SCOOP: Amazing photos of T3's cyborgs!

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Source: "Valaryc"

Thanks to a reader named "Valaryc", we've got some amazing snapshots from last weekend's TERMINATOR 3 panel and display held at the Los Angeles Comic Book Convention. Among the attendees on the T3 panel were stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kristinna Loken and Nick Stahl, special effects supervisor Stan Winston and director Jonathan Mostow. All five talked about their experiences making T3 as well as answered questions from the fans in attendance.

Stan Winston also brought three of his amazing creations from the movie including a battle-damaged T-850 Terminator that sports an incredibly realistic recreation of Schwarzenegger's face; a full-body design of the T-X; and the predecessor to the Hunter-Killer machines seen in the trilogy, a T-11 robot that's from the present day.

Valaryc had these eyewitness observations to offer about the Terminators shown at the con.

On the T-X: "The 'T-X' is a darker black chrome then Arnold's 'outdated' T-850. The eyes as shown in the close-up pic actually narrow like real human eyes and the statue makes a 'breathing' noise with steadily fading blue LEDs weaved throughout its structure."

On the T-11: "The massive (and I do mean huge) first Terminator known as a 'T-ll' which has a slanted back body, and a huge treadmill design simular to a 'Hunter Killer' bot (ground ones) with huge titanic looking, jet black gatling guns for arms."

And on the Arnold Terminator: "The model of the T-850 shows only one detail of T3, that Arnold is going to get seriously screwed up in this movie, particualry if you see the flesh clinging to his feet."


During the actual talk the panelists were tight-lipped and revealed next to nothing about T3's storyline or any of the twists expected. "The actual event has interesting circumstances. For some reason the basis of the 'presentation' was to push the movie and yet everyone of the stars as well as the director made it a point not to discuss much of the details of the movie, in fact the so called 'viewing of scenes from T3' end of the presentation consisted of just a look at the TV spot trailer," said our source, Valaryc.

"I would find it rather suspicious that in an effort to 'push' the movie everyone was very timid to release any details of the movie, other then 'In this movie, Arnold's Terminator model is outdated, facing the TX and having to cope with swaying from being good and bad while trying to accomplish its mission to protect John Connor from termination.'"

Valaryc also mentioned that there was an autograph signing after the panel but that Schwarzenegger didn't participate. Of the remaining T3 cast and crew, Stan Winston earned points with our scooper by sticking it out and signing his name for all who wanted it.

[Massive props to our friend in the field, Valaryc, for sending us the best shots yet of the new Terminators! You've earned a sweet spot on John Connor's command team.]


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