Tron Legacy

Tron Legacy, in the build up to being released later this year, has been utilising some interesting promotional techniques.
The website Flynn Lives has been around for a while, giving fans an update to what's happened in the years between Tron and now.
Flynn's Arcade was opened up to allow fans the chance to mingle, and many news articles appeared on the website regarding the missing hero.
Then came the countdown. A clock of flashing bits counting down, to the unknown, in binary on the Zero Hour section of the website.
When the countdown ended, a new promotional twist started!

Field Operatives were required, in twenty-seven locations around the world, to meet with contacts in Flynn Lives tops and collect codes.
Fans taking place were given a phone from the first contact, to call and speak with a second contact, who directed them to the drop location.
Along with the codes these packages included Tron wallets holding three original Tron design cards, two arcade tokens, and paper flyers for Flynn Lives and Encom.

With the collected codes entered by fans around the world, a new site opened up called Pit Cell.
In less than 24 hours a simultaneous release of tickets to exclusive events in New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, and Sydney will occur, which will allow lucky ticket holders the chance to go screenings at IMAX in their location.
With another ten months until the release of the film, my guess is that this will involve something along the lines of a ten minute footage reveal.

Tron Legacy is out in December 2010 and, while the end of the year is still a long time away from now, with promotional work like this the excitement will just keep building... although I personally think the excitement would have been huge even without all of these fun fan events

So am I excited?
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Excited? Ha! I'm actually bouncing with glee!!!
We're on our way back to Melbourne after the Sydney IMAX screening of the new 3D Tron Legacy trailer!

OMG!!!! Can somebody please speed up time so that it's December already?!?
They have done an awesome job with the promotion of this film and I'm so hyped right now that I might just explode, lol

The 3D was done so well that I enjoyed watching the footage twice!
I've been really over the wave of 3D movies but this footage just got me excited instead <3

We'll put a review up later discussing the new scenes but I just couldn't wait to share my thrill of seeing new footage from Tron Legacy!!!

We didn’t have quite as long a drive as you – coming from Canberra for the event – but I am just as excited as you!

I have to admit that I am not as hyped by 3D as some people are. It seems that everything coming out lately is, well, 3D. So when I heard that Legacy was going to be in 3D, I wasn’t drawn by its ‘uniqueness’ on that stand. But I loved Tron and have the best memories of the movie when it first came out (and after). And the viral marketing for the new movie is so inventive (and has drawn me in hook, line and sinker).

And so when I found that I had accessed a ticket for Sydney, I bounced up and down for several hours. I am sure that my co-workers think that I have fully lost my mind! :0)

The event offered just a taste of what is to come…and based just on this brief glimpse, I can’t wait! I can’t get over how familiar the environment was, just cleaner/clearer (and more high tech).

Bring on December – or at least, more Canberra-accessible Flynn Lives events!

Flynn Lives!!!!

~ Caribou

So glad you joined the forums Caribou!
I love how excited you are because it means I have another person to get all WOOHOOO with about Tron Legacy, lol

I want to see the trailer again!
I was incredibly impressed with the quality of the footage we saw!
Since it's suppose to be released with Alice In Wonderland I'm just wishing for it to start in cinemas so I can watch the Tron Legacy awesomeness again before the movie

I'm really enjoying the ARG events too and anyone who isn't a part of it yet should read this article and listen to the latest podcast for more information!

Hey, I was happy to find a place to 'fit in' with my geekiness when it comes to all things Disney and Tron in spacific!

My house has been all abuzz with Alice in Wonderland viewing plans since the Fawn (11 years old) found out that Mr Depp was playing the Mad Hatter. When we came home with the news that the Tron Legacy trailer would play with it, she flipped out. Johnny and Tron? Is there anything better?



And yes, the whole Flynn Lives mythos is just so engaging to my family and me. I have had so much fun today explaing why I was so tired at work...and introducing some of my retired volunteers to the wonder of the Flynn Lives website! hee hee... 4 more converts...

Yay for more converts

Although we already reviewed and discussed the trailer pretty much scene by scene on the podcast, since the 3D trailer isn't out yet, and it was a limited fan screening, I thought I would post the audio transcription here for anyone interested



The trailer starts off in the real world with Alan Bradley talking to Kevin Flynn's son, Sam...

Alan: “I promised you that if I ever got any information about your dad, that I’d tell you first, right? I was paged last night; it came from your dad’s office at the arcade.”

Sam: “So?”

Alan: “So?! That number’s been disconnected for twenty years! Two nights before he disappeared he came to my house. He said he was about to change everything... science, medicine, religion. He wouldn’t have left that Sam; He wouldn’t have left you.”

