Hot Toys - DX13 - T2: T-800 (Battle-Damaged Version) 1/6-scale Collectible Figure

[Solarsailor]

However i am thinking about buying a body,boots,pants,shirt & DX10 Base so i can kitbash a 2nd figure from the dx13 set. Id hate to waste both BD jackets and head sculpts along with the weapons

I've always been a keeper of everything in the box but I think now the prices will force me into flipping everything I don't want on Ebay to get the stuff I do want.

If I were you I'd think about flipping all the BD extra's and picking up the DX10 clean figure. You can bet your ass if they made a ton of DX10's they'll be floating around Ebay or stores like a bad smell.

I don't see the point of 2 BD versions on the shelf but everyone's different I guess.

I already have MMS117 and I'm happy with him.

 

[MagnumOpus]

"I need a vacation" line makes more sense when sarah & john change the cpu of terminator to act like more human...

 

[snoop101]

The likeness of the DX10 is fine, but the eyes don't look right at all if he isn't looking straight ahead and the sculpt suffers from the same flat, waxy airbrushed look that all of Hot Toys recent releases have suffered.

That's the only thing im concerned about. Before HT used to atleast come very close at matching the proto in terms of paint, but these days their figures all have that same soft "dull" looking paint.

 

[P.]

hid into a spoiler as an off-topic.

Spoiler

But he/it did?

It did get emotional and realized that human beings were dangerous to it's survival and tried too eradicate humanity. It was an emotional response.

T2 was going to have a lot of stuff about Skynet and John Connor in the original future opening. Skynet's facility was going to be pretty elaborate and almost alien/god like in appearance and function, almost like an Eden.


Then let's not forget the T-1000. It literally screams and cries when it falls into the molten steel. I'm positive Skynet was probably "human" in some capacity.

I guess that "Are you afraid", "Yes" exchange might have worked since, being a learning computer it could have learned fear. The T-800 did have files on pain and did have receptors/responses when it was damaged or shot. Who knows.

well, if you take the T-1000 screams as emotions, you have to accept the T-800 fear and wish for a vacation.
but still the skynet itself thinks of no politics or manipulation => doesn't understand emotions and reflexes of sapient mind => doesn't have them => is just a stupid computer => its robots, if being more complex-minded, would unite and refuse its authority and be as emotional and cunning as in the Sarah Connor Chronicles, working through social skills for or against humans.
there is no sign of it (skynet doesn't want its robots to think - is smarter) => no emotions, T-1000's faces are just a death of "faking emotions software/hardware" or he is one of a kind, the first and the last truly conscious artificial personality, an evolution over skynet that didn't survive.

and yes i've read the script and novel, including parts of skynet being afraid of t-1000 because he is too smart and conscious. maybe later skynet would upgrade itself to that kind of brain, using the T-1000 technology as the new CPU for itself, and would change the fighting methods or even stop the war
but at the movie point it should be a clever machine, nothing more.

 

[Platty]

I saw T2 first. My mam rented it for me - a new release in '92. My aunt and my cousin had seen it in the cinema and I was intrigued by their stories of 'robots throwing each other through walls'. I was glued to the film, I remember my jaw dropping at the bullet holes closing on the T-1000, and balling my eyes out at the end.

Still my no.1 film of all time. Always will be.

Man this is so similar to my story of when I first saw T2. My uncle gave it to us to watch on Video tape, he never ended up taking it back I still have the sleeve cover to the video! Even that has some significance as I loved the image of him on the back shooting the shotgun with one hand, he looked so badass. I watched it with my mum and sister, we were both young and both balled out eyes out at the end

I remember playing with my Arnie action figure that had some sort of protruding blade from his arm and he had a grey vest on I also had the talking 12" Arnie with the red t-shirt. I guess that's why I like the figures of today by Hot Toys etc, those are what I wanted as a kid. Even then I wanted accuracy.

God knows how many times i've watched it since then. It will always be my favourite film probabaly. I know the T-800 will always be my favoirite character. It never gets old, everytime I watch it I can't miss aything at all - and I can tell you it word for word!

 

[Platty]

strange how T1's growing damage level made him more and more menacing and robotic, and with T2 it's quite the opposite - the more he gets, the more you fear for him facing the liquid robot.

