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Zack Stentz
12/03/09

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I have to say it. Amanda Friedland's resistance costumes for the Sarah Connor Chronicles beat the crap out of these ones in imagination and execution on about 1/100th the budget. The little endoskeleton skulls signifying kills, the homemade unit patch for the "Four Horsemen" of the skeletal rider on the skeletal horse, the poignant Little League logo stitched on to Kyle Reese's jacket, and the way the uniforms get subtly more polished after Connor starts using machines. She is a genius.
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SJ_Edwards
12/06/09

@Zack Stentz: Thanks :) just about to watch it all the way from '99 to 2026, I'll keep my eye open ...
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tande04
12/03/09

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A bra and a tie?

Must of missed that part of the movie too.

Seems like a good thing to have in any movie though.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/03/09

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That go-go outfit and boots must have been for the Termanatrix..
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
12/03/09

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Bag of ropes?! I've got two of those bags in my closet right now (it's an Army issue waterproof bag). If I "acquire" some rope, I'll have my own Terminator Salvation souvenir for free.
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ThisDudeRufus
12/03/09

@Ghost_in_the_Machine: But it'll never be an authentic Terminator Bag of Rope. I mean, I could just take a microwave and leave it in a rock quarry for a year, but it'll never be a McG certified doomsday prop.
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
12/03/09

@ThisDudeRufus: Anyone who would actually be impressed by an authentic Terminator Bag of Rope has even less of a life than I do.

My point is that it's just a random generic object that happened to be used in a movie. There's nothing distinctive about it like "half metal skeletons of dead terminators."
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ThisDudeRufus
12/03/09

@Ghost_in_the_Machine: I dunno. Just looking at that thing, I think 'damn, that there's a bag of rope that withstood the robopocalypse.' But I'm really hoping they auction one of the folding chairs Michael Ironside sat in. It'll be the perfect addition to my 'impromptu furniture of times to come' collection.
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Motoki
12/03/09

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I am going to turn into a little child for a moment and say:

I WANT MY SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES BACK!!!

:-( I can't let go of that show. I tried but I can't. I just really miss it and want it back.

And McG and everyone and everything associated with Salvation can bite me.

That is all.
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EdificeComplex
12/03/09

@Motoki: I watched Terminator Salvation earlier in the week and thought it was awful. However, McG is a producer on Supernatural and anyone who helps bring that show to screen gets some leeway in my book. But just a little.
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BangarangRufio867
12/03/09

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Terminator: Salvation Army
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goldfarb
12/03/09

@BangarangRufio867: well played...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/03/09

@BangarangRufio867: Nice! All that's missing is the volunteer ringing the bell..
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Kitradu
12/03/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: But people generally feel good when they give money to those people...I felt bad giving money to this Terminator. :(
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phoghat
12/03/09

@goldfarb:
Yes, huzzah
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The Curse of Millhaven
12/03/09

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Terminator-Arnie=Garage Sale.
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TemporalSword
12/03/09

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We're all missing the big picture here. If they're selling off everything from the movie, then they must not need it for a sequel, so, no more trashing a beloved franchise. Yay!

(Sadly, however, as disappointing as Salvation was, I still kinda liked it, if only so I can play what the movie could have been in my head.)
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Log1c
12/03/09

@TemporalSword: I liked Salvation, as long as Bale wasn't on the screen and I forget about the ending.
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GreyHammer
12/03/09

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if you get the microwave AND the silver outfit do not use them both at the same time!
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J_Frank_Parnell
12/03/09

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Looks like the microwave from the house I lived in while attending college
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Im_your_Huckleberry
12/03/09

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Halycon-McG, I will give you a sack of baseballs for the lot. I will also throw in a plummeting over your heads with said sack of baseballs at no extra charge!
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
12/03/09

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Damn. Now I'm going to spend all day picturing Helena Bonham Carter in that silver Terminatrix outfit.
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Im_your_Huckleberry
12/03/09

@Ghost_in_the_Machine: You and Tim Burton.
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GreyHammer
12/03/09

@Im_your_Huckleberry: i think tim would rather see johnny in it
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Im_your_Huckleberry
12/03/09

@GreyHammer: Ha, your probably right.
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Donathius
11/03/09

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For all who are interested here's the deal with this place (I worked there for quite a while). They have five "ships" with the Galileo here being the smallest. It's not a simulator in the "Star Tours" sense in that it doesn't have hydraulics or anything like that. It is on wheels so it does move laterally.

The Space center is officially named "The Christa McAcAuliffe Space Education Center" after the teacher that died when the Challenger exploded. It's located in an elementary school in Pleasant Grove, UT.

The gist of what goes on there is these guys write their own Star Trek universe missions, some of which are based on historical events. Each ship has multiple crew positions. The ship that is up for auction has room for 5. Four of the stations have computers, plus the captain. The largest ship takes up two large rooms in the school and has a maximum crew of 18.

The Space Center generally caters to school groups between 4th and 6th grade, but they do have older groups come on occasion. The ships are designed such that every position on the crew is essential - nearly everyone will have an opportunity to make a critical decision that will either save the crew, or kill them.

The campers (as we called them) were free to make whatever decisions they wanted during the course of the mission, and the staff had to react to their decisions. Including things like negotiating with aliens (Klingons, Romulans, etc.) and every mission always has some sort of exciting life or death climax/race to the finish.

We've actually had several kids that ended up working for NASA as a result of the experience they had at the Space Center. The real crux of the experience, however, was the teamwork aspect. You had to learn to work with all these people (many of whom you may have never met before) or you wouldn't get to the end of the mission and find out how the story ends.

Their website is: [www.spacecamputah.org]

and a picture of the replacement for this ship can be seen on their blog at:
[voyagerslog.blogspot.com] #startrek
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Donathius
11/03/09

@Donathius: Oh...and the sound system in the Galileo is seriously tricked out. It's far and away better than what a lot of people have in their homes. #startrek
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alex.tyler
11/03/09

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When I was younger (maybe 13?) that was part of the high end space camp package we had here in northern Utah. For the last portion of the camp, they drove us to this school. On top of the shuttle simulator, they had a whole bridge and deck 2 setup going for an entire Star Trek space camp experience. I got to be both chief engineer and security officer. Saved the ship from a warp core breach!
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spoogy
11/03/09

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The auction site actually says it's at $1,000 with the reserve not yet met. So the reserve seems to be higher than $1,000. #startrek
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