Metal plates move to cover the bright blue LED eyes and a line of similar blue lights decorate the rest of the skull. The entire mouth and jaw section have a series of intricate servos that allow the jaw to drop and raise and mandible like sections to move and rotate. It is made from resin and fibreglass and finished to look like a strange black metal. The Cyborg head is a simply amazing piece of technology. The arm and the head were special effects creations of the Winston Studios which feature in the finale. The shirt, jacket, trousers and boots were all worn by Loken in the first part of the film. The display presented here is a complete TX character. The original concepts had the TX being a more androgynous form, but that evolved into a female character, something the marketing people would have undoubtedly approved of. The legendary Stan Winston Studios, a special effects company already responsible for classic cinema villains like the Original Terminator robot and the Alien Queen from Aliens. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine had a huge budget and much of that was spent creating the new lady Cyborg.

As the location of John Connor is unknown to her, she systematically seeks out 21 targets including Connor’s mother and father and proceeds to eliminate them. The TX is a shape shifting machine similar to the T-1000 of the second movie. Schwarzenegger returned once more as the (almost) indestructible robot and American model Kristanna Loken became the TX or “Terminatrix”, the first female Terminator. It was released in 2003 and followed the continued efforts of Skynet to wipe out John Connor and the human resistance. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was the hugely anticipated third instalment of the Terminator franchise.

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