and the parts used... not saying it isn't possible, but it would mean that Anakin's victory was a pretty big deal, and one would think that Luke would have heard about this kid named Skywalker who won this big race, and oh by the way he had the same name as my dad...

Luke was born 13 years after the race (by the timeline) and ANH was 32 years after (when Luke was 19) If the podracer was still around, if it was a big enough deal for someone to keep the podracer, I think Luke would have heard about it at some point...

Again, this doesn't mean this isn't what is going on, I just think it is a weak point in the potential plotline.

Personally, if it WAS a podracer engine, I would say it more closely resembled Tyerell's... but I can't stretch even my imagination to think an artifact hunter looking for Anakin artifacts would be interested in a podracer engine that lost to him...

 

I hope its a pod racer engine. I really liked the pod race scene in episode 1. What if John boyega or Daisy Ridley pilot a pod racer

 

Wasn't there something said, at one time, about some of the cast practicing driving around in some vehicle?

 

If the rumors are true about Daisy living in the AT-AT on Tatooine, maybe she is a podracer pilot and that's her podracer engine. Why it's on both locations, I don't know, maybe she hid something in it but I dunno.

 

Right, because most pod racers live in AT-ATs...

Wait... I don't see the connection

 

Because she's a loner on Tatooine. Just a possibility, a nice throwback if she is indeed Anakin's grandaughter.

 

IFF you believe the rumor, it just says she lives on a desert world. It doesn't say it's Tatooine... and it doesn't say she is a loner... and for her to be Anakin's granddaughter, Luke would have had to have kids, gone into seclusion, and the kids went into seclusion somewhere else...

Lot of secluding going on...

 

Still could be Leia's daughter though. But yeah the question that she lives on a desert planet like an urchin in an AT-AT husk is puzzling.

There was a rumor around the time of the TMZ desert leaks that there were some buggies with large engines on them. Something like that.