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TRON: LEGACY's FLYNN LIVES! event... they recreated his arcade with playable games!!!
Merrick here...
Unless I miss my guess, the music we hear in the TRON LEGACY - NEW LIGHT CYCLE REVEAL clip below is part of Daft Punk's score for the new film.
Hey folks, Harry here with a bit of awesomeness from DaveCobb from YouTube. My day and night was packed so I was sadly unable to make it to this event, but these 3 Videos do a lot to show how cool it must've been. Take a look:
So fucking cool! Seriously. So Cool!
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There must and shall be lightcycles.
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...is truly the greatest bit of kit in the whole of science fiction. I want one....and a lightsabre.
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What, no Tron love here at AICN?
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IT LOOKS JUST LIKE IT DID IN TH EMOVIE AND IT NEVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. GIMMMMMMMMMEEEE OH PLEASE SAY THEY WILL MAKE THAT AN ONLINE DOWNLOAD. I'D LOVE TO WIN THAT ARCADE CABINET AS WELL, AND THE TOLKEN- Ok, I'll stop screaming now. you people who got to go to this are so lucky, so damn lucky.
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Cannot believe i missed a chance play Space Paranoid in Flynn's. Not fuckin fair.
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piss-poor. Do these suits play pin-the-tail on the dictionary to pick these sequel names? I'm honestly willing to bet money that these uninspired, paralysed puddles of piss probably broached the idea of calling it TRON: TECHNOLOGY.
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I'm with ya "ThePilgrim", they've gotta put the game online.
And that lightcycle fucking ROCKS! -
get to bed.
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What would you have called it?
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Tron 2.0 the legend of chun li.
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(The electric thing actually makes more sense considering we're talking about Tron).
You know what, how about a title that actually has something to do with the movie's plot, rather than just adding a vaguely portentous word that has nothing to do with anything. Hell, make a competition for the Talkbackers to name this thing. I'm pretty sure they'll come up with something better than "Legacy." And it'll only have cost the studios a 5-inch Mcfarlane replica of the Tron pod- far cheaper than the six-figure salary the suit who came up with "legacy" gets paid. -
I think 'Legacy' is supposed to be exactly that. Both the Tron game/world, and the main character (Flynn's son) are Flynn's 'Legacy', surely?
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IIRC, TRON was a program written to deal with the evil Master Control Program. Connect the rest of the dots here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_code
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judging by its movie title.
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If someone had called me and told me that they actually made Space Paranoids as an arcade game, I would have laughed it off as wishful thinking... but to see that, and to see that life-size updated Light Cycle... this is some fairly awesome hype.
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It's missing Syd Meads touch.
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You don't have any ideas of your own, you just don't like the people whose job it is to come up with movie titles.
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that is about as dumb as saying "The Fountainhead" is probably a terrible book judging by its cover...
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Jul 24, 2009 6:26:54 AM CDT
For The First Time, I'm Sorry I've Never Been To Comi-Con
by kevinwillis.net
My life would have been better if I had gotten to play Space Paranoid's at Flynns. I just know it.
Frok putting it on-line. They need to get Space Paranoid's arcade cabinet games out to every theater in the country well-ahead of the release date. Maybe do a version that include Space Paranoid's and the Original Tron Arcade game and a few other things . . . not as good as playing it at Flynn's arcade, but just the ability to play a real arcade version of Space Paranoid's would be major sweet. -
Tons of cool, as an old fart who saw the movie as a nipper and experienced the genesis of the arcade/computer games industry of which Tron was part of the formative zeitguiest I'm stoked about Legacy. Fuck the naysayers, nostagialia's a powerful force! ;-)
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The only country on Earth where people would whoop and cheer at an inanimate object. Never fails to amuse me.
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Awesome. Not sure what kind of movie it's going to be, but everything I've seen so far suggests that they get it--both the need to make an engaging movie, and the need to make it a Tron movie that heavily leverages geek nostalgia for the first one. That they actually made a Flynn's arcade and put in real Space Paranoids games . . . jeeze, I don't want to get over-confident, but it really seems like they are getting this right.Daft Punk just needs to respect the Wendy Carlos. That's all I'm saying.
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Fuck yeah, we'll whoop and cheer. If you don't like it, go suck down some tea and choke down some scones. Whoop! Whoop! Yay! Yay! Tron! Light Cycles! Fucking Space Paranoids!
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Ok and while we're doing that, why don't you go eat a Hot Dog, Lassoo a Cow and hang some slaves?
