Tron has got to be one of my favorite movie franchises. I absolutely loved the aesthetic put forth in Tron: Legacy.
The unfortunate part, is that it's not a strong franchise. The movie did well, but the toy line was an absolute bomb. A complete disaster aside from the toy identity discs. The Tron: Evolution game, meant to bridge the two movies, was also poorly received. Even the Tron: Uprising animated series, which I personally thought was amazing, with a great cast, ended its season with a cancellation.
All of this failure, however, I think was the result of some poor choices made by Disney. The toy line was half-assed and boring. The game was poorly marketed. The animated series was stuck on an unpopular, subscriber channel Disney , and on a poor timeslot.
However, I think this would have been, or could be, a winning LEGO line. Considering Disney chooses to deal with LEGO for a good chunk of its IPs (Princesses, Toy Story, PotC, Lone Ranger. etc) it is odd we never saw this happen.
LEGO could make extensive use of their light brick technology, or even come back with a revamped fiber optic module to light the iconic Tron aesthetic. The minifigs have a lot of unique characters to pull from across the entire franchise. They would look killer, especially if wired for light effects like some of the Star Wars ones with lightsabers.
LEGO already makes Tron colors in its translucent shades. Light Blue, Clear, Neon Orange, Yellow, etc, and against black would make for some very cool looking sets (think back to Blacktron 1 and 2 sets for similar aesthetics).
Light cycles, light tanks, light jets, light runners, the Solar Sailer, C.L.U.'s command ship...there's no shortage of vehicles to support it. Along with iconic locations like Flynn's Arcade, the Portal, the Light Cycle arena, Abel's Garage, Flynnms hideout....the list goes on of great places to use in sets.
I have debated starting a serious CUUSOO project in a similar fashion as the Space Marines or Portal 2 offerings. The only problem I see is that Tron is the coolest franchise that nerds just donmt want to pay for.
Is there anyone else like me that would throw fistfuls of money for Tron LEGO?
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Tron has got to be one of my favorite movie franchises. I absolutely loved the aesthetic put forth in Tron: Legacy.
The unfortunate part, is that it's not a strong franchise. The movie did well, but the toy line was an absolute bomb. A complete disaster aside from the toy identity discs. The Tron: Evolution game, meant to bridge the two movies, was also poorly received. Even the Tron: Uprising animated series, which I personally thought was amazing, with a great cast, ended its season with a cancellation.
All of this failure, however, I think was the result of some poor choices made by Disney. The toy line was half-assed and boring. The game was poorly marketed. The animated series was stuck on an unpopular, subscriber channel Disney
, and on a poor timeslot.
However, I think this would have been, or could be, a winning LEGO line. Considering Disney chooses to deal with LEGO for a good chunk of its IPs (Princesses, Toy Story, PotC, Lone Ranger. etc) it is odd we never saw this happen.
LEGO could make extensive use of their light brick technology, or even come back with a revamped fiber optic module to light the iconic Tron aesthetic. The minifigs have a lot of unique characters to pull from across the entire franchise. They would look killer, especially if wired for light effects like some of the Star Wars ones with lightsabers.
LEGO already makes Tron colors in its translucent shades. Light Blue, Clear, Neon Orange, Yellow, etc, and against black would make for some very cool looking sets (think back to Blacktron 1 and 2 sets for similar aesthetics).
Light cycles, light tanks, light jets, light runners, the Solar Sailer, C.L.U.'s command ship...there's no shortage of vehicles to support it. Along with iconic locations like Flynn's Arcade, the Portal, the Light Cycle arena, Abel's Garage, Flynnms hideout....the list goes on of great places to use in sets.
I have debated starting a serious CUUSOO project in a similar fashion as the Space Marines or Portal 2 offerings. The only problem I see is that Tron is the coolest franchise that nerds just donmt want to pay for.
Is there anyone else like me that would throw fistfuls of money for Tron LEGO?