@@g.r.bilyeu4226 He is Austrian and openly anti-fasist because he had fascist in the family . His comment was concerning silly antimaskers, antivaxers.
Awesome find! And they are bicycle brake cables. Brakes use a spiral-wound outer cable and a thicker inner cable, vs liner outer cable and a thin inner cable for bicycle shifters.
That scene in T2 where he rips the skin off his hand was PIVOTAL in my childhood. I saw that and was TOTALLY into robots from that point on. My dad was a TV repairman and I grew up learning electronics. And eventually after retiring from the military as a communications tech, eventually went back to school, got a couple electronics degrees, and am now a particle accelerator technician. And I credit a lot of that to that one scene with the hand in T2. I never would have been so into all that stuff without that scene. I saw this video and couldn't click it fast enough!
Adam bringing his childhood glee to these props really makes me appreciate growing up in the 90s with such incredibly talented people like stan winston who made these movies REAL! Godbless you Adam
Fun fact, some shots like the hand shot, sometimes gets flipped, the director might change their mind for different reasons, like light, shadows, right or left hand. So this could very well be the Left shot we saw.
another example for T2 was the truck crashing down into the spillway, that was definitely flipped, I remember seeing stills of that in Cinefex magazine.
Very true, although it’s not often done on shots where the actor’s face is visible, as it is in this scene , as the audience usually has such a burned-in mental image of how the actor looks, especially someone as distinctive & mainstream as Arnold, so any shot in which their face is flopped / mirrored immediately stands out.
@@NickyMabbs I imagine you're right that it's not often done in that circumstance, though ironically, the one instance I'm most familiar with happens to be one of those. In 2009's Moon, there's a close-up of Sam Rockwell's face through his helmet visor just after crashing the rover. I own that visor, and initially got confused in screen-matching it because a pattern of scratches was in the right place but the lines were at the wrong angles. Finally it occurred to me to flip the screenshot. Granted, it was a low-budget film and Sam Rockwell isn't Arnold, but still.
@@mrbuttons1243 yea I think our eyes are just too good when it comes to certain things. We can make out what's practical and what's not most of the time. Not sure if that will ever change.
100%! Modern CGI takes me out of the film so much! All of a sudden you aren't absorbed in the story, you are back in the room cos your brain goes......'wow that looks fake' 🤪 One of the worst I think for CGI are the Jurassic World trilogy. The original Jurassic Park and Lost World physical dinosaurs are so much more realistic than the odd looking, overly matt rendered CGI dinosaurs.......................the morale of the story is I agree with you 😄👍
@@BruceKenobi I tend to agree. Good CGI doesn’t announce itself and often goes unnoticed. And we all can identify bad CGI because filmmakers place it front and center and our suspension of disbelief collapses at that moment. I’d be interested in your opinion of examples of good CGI in recent movies.
I made articulated hands for a giant Grim Reaper costume. Basically the same but the control rigs are smaller so a single hand can work the fingers, and it is made of wood with 1/4" copper tubes for the pull cables. The rings aren't direct pull. They are loop pull leveraging the pull so they're easier for the fingers to pull. The hands are hollow molded plastic bone hands. The "face" of the joints cut out in a wedge with the back side of the fingers as the hinge, and return spring. Light weight, and works well. The fingers follow my hand's finger movements. Index finger point, and come here. Hook 'em horns, and the bird.
The joy is what makes these videos so entertaining. Adam had been seeing these sort of amazing props for years, even built some himself originally or as reproductions, including another endo arm last year. Yet still just as filled with joy and wonder see these props.
I remember watching it at a friend's house in 2003. His dad said jokingly 'why you guys watching that old movie!?' - of course then it was only 12 years old. And now... amazingly, 21 years *from then* it still more than stands up to modern day standards.
Beautiful prop, if only prostethic arms looked this cool. I know they have to be build on a light material but when you think of having a robotic arm, you can't stop but to think on the T-800 endoskeleton arm or at the very least on the Big Boss prosthetic in Phantom Pain.