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damn
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The only country on Earth where people will line up for blocks, over the span of days, to get a special pair of Nikes. Then, have a travelling club/event specifically for these shoes, where people whoop/cheer/dance/sing all for the shoes.
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Whooping for a Light Cycle and Space Paranoids = Lynching Slaves?I think something is missing in that equation.I have nothing against eating hot dogs, however. Mmmm. Hot dogs.
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Looked like a freakin' sausage factory up in there.
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I don't care about the movie. THAT'S NEW DAFT PUNK MUSIC. FUCK YEAH!!!!!!
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Jul 24, 2009 7:37:06 AM CDT
That almost makes me jealous I'm not at SDCC...
by shut the fuck up donny
almost.
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its fucking embarrassing, when i was in Hawaii at some Polynesian cultural center thingy (against my own will) they put on a fucking lame ass show of dancing and flame eating and every cunt was whooping and high fiving.. its was fucking terrible, heck they even go bugnuts at the movies ffs... restraint!!! RESTRAINT!!!!! What the fuck are you all... 10y.o. girls at a Britney concert!!??
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If you don't like the way Americans act...get the fuck out of our country.
If you are from this country...then fucking leave.
Either way....America is the greatest country in the world. And You can Go Fuck Yourself -
the FUCK... OUT!!!!
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....and bongo123 can still go fuck himself.
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I was about to say, someone should stuff a rolled up sock in that fat bitches mouth, and duct tape it shut. Glad we're on the same page.
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Jul 24, 2009 8:17:14 AM CDT
What a bunch of fucking retards...
by the_floating_skull_of_robert_loggia
Enuff said.
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online.
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...for once, someone go up to one of these wailing airheads yelling, "WOOOOOO!!!", and say, "Would you shut up? Seriously, shut up."
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Jul 24, 2009 8:22:40 AM CDT
It's great and powerful thinking minds like Ledergrant's...
by jethrobodine
It's great and powerful thinking minds like Ledergrant's that make the fictional possibility of the future as foretold in the movie "Idiocracy" seem all the more frightening and real. I concur with Bongo123, all of the whooing and hollering at ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is embarassing, and it can quickly ruin the fun for everyone. Restraint IS NOT a bad thing.
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Seeing that FLYNN'S sign up... I can't believe this is really happening. I can't believe I couldn't be there.
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Oh, they was, was they?
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Enough with the pro-American rhetoric. You should like an idiot when you rant like that.
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Let me tell you about those I know.
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This is how you build buzz, folks. Avatar is getting punked by Tron. This movie is going to be so badass, I can't hardly wait!
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Congratulations in your superiority. May you bask in your own greatness.
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I bet this made a bunch of geeks rub their MCP cones.
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I’ll have you know, Americans don’t whoop and holler at everything. There are many examples where Americans simply gather to politely bask in the glory of a shared cultural experience - drunken Spring Break bikini contests, NASCAR, American Idol concerts, monster truck rallies, bass fishing….ah shit….I think he’s got us.
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Just like a woman.
Who says arcades are dead?
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I have to go to fucking ComicCon next year. This is one of the coolest goddamn things I have ever seen.
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Something tells me that if we had shown "restraint," the country you're probably from might be speaking a different language. ;) That's obviously just restrained conjecture.
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Legacy is a term used in the software world to describe the latest and greatest version.
I think the title fits. -
Cameron, Shmameron. The guy wastes more than five years of his talent obssessing over the Titanic, finally announces his Jesus zombie-like return from the dead with a new film, and is then made TRON: LEGACY's bitch two years in a row.
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How did we go from Tron: Legacy, which is AWESOMELY COOL NEWS, to America KICKS ASS? Also, if AMERICA (FUCK YEA!!) didn't step in and prevent the Brits from speaking German today, who would have?
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He was slagging off the unnecessarily excessive amount of "whooping" people do (like the chick in the video), not the country itself you douche. Stop being such a sensitive little girl.
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You may have "stepped in" to help us Limeys (after Hitler declared war on America), but you sure as shit made us pay you back every single dime for the tanks and artillery we bought off you to fight said Hitler, forcing us to stay on rationing for over a decade after the war ended. Thanks again, old buddies, old pals.
