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Kevin Flynn’s Lightcycle

Kevin Flynn’s Lightcycle

The original Syd Mead lightcycle design, iconic as it may be, always had this abstract art feel to it, with it’s smooth, clean geometry. The new “vintage” lightcycle design presented in Tron Legacy has a more “realistic” feel to it even though it retains all of the key design elements from the 1982 concept.

March 18, 2011 | By | Reply More
Sam Flynn’s Deluxe Lightcycle

Sam Flynn’s Deluxe Lightcycle

When I think of TRON, two things immediately come to mind: Frisbee battles and lightcycles, so it’s really no surprise to see Spin Master tackling both types of toy as part of their TRON: Legacy line.

February 11, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Rinzler

Rinzler

The Emperor had Darth Vader. Cobra Commander had Storm Shadow. Mr. Burns had Smithers. Clu, the villain from the TRON Legacy movie has Rinzler

January 21, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Kevin Flynn

Kevin Flynn

For the new TRON Legacy movie, Spin Master managed to deliver a pretty decent line up of figures in the 4 inch scale range but even though most of the figures are actually pretty good…

January 14, 2011 | By | 2 Replies More
Sam Flynn

Sam Flynn

Despite the rather limited impact they had with their Last Airbender toy line, Spin Master got the license to produce toys for the upcoming TRON: Legacy movie by Disney.

January 7, 2011 | By | Reply More
Black Guard

Black Guard

Without knowing yet much about the plot of the movie, I can venture a guess that the Black Guard is part of a much larger cadre of troops in the service of the bad guy (red and black as a color scheme kind of give away their allegiance),

December 17, 2010 | By | Reply More
Clu’s Sentry

Clu’s Sentry

Well, you know that whenever an action figure is named after his job description the character it’s based on must be some kind of minion with a very low life expectancy when facing hero-type characters, kind of like Imperial Stormtroopers or Trek red shirts.

December 15, 2010 | By | Reply More
Clu

Clu

In the original TRON movie, programs in the inner computer world tended to look like the people who wrote them, so actor Jeff Bridges got to play two roles, that of Flynn, the digitized user trapped in the system and Clu, the program he wrote to hack into the ENCOM mainframe.

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