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Adam Rabalais decided to try his hand at re-designing classic movie posters, with nation of origin appropriate spelling and style, and without all of the clutter present in the average lobby fare. Check the link out for a small gallery of the artist’s reworks, and see if you think simpler is better.
Link –via ComicsAlliance
This Tron Light Cycle scooter just might be the ultimate kid’s toy for those aspiring to raise their children with proper reverence for all things geek. I don’t know about you guys, but I wish I had one when I was a youngster. Unfortunately, it’s only a concept at this point, but let’s hope it moves in to production soon.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
(Edit by Alex 8/25/11) See also: PlasmaBike over at the NeatoShop
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The “Tron Guy” is back in a new video utilizing multicolored rolls of duck tape to recreate the iconic light cycle scene from the film. Watch the video at the link to see if a stop motion duck tape – creepy “younger” version of Jeff Bridges makes an appearance.
I just posted about a sexy TARDIS corset, but for those geek girls who aren’t into Doctor Who and instead prefer Tron, Etsy seller Artifice Clothing has you covered with these vinyl, glowing cosplay outfits.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
For the small sum of 55 thousand dollars you can own a replica, drivable Light Cycle from the movie Tron: Legacy. Would you buy this?
This is the illuminated, street-legal motorcycle inspired by the computer animated cycle from the 2010 film Tron: Legacy. Designed for casual cruising and slow ride-bys at shows, it is made from a steel frame covered by a fiberglass cowling that replicates the sleek look of its computer-generated imagery counterpart. Electroluminescent strips built into the tire cowlings, wheel rims, and body illuminate the cycle. It is powered by a fuel-injected Suzuki 996cc, 4-stroke engine. Riders lay at a near-horizontal position astride the padded leather seat, with feet on foot pegs that control its 6-speed constant mesh manual transmission and hands on the handlebars for throttle and braking. The hubless wheels are former truck tires built up then custom-shaped to fit onto one of two counter-rotating rims spinning within each other, providing the broad-tired authenticity of the computer cycles from the movie.
Comments Off To promote TRON: Legacy, Walt Disney Studio commissioned Jim Vision of End of the Line (in association with Distillery Productions and Toby Summerskill) to paint a truly epic mural.
Here’s the epic making of video clip (be sure to see the end for the "light graffiti" by rezine):
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Software artist Josh Nimoy spent a half year writing software to generate special effects for the Tron: Legacy movie from last year.
At his portfolio website he has now published information and some very cool pictures from this project.
Link – Computerlove via Nerdcore
Some of you might remember the TRONified Films entry that was posted here at Neatorama last year. One of those video clips was inspired by “The Big Lebowski”, the popular Coen brothers comedy from 1998. Here’s a new video, were they have taken this mashup concept one step further.
via Pusha
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I doubt that this toy is licensed by Disney, but CLOT’s TRON: Legacy Bambi toy nonetheless goes on sale on Valentine’s Day. They can be found a shop called “Man Is In the Forest” in Shanghai. There are three more pictures at the link.
Comments Off Tron and Star Wars: two classic sci-fi film franchises. Both were considerably better a few decades ago, yet are fueled by such creative ideas – not to mention rabid fans – that they remain eternally awesome, Jar-Jar be damned. We’ve seen countless Star Wars mash-ups, and not a few Tron mash-ups, so it’s actually rather amazing that this is the first Tron: Legacy/Star Wars combo we’ve seen to date, given how much they have in common thematically. Paging daddy issues, party of two!
Well, enterprising YouTube user kevfleth has risen to the challenge, and the results are pretty spectacular. So come, enter the grid! Or turn to the Dark Side! Or, ya know – both is good, too.
We’ve seen Tron variant comic covers, we’ve seen Tron/Street Fighter mash-ups, and God help us yesterday we saw Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber in Tron outfits for some reason.
So it’s high time we saw the Griffins – old-school Tron fans themselves, after all – Tron-ified. The Joe-Cycle is the icing on the cake.
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Eric Tan created these pair of TRON posters, showcasing the classic TRON movie and the new TRON: Legacy that was just released. Eric said:
“When creating posters for each of the ‘Tron’ films, what immediately came to mind were the parallels between the
two worlds and how it had progressed over the years. Since similar elements such as disks, light cycles, and recognizers exist in both, I thought showing the contrast between new and old was a visually interesting angle to play up. Linking the two main characters was something I thought would add to the storytelling and the father/son dynamic between Kevin and Sam Flynn. To me, those films are amazing examples of visual ‘candy,’ and I hope I was able to capture that in my posters.”
