Kenner's Terminator 2 Action Figure Line
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“He looks just like that guy from kindergarten cop” you sir crack me up 😂
Oh T2, a actual terminator sequel we loved, not that toilet bomb that came out this weekend!
Imagine if there had been no more Terminator movies after T2? Bad sequels and reboots only work to destroy the legacy of the great originals.
In the original terminator, The infiltration units were identically different. They weren’t suppose to be the same face. There’s a flash back scene where Reese’ under ground bunker got ambushed by a terminator that wasn’t the same face as Arnold. But the canon changed in T2 because John Connor had a father-son attachment to the good t-800 in T2. Skynet used that to help get to John sentimentally and used the same face.
The future war infiltrator was played by Arnold's long time friend (who sadly passed away this year) Franco Columbu making him the only other actor to portray a T-800 unit on screen (although he's never been given a CSM designation)
Nocturne Accipitridae,
I was about to post that, but thought I'd better check if anyone else had already said it first... and there you are! :)
The other infiltrator Terminator was played by Arnold's late friend Franco Columbu. Later on in a game they made his Terminator a "CSM-102" so basically it's a medium variant of the "CSM-101".
@@nocturneaccipitridae1866 "CSM-102" Source: The Terminator Collectible Card Game
Another Toy Line you may want to research: Last Action Hero (1993).
The action figures and cars were good quality - close to Arnold's likeness for the time and very durable.
The movie was not memorable but there was gold convertible and a Schwarzenegger figure as Hamlet with a sword, firing Yorick's skull from his hand!
That Meltdown Terminator with his camouflage pants can also be redecoed as Dutch from the Predator.
Hasta la vista, baby...😎
I remember these toys back in the day. I also remember thinking WTF?!
This line probably did better than Dark Fate's opening weekend!!!😅😜😊😝
The endoskeleton was awesome. I had a few of those.
Hey JM! Great episode! Bummer for me that my show is just starting out... because once it gets a bigger audience, I was gonna ask if you'd like to pair up and tackle this topic together. Oh well. Anyway, I wanted to fill you in on why SOME Terminators look like Arnie. The T-800 is the make, like a Chevy. The versions that look like Arnold are a "T-800 Model 101," like a Silverado. So, other T-800's who look different would have a different model number. For example, Franco Columbo played a T-800 in the future war dream that Kyle Reese had in the original movie.
A T-800 Model 107 looks just like That Junkman. 😎
Seems like from T1 they all look different. But great info.
Yeah, in T1 we only saw two. Arnie (model 101) was the main one who came back in time, and then the Franco Columbu version was in Reese's dream/memory from the war. In Terminator 2, the Terminator explains to John how he is a model 101.
One of Alex Ross first comic series was Now’ Termintor: Burning Earth.
He had a female terminator that was unforgettable and this was before T2.
@@juanc1328 YES! Great comic series!
As a kid, I had all the toys (except the talking puppet) 😊
Watching that video brought such great memories ! 👍
I had some of these I got off the shelves at K-B Toys back then and I still think this T-800 was the best one made!
The power arm t-800's normal human arm had a mechanism that cause a thin "spike" to come out. but where it came out caused it to look like he was giving the middle finger. I had a few of these growing up, they did great battling the X-men figures
The reason for the dogs to see if it was a terminator or not was because in the early years of the machines the t800s, they had rubber skin, then moved to "living tissue over metal endoskeleton." Not all of them looked like Arnold. The dogs were able to know the difference between human and machine through different ways. But it is confusing none the less as we never really got to see any other Terminator machines with the living tissue that didn't look like Arnold other than liquid units.
Just one. If you remember Reese's dream from the original film (where he lost his photo of Sarah), there was different model T-800 who infiltated a resistance base. He was played by Fanco Colombu!
@@Tfor2show you're right! Totally forgot about that one. I'll have to check that scene out again.
Also John had a sentimental attachment to the good terminator in T2. Sarah explain how the good terminator came close to a actual father to John. Skynet play off that and used that same face to try to get close to John to kill.
Also don’t forget one of the early T2 trailers took place in the automation factory were the terminators were builded.
