Tron Legacy

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i got the PC game, loved it, and hoped for an expansion, or sequel. but there was massively poor support for the game, hoping somebody else makes it

Actually i think ill Re-install and play it again

Man, having bought the Tron Anniversary Edition (and loving it), then getting Tron 2.0 (and loving it too!) I seriously can't wait for this!

Nearly 30 years after the last movie, it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. I hope there's another PC game :p

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I dont know anyone that calls it the world wide web. Besides Optimus Prime. Doesnt make Jeff an idiot because he called it that. People know what he meant.

I call it the World Wide Web, and so do all my friends.

i got the PC game, loved it, and hoped for an expansion, or sequel. but there was massively poor support for the game, hoping somebody else makes it

Actually i think ill Re-install and play it again

The new movie has nothing to do with TRON 2.0, I wish it did, because it worked well as a sequel of sorts!

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I call it the World Wide Web, and so do all my friends.

But you're nobody.

Just because YOU (one guy amongst a billion possible movie-goers) get it doesn't mean anything. When relating a concept or trying to get a point across to the masses, you must consider the lowest possible denominator. Just because he made - in your eyes - an idiotic statement doesn't mean he's an idiot... it just means he had to assume he was talking to a bunch of idiots.

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TRON Legacy Has An ’80s Flashback Sequence

Here’s the central irony of Comic Con: because of the absurd Hall H admittance policies and the vagaries of scheduling, I didn’t get to see the new TRON Legacy footage. But I did interview the director, Joseph Kosinski. The full transcript of that interview will be posted shortly, but I did want to share a quick tidbit that fans of Steven Lisberger’s original 1982 film might like.

The film will feature a sequence set in the ’80s — not in the 1982 time period of the original film, but sometime later in the decade — with slightly retro stylings, and there will be a second ‘new’ light cycle design seen in that sequence, upping the new ‘cylce designs in Legacy to two. We’ve seen both of these light cycles in concept art posted today, and the ’80s sequence is what justifies (or introduces) the Flynn light cycle v2.

Asked if we’ll see any direct callbacks to the design of the original film, Kosinski said:

-There is a portion of our film where we go back to the 1980s. I think it’ll be fun for the hardcore fans. We’ll get to go back to the ’80s and see some of the events that transpired in between that film and ours. Although it’s not ‘82. It’s ‘the ’80s’.

Then, after I asked about the crew shirt that shows the new light cycle:

-That’s our crew shirt, just issued last week, and that’s the fifth generation light cycle. You’ll see two [generations] in our film, the second and the fifth. The second is Kevin Flynn’s own personal light cycle; he designed it for himself.

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While I got to see footage from James Cameron's Avatar, Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland today, my favorite part of the day had to be the awesome viral ARG (alternate reality game) for Tron Legacy, as it's now known (instead of just Tron 2), that I participated in tonight. We've been covering the early details but it all came together tonight in the ultimate reveal - Flynn's Arcade exists and you can even play Space Paranoids the game. And if that wasn't enough, hidden in a secret room in the back was an actual new lightcycle from the movie. But you have to hear about how we got there, first!

So it all began back during Disney's panel earlier in the day for Tron 2. Unfortunately they didn't have much new footage to reveal. They showed the test teaser trailer from last year (in 3D) and some new concept art and the designs of the new lightcycles and so on. But then they showed one odd scene from the movie "early on in it" that showed Sean Flynn, played by Garrett Hedlund, going back to Flynn's Arcade where it was shut down and dust covers were covering all the old arcade machines. But he finds the old Tron machine in the back, spins it out from the wall, and heads into a secret room behind it. Foreshadowing? It definitely was!

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So jump ahead to 9:30PM and a huge crowd of roughly 500 people had gathered at the cul de sac located on J Street near 1st Street as was mentioned on the website FlynnLives.com. After signing a release waiver, we were given a small package that contained instructions, a handheld blacklight, a blue marker, and an extra Flynn's Arcade coin. The instructions explained that within a small area a few blocks in each direction from where we were, we had to find various "Flynn Lives" posters (as seen above) hidden on the walls and use our blacklight to find numbers. We needed to find 3 different posters and search for coordinates.

Eventually they let the masses go and off we went on a hunt for the posters. We quickly discovered (with the help of some others around us as well) that we would need to find six coordinates from three different posters (and they were very well hidden). Luckily we found all of those three posters within a block of each other and proceeded to draw out a map on a grid. That map would then pinpoint the final location (another few blocks away) which we would have to head towards to reach our final destination. We arrived not the at the front of the pack, but in the first group, and were treated to the grand opening of Flynn's Aracde.

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But didn't end there! After venturing inside (and being locked inside by some very buff security guys), we proceeded to take some photos of the arcade, play some games, and walk around. A few staff kept telling us to play some Space Paranoids - the game that Flynn plays (where he fights the Recognizers from his tank) in the original Tron at the beginning. We noticed that every time you beat a level (which was remarkably hard), it would give you a unique code. We wrote this down but didn't think much of it and ultimately it wasn't used tonight - but it may have more importance sometime in the future. Again, this wasn't the end!

About 10 minutes in, the lights started to flicker and go out. All of a sudden the Tron arcade machine in the back swung open (like in the scene we were shown earlier during the panel) and revealed a secret backroom. I whipped out my iPhone and shot a short video of us entering the room behind the Tron arcade machine and walking past some badass concept art of the new lightcycles up on the wall. Watch that video here.

But the best reveal was just beyond that. Hidden in the back was a real-life fully realized black lightcycle on a turntable - complete with trippy lighting and a sample of Daft Punk's score for the upcoming movie (which you can hear in the video). This was one hell of an awesome payoff. Not only was it great walking through the streets searching for clues on posters using blacklights, not only was it awesome stepping foot into a real life Flynn's Aracde, but then we got to see an actual lightcycle. I would love to say this thing was a working lightcycle, but of course, that isn't the case. But this thing is truly a work of art - see the video!

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I've got to say - this could easily have been one of the greatest viral marketing stunts I've ever seen. You probably all heard about the joker scavenger hunt at Comic-Con a few years back - this definitely topped that one. We honestly didn't know what was happening every step of the way and it was so exciting to be a part of this. I really did get chills when I noticed that the sign above the inconspicuous building we were standing outside was a giant "Flynn's" sign. It's this kind of stuff that makes this so incredibly awesome - they know what will make fans just go crazy and they really blew our minds this time. Bravo, Disney!

We hope that there is still much more to come sometime in the near future. And we're going to see if we can find out what those codes from Space Paranoids really mean. We did end up getting a "Flynn Lives" t-shirt and poster on the way out as a bit of memorabilia. And I've heard that this might be repeated a few more times during Comic-Con if you're interested. But you'll need to check FlynnLives.com for details on that!

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Is that the trailer they showed at E3 (last year?), if not, where can I find it?

I don't think it is and your probably not going to find it unless you scour youtube but the studio probably removed it by now

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Is that the trailer they showed at E3 (last year?), if not, where can I find it?

http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx - In HD and all sorts of formats. Enjoys.

I don't think it is and your probably not going to find it unless you scour youtube but the studio probably removed it by now

It's the same trailer Rappy, just cleaned up and they added the new stuff at the end along with the coming 2010 shot.

:)

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http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx - In HD and all sorts of formats. Enjoys.

It's the same trailer Rappy, just cleaned up and they added the new stuff at the end along with the coming 2010 shot.

:)

oh right, fair do's!

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