Thank you Daniel for the feedback and these road plates are some of the oldest ones I have. Funny thing is their age and condition of holes, marks, plus a grime yellowing worked well for the decaying urban landscape. I was only just born in the 80s, but would have loved to attend such a big expo like what you remember in Melbourne! Lucky mate. Yes I agree that T-2 is one of my favorites of the movies, although the T-1000 doesn't give me nightmares like the T-800 rising out of flames in T-1! Most of the rest are much lamer, although the Sarah Connor series really kicked butt! I recommend that series.

A Terminator IP would give the 18+ sets new meaning! I would line up day 1 to one to buy them too. I think realistically for now Lego releases some cool cyborg figures and robot parts you can bricklink. City sets can help you create many scenes from the "in the past" timeline before Judgement Day. Post apocalypse scenes really require a good MOC-ing ability and mine is just ok. Some builders excel at all of the gritty details. Hopefully I inspire some to try the Terminator scenes now because I've never really seen any. Thank you for the feedback on my photos.

Hey everyone. My unusual entry for this cool contest is Terminator: Rise of the Lego Machines! I have been collecting enough parts from various themes such as City, Star Wars, and the Lego Movie to make the frightening Terminator future war come to life! The idea came to me to use the parking garage placed in a city setting as the ideal battle ground often seen in the movies and video games. I challenged myself to add in many details such as damaged infrastructure, fire effects, skeletons, and destroyed vehicles. All important to selling a bleak human existence post Judgement Day. This whole build represents the most effects I have ever used in one go! 3rd party lighting kits, a fog machine, and a violet blue laser combined to give a scary atmosphere! I really wanted to make a giant Skynet vehicle like the tracked tank, but did not have time. However, I built many T-800 models, 2 rather imposing T-600 machines, a Spider Bot (for fans of the Resistance video game), and a flesh covered T-800 infiltrator. For the human faction I included some young survivor kids, a gritty man with his dog, a fleeing survivor caught in the cross fire, and a Tech-Com squad who despite their best efforts to hold the line are vastly out numbered and outgunned. They will have to retreat to fight another day against Skynet!

These large scale technic figures have to be some of the coolest molds Lego experimented with. A shame Lego stopped short of making a full range of these dudes. I really wanted an Imperial Guard for example. I think Lego went too large with the scale though and could try again at the technic figure scale to hit a sweet spot of detail, pose-ability, AND perhaps a few vehicles. Certainly speeder bikes, the cloud car, and Hoth speeders could work!