I had a Future Wars T-800 skeleton
It was bronze colored but that's the only one I ever had.
Currently I have 2 NECA Terminator, and three from the Mcfarlane movie monsters line
The T-1000 from that line looks great
The T-800 looks like the Terminator, but the flesh has been stripped away so he looks nothing like Arnold
But he does come with the sunglasses
Very little articulation, but still nice for display
Thanks for another great video That Junkman!
Glew in the dark?Brilliant.
The only figure I have from this line is John Connor with his motorcycle. I wanted some nostalgia and this was a good figure to do that with in my opinion. I'm keeping him in the box and displaying him that way. I personally think it's cool. Good review. I remember when KB Toys near where I live sold these. The card backing is super awesome.
For some reason I always used to run across these figures in junk stores for the longest time. Maybe in the Midwest kids just weren't attatched to their T2 figures.
Maybe Kenner thought a Sarah Connor figure would end up in bargain bins at toy stores. e.g. like Hasbro Star Wars Rose
Yeah but leia never had that problem. Hell rey dose not even have that problem. Just rose and jyin for some reason.
Leia's an essential character and I think that's what ultimately makes the difference. I never wanted a Janine from the Real Ghostbusters line but did want an April O'Neil. Never got one and had plenty of fun playing with TMNT without her, but it would have opened up play possibilities. Sarah Connor likewise would have made perfect sense for this line.
There is a history of female figures in boy lines not selling well (starting with the GI JOE nurse), so I won't say the toy companies don't know their business after all these years. For all my friends who collected Masters of the Universe, I don't recall any of them having Teela, Evil-Lyn, She-Ra, or the Sorceress.
Looking back, I can't believe I had so many of these.
I had the glowing one. Like you said always a cool feature.
SPOILER;
So back in 1991, as I and everyone else saw T2's closing credits and we started to file out of the cinema, unbeknownst to us another Terminator just showed up, killed John Connor, and completely undid EVERYTHING that had been accomplished in the film we'd only just seen....
Horse$#!t.
I have a Terminator figure somewhere around. I think it might be the Techno-Punch one.
You don't remember the car with the missiles? it was in the extended scenes of the Director's Cut. Along with his Helicopter and Extra Arm Attachments like the Bionic Man meets the villains of Centurions
I passed up that tall figure at K bee on clearance for the tall endo skeleton terminator on clearance. I came back in a week to get him but they were all gone. Damit! I have the big T 800 in my living room still. It is the coolest by far. But the big battle damaged Arnold is one I really regret not grabbing when I had the chance. Lesson learned. If you want it AND it's half price, snatch it up.
NECA has made various Kenner homages to this line including the White Hot T-1000, Power Arm Terminator, and Metal Mash Endoskeleton. Enjoyed the video Junkman!!
Great video, I forgot about these...first 3 movies were awesome
According to the T2 script, there were about ten of each model, so ten Arnolds.
Get to the choppa now!!!
Junkman☝️thinking leads to over thinking
Right Off ! ....sorry, i meant to say " Right On ! " I thought these was cool as hell when this line first came out.The figs were real close to film lookin,and they were actually pretty playable,cause all you needed was the Arnold fig,and he was just tearin up everything,lookin for Sarah Conner,then,more figs,more figs runnin from Arnold.Thanks,cause i didnt know about the glow variant.(your right about them glow-toys brother) - later
Such a shame the NECA John Connor figure wasn’t made available on retail....
I think the T-1000 figure was a Ghostbusters rehash, which would explain why it looks nothing like him
I had the T-1000 and the battle-damaged terminator
Man Kenner did the best
That missile car looks cool and Terminator is cool. Cool plus cool is uncool... I think there is something to learn here! I let you, the reader, figure it out. Defies logic for me.
Terminator Future war isnt to be confused with the B movie; Future War of MST3K fame
I remember seeing John Connor figure at the toy store way back when
I actually liked the action figures,they were pretty decent for the time.
Ha! The exploding T-1000 comes with guns from Headhunter a villain from the Robocop line!
