New Terminator Salvation Set Pics
Posted in T4: Terminator Salvation Movie News on 21-07-2008
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Reader Al sent over some pictures from “Terminator Salvation’s” Albuquerque set, where McG and the gang are currently still in production with the movie. (And after seeing the teaser trailer, I gotta say that McG has found himself a fan. Wow!) No real spoilers below, so continue on without fear.
Says Al:
Great pics of the gas station! I live in Albuquerque and had to see it for myself. The set is located at Mesa del Sol (http://www.mesadelsolnm.com), and I went up there this weekend and saw that there were some new palm trees and a water line had been built to a huge pool made to look like a river. Near the pool is a helicopter which I was told will crash into the “river”. I also snuck a peak through the fence at Albuquerque Studios (http://www.abqstudios.com/), where the film is being produced, and I saw that they had painted one of their HUGE sound stages to act like a blue screen – and they had built a “spaceship” out of the trailer of an 18 wheeler. It looks like they were filming space scenes at the time. Awesome!
Set pics below:
Is that the gas station Sarah visited at the end of the first Terminator? Hmm.
No. The gas station Sarah stopped at was south of LA, and most likely somewhere in Mexico. There are no desolate areas like that between Los Angeles and San Diego. Other pictures of the gas station that have been posted previously place it somewhere between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. That’s based on a road sign in one of the pictures pointing in opposite directions for each city. If they’re filming in New Mexico, the sign had to have been deliberately placed, rather than just happening to be there.
Meant to say, is that supposed to be the gas station Sarah visited? What I’m getting at is whether the film monkeys with the timeline and sends someone (a Terminator, John, whomever) back to that moment from the first film. Didn’t mean to say I thought it was the actual shoot location from the first film.
I wasn’t talking about actual shooting locations. Plotwise, the gas station in T1 should have been somewhere south of the United States. The one in Terminator Salvation looks like it is supposed to be somewhere north of Los Angeles, CA.
As far as actual shooting locations, I believe the gas station scene in T1 was actually shot north of Los Angeles, not in Mexico.
I guess I should clarify because my first post was vague. When I talk about a road sign, I’m talking about a road sign present at the Terminator Salvation gas station set. I’m saying that plotwise the gas station in T1 was in Mexico, or farther south. And plotwise the gas station in Terminator Salvation is north of Los Angeles.
Dang! $1.359 per gallon of regular unleaded?! Around here it’s been around $4.499! What’s up with that?! If you ask me, that gas station is either out of wherever in 1984 or The Twighlight Zone in 2008! It most definitely is not from around here, and if it is, Big Oil probably made sure it’s not about five minutes after that picture was posted.
Yeah, remember though, the world of Terminator ended in July 2004. I think you couold still find a few places like that somewhere four years ago.
Interesting to look at these pics again. When these first came out, gas was still really high. Now that it’s going back down, almost to $1.35, makes you wonder…
that “gas station” is about 10 miles from my house, I didn’t know what it was for when I came across it looking for the city dump about 2 years or more ago. Its about 2 miles south of the LGF studio there.