Could this be from the beginning of the movie, ‘the war against the machines’ where a damaged skeleton on the ground get its coup de grace from a soldier the his laser gun? Love the movie, green with jealousy over the prop!
I commented elsewhere, but Im pretty certain that this is the thumbs up arm from the very end of the movie, but it's without costume elements (the leather jacket arm and glove). That was the right arm.
I still feel like T2 was the pinnacle of special effects. The mix between practical and computerized 3d effects continues to be unparalleled in most movies. I honestly only think the Lord of the Rings trilogy lived up to T2 Standards
I love how the ball joint socket for the wrist controller is clearly made of a failed/different cast metal piece for the wrist joint. They probably just used the closest ball joint they had kicking around.
Not sure if they still have it, but the museum next to the monorail station in Seattle (they've changed the name and I can't remember what it is now) had a complete Terminator endoskeleton on display.
This was initially supposed to be used with the thumbs up sequence at the end of T2, but they opted for a gloved hand as it was less robotic / more human, hence the same reason why we never had friendly reprogrammed T800 without skin.
Appreciate how much work went into special affects in early years fantastic to see the level of craftsmanship with Adam savage hosting this great video watched with my son after watching T2 film made a great educational experience
James Cameron is my idol & Stan Winston's a legend! I love seeing stuff they used together. Adam's a lucky bloke. He worked in special effects & still gets giddy about them, I think I'd be bouncing round the room like Yoda does while fighting Palpatine if I got to play with a real Terminator arm.
Always wanted a robot arm after seeing T2 in 91. BTW a lot of your videos have a high pitch sound running through them, may want to check your recordings Norm.
I watched the first Terminator with my dad when I was maybe a bit too young for an R movie (mom was out of town.) I've been obsessed with the endoskeleton for a long time. I did get to see the 2nd one in the theater. (I also refuse to acknowledge that any further Terminator movies even exist.) Point being, very long obsession with Stan Winston's design and after the teaser clip a few videos back - I couldn't wait for the full showing of this. I knew there was no way that was all we'd see or hear of this piece of movie history that effected so many of us. Also, before I look, I guess it starts at $30,000. Might got for 50 to 80k. Sometimes I'm right now the mark with my guesses - and sometimes I'm way off. This one I have very little confidence in my guess.
1:50 They mention that this is a right arm, but the arm that Arnold cuts in T2 was his left arm. The original Terminator was crushed in the hydraulic press, and only the right arm survived. This arm may have been the one that was stolen from Cyberdyne Systems in T2. I wonder if it was made to articulate just because they used the same parts that they used for the left arm, or if there were plans for a scene where the original Terminator arm reactivated.
The thing I remember most about the hand part in T2 is the facial reactions of the Dr. and his wife. They only reacted like that because of the believability of the hand prop.
Just to clarify Tested's reply, he may not have bid at auction, but he has bought from their store selection on several occasions, in addition to being gifted sample items as promotion for single-film auctions; videos of both are on the channel.
Il miglior pezzo di sempre ho ricostruito il braccio di un terminator e posso confermare che tenerlo in mano è una sensazione strana è proprio un pezzo di terminator nella vita reale
For me, part of the thing that makes terminators special to me is that they are such crude machines. Usually a sci-f robot is depicted as an incomprehensible mass of wires and weird fluids, depicted as being so complex nobody from "this time" could really understand it's workings properly. Not terminators. They're mass produced crude machines bolted together in an assembly line. No mess of wires, no sci-fi nonsense, just standard hydraulics and steel. Something you could actually imagine walking around back in the 90's as the frame itself is literally something that could be manufactured back then. Only sci-fi components are the power source and the CPU allowing this hunk of metal to move with enough grace and precisipn to fool people into thinking it's a human.