The limited edition poster was sold out in like seconds, but you can still gawk at the larger pics here: Link
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This movie mashup fan art just seems right: Buzz Lightyear ready to enter the Grid in the world of Tron, by DeviantART member iamclu. Link -via Breakfast Links
This bag doesn’t reflect light -it produces its own light! The secret is electro luminescent wire and batteries. Ladyada and Becky Stern used the wire to make a Tron-flavored messenger bag. Once you get the technique down, you can use electro luminescent wire to spice up any clothing or fabric items. Complete instruction and a video will show you how. Link -via Lifehacker
Ain’t It Cool News held a contest which invited readers to modify clips from movies with TRON-like special effects. Above is one for Aliens by Vimeo user Benni Diez. Others at the link include Joe Versus The Volcano, Dr. Strangelove, and The Big Lebowski.
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If you’re one of the many people who is already missing sleep waiting for the new Tron movie to come out finally, then you’ll be happy to know that you can Tronify your life in the meantime with these awesome Tron products.
Tron Legacy trailers are like candy to geeks, and Disney is savvily dripping them on the Interweb to whet their appetite for the movie. This one, Trailer #3, contains new and very awesome snippets of the movie: Link [embedded YouTube clip]
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Neat Facts About Tron
Syuzi Pakhchyan designed what could be one of the coolest Halloween costumes ever: Quorra from the upcoming TRON movie.
And all she needed was some faux leather and electroluminescent tape strips: Link | more at Syuzi’s blog Fashioning Tech
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Neat Facts About Tron
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Undoubtedly some of you have seen "Derezzed," the music video for TRON: LEGACY by Daft Punk that went ’round the Interweb earlier today. But if you haven’t it’s filled with awesome snapshots of the upcoming movie: Link
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Neat Facts About Tron
I’m old enough to remember the original TRON, released in the early 80s. I was so into the movie, I went out and bought every gaming console that had any cartridges TRON-related. One of my favorites was Intellivision’s TRON Deadly Discs, which takes place on the famous TRON game grid:
Of course, with the upcoming, highly anticipated release of the sequel, TRON Legacy, the game grid is very much on many peoples’ minds these days. Perhaps none more so than the good folks over at WonderHowTo.com, who’ve just bestowed on us the greatest honor a blog can receive; yes, they’ve named a sexual position after us. It’s called the Neatorama (Difficulty Level 3!)and is actually SFW if you want to check out the fun video below. Thanks WHT! We’re deeply humbled.
Has it really been 28 years since the movie Tron played in theaters? That’s a long time to wait for a sequel! As Disney prepares for the release of the new film Tron: Legacy, let’s look back at the groundbreaking 1982 movie that opened the door to computer-generated special effects at NeatoGeek. Link
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YouTube user Thretris modified an original NES with a custom Tron paintjob, and stuffed in some new hardware. Skip to minute 2 to avoid the technical stuff.
This NES has been custom painted using a hand mixed airbrush paint with glowing powder. The paint job not only glows BRIGHTLY in black light, but it charged and stays glowing on its own. The console also has NESmod installed which acts a dual mono “stereo” mod with boosted sound from an additional PCB with amplified audio.
Thretris has also customized a Gameboy.
Via Nerd Approved
Sony Ericsson hosted a promotional tennis tournament that was bathed in ultraviolet light in order to recreate the atmosphere of the movie Tron. It’s far more scenic than the Medieval version.
via DVICE
It’s no wonder that Neatorama reader Guy won the recent Bent Objects caption contest – turns out he’s one of the guys behind Brevity, a darn funny syndicated comic strip. This one above, titled Medieval Tron, is my favorite, but they’ve got tons of other great stuff.
Links: Lots of comic panels at Comics.com | Brevity’s official website – Thanks Guy!
LEGO MOC by 2×4 [Flickr] | Tron Photoset
Tron is one of my all time favorite Sci-Fi movies and it’s a pleasure to see that almost three decades later, it’s still inspiring its fans. Here’s a fantastic diorama of the Tron Light cycles scene by Flickr user 2×4 we first spotted over at The Brothers Brick blog.
