Every Time Hollywood Re-Used Expensive Props

3. Terminator’s Mini Gun

Also Appears In: Predator (1987)
Estimated Savings: $1,000-$5,000*

What do Predator and Terminator 2 have in common? Aside from being action capers with one heck of a reputation, not much – at least, so you would think. In actuality, the same minigun is used in both of the movies, linking these two projects forever.

In the famous scene where Mac takes aim at the forest and shoots blindly in the hope of hitting the Predator, he uses a small but powerful mini machine gun. Years later the same prop gun was used again, this time by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. That’s a small but not insubstantial saving for the team at Sony Tri-Star.