You know, I think this might be the thumbs up arm from the very end of T2. If you look at that scene, it looks as though you can see the metal joints under the glove, and the controls shown here corralate with the motions seen in that shot. The wrist bends backwards, the fingers clench, and the thumb stays up. You also wouldn't have a real hand suspended in the liquid used for the molten metal. So the arm was probably lowered using a mechanism into the liquid, while the controls themselves would be out to the side doing the motion. We just think of the arm reveal shot because this arm isn't in costume as it were.
IIRC there was a scene at the beginning of he movie in the future war, where there was a terminator arm trapped in rubble wriggling at the wrist and moving the fingers slightly. could have been from there ?
When I helped a buddy build one in high school, just as it came out in theaters, we had to put elastic on the outside of the fingers to get them to open easily. Nowadays I would use hydraulics.
I remember seeing a documentary about the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie with the Animatronics of the facial expressions being shown, was amazing
!["สนธิ" ห่วงมีขบวนการปกป้อง "ทนายตั้ม" : [THE MESSAGE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2GQNp3EoMc0/mqdefault.jpg)
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Thanks Adam I will definitely share the link with Arnold ❤
Have you ever thought that you can make your own by 3D printing?
You know Adam took a bazillion pictures for "archival" purposes. Can't wait to see the one he machines.
This was my first thought, too. How long until the episode where he makes his own terminator arm?
This is just Arnolds real skeleton. He left this arm for production and grew another one later. What a dedication for the role!
Arny is a giant fascist bully. In his own words, "screw your freedom!"
@@g.r.bilyeu4226cringe
@@g.r.bilyeu4226 He is Austrian and openly anti-fasist because he had fascist in the family . His comment was concerning silly antimaskers, antivaxers.
This is a proof that his organism is literally "Pumping Iron".
Agree
It looks so simple close up but so awesome from just a few feet away, especially moving.
Fantastic piece, thanks for showing us all it!
I can see it in Adam's eyes , he is thinking "I'm going to build one, oh yes , I'm going to build one"
You mean he is gonna adjust the arms on his a little bit.
Awesome find! And they are bicycle brake cables. Brakes use a spiral-wound outer cable and a thicker inner cable, vs liner outer cable and a thin inner cable for bicycle shifters.
That scene in T2 where he rips the skin off his hand was PIVOTAL in my childhood. I saw that and was TOTALLY into robots from that point on. My dad was a TV repairman and I grew up learning electronics. And eventually after retiring from the military as a communications tech, eventually went back to school, got a couple electronics degrees, and am now a particle accelerator technician.
And I credit a lot of that to that one scene with the hand in T2. I never would have been so into all that stuff without that scene.
I saw this video and couldn't click it fast enough!
Adam bringing his childhood glee to these props really makes me appreciate growing up in the 90s with such incredibly talented people like stan winston who made these movies REAL! Godbless you Adam
One of the most fascinating scenes.
A work of art
Nice! Looks like bike cables.
Thanks so much for sharing - I love your joy at seeing these props!
A fantastic artifact and expertly presented by Tim
I've been waiting for this upload since you showed a picture of yourself with the arm. Thank you so much!!! Watching as I type and love it! ❤
Fun fact, some shots like the hand shot, sometimes gets flipped, the director might change their mind for different reasons,
like light, shadows, right or left hand. So this could very well be the Left shot we saw.
another example for T2 was the truck crashing down into the spillway, that was definitely flipped, I remember seeing stills of that in Cinefex magazine.
Very true, although it’s not often done on shots where the actor’s face is visible, as it is in this scene , as the audience usually has such a burned-in mental image of how the actor looks, especially someone as distinctive & mainstream as Arnold, so any shot in which their face is flopped / mirrored immediately stands out.
