"My Terminator Salvation Army" Topic

After reading the posts on the 7-11 straws…

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I decided to pick up a few and base them for gaming. Here is what I have finally pulled together. The Terminator T-700s in front are from Copplestone. The Harvesters and Mototerminators are from 7-11, and the T-1 Tank and Hunter Killer are from Toys-R-Us. The flight stand is scratch built. Cheers.

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Wow. I mean . . . Wow!

CC

That's pretty cool. Nice work.

Xin

That is pretty cool. That will be a fun army to play with.

I was thinking about doing an army of each side for FWC or CWC or perhaps using the Cold War American list from CWC and a cyborg list from FWC. Ideally in 6mm.

Thanks guys. The best part is the only things I had to paint were the Copplestone Terminator Robots and the bases. Everything else is as I purchased it.

I figured I could use my modern 28mm minis and helicopters for the early stages of the resistance (pre-plasma weapons).

That looks like a real Terminator force. I like! Does the giant "John Conner as a kid" figure come with the set, or did you have to pay extra for him?

LOL… the "giant" is there for scale, and I pay pleanty for him every day. The kid eats everything but my minis. He is going to eat me out of house and home. ; )

Nice . . . Captain, you realise that you could use the mech and the bikes as Command And Conquer 3 Nod style forces, namely the Avatar and the strike cycles?

Very Cool. I haven't seen the new movie yet..maybe this week or next, but now I realize I desperately need to get to a 7-11 for some toys… I hope I didn't miss out already.

btw- Someone on another forum wanted to know how the H-K scaled out, so here are some photos of my force (minus a few squads I didn't put out for the pictures)

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Tanks are Hollywood Collectibles, the wannabe Terminators are Rifts Skelebots.

Cool, very cool. And wasn't nice of the Sev., putting 'stands/bases' in with those figures…it's like they knew.:D

Right now, I'm eyeballing getting 'Transformer' straw from them: Megatron and 'The Fallen'. I think they'd look great next to stuff like 'The Harvesters' and 'The Mototerminators'…:)

Very nice. I'm doing pretty much the same thing. However, I don't have any 7-11's anywhere near by. Any place else to get some?

Thanks,

John

I was excpecting to see pictures of GW figures with tambourines and selling The War Cry…..

Great pictures… nice looking terminator force

20thmaine
That's what I imagined as well, power armoured bands & choirs singing "Come and Join Us".

Someone (with a lot of time on their hands) should do it – can you imagine the looks when they take it into a GW store for a tournament ?

Great idea and great looking army

Oh – my Captain – speaking as the father of 4, three of whom have gone thru their teen years, if you think he eats a lot now, you ain't seen nothin' yet

it's funny, I'm working on the same thing!

The toys from 7-11, were they some kind of special? what were their price?

I have never seen those before.

Warlord – The 7-11 toys were attached to Slurpee straws (pic below) and were sold for $1.69 USD (+ tax) each. I found mine during a road trip through Virginia. I don't know if they are still available, but I will keep my eye out for them should anyone else want them.

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The good news is they pop right off the straw and come with a plastic base. However, I used GW bases for mine because I didn't like the "Terminator: Salvation" in raised letters all over the bases from 7-11.

Captain,
I'd love to get a couple of the Harvester bots if you can find them, been to three 7-11s in the DC area and I have yet to see them.

Are these the ones?

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CC

CC – Yup thats them. The auction looks like it has one of each type (harvester, mototerminator, t-600, and terminator head).

M1Fanboy – I will keep an eye out for you. : )

Maybe the 7-11 Public Affairs contact can provide some idea on how to buy the straws separately, or if they still have the campaign at their stores:

CONTACT:
Margaret Chabris
7-Eleven, Inc.
972-828-7285
margaret.chabris@7-11.com
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Wouldn't hurt to try. The worst she can say is no, right?

Dan

I went ahead and sent Ms. Chabris the following email message:

Dear Ms. Chabris,

A great many in our collectables group are wondering if the Apocalyptic Ice Slurpee (Terminator Salvation) promo campaign is still going on at your 7-11 stores.

If not, is there any way that we could order the straws separately? We are particularly interested in the one with the Terminator motorcycle ("moto-terminators"?).

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

Dan Martinez

You are the man Dan.

Thanks,

John

Thanks, John. Let's see if that works though. Fingers crossed.

