Terminator 2: 3D Battle Across Time at Universal Studios Florida

Theme: Terminator 2

Ride Vehicle: None

Duration: 12 minutes, 41 seconds

Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time at Universal Studios Orlando is a mini-sequel of sorts to the second film in the Terminator franchise Terminator 2: Judgment Day, reuniting Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong as John Connor, and Robert Patrick as the villainous T-1000.

This is without a doubt the best attraction in all of Universal Studios Orlando. At the beginning, you wait in the initial room where a bunch of TV monitors showcase video clips about the latest products from Cyberdyne Systems. Along the way, you pick up a pair of safety visors as they call it or rather... 3D glasses.

The guests are then moved into the next room which is the Miles Bennett Dyson Memorial Auditorium where you meet your host Kimberley Duncan, Director of Community Relations at Cyberdyne Systems. She shows you a video segment which is a promotional video about Cyberdyne's technological breakthroughs. But the clip is interrupted by Sarah and John Connor as they attempt to hack in and spill the beans to the audience about Cyberdyne's evil plans and what Skynet is. They urge everyone to evacuate before they blow the building up. Kimberley manages to eradicate them from the monitor and assures everyone that all is well.

And into the final room we go... a large theater where Kimberley proceeds to demonstrate Cyberdyne's latest technology - the T-70 robotic Terminators. At this point, your glasses are needed. After we watch the T-70s demonstrate their firepower, John and Sarah Connor arrive just in time to crash the party, but the T-1000 followed them. That's okay though, because Arnie comes to save the day and takes John with him through the time portal (T-1000 tags along of course).

John, the Terminator, and T-1000 end up in the future war between humans and machines. John and the Terminator manage to lose the T-1000 and battle their way across the ravaged battlefield as they encounter mini hunters, HKs, a T-800 endoskeleton. Finally, they reach Skynet central where they encounter the biggest surprise of the show - The T-1,000,000 which is a giant liquid metal spider Terminator (Honey I Blew Up The T-1000 and mixed it with spider DNA). This baddie is the guard of Skynet's CPU core.

Terminator 2: 3D Battle Across Time is an amazingly perfect blur of 3D and live action stunts with clever use of animatronic figures, props, real actors, and various environmental effects ranging from fog, smells, moving seats, water, and much more. The incredible 70 mm formatted film itself soon expands from one screen to three towards the encounter with the T-1,000,000, therefore filling all of the viewer's view completely. The show ends in one big explosion of fog that shatters out from the screen and completely fills the auditorium.

James Cameron has done it once again, he is clearly the master as always. This is about the closest thing to a James Cameron directed Terminator 3 that we will ever, ever get.