@@NickyMabbs I imagine you're right that it's not often done in that circumstance, though ironically, the one instance I'm most familiar with happens to be one of those. In 2009's Moon, there's a close-up of Sam Rockwell's face through his helmet visor just after crashing the rover. I own that visor, and initially got confused in screen-matching it because a pattern of scratches was in the right place but the lines were at the wrong angles. Finally it occurred to me to flip the screenshot. Granted, it was a low-budget film and Sam Rockwell isn't Arnold, but still.
It still looks a million times better than any CGI ever could. I miss the days of using practical effects as much as possible
The late 80's and early 90's were peak analog for film and music. I hope there's rebellion against digital.
@@mrbuttons1243 yea I think our eyes are just too good when it comes to certain things. We can make out what's practical and what's not most of the time. Not sure if that will ever change.
100%! Modern CGI takes me out of the film so much! All of a sudden you aren't absorbed in the story, you are back in the room cos your brain goes......'wow that looks fake' 🤪 One of the worst I think for CGI are the Jurassic World trilogy. The original Jurassic Park and Lost World physical dinosaurs are so much more realistic than the odd looking, overly matt rendered CGI dinosaurs.......................the morale of the story is I agree with you 😄👍
Good CGI these days is so perfect people don't realize they are looking at visual effects.....
@@BruceKenobi I tend to agree. Good CGI doesn’t announce itself and often goes unnoticed. And we all can identify bad CGI because filmmakers place it front and center and our suspension of disbelief collapses at that moment. I’d be interested in your opinion of examples of good CGI in recent movies.
May you always be a child at heart, Adam. I love watching your glee 😄
I made articulated hands for a giant Grim Reaper costume. Basically the same but the control rigs are smaller so a single hand can work the fingers, and it is made of wood with 1/4" copper tubes for the pull cables. The rings aren't direct pull. They are loop pull leveraging the pull so they're easier for the fingers to pull. The hands are hollow molded plastic bone hands. The "face" of the joints cut out in a wedge with the back side of the fingers as the hinge, and return spring. Light weight, and works well. The fingers follow my hand's finger movements. Index finger point, and come here. Hook 'em horns, and the bird.
Seriously, why did they make the control for the fingers SO big???
One of my favorite practical FX of all time...
The joy is what makes these videos so entertaining. Adam had been seeing these sort of amazing props for years, even built some himself originally or as reproductions, including another endo arm last year. Yet still just as filled with joy and wonder see these props.
Adam's unbounded joy handling these props is contagious
I legit just (re-)watched Terminator 2 a few hours ago. That's one hell of a coincidence. Man, what a film - a true masterpiece.
It holds up really well. I tend to watch it every couple of years, along with Predator. Arnold really chose some great roles.
I remember watching it at a friend's house in 2003. His dad said jokingly 'why you guys watching that old movie!?' - of course then it was only 12 years old. And now... amazingly, 21 years *from then* it still more than stands up to modern day standards.
Adam, could you do a video of some of the actual movie props you own and the ones you have yet to acquire or replicate on your own?
There are a bunch of videos on the channel showing original props and costumes he owns.
Here is a playlist that includes props and costumes of Adam's own! th-cam.com/video/bITSvA_P-wg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Looking forward to catching up.
@@testedgreat link thx
Beautiful prop, if only prostethic arms looked this cool. I know they have to be build on a light material but when you think of having a robotic arm, you can't stop but to think on the T-800 endoskeleton arm or at the very least on the Big Boss prosthetic in Phantom Pain.
I used to be fascinated with that skeleton everytime I saw it. I drew them over and over.
Adams creating his bill of materials for his own version
Find someone who looks at you the same way Adam Savage looks at Terminator arms! 😊
One of the most iconic, non-facial props in history.
It is always such a joy to see Adam's excitement. 😄👍 👍
Adam is taking mental notes as he's holding it to add to the cave.
I've worked with Tim he's a lovely bloke!
Adam Savage has one of the coolest jobs in the world.