Yeah. But I love how fearless it makes the T-800 seam. He'll just keep going. The weapons have a similar effect, they make him vulnerable, a shotgun that needs reloading every couple of shots and then when he's scanning for the T-1000 in the steel mill with the M79 and a pistol, they're not gonna do much at that range, I mean you pretty much think the T-1000 is indestructible by this point, yet he still uses them.

 

[snoop101]

That would have sucked. I don't really like "I need a vacation" either, but saying he's afraid would have been really wrong.

Instead of "I need a vacation" they should have taken it out and put in "It has to end here . . . or I am the future".

I remember hearing that line some where, "I am the future". I know it's in the script, but I specifically remember Arnold actually delivering the line. Maybe the Arcade game or something.

The " I need a vacation" line never really bothered me. I dont think he was literally saying that he needed a vacation, he was just referencing the amount he had gotten his ass kicked by the T-1000.

 

[MaulFan]

It was just another way to humanize the T-800, a real person might say that in the same situation. Growing up on just T2 so a human T-800 was fine for me, I had no image of him from T1 to be tainted.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I loved that it came at such a point in his career that Arnie was seen as indestructible; and yet he gets his ass handed to him by a smaller, more lithe Terminator. That scrap in the mall is so awesome mainly for the shot where they both go for the gun at the same time, that look they exchange, then smash each other into walls.

The T-1000 has this look of annoyance, while the T-800 has complete calm. There's a great moment on the DVD of Cameron rehearsing this scene with Arnie and Robert Patrick, he says 'both of you go for it then freeze'.

21 years old. Still as badass as ever.

 

[Lejuan]

21 years old. Still as badass as ever.

WTF?! Thanks a lot man. I saw that movie when it first came out in the theatres like, just yesterday

 

[a-dev]

WTF?! Thanks a lot man. I saw that movie when it first came out in the theatres like, just yesterday

 

[Lejuan]

It certainly does A-Dev

T2 is fresh in the mind like say, Star Wars isn't. I was only a kid when I first saw Star Wars, but an adult when I saw T2. In recent viewings the special effects hold up pretty well for the most part. The only thing that really dates it are the hairstyles. It has dated better than the first Matrix movie imo. 21 years... Oh well.

 

[FDS]

Have a question?

Is it me or am i mising some thing?

The BD exclusive is priced at $304.99 and the normal one for $314.99?

Shouldn't that be the other way round or what?

 

[Kiva]

If I were you I'd think about flipping all the BD extra's and picking up the DX10 clean figure. You can bet your ass if they made a ton of DX10's they'll be floating around Ebay or stores like a bad smell.

Thats also a viable option. I parted out accessories from 4 HT RE figures last year (still kept the boxes, figures/hands and a weapon or two) and i was able to buy another full figure and a good chunk towards another. And im pretty sure parting out the lessser BD stuff from DX13 would greatly contribute to a DX10.

These toys are never simple. You have to form a plan before each one.

 

[Voorhees27]

Looks like a-dev has been on a Star Trek binge as of late

 

[TheFiend]

Jesus, this thread got huge. Really don't feel like reading all this mess. Anything I miss?

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[Lejuan]

Jesus, this thread got huge. Really don't feel like reading all this mess. Anything I miss?

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DX13 is awesome.

 

[siegaard]

I have not enough $$$ to buy all these T2 Arnold Terminators!
I even canceled my DX10 order.
The Arnold head from the MMS 117 is it? RULES!!
I bought 2 on ebay
eBay agin:
I bought the real leathers, boots and gray tee yesterday from the DX10.
I bought all the hands and pegs from the DX10.
I will buy a body and the guns guns guns!! LATER Dudes!
I don't need the blood and guts DX13 in my house even though I consider it to be the best version (IF IT HAD THE MMS117 heads!!
I'll sculpt my own Endo/Arnold T2 head. Will it light up? Maybe.
"Nuff Said!
Wayne THE DANE Hansen

 

[Furyan]

Jesus, this thread got huge. Really don't feel like reading all this mess. Anything I miss?

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DX13 is awesome.

That and Im gonna buy one.

 

[a-dev]

Looks like a-dev has been on a Star Trek binge as of late

I had been actually, watched most of the films. I used that meme to something you said recently but it was much more fitting here so I thought I'd use it again