A-1 Deluxe Floater/Legends

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The A-1 Deluxe Floater, also known simply as the A-1 landspeeder, was a cheap, basic landspeeder, that featured automated steering and fine Corellian leather. It was first produced by Mobquet Swoops and Speeders in the months prior to the Clone Wars.^[1]

Characteristics

The Mobquet A-1 Deluxe floater was a capsule-shaped, yellow-hulled landspeeder with a pod-like cockpit seating a pilot and passenger in single file. The speeder's six external RS-J24 thruster engine modules propelled the A-1 at speeds of around 160 kilometers per hour. A series of inlet ports on the rounded nose drew in air to cool the engines, but the A-1 suffered from insulation problems, noise pollution and the risk of exterior odors filtering into the cockpit.

The 7.1-meter-long Deluxe floater was affordable at 6,500 credits, but lacked any kind of amenities and was considered to be a very basic speeder—though perfect for Outer Rim Territories worlds or the youthful speeder customization crowd in the Core.

History

More than one of these vehicles could be found in Mos Eisley in 0 BBY, including one parked outside the cantina while Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker first met Han Solo.^[3] There was another for sale at Spaceport Speeders^[4] when Skywalker sold his X-34 landspeeder there.^[3]

Lady Valles Santhe used this model of landspeeder as her personal transport on Lianna.^[5]

Behind the scenes

This vehicle could first be partially seen briefly in the background of Mos Eisley in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.^[3] Full blueprints for the prop, labeled "Mobquet Landspeeder," were published in Star Wars Blueprints in 1977.^[6]

An all-new image of the speeder in Mos Eisley was featured in the A New Hope Limited set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game in 1996.^[7] A more prominent digital version of the speeder, very similar to the card game version, was added to the Special Edition of the film in 1997.^[3]