I still need to finish the fingers on my metal endo arm! This has inspired me
By the looks of it you could probably flip the wrist plat and replace the components to make the left arm
Adam, an idea for one day build weeks your own endo arm and display case for housing the motion activated servos to articulate the arm and fingers.
Next episode, Adam creates his own Terminator arm.
Could this be from the beginning of the movie, ‘the war against the machines’ where a damaged skeleton on the ground get its coup de grace from a soldier the his laser gun? Love the movie, green with jealousy over the prop!
I commented elsewhere, but Im pretty certain that this is the thumbs up arm from the very end of the movie, but it's without costume elements (the leather jacket arm and glove). That was the right arm.
I still feel like T2 was the pinnacle of special effects. The mix between practical and computerized 3d effects continues to be unparalleled in most movies. I honestly only think the Lord of the Rings trilogy lived up to T2 Standards
Starship Troopers has entered the chat
@@chrispbaconator that movie was enjoyable, but nothing on the level of T2 or LOTR
Actuator arms from something small and industrial for sure.
It’s a real privilege to be anywhere near these iconic pieces, let alone handling them. So so awesome
hope this is a future build for you!!!
I love that Adam's reactions are perfect. You took what my brain was doing and acted them out in real time. 😅🍻
I love how the ball joint socket for the wrist controller is clearly made of a failed/different cast metal piece for the wrist joint. They probably just used the closest ball joint they had kicking around.
You should make one of these Adam!
Not sure if they still have it, but the museum next to the monorail station in Seattle (they've changed the name and I can't remember what it is now) had a complete Terminator endoskeleton on display.
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop), previously the Experience Music Project (EMP).
Is it me or did Adam just broke one of the finger tips at 7:40 ?
Now that you know the parts that make it, you now have no choice but to make one of your own.
This was initially supposed to be used with the thumbs up sequence at the end of T2, but they opted for a gloved hand as it was less robotic / more human, hence the same reason why we never had friendly reprogrammed T800 without skin.
Where do you get that knowledge from?-very cool input❤
I thought for sure at the end of the video, the arm would stand up and say "I'll Be Back"
It's so cool to see how they stuff like that for the moves.
you can tell adam is going to machine his own
Could this arm possibly be from the future war opening scene from T2? There is a damage T-800 manipulating its arm in the intro.
It's time to shake hands with the Terminator!
Appreciate how much work went into special affects in early years fantastic to see the level of craftsmanship with Adam savage hosting this great video watched with my son after watching T2 film made a great educational experience
Finally! You've been teasing this for SO LONG! 😀
You know he's going to build one now
if he wasnt already. now that he held it hes probably back to the drawing board.
James Cameron is my idol & Stan Winston's a legend! I love seeing stuff they used together. Adam's a lucky bloke. He worked in special effects & still gets giddy about them, I think I'd be bouncing round the room like Yoda does while fighting Palpatine if I got to play with a real Terminator arm.
Build one Adam!!
Arnold ripping the skin off really sold this prop, but the craftsmanship poured into it can't be overstated.
Adam, make one!!!
I want to see Adam make one 😁
You just know he wanted to make it give the middle finger.
Good to see you in the uk Adam
Please do a video on those Red dwarf props !!!!
Great video sir 😊
Been waiting for this one!
One of the most iconic arms in fiction!
This man is the Mr. Rogers of Geekdom/Sci Fi. I officially make him "KEEPER of the LORE" Please give him more titles.
Had to pause this and go look up the arm reveal scene on youtube 🙂
He's totally thinking about recreating this prop!
Great video .
That is awesome! Would love to see that replicated with aluminum or titanium and some micro servos. You know, for Halloween purposes.
This movie terrified me as a little kid, but it was still my favorite!
Always wanted a robot arm after seeing T2 in 91. BTW a lot of your videos have a high pitch sound running through them, may want to check your recordings Norm.
Love it!