Sam: “You know, you’re acting like I’m going to find him sitting there working... ‘Hey kiddo... lost track of time.’”

Alan: “Wouldn’t that be something”

After this the trailer shows Sam heading to Flynn's Arcade.



We see a little more real world footage before we hit the digital world with the sight of a recognizer (OMGWTFBBQPOLARBEAR!!! It's AWESOMESAURUS in 3D). We get a bunch of footage of the digital world and before the trailer ends we get some more dialogue but no footage to go with it...

Sam: “Dad?”

Flynn: “Sam?”

Sam: “Long time.”

Flynn: “You have no idea.”

The Tron Legacy trailer that was a part of the Pit Cell event is now online.
It isn't in 3D but, just the same, you can get a feel for how cool this is shaping up to be!
I still get excited every time I watch it and I've lost count of how many times that actually is now

... and i now have a picture of a Recognizer as my desktop wallpaper

-Chris

I am so ready for this,who wants to steal it and watch it 1st?

OMG! New Trailer!

Okay, almost better than the new trailer...a new game is on the Flynn Lives sight. Alas, I am at work so I can't explore it yet....but it's only 2 hours till quitting time!

Baralier wrote:OMG! New Trailer!

LOL, we've been telling everyone how cool the new trailer is!

Caribou wrote:Okay, almost better than the new trailer...a new game
is on the Flynn Lives sight. Alas, I am at work so I can't explore it
yet....but it's only 2 hours till quitting time!

I know, I'm still working at it myself

Okay, I have finished the game!
You need to go to the Arcade Aid site's quiz section & answer 56 games correctly.

You get virtual badges as you do the puzzle.
When you've finished you can infiltrate Encom and get a security badge made up!
By what is written at the end of all this they may actually be sending these out to people!!!

Answers are as follows:

Spoiler:

01 - call of duty
02 - outrun
03 - frogger
04 - homerun
05 - 720
06 - nba jam
07 - flower
08 - rampage
09 - worms
10 - punchout
11 - burgertime
12 - balloon fight
13 - vanguard
14 - minesweeper
15 - faceoff
16 - stargate
17 - star castle
18 - golden tee
19 - dragon ball z
20 - halo
21 - discs of tron
22 - tron
23 - crossbow
24 - shadow of colossus
25 - tiger heli
26 - burnout
27 - super cobra
28 - space ace
29 - boulderdash
30 - smash tv
31 - silent hill
32 - birdie king
33 - r-type
34 - missile command
35 - food fight
36 - timesplitters
37 - bomberman
38 - golden axe
39 - double dragon
40 - bejeweled
41 - donkey konga
42 - fallout
43 - paperboy
44 - firetruck
45 - guitar hero
46 - spyhunter
47 - joust
48 - asteroids
49 - digdug
50 - Popeye
51 - golden eye
52 - seawolf
53 - star fox
54 - mousetrap
55 - defender
56 - metal slug

I this ARG so much

I had so much fun doing the name a game....

I this ARG too!!!!

I just called the Arcade Aid number and left a voicemail
I couldn't help myself. I had to LMAO!

xombiekitty wrote:I just called the Arcade Aid number and left a voicemail
I couldn't help myself. I had to LMAO!

Where is the number?

It's on the Arcade Aid website under Contact.
The number is (314) 925 2642

The recording you get when you call is that Zack can't take you're call right now because he's off trying to beat his highscore on Space Paranoids, so you need to leave a message

I think that this is a good family project for tomorrow morning... gotta call the US anyway...so two calls will make no difference.

GOT MY ID BADGE!

Awesome. Congrats.

I can't wait til I get mine!

Got to see the new trailer (the 2D version) on the big screen again today!
At Trio-Con today, before the event was open, ZenBubble was testing equipment and he put the tailer up for the staff to watch!
It was sooooo awesome and everytime I see it I just get more and more excited

Apparently it was played a couple of other times during the day to the captive geeks, lol, and it went over a treat
Looking forward to watching Legacy in fan-filled cinemas come December

Same here. 1st time for that trailer for myself as well. It was awesome.

I can tell you now. There WILL be costumers making costumes for conventions for this one. Be pretty easy to do with reflective stripping (get it from Autobarn or Supercheap Autoparts etc) and bodysuits, painted cycle helmets etc.

No to mention Frizbee's making a comeback *prediction only

So do you reckon they'll give Tron Guy a cameo?

Baralier wrote:So do you reckon they'll give Tron Guy a cameo?

I think they did,but I am not sure.

I got mine! I am now an employee of Encom!

Too awesome. Off to log in to my work environment.