Dan

Ok guys. This is what Margaret said in her reply a couple of minutes ago:

"Hi, Dan – Yes, the promotion runs through the end of June, and in July we turn into GI Joe; Rise of Cobra with that movie's own set of cups & straws. Let me know if you can't find any of the moto-terminator straws, and we'll see what we can do for you. I think we have a few straws left. Stores just have enough to get them through this month. Cheers -- mc"

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So what do you guys want me to do next? I'm on the road right now, and don't know where I will be lodging from one week to the next.

Dan

Just a suggestion Captain Apathy. In the Kryomek range there is a cyborg miniature of and undead soldier fused with Kryomek technology. It looks more like the terminator than a zombie. He carries two miniguns and would be a dead ringer for the clunky T-600 that attempts to kill Kyle Reese early in the movie.

Thanks Dragon Gunner. I will keep an eye out for it.

…"G.I. JOE"…8D Think…Think I'm gonna cry…best 'summer-stuff' I've seen in a while…Well, 'cept the Wolverine cups, those STANK…

Oh, please; oh, please, OH, PLEASE let there be H.I.S.S. Tanks at about 1/43 (I know, I KNOW: TOO BIG…)

Stores just have enough to get them through this month.

CC, Thanks for getting that information.

I ran out to the closest 7-11 earlier this evening and scored 2 bikes.

I have no 7-11 near me…I have sent emails to other 7-11 taps, hopefully they will result in something positive.

Just sent her the following email . . . and hope to have a reply soon:

Margaret,

I'll take as many of the motor-terminator and the walker straws as you may have. I'm getting lots of emails asking me for a large number of both. If you have 35 of the cycles and 25 of the walkers, you will make a lot of people very, very happy. If you have more of those two, even better.

How would you like to handle the transaction? Do you accept PayPal?

Thanks so much!!!

Dan Martinez

I've just sent her a follow-up email with this photo:

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Margaret's reply:

Dan – Let's hold off on discussing payment and first see what I can scrounge up. All my "Slurpee/cup/straws" guys are on vacation this week, so I should have an answer for you next week. I'll start looking this week, too, and will get back to you next week. Love hearing that there are lots of Terminator character straw/toy fans out there. -- Margaret

CC
PS. Anyone else find it funny that the title to this thread says "Salvation Army"???

Grrrr . . . the local 7-11 never had these straws, and the guys who worked there looked really confused when I tried to describe them.

Stewbags,

Check your PMs. Then shoot me an email:

daniel DOT martinez1 AT sbcglobal DOT net

Dan

The rest of you guys, I found a 7-Eleven close by and got 16 straws (7 walkers and 9 bikes), but these I think are spoken for . . . if Stewbags confirms.

However, tonight I'm going to try and make a run to all the 7-Elevens close by and see what I find.

If anyone is interested, shoot me an email at the address above, and I'll let you know if I have more. I'll take any requests based on the order of the emails. It gives me the only single medium to arrange the inquiries in a fair manner.

Don't forget to let me know which TMP handle you use and to put "Terminator Straws" on the email subject line.

Dan

CC – I was able to find some locally as well and I am passing them on to M1Fanboy and John Leahy. I will keep my eyes pealed for more.

Fantastic!

That's exactly what we should do to help out our brothers and sisters that don't live anywhere near a store.

Let's pull together people.

Dan

Captain Enthusiasm is more like it! Major Emotion…Lt. Helper… sorry couldn't help it :(

I thought about changing my name to Major Bummer, but lets be honest… who cares?

You do! Let's face it . . . you're a good man with honest emotions. You should go with "Captain Empathy"!

CC

Ok. I went to 8 stores close by and all were out.

We're going to have to wait a bit for what Margaret can find for us.

CC

I spoke with Margaret, she has only found 17 so far. The next guy to talk to will not be back til next week. Looks grim.

:(

CC

Other than the one where I found the bikes and walkers that go to Stewbags, as well as the skelebots that go to 28mmMan, I have found nothing else.

I went to 8 stores last night. Calling ahead didn't help, as most store clerks had no idea which straws I was talking about (Terminator vs Transformers).

I feel very disappointed now.

CC

Thanks for your efforts, guys – even if you can't find any more, you've gone above and beyond. They may take our minis, but they can never take our freedom!

Thanks, but I haven't given up yet. Margaret said that next week she would check with someone at their warehouse.

Let's see what happens.

CC

You do! Let's face it . . . you're a good man with honest emotions. You should go with "Captain Empathy"!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha… you don't know me very well, do you? ; )

Ok, I found a few more, but some of them are spoken for. Drop me a PM if you are interested and I will let you know what I have left. Cheers.