I must obey my master.

Apparently Palpatine had instruments to blow Vader up at will...
Episode 1:

-before the race-

Shmi: "All the slaves have a transmitter placed inside their body somehwere" { So they can be tracked?}

Anakin: " I've been working on a scanner to try locating mine." {good for you}

Shmi: "Any attempt to escape..." {Not many are there?}

Anakin: "And they blow you up, boom!" {Interesting...}

JarJar: "How wude!" {My thoughts exactly}

-After the race-

Qui Gon: "And he has been freed" {When exactly?}

Anakin: "What?!" { He doesn't know???}

Qui Gon: "You are no longer a slave." {really?}

Anakin: "Did you hear that?!?!" { So no transmitter-recovery made?}

Episode 2:

ObiWan: "Thats Anakins tracking signal, but its coming from Tatooine..."
{So he still has his transmitter on.}

So Luke could have defeated Vader just by visiting Wattos shop to buy a transmitter to blow Vader up. At no point did they remove it from Anakin in the films.

This is ridiculous...

hahahaah I thought it was pretty igenious 😆

I don't know much about this so I'm just gonna ask a question.

Is there a possibility that they ment they would track them down and kill them, or did the transmitter include a bomb?

Doesen't Obi-Wan track his ships signal?

Maybe they it was destroyed along with most of his body in ROTS

Originally posted by Cascador
This is ridiculous...

Originally posted by Sesse
Apparently Palpatine had instruments to blow Vader up at will...
Episode 1:

-before the race-

Shmi: "All the slaves have a transmitter placed inside their body somehwere" { So they can be tracked?}

Anakin: " I've been working on a scanner to try locating mine." {good for you}

Shmi: "Any attempt to escape..." {Not many are there?}

Anakin: "And they blow you up, boom!" {Interesting...}

JarJar: "How wude!" {My thoughts exactly}

-After the race-

Qui Gon: "And he has been freed" {When exactly?}

Anakin: "What?!" { He doesn't know???}

Qui Gon: "You are no longer a slave." {really?}

Anakin: "Did you hear that?!?!" { So no transmitter-recovery made?}

Episode 2:

ObiWan: "Thats Anakins tracking signal, but its coming from Tatooine..."
{So he still has his transmitter on.}

So Luke could have defeated Vader just by visiting Wattos shop to buy a transmitter to blow Vader up. At no point did they remove it from Anakin in the films.

Maybe it's auto so they won't lose the button and maybe they disarm it once a slave is free

Most likely their are boundaries for the slave transmittors.

And Anakin probably had his deactivated by Watto between the scene where Qui-Gon confronted Watto, and where the two returned to Anakin's house. This may also explain the presence of conversation which revolved around how Anakin and Quiggy SOLD THE SPEEDER! Anyone wonder when they did that? The movies aren't confined to Real Life Timeframe ya know! Sheesh.

And most likely Anakin would have his transmittor surgically removed during the ten year gap between TPM and AOTC.

And do you really think Master and Padawan would have no way of knowing where each other was, especially since said Padawan was on bodyguard duty, and might require assitance?

But the previously mentioned padawan decided to go hunt some Tuskens, so he was not at his post.

But did not that Padawan's master know where he was?

"That's funny. That's Anakin's tracking signal all right, but it's coming from Tatooine."

Despite his insubordination, Anakin's whereabouts were known to Obi-Wan.

Yeah because Obi-Wan used a tracking computer to find maybe R2-D2 or their ship and Ani would be near.

For the love of...

The tracking signal was to his ship, not to him personally.

Originally posted by Cascador
This is ridiculous...

Amen to that

Of course it was him personally!

They travelled to Naboo as refugees, thus having no ship.
It was senator Amidalas personal Naboo cruiser that they used to go to Tatooine. It was Anakins personal physical transmitter signal Obi Wan received.

Why would Obi1 track that particular ship that Anakin was not even supposed to see on his assignment.

still if you say is true, why didn't obi-wan use it to blow him up?
Like somebody said, it was de-activated! The tracking signal probably comes from a device on his belt, who knows but not from his transmitter that slaves had on Tatooine.

Not everything what happens, is seen on screen, I remember very well from the novel what happened to the transmitter.

So, if the transmitter is located on Jedis belt, why didn't they know that Obi1 was still alive in episode 3? Or why did Obi1 have to interview Padme to find Anakin on Mustafar? Anakin seemed to have his usual clothes aswell as his belt on out there.

Maybe he removed it from his belt, I don't know. I was just giving an example. there is no proof that it comes from his belt, but there is proof that it doesn't come from that slave transmitter

Yeah see, when one Jedi turns to the Dark Side, he isn't going to keep his signal device on him so his enemies can locate him.

And as a Jedi, do you really think he's gonna just keep the transmittor in there? What purpose would it serve?

Fact is: He would have had the transmittor removed as a Jedi, and discarded his signal device when he turned to the Dark Side.

Remember also that Anakin said in TPM that he was working on a device to locate it. I think that's a hint that he wanted to remove it, so it's likely he did.