"Icons - Timeless Collectibles" Terminator 2 Endoskull, T-1000 Stabbing Finger and T-800 Brain Chip Prototype

Background on Icons / Timeless Collectibles :

Though Icons successfully shipped over 40,000 studio licensed, authorized and authenticated prop and miniature replicas over the coarse of its 5 years in business (1995-2000), following the sudden departure of the company’s original Senior Vice President of Manufacturing in the winter of 1997 and Icons original CEO / President in the Spring of 1998, the company was left with thousands of unfulfilled backordered products and millions of dollars in debt. Nevertheless, Icons remaining staff managed to fulfill thousands of backordered products and was able to successfully keep the company afloat for an additional 1 1/2 years. Though it was extremely difficult.

With the Dot.Com stock bubble bursting in 2000, and corrupt investment bankers, who only used the company as a mean to attempt to « pump and dump » stock, Icons collapsed into bankruptcy. With little options left, Icons last remaining co-founder was approached to consult on the development of a new Studio licensed, authorized and authenticated prop replica company, Timeless Collectibles.

The Timeless co-founders agreed to fulfill the small number (which was actually much, much less than rumored) of Icons remaining back-ordered products to its customers, provided the necessary Studio licenses could be procured. Timeless achieved much of this in just 60 days. Terminator 2 : Judgment Day being the first acquired. Timeless actually was sincere in their promises to Icons and many of key Icons executives and staff ended up joining the Timeless Collectibles team.

This small up-start company quickly established it’s name brand and placed the same high-standards of quality on their products that were utilized at Icons Authentic Replicas. But, unfortunately, Timeless Collectibles was unable to acquire the next level of funding necessary, in order to facilitate the company’s necessary capital requirements. In just 12 short months, Timeless, like Icons, was also gone….

Larry Taylor (on the right), who worked from the beginning till the end at Icons said that about the Endoskull :

« Boy that piece brings back memories. That was like one of my favorites too… that and the Endoskeleton arm.

Yes, I did have a good portion of time spent assembling these pieces, making sure they were QC for chrome plating, and my part was mostly the entire assembly including the electronics and making the teeth out of dental resin, epoxying them into place, screwing the jaw into position, and then applying epoxy to the pistons to connect to the jaw and the cheekbone.

It was quite a process, but nothing difficult…..and yes, Timeless did basically take over the exact piece that was the R&D by Icons. They might have cleaned it up a little bit and refined it somewhat….but yeah….. nonetheless a very, very cool piece. »

Al Z. who worked on both the Icons and Timeless skulls, did go back in and retool a lot of the detail on the Timeless skull. Mostly the detail line and replacing all of the Allen key screws on top to get them to cast better !!!