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history was made when Universal Studios Florida’s new Terminator 2 3-D mega
attraction – featuring international superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger and the original
T2 cast – was unveiled to offer guests an incredible new way to ride the movies.
Production of the $60 million
"virtual-adventure" experience – the most elaborate and technologically
advanced entertainment experience to be created for the Orlando studio attraction –
marks the first time that the cast and creative team from a box office blockbuster have
reunited to bring a motion picture concept to life.
The 12 minute-long film is, frame for frame, the most expensive live action film ever
produced.
Terminator creator James Cameron, who directed this third installment of the saga,
regards Terminator 2 3-D as a true sequel to his blockbusters. "It’s definitely
the next film," he noted. "The only difference is this film is only 12 minutes
long and you can't see it in just ANY theatre."
An all new Terminator adventure, Terminator 2 3-D is based on the blockbuster motion
picture Terminator 2 and features footage filmed specifically for the attraction during an
exhaustive complex location shoot at a deserted steel mill in the remote Mojave desert
town of Desert Center, California. Joining Schwarzenegger on the Terminator 2 3-D set are
original cast members Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. Cameron is joined
by acclaimed Academy Award-winning special effects wizards Stan Winston (T2 and Jurassic
Pari) and John Bruno (The Abyss) in directing the new film which boasts a new dimension in
special effects artistry.
Set in the years 1996 and 2029, Terminator 2 3-D takes the audience time-traveling into
the future through an extraordinarily seamless mix of state-of-the-art technologies.
Cyberdyne Systems, the sinister company that created the Terminator cyborgs, has moved its
"corporate headquarters" to Universal Studios Florida’s Hollywood Boulevard
street set in 1996 and is determined to showcase its advanced technologies to the world.
After entering the dark, foreboding futuristic world of the blockbuster Terminator
films, guests interact with ‘live’ action stunt doubles who combine with
menacing robotic cyborgs to blur the reality between what is jumping off the three immense
screens in 3-D and what is ‘live’ inside the theater.
The presentation marks the first time interlocking three-dimensional images are
projected onto multiple screens. Three 23-foot high by 50-foot wide screens help create T2
3-D’s massive, peripheral sensory experience. It is also the first time ever
combination of three-dimensional cinematography and digital composite computer graphics
with explosive stunt work.
The electrifying nature of Terminator 2 3-D’s stunts is typified by a sequence
that features a 1,500-pound Harley "Fat Boy," driven by Schwarzenegger in the
film, exploding off the screen and roaring onto the theater’s stage. Schwarzenegger
commented on the effects-laden production: "The topography of motion pictures
continues to change at the speed of light, becoming more and more interactive with
audiences."
The Austrian-born superstar concluded: "What we have created with Terminator 2 3-D
is the quintessential sight and sound experience for the 21st century.
Remember, I always said I’d be back."
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