That thing would make an awesome back scratcher
I watched the first Terminator with my dad when I was maybe a bit too young for an R movie (mom was out of town.) I've been obsessed with the endoskeleton for a long time. I did get to see the 2nd one in the theater. (I also refuse to acknowledge that any further Terminator movies even exist.) Point being, very long obsession with Stan Winston's design and after the teaser clip a few videos back - I couldn't wait for the full showing of this. I knew there was no way that was all we'd see or hear of this piece of movie history that effected so many of us. Also, before I look, I guess it starts at $30,000. Might got for 50 to 80k. Sometimes I'm right now the mark with my guesses - and sometimes I'm way off. This one I have very little confidence in my guess.
Wow... What great history you are holding... Absolutely historic, if I had the money I would get an alien egg and a Terminator arm
Adam, the chanel Pew View just proved the Carlos Hathcock scope shot most likely did happen. Might want to check it out.
Awesome
1:50 They mention that this is a right arm, but the arm that Arnold cuts in T2 was his left arm. The original Terminator was crushed in the hydraulic press, and only the right arm survived.
This arm may have been the one that was stolen from Cyberdyne Systems in T2. I wonder if it was made to articulate just because they used the same parts that they used for the left arm, or if there were plans for a scene where the original Terminator arm reactivated.
So Cool!
The thing I remember most about the hand part in T2 is the facial reactions of the Dr. and his wife. They only reacted like that because of the believability of the hand prop.
So does Adam ever bid on these pieces himself? Edit: and if so, has he ever won any?
No, and no.
Just to clarify Tested's reply, he may not have bid at auction, but he has bought from their store selection on several occasions, in addition to being gifted sample items as promotion for single-film auctions; videos of both are on the channel.
Adam that arm is historic please be more gentle with it.
Speaking of robot arms, does anyone know what happened to the keyboard-playing robot arm from the beginning of Short Circuit?
I want that T2 arm and the full endoskeleton
Such an iconic visual… Adam I reckon you could make a better version of this having seen the original!
I still have my T-2 beermats somewhere that I took from the pub I stopped at before I went to the cinema to watch the movie.
Il miglior pezzo di sempre ho ricostruito il braccio di un terminator e posso confermare che tenerlo in mano è una sensazione strana è proprio un pezzo di terminator nella vita reale
Please build one, thank you.
Wow, a hand holding machine!
For me, part of the thing that makes terminators special to me is that they are such crude machines. Usually a sci-f robot is depicted as an incomprehensible mass of wires and weird fluids, depicted as being so complex nobody from "this time" could really understand it's workings properly.
Not terminators. They're mass produced crude machines bolted together in an assembly line. No mess of wires, no sci-fi nonsense, just standard hydraulics and steel. Something you could actually imagine walking around back in the 90's as the frame itself is literally something that could be manufactured back then. Only sci-fi components are the power source and the CPU allowing this hunk of metal to move with enough grace and precisipn to fool people into thinking it's a human.
You know, I think this might be the thumbs up arm from the very end of T2. If you look at that scene, it looks as though you can see the metal joints under the glove, and the controls shown here corralate with the motions seen in that shot. The wrist bends backwards, the fingers clench, and the thumb stays up.
You also wouldn't have a real hand suspended in the liquid used for the molten metal. So the arm was probably lowered using a mechanism into the liquid, while the controls themselves would be out to the side doing the motion.
We just think of the arm reveal shot because this arm isn't in costume as it were.
IIRC there was a scene at the beginning of he movie in the future war, where there was a terminator arm trapped in rubble wriggling at the wrist and moving the fingers slightly. could have been from there ?
Like a drum set cable hat.
I think you should build one with modern controls
When I helped a buddy build one in high school, just as it came out in theaters, we had to put elastic on the outside of the fingers to get them to open easily. Nowadays I would use hydraulics.
I remember seeing a documentary about the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie with the Animatronics of the facial expressions being shown, was amazing
I'm sure if they let Adam have for a few days, he would fix the finger control system.
Stan Winston magic.