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Drawn for a blog entry I did about how I really don't understand the Tron love that's sprung up in the past decade. I mean, no one really ever remarked on the move in twenty years, and then out of nowhere early in the 2000s, it's being treated like it's the Lord of the Rings. I mean, yeah, I wanna see Tron Legacy when it comes out... But I just don't understand where the fanaticism all came from at once.Did I miss a nerd meeting that it might have been announced at?
Anyway... Hope you like.
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funny that looks more like battle angel alita or as some know her as gally 
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awesome work....takes the warrior girl concept of Quorra and ramps it up a notch.
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The "nerd meeting" was at a comic con about a couple years ago when Disney featured a Tron preview with the light cycles. I thought the sequel concept had potential, but ultimately, I found TL to be a mixed bag.
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I really like this picture a lot, the female here reminds me a lot of battle angel alita.
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My reasons for this happening:
1) Tron was always popular to those who saw it and liked/loved it. Many of those people grew up to be computer techs, programmers, etc.-they've taken over the world, and are the ones who love this movie enough to see a sequel.
2) Computers and video-game systems are now more widespread than before, and people understand the concepts in the original film enough for there to be a sequel.
3)The success of the video game Tron 2.0 (Tron 2.0--Killer App on the X-BOX and GBA), as well as the appearence of Tron in the Kingdom Hearts games, has made the original movie more popular than ever (or at least created an audience for more stories of Tron.)
4)Great ideas don't really die, they just become dormant and are resurrected later.
Those are my reasons for why the sequels was made, and why it's coming out on Friday.
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The thing about Tron is that a lot of people in their late twenties and early thirties remembered the film, remembered how cool the concept was and enjoyed the imaginative approach to technology as a life form. Most of us were simply too young at the time to make the movie a hit so it languished as a cult film for years. If we had the ability to do so back then, we would've spent a lot of money on Tron.
Now, in the twenty first century, most of our dreams of technology have come true and Tron is getting a new film. A sequel instead of a remake and the idea of technology and programs operating as living things has come into it's own as a concept. Tron love was always there...it's just now we actually have something to be excited about.
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Well, i hadn't seen it until 7 years ago when i was 10.... i think my generation has fallen in love with TRON.
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You missed the nerd meeting. Punch was served.
Really I think all of us Tron nerds hid in the shadows, waiting for a chance to strike. That... and there's Garrett Hedlund.... who's doing to Tron as Chris Pine did to Star Trek...*shudders*
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Yeah... Uh... I should point out I wasn't the biggest fan of the Star Trek reboot.
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i can't bring myself to watch it.... at all. I think I'd start crying
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Oh, and Tron was in Kingdom Hearts II, so it has to have been rather popular enough and in the overall mind of people. The Zeitgeist if you will.
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Uhm, I dunno man, Tron was always talked about. I mean, I must say never as much as it became talked about, but I was in my most formative years during the 90s and I always knew it existed because of people talking about it, I just never wound up seeing it (I should get on that, shouldn;t I?)
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Tron is one of those classic nerd movies. When word hit that they were re-making it a few years ago, all the old school "remember tron" fans hit the wall in anticipation . . . and it spreads from there I guess.
It happens when they re-make any old school movie from our childhood. remember what happened when they remade . . .
Dawn of the Dead
Clash of the Titans
War of the Worlds
The day the Earth Stood Still
Land of the Lost
re-makes spark nostalgia
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I watched Tron again after several years of it sitting unwrapped on my DVD shelf. It was good, but I came away with one major question - Who has a work station sitting in front of a high power laser??? Do they not like their employees?
Still, I'm looking forward to Legacy as well.
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If they can market it, then they will sell it. I have to wonder if there was maybe an upsurge in dvd rentals for Tron in recent years, from people saying "I haven't seen that in forever!" I Netflixed it recently myself when I found out my wife had never seen it. I'm sure they track all that crap.
Either that or they've got a big fan in the boardroom.
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Tron has been one of my favorites since I was about 10 years old, I'm not overly hyped for the new movie but I'll see it when it comes out.
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It does take a while for nostalgia to build up. I forgot about TRON for over a decade, until sometime around 2002 when i suddenly remembered it, and raced to the video store to rent it... and the elements that seemed to make it dated and corny in the past now made it seem awesome and cool!
I feel similarly befuddled about Ghostbusters. I remember it being that silly old movie with rubber ghosts that was on TV so many times that we all got sick of it... but in recent years, i see it topping the lists of Greatest Comedies of All Time, with Bill Murray's performance as Best Comedic Performance of All Time, and loving tributes to its glory in movies like "Zombieland."
Great picture, by the way.
Damn, i need to draw a Tron-Zoel.
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The love for TRON Has always been there. I've been a fan for 28 years.
Nice picture
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You're a Tron fan? Really? I never would've guessed!
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I understand it's always been there... But like how did it go from being a punchline to Disney willing to spent $170 Million to make a sequel to it? Not even a remake, but a sequel. There was never a huge outcrying demand for one. It'd be like making a sequel to the Goonies. (I'd watch that too.) For twenty years, it was never even mentioned, except in as a joke on the Simpsons, then came this flood of Tron Merchandising that lead to the making of this new movie. I just wonder what the catalyst for that. What was the catalyst for people to take it seriously again?
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I think there are a few different reasons for doing TRON now:
The merchandise that Disney has put out over the years has sold well enough for them to see there as an audience there.
A change in movie management at Disney.
People back in 82 didn't understand words like program and user, since only a few had home computers while most of us had games consoles. Now, almost everything home has a PC and that computer world has become more understandable.
Of course, there are just guesses. I'm just happy that the movie is coming out. I always said it should have happened a long time ago. And I'm hoping the 28 year wait has been worth it.
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It's what happens when Hollywood runs out of ideas and has to recycle. I wont complain either, since I always thought Tron was cool as a kid. At least they are not trying to "reboot" the franchise. Though this one would be the most appropriate use of the term.
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