~ Caribou

Caribou... it arrived?!? Okay that's you & Cybertron Ax now.
Fingers crossed mine is in the PO Box when I check it later!!! So very cool!
Are you going to wear yours with your Flynn Lives t-shirt to the first screening of Legacy?

So of course!

We have washed the shirts and put them in clothing bags so that they are clean and pretty for it! LOL

Swag is so cool.

I hope your ID comes today (or really really soon)! Oh, I love the international post declairation...have a look at yours...

And I am ever so excited about the next FL thing to happen...wonder what we will have to do at ENCOM

~ Caribou

Mine arrived in today's post as well. Wished I had been able to change the photo but still.

I wasn't too over happy with my photo either...but I hate the one on my 'real' work pass! So I guess it makes it more realistic. lol

~ Caribou

Just got back from checking the PO Box and there was no sign of any Encom ID badges.
Not even a hint of hope through a collection card
I really, really, really, hope something arrives soon *fingers crossed*

While we're all waiting for our Encom ID's, check out this video of the Monorail at Walt Disney World, done up with the Tron Legacy Lightcycle art:

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/03/first-image-disney-monorail-train-features-tron-art/

-Chris

I have an Encom badge!!! w00t!!!
LOVE the Encom lanyard too

Here is something you'll need
http://www.arcadeaid.com/cheatcode/

Goto the offices page on the ENCOM page get the names of the five people enter the names,you'll get there ID's and passwords and you can log in to there pages plus one of them has more too see.

Thanks for the link!
The employee numbers and passwords for the five individuals are below, but I'll hide them for anyone that wants to do the groundwork themselves

Spoiler:

Markus Grenwald
19CR8624T
12345654321

Patricia Jalardy
RZ6V5419A
S@L3S43V@H!

Alan Bradley
A851F66G8
-#6)/+)PNE

Willa Frewer
S7P1E536T
F63DFQGA9K

Kurt Hardington
471Q51M7R
GOODTEETHGREATHAIR

You need to go here to enter the details.

I've probably missed it but, how did you get those?

Gotta go to

http://www.arcadeaid.com/cheatcode/

and enter in the names of the 5 senior execs... then you get their logins. Go to the login page and have a play.

Quite interesting to see what's going on behind the walls of the company!

xombiekitty wrote:
I have an Encom badge!!! w00t!!!
LOVE the Encom lanyard too

Has anyone scanned the code thingy on the badge with their mobile?

Grenge wrote:Has anyone scanned the code thingy on the badge with their mobile?

I waved my iPhone at it after I read your comment. Should it do anything?

SuperWannabe wrote:I've probably missed it but, how did you get those?

To get a badge you need to read the 13th post in this thread and follow the link, and enter all the answers in the spoiler section.
I posted this back on the 11th of March, but I think that they're still accepting new people, so give it a go

Grenge wrote:Has anyone scanned the code thingy on the badge with their mobile?

Yes, that's how the Encom Employee Intranet was first found.

Baralier wrote:I waved my iPhone at it after I read your comment. Should it do anything?

It's a QR Code but you will need a QR reader on your iPhone for it to work.

xombiekitty wrote:

SuperWannabe wrote:I've probably missed it but, how did you get those?

To get a badge you need to read the 13th post in this thread and follow the link, and enter all the answers in the spoiler section.
I posted this back on the 11th of March, but I think that they're still accepting new people, so give it a go

Thanks Lyn,

Got my badge on it's way.

Tried to do as many as I could on my lonesome but your spoilers realllly helped.

Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't even aware there were such apps.

(Though I'm sure there's an app for that too )

Yay!! I just got my Encom ID today

Oh yeah!! Forgot. I got mine a couple of weeks back :-)

I Keep getting an:
ACCESS INFRACTION!
Every time I try to log in as the users

I think they've closed off that section of the ARG now as things are moving forward.
I thought everyone was still getting to log in once before that happened... I guess not by your post.

I went to see kick ass the other night (awesome movies btw) and they had a tron trailer... i nearly peed my pants... it was awesome!

Oh! No way!!! We went and saw Kick Ass (which was a lot more fun that I was hoping for) and no trailer...so bummed!

Looks like the next part of the arg is up.
Looks like they are now trying to track down the whereabouts of Sam Flynn

I'm a bit behind on the ARG (seems to be familiar words for most things atm lol) but I just got a badge for 99 shots on Space Paranoids, and then another badge for 999!
I freaked a bit at the 999 because it didn't give me a badge but was thankfully told loggin out and then back in again fixes it... which it did!
You can earn the badges here: http://www.encominternational.com/spaceparanoidsonline
It has a countdown on, counting down to just over a week away!

Going off to work on the Sam Flynn ARG stuff now