And what in Crom's name does this have to do with Tron? As an ex-pat American, I can safely say that bongo was making a pretty truthful statement. Must you crazy-ass mofos twist everything around with your waterheaded logic by taking it to its most extreme point. No one can dare say a word against the U.S. because it belatedly fought against Hitler 70 years ago? Riiiight... -
Jul 24, 2009 10:44:41 AM CDT
(Incidentally, we finally paid off that debt in 2006!!!)
by seppukudkurosawa
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Not so much a Non-sequitur as exaggeration for comedic effect. I guess it didn't really work.
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If anyone lives in LA, the location used for the real Flynn's in the movie is at the corner of Watseka Av and Washington Blvd in Culver City. For awhile, i lived about a block away and used to order pizzas from the place (it was an Italian restaurant). Not sure what it is now, as downtown CC has seen a certain amount of transformation in recent years.
The Geek Militia should strongly suggest to the studio that they re-open Flynns at the ORIGINAL LOCATION ! (How awesome would THAT be?) Write your fanmail now boys. See if you can get them to open Flynn's up for about a month or so. Couldn't be that hard for them if they've already created the sign and the Space Paranoids arcade. All they'd need to do now is rent out the bldg for a month (and it MIGHT be currently vacant).
http://tinyurl.com/m3xf8l
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I'm with you on that! Fuck James Cameron, that fucking arrogant douchebag of a fucktard!
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That I'm happy with!!!
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and she hasn't moved in 100 years.
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"...with your waterheaded logic by taking it to its most extreme point."
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My word this flick is going to kick some fucking ass!
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My word this flick is going to kick some fucking ass!
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Greets dude!
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Jul 24, 2009 12:31:36 PM CDT
Tron 2: Electric Boogaloo w/ Hulk Hogan as the baddie
by pissed off and bitter
I don't know how you survived.... slave. It doesn't matter, prepare to terminate, BROTHER!!!
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Hey man, howzit going?! Found any juicy TBs in the AICN archives recently?
By the way, seeing as how I've been such a negative Nancy in this talkback so far, I will say that all those clips make this movie look really awesome. I just wish I could have been there to spend time with Jeff Bridges at Comic Con. I honestly think he is one of the coolest people on Earth. -
But I love Tron. Is the original on fucking Blu-Ray yet?
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did we actually hear a geek have an orgasm in public?
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Considering this is a geek show, it's amazing the whole audience is made up of models and eye candy. Especially that stunna playing Space Paranoids in the second vid. 3 chins, thick glasses, greasy hair. She gets me all warm in my bathing suit region...
Someplace, somewhere, there's a bridge that's missing it's troll... -
There have been a couple of interesting mishaps where the past and present touched briefly. Nothing Orcus couldn't correct. So where have you been, Orcus hasn't seen you for a while
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The fans are showing enthusiasm and approbation when they see the studios get something right to encourage the hacks in wHollyweird to do that more often. It's SDCC, for fuck's sake.
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Lets the fan build hype for the movie. Brilliant.
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reserved chilly, because there are so many of you piled on top of one another in your itty bitty space, so that, if anyone happened to express an emotion, it might set off the whole country into a rampaging murderous riot.But we have the space here to show those presenting something some cheer.
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so relax. ;-)
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http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx
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Sure as hell is!!!!!
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A lot of fun. Started out as a scavenger hunt to find these "Flynn Lives" posters where you had to use a black light lantern on them to find a set of grid coordinates that you placed on a map and drew out like a light cycle path. It eventually led to Flynn's arcade where you got to play for about 20 minutes (fire Marshall only let about 50 at a time) once inside it was retro-game city unfortunately my 2 fav games from the era, Battlezone and Star Castles were broken. There were a bunch of Space Paranoids machines. If you completed a level you got a code. There are supposedly 5 codes you need to unlock a special bonus on the Flynn lives site (I only got 3 the game is damn hard unless you're a lefty). After about 20 minutes a secret door opened behind the Tron game which took you to a back room where they showed you concept drawings of the new Light Cycles then around the corner was the real deal in all it's electronic glowing glory! If you solved the puzzle map they gave you (and didn't just follow others to get there) you got a "Flynn Lives" poster and T-shirt. The T-shirt has a Black light secret website address that takes you to the place you're supposed to enter the codes for playing Space Paranoids. (Anybody get all 5?). An excellent viral marketing project. Happily only about 150-200 people showed so it wasn't too crowded.
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But this is genius.
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Man, I'm so fuckin' ready for this movie...
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This already so completely pwns Avatar its not even funny.
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and other DHR bands.
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They could play AUTECHRE during some kind of surreal / trippy / insane part.
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At least in America people don't DIE at sporting events on a regular basis!
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