The two-legged walker in TESB is considered an AT-ST?
Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)
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I think so, but it was shaped differently than what later appeared in ROTJ, where they were more heavily featured. The TESB one was better proportioned, more low-riding, streamlined and aggressive-looking. I actually liked that design more than the ROTJ version, which looked more like an oversized mechanical chicken, to me. 
You forgot Piett's TIE shuttle, which admittedly looks like it's basically a TIE bomber sans bombs.
You mean Needa's?
The AT-ATs in Rebels are a different model from the ones in ESB and ROTJ, this has been confirmed by the story group. They're inspired by Ralph McQuarrie concept art.
The ESB model of the AT-AT did show up as a blueprint in a season 2 episode.
And as someone else said those are AT-DP in Rebels, not AT-STs.
There is also the TIE Boarding Craft seen at the end of Rogue One. They look like bombers, and may have chutes but I asked Pablo on twitter and he said they're meant to be boarding craft.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE/br_boarding_shuttle/Canon
The ESB model of the AT-AT did show up as a blueprint in a season 2 episode.
And as someone else said those are AT-DP in Rebels, not AT-STs.
There is also the TIE Boarding Craft seen at the end of Rogue One. They look like bombers, and may have chutes but I asked Pablo on twitter and he said they're meant to be boarding craft.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE/br_boarding_shuttle/Canon
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I know what I meant dammit!
ETA: are we counting Clone Wars era walkers too? If so then add to the list the AT-AP, the AT-OT. AT-RT and of course the AT-TE. The UT-AT probably technically counts as a walker, but it's easily overlooked. Also, there were those two types of First Order walkers glimpsed on Starkiller Base.
I still think the TIEs are out varianting the walkers though, especially if we give the V-Wing honorary TIE status by dint of sound effects.
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Okay, now this conversation is making me wonder if there's ever been a TIE Walker.
^^^ Yup! Another "WTF" design in a similar vein. It's almost like the Imperial R&D division found some spare TIE cockpits lying around in a boneyard and thought, "Hey, what kind of random shit can we attach to these things?"
Well, a crawler makes more sense than a walker, from a stability standpoint.
Stability isn't the issue. It's a fighter cockpit with caterpillar tracks bolted on. This does not make a very sensible armoured vehicle, what with the total lack of armor, only two light canons that are both low slung and in fixed position and of course that huge canopy that may as well be a big bullseye made of tissue paper and toothpicks.
Once we start seeing the more familiar chicken walkers of Rogue One and Return of the Jedi, we'll know it's just about time for the Ghost to make an appearance over Scarif. They might even do a special episode about the Empire developing a newer, tougher, deadlier walker and having to try and sabotage the factory that makes them.
The design of the TIE fighters makes no sense whatsoever in that regard; adding tank treads to them only makes them SLIGHTLY sillier.
They make plenty of sense...for the Moffs, Admirals and Captains that don't have to actually fly the damn things. They're essentially meant to be very fast and manoeuvrable light weapons platforms. One on it's own is pretty much helpless, but that's kind of the point. They're mostly for swarm tactics, in line with the standard Imperial doctrine of overwhelming force and intimidation over tactical superiority. Cheep and disposable, just like the lives of their pilots.
This does not translate at all well to ground vehicles, least of all in an urban setting where the Empire is most likely to deploy them. Not that they'd be of any use on an open battlefield either since even with high numbers, they're extremely limited. A single strafing run from an airspeeder would obliterate a whole line of these things at a time and even if that wasn't a concern, the weapon's firing arc is so pathetic it'd have to get right on top of a target just to get a bead on it.
If the cockpit has a total lack of armor, I'd say that doesn't make a very sensible fighter.
Anyway, my point is that any vehicle with caterpillar treads makes more sense as a ground vehicle than a quadrupedal walker. It's not like canonical Star Wars ever set a high bar for vehicular credibility.
Like Stormtroopers? Or, for that matter, like Separatist Battle Droids.
Well, I guess the mooks need to be easy to defeat so the heroes can survive to the final battle with the main villain. Which is also why the filmmakers gave the Empire AT-ATs -- because they looked big and intimidating (their motion was modeled on elephants) but had a fatal design flaw (dependence on long spindly legs) that allowed them to be defeated relatively easily.
I saw ground TIEs as reasonable as regular TIE fighters, as pointed out by others. They are designed to be manufactured in mass, and represent Imperial might. The fighters are just like stormtroopers: disposable, replaceable and mass produced.
The fact that a TIE cockpit, an already built component, and craft it in different configurations to save costs.
There was even a Lego version released in late 2007. A poster child for the weirdness that is the Star Wars EU. http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7664_TIE_Crawler
The point fireproof78 brought up, about the TIEs being manufactured in mass, designed to be disposable... I've always liked and appreciated that philosophy in deep contrast to the Rebellion. It's interesting that the First Order of the Sequel Trilogy have adapted their TIEs to have shields, hyperdrives and missile cannons. Possibly a reference to no longer having an endless supply of pilots throughout the galaxy at their beck and call?
What are we going to do without Rebels until September or (hard swallow) October?
I've already started rewatching. I was playing close attention to Kallus this time around, knowing now that he ends up a Rebel is going to give a lot more depth to his scenes. He's the first one who utters the word, "Rebellion" in the series (haven't rewatched the shorts yet which come before Spark of Rebellion so - maybe not). I believe it's also his imperial carrier that ends up getting bombed by Sabine in the first episode (of course Kallus is not on board, busy processing Ezra into detention on board the star destroyer). It's kind of amusing to think the Spectres evade Kallus so much that he eventually just joins them. 