I've been trying to track down a Terminator 2 statue that once lived at the San Francisco Planet Hollywood.
Around 1996-97-98 I remember as a teen visiting Planet Hollywood San Francisco (I live in SF) and picking up raffle cards for a chance to win the Terminator 2 statue. (Arnold statue not endo) The raffle cards were on a tear off stack and I decided to take the whole stack as I left. The contest ended before I could turn in the cards and I don't think i even filled out the cards. I tossed the cards years later.
I'm certain though that I upped someones chances of winning that statue!
Over the years I've thought about the statue and just recently decided to try to track down the statue without much luck though.
I know that they were made by Stan Winston studios, using "original molds" made specifically for the Planet Hollywood restaurants.
Here is a website for Jim Charmatz, one of the guys that worked on them.
http://www.charmskool.com/T2.htm
One or two more pictures can be seen on the Stan Winston website as well.
I know that there was a T2 statue at the Amsterdam Planet Hollywood and when that restaurant was closed, the statue was sold off and now lives in a comic book store in Amsterdam.
I've emailed at least 5-6 people that worked at the Planet Hollywood in San Francisco at the said time and they didn't remember much.
I've emailed the prop guy at Planet Hollywood, Paul Hemus and haven't gotten a solid answer. Just along the lines of "We have all the statues."
I'm really interested in the statue that lived at the San Francisco location. I remember just being amazed by the statue and pressing my hands against the plexiglass trying to absorb all the infinite detail of the statue. M79 in hand with grenade sling and torn leather clothes, internal endoskeleton revealing itself, with it's red eye, softly fading on and off. There must have been thousands who passed through the doors.
I have to find out if there was a serial # on the statues, some way of tracking the statues.
Anyone know anything about the statues? Know of any in private hands?
I know a bunch of the restaurants closed, and PH has declared bankruptcy a number of times. I just want to make sure the T2 SF statue isn't in someones basement collecting dust
Here are some pictures on flickr...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=planet+hollywood+terminator
Thanks!
Chris
Around 1996-97-98 I remember as a teen visiting Planet Hollywood San Francisco (I live in SF) and picking up raffle cards for a chance to win the Terminator 2 statue. (Arnold statue not endo) The raffle cards were on a tear off stack and I decided to take the whole stack as I left. The contest ended before I could turn in the cards and I don't think i even filled out the cards. I tossed the cards years later.
I'm certain though that I upped someones chances of winning that statue!
Over the years I've thought about the statue and just recently decided to try to track down the statue without much luck though.
I know that they were made by Stan Winston studios, using "original molds" made specifically for the Planet Hollywood restaurants.
Here is a website for Jim Charmatz, one of the guys that worked on them.
http://www.charmskool.com/T2.htm
One or two more pictures can be seen on the Stan Winston website as well.
I know that there was a T2 statue at the Amsterdam Planet Hollywood and when that restaurant was closed, the statue was sold off and now lives in a comic book store in Amsterdam.
I've emailed at least 5-6 people that worked at the Planet Hollywood in San Francisco at the said time and they didn't remember much.
I've emailed the prop guy at Planet Hollywood, Paul Hemus and haven't gotten a solid answer. Just along the lines of "We have all the statues."
I'm really interested in the statue that lived at the San Francisco location. I remember just being amazed by the statue and pressing my hands against the plexiglass trying to absorb all the infinite detail of the statue. M79 in hand with grenade sling and torn leather clothes, internal endoskeleton revealing itself, with it's red eye, softly fading on and off. There must have been thousands who passed through the doors.
I have to find out if there was a serial # on the statues, some way of tracking the statues.
Anyone know anything about the statues? Know of any in private hands?
I know a bunch of the restaurants closed, and PH has declared bankruptcy a number of times. I just want to make sure the T2 SF statue isn't in someones basement collecting dust
Here are some pictures on flickr...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=planet+hollywood+terminator
Thanks!
Chris
