Terminator 2: Judgment Day film at eighth place on its list of "50 Sequels That Were Better Than The Original". In 2016, "Playboy" ranked the film number one on its list of "15 Sequels That Are Way Better Than The Originals". Richard Roeper named "Judgment Day" the third-best film sequel ever made, stating that it "surpasses the original in every level." Robert Patrick makes a cameo appearance in "Wayne's World" (1992) as the T-1000 character in a scene where he pulls Wayne's car over, holds up a photo of John Connor and asks, "Have you seen this boy?", to which Wayne, screams in panic
Terminator 2: Judgment Day emphasize the disparity between the advanced T-1000 and Schwarzenegger's older T-800 (Cameron characterized the two as "a Porsche" and "a human Panzer tank" respectively). Patrick had previously appeared in the action feature "Die Hard 2", but Furlong had no formal acting experience. Joe Morton was picked to portray Miles Dyson, a Cyberdyne scientist who helped develop the new CPU for the T-800 Terminators. Calling themselves T2 Productions, James and co-producers Stephanie Austin and B.J. Rack rented an office in North Hollywood before starting to assemble the crew for "Terminator 2". Adam Greenberg, who worked on "The Terminator" and "Ghost" (1990),