@@falleneldor
Yes
The villain called Headhunter
Ironically, the head on my Headhunter broke off
I was never a fan of the line though the car and bike are awesome but I do Army build the T800 Endoskeletons. I even found a line of t800 from 2000 that are slightly taller than the Kenner figures and they have a button that makes the eyes light up. Company is called Canal DA? He is the one in too to see Dark Fate. Do a follow-up bro, complete the radness.
I got a feeling the car was recycled in or from another toy line.
Statistically, infiltration units like the T-800 could be given any face or appearance. The Arnold look is designated as Model 101.
They say the early models of terminator with rubber skin was too easily spotted as been a robot and couldn't infiltrate so easily yet still I'm not so sure they got the idea of the terminator been not noticed as not different to other people, like a giant German biker who wears black glasses at night would be, well, just something you'd see everyday?
I think the Terminators' extremely muscular build would give them away faster than anything else. In a camp full of starving people, just look for the guy who looks like he's eating 6 meals a day and spends all of his time at the gym.
If Skynet was really smart, they would make all of their Terminators appear to be young children or dogs. This way people would be more likely to let their guard down and take them into their camps.
That was featured in Second Variety, a Phillip K. Dick story very similar to Terminator.
@@TheEvilpossum, good call! Phillip K. Dick's influence on sci fi is immeasurable. It's unfortunate that "Screamers" didn't live up to it's pedigree, but not every film can be remembered wholesale.
I loved these figures. Always wanted the one that had the artificial skin. But never got it LOL.
The cop figure looks like it was re-used from the Police Academy line. Or is it the other way around?
I think it’s different but close
The T-1000 also looks like a reject figure from the animated C.O.P.S. line but that was done by Hasbro.
The Cop T-1000 had two rockets included. You loaded them into his backside and fired them out. 😅
Ahhhh the lovely 🥰 Sarah Conner
Have you ever been "glued" in the dark?
I’m not ready to talk about it yet.
They may not been able to get the rights to Linda Hamilton's likeness. This may explain no Sarah Conner figure. They still had the right to make a Sarah Conner figure by buying the rights to make a toy line, just not one that looked like Linda Hamilton.
Well they others figures didn’t really look like them either :)
@@ThatJunkman Right. I hear ya JM. lol.
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I had the Bio-Flesh Reginerator. The mold didn't look anywhere near as detailed as the figure pictured on the box (looked more like a skin-toned Gumby), and it had excess border "skin" that was a pain to cut off (especially for an impatient little boy). Half the "skin" would stick to the inside of the molding case, and you were lucky to get one decent mold out of it. The figure had no articulation (and really couldn't, since any movement would rip the "skin"). All the set really did was make a mess. (And the mold solution was impossible to get out of carpet.) Cool concept poorly executed.
@@falleneldor Yeah, I don't know why they didn't do this with Playdoh instead. (It was also a Kenner product.)
Are we not going to talk about how Biker T-1000’s ass turns into a missile launcher?
My mistake for not talking about that
I bought a few of these,,, I needed help.
Terminator 2 should have been the last one.. After that it was all crap.
Do part 2
Pretty much had this entire line until about a year or two ago (and Aliens/Predator) but sold 'em all as the franchises have been turned to dog sh*t. As is the current direction of Star Wars too unfortunately of late. I wish Hollywood could think up some new franchises like what we got in the 70's/80's as all they do now is re-hash / re-boot old stuff all the time.
Why didn't they make a Sarah Connor figure ?
Paul B , same reason why all other female characters didn’t get made or limited one per case. toy companies thought boys wouldn’t play with female characters.
Which is odd as there was a Ripley..... Jurassic Park had 2 versions of Ellie.... Batman The Animated Series had various female figures....The secretary from Ghostbusters.... even the Congo flick had a female character.... they were all made by Kenner....
Also the cop t 1000 has a butt rocket launchet
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any figure that is not even in the source movie i can only grade it at .5 out of 5 ... the motorcycle cop, henceforth called OFFICER CHONK, barely qualifies as a action figure from the series as in, yes there was a motorcycle cop in the film but it was not this one 1 out 5......i guess these were geared at younger than the film target audience...over all this toy line is pretty weak except for the john connor figure - this was well designed.........the terminator car....UMMMM NO!
what a boring line not much of figs to play with if you love playing with tons of arnolds
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