#lightcycle

[humanoidhistory]

TRON lightcycle design by Syd Mead.

[craigpetersennz]

On the way back from NZ, we had a stopover in Shanghai. So, of course, we went to Shanghai Disneyland to go on the TRON Lightcycle Power Run. I loved it! The kid in me had been waiting 42 years to go on a Tron ride. The feeling of gripping the lightcycle handles and hurtling around the track at high speed is something you have to experience! I loved the setup, with the digitizing laser at the start when you queue. Everything is so well thought out to give you an experience even while you're waiting to get on the ride. Very, very cool.

[redxdesign]

[astercontrol]

Am I the only one who's bothered by Ares treating jet walls as if they were lightsabers or something? That's not how they work! There just solid objects.

Yeah, all we really know about them from '82 is that if your Lightcycle crashes into one, you get derezzed. I think the same deal was true in Legacy? No indication that the physics were any different from just crashing into a wall.

But then, every incarnation of the Tron world has slightly different takes on the technology.

For instance, if it were Legacy coming out now, I'd probably be the one complaining like this, about how it treats Lightcycles like regular motorcycles. I'd be going, "That's not how they work! They have to turn at right angles when they're on the Game Grid! They can't voluntarily change speed! And they can't just turn their jet walls on and off whenever!"

But now that Legacy's been around long enough to be respected as part of the Canon, people mostly just accept that this is how they work on the Legacy Gaming Grid.

And I've gotten apathetic enough about it, that I just.... don't really care if they now work like lightsabers in whatever situation Ares is putting them in. Might as well happen.

[smelt-starverse]

reposting an old digibash I did of the Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Arcee in the style of a Lightcycle from the Tron series, in three distinct flavors:

Regular (based on the standard blue biolights)

Pink (based on her Combiner Hunters deco)

And Orange (based on both the enemy Lightcycles in Legacy and Flamewar)

[captainpirateface]

Let's go!!!!

[peteramthor]

The toy for Tron were definitely unique

[kowarth]

The Fiction Riders

a sequel to Tron!Osgood brings us her partner Matrix!Kate. deliberatly shadowy as if lit by the lightcycle i think perhaps this takes the conceit too far? Or is that the UNIT belt buckle?

[fletchasketch7893]

Spoiler Alert for Tron: Legacy [CONTENT WARNING: Flashing Lights, a single drop of blood, action/violence, pixelated injuries/death] Film: Tron: Legacy (2010) Music: "Virus (Prismo Remix)" by ‪@wearekloud‬ (Gift Edit)

[greetingsprograms]

my mom got me a lightcycle print for my birthday :]

[cmdrjanus-2]

「 Riding Chrome 」

[craigpetersennz]

Tron loot! Here are some cool items that I picked up from Shanghai Disneyland. A T-shirt and three very cool die-cast vehicles.

All the vehicles light up - the Light Runner has a white light and the Light Jet has a blue light (not really sure why it was blue instead of white).

The Lightcycle can change to four different colours - a red colour (presumably for Rinzler?), yellow for Clu, blue (for Sam, I guess?) and green for Gibson fans.

I think it would have been nice if white and orange light options were included in the Lightcycle, but this is such a small thing. Perhaps they were trying to tie the Lightcycle colours to the Teams in the ride? But, then, they had Team Orange and no Team Green, so I don't know.

Lots of detail on the vehicles and the light-up feature is a really nice touch! 🤩🥏

[redxdesign]

[miaqc1]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE PROGRAM OF VENGEANCE -- SPIRIT OF THE GRID RIDES THE INFINITE LIGHT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on textless & published "TRON" variant cover art to "Incredible Hulks" Vol. 1 #618, featuring the Spirit of Vengeance riding a lightcycle. February, 2011. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Mark Brooks.

"When Disney bought Marvel we thought we'd see some crappy crossovers like Donald Duck as Cyclops or something. But, man, we were soooo wrong. This is better (obviously) than we could have imagined."

-- GEEK OF OZ, "TRON" Variant Covers," October 19, 2010

Sources: www.geekofoz.com/2010/10/marvel-news-tron-variant-covers.html & Marvel Database (official).

[captainpirateface]