This item took me a while and some fuss to get, even thought it's not expensive at all. When T2 came out, I was living in Europe and other than magazines there was just no merchandise related to it at all at the time (video games arrived but much later). Other than magazines, which featured lengthy and really cool articles and photos, there was simply nothing else around. Germany was a neighboring country and I had access to German magazines, which very often had some cool extras such as large posters or even stickers, and the first "item" I ever owned from T2 other than magazine specials was a sticker from one of those magazines depicting the half man half endo promo image.
While I wasn't able to locate this particular magazine with this sticker yet (and it's not that easy since people just did not stash away European teen magazines from that era), I was able to find another item that I wanted and had a little but of nostalgic value to it, which is an autograph card.
Bravo magazine was a German entertainment magazine for older teens and people in their early 20's, featuring music and film. Every issue featured large folded posters or really cool stickers. One of those had a great 2 page spread on T2, with one page dedicated to T-800 (this is how I first became familiar with Arnold's model number) and the other to the T-1000, showcasing great pics and technical details on both. But more on this another time.
So anyway, I was looking through all the issues of this magazine from 1991 to see if they had some other T2 goodies, and sure enough, they had an autograph card of the T-800 which I really wanted to get. Why does it have a nostalgic value? Well, first of all, those kind of extras were common at the time, but also it's the photo chosen for it. In US, nearly, if not all promotional photos and pics printed in magazines were from the "blue" session - a photo session from which the movie's poster came from. In Europe, many of the photos of Arnold were from a "fiery" photosession with flame colored background, and that's what's on that autograph card.
The card/magazine is from a December 1991 issue of Bravo Magazine, and also features an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since I found it on German eBay, unfortunately no one shipped to US, plus, only one person had the magazine with the card still intact so I had to have it shipped to a family in Germany and then have them ship it to US, and with the pandemic around, it took many months in total to get to me, but it's here and it's a vintage cool little piece of memorabilia from 1991
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