McG showed up this morning in San Diego at Comic Con, supremely confident and bearing robot gifts. On the stage next to him was a life size T-600 endoskeleton (which we’ll have pictures of in our full report on the panel tomorrow) as he introduced a brand new piece of footage from his film: Terminator Salvation. Audience reaction? Consider our minds officially blown.

The footage he showed was packed to the gills with huge action moments and tons of explosions. We got our first good look at Anton Yelchin, the new Kyle Reese, as he rather convincingly uttered the iconic words: “Come with me if you want to live.” But mostly the trailer is about huge, gritty, balls to the wall action. It was full of Road Warrior style driving sequences and killer fucking robots with big, giant, machine guns. The most surprising moment in the trailer happens when a gigantic, robot claw smashes through a wall and rips a human out. The claw is basically a metal hand, the size of a human being. McG later revealed that the huge claw and the arm wielding it is attached to a robotic “Harvester” which Skynet uses to collect humans. Apparently we’ll see a lot more of those in the film.

But perhaps the most surprising moment in the footage McG showed us happens towards the middle, in a clip showing Christian Bale as John Connor facing off against Sam Worthington. Worthington is strapped to a wall, while he and Bale are face to face, nose to nose. Bale screams at him, “You killed my mother, you killed my father, you will not kill me!” What the hell is going on? Your guess is as good as mine.

Check back later this week for the rest of our full, detail laden coverage of McG’s spoilerific Terminator: Salvation panel in our complete Comic Con coverage.