History Trivia / Terminator23DBattleAcrossTime

* TheWikiRule: The [[https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Terminator_Wiki Terminator Wiki]].

* BTeamSequel: Actively defied. In the behind-the-scenes documentary, Cameron goes to great lengths about how he is essentially treating the attraction as a third Terminator movie.

* DoingItForTheArt: In the behind-the-scenes documentary, Cameron goes to great lengths about how he is essentially treating the attraction as a third Terminator movie.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: For the versions of the show that were at Florida and Hollywood, Sarah Connor showed the audience various clips from the ''Terminator 2'' movie in the pre-show, one of those clips being Sarah's nightmare of the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles. When the show was brought over to Universal Studios Japan, the Los Angeles clips were omitted, so as to not remind Japanese guests of the UsefulNotes/{{atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}}.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The performance, specifically the original pre-show, which talks about all of the fascinating new technologies that Cyberdyne is working on. Problem is, it first opened in 1996, and it was not updated for a ''very'' long time. Most people watching this pre-show probably have smartphones in their pockets and purses, and various gadgets in their homes, that can put to shame the "advanced" computers and robotics on display. To say nothing of the cameo by Shaquille O'Neal. Universal eventually closed the attraction at the Hollywood park in 2012 partly for this reason[[note]]Though the fact that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's years as the Governator had made him a very controversial figure in California also had something to do with it.[[/note]], and in 2015, they finally updated the pre-show for the Orlando attraction to do away with the more dated elements and give it [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture a more modern aesthetic]]. Not that it helped much; the Orlando version closed down just two years later. The original version is still open at the Japan park for anyone who wants to make like Kyle Reese and go back in time twenty years.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The performance, specifically the original pre-show, which talks about all of the fascinating new technologies that Cyberdyne is working on. Problem is, it first opened in 1996, and it was not updated for a ''very'' long time. Most people watching this pre-show probably have smartphones in their pockets and purses, and various gadgets in their homes, that can put to shame the "advanced" computers and robotics on display. To say nothing of the cameo by Shaquille O'Neal. Universal eventually closed the attraction at the Hollywood park in 2012 partly for this reason[[note]]Though the fact that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's years as the Governator had made him a very controversial figure in California also had something to do with it.[[/note]], and in 2015, they finally updated the pre-show for the Orlando attraction to do away with the more dated elements and give it [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture a more modern aesthetic]]. The original version is still open at the Japan park for anyone who wants to make like Kyle Reese and go back in time twenty years.

* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: In this spin-off attraction, Creator/JamesCameron gives us the flying "Mini Hunters", and more memorably the T-1000000.

* TooSoon: For the versions of the show that were at Florida and Hollywood, Sarah Connor showed the audience various clips from the ''Terminator 2'' movie in the pre-show, one of those clips being Sarah's nightmare of the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles. When the show was brought over to Universal Studios Japan, the Los Angeles clips were omitted, so as to not remind Japanese guests of the UsefulNotes/{{atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: During its development, the attraction was at one point envisioned as an indoor rollercoaster and later as an interactive shooter ride. Both concepts would've put guests right in the middle of a battle in the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles landscape between Skynet and the surviving humans.

* TooSoon: For the versions of the show that were at Florida and Hollywood, Sarah Connor showed the audience various clips from the ''Terminator 2'' movie in the pre-show, one of those clips being Sarah's nightmare of the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles. When the show was brought over to Universal Studios Japan, the Los Angeles clips were omitted, so as to not remind Japanese guests of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_Wiki Terminator Wiki]].

* ActorAllusion: Apart from the obligatory ''T2'' references, most of the Terminator's one-liners are references to other movies. For example, when holding a shrieking mini-hunter, he says "[[Film/KindergartenCop Stop whining!]]"

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The performance, specifically the pre-show, which talks about all of the fascinating new technologies that Cyberdyne is working on. Problem is, it first opened in 1996, and has not been updated in the intervening years. Most people watching this pre-show probably have smartphones in their pockets and purses, and various gadgets in their homes, that can put to shame the "advanced" computers and robotics on display. To say nothing of the cameo by Shaquille O'Neal. Universal eventually closed the attraction at the Hollywood park in 2012 partly for this reason[[note]]Though the fact that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's years as the Governator had made him a very controversial figure in California also had something to do with it.[[/note]]; it's still open at the Orlando and Japan parks for anyone who wants to make like Kyle Reese and go back in time twenty years.
** This was later fixed in 2015 for Orlando's version of the attraction, where the pre-show was changed to do away with some of the more outdated elements.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Some of you may recognize the narrator of the pre-show video as [[WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado Cortes]], and less likely, as [[Franchise/{{Bionicle}} Ackar]] and [[JimmyNeutron the mayor of Retroville]].