Tron Turquoise Is The New Black

Pantograph

#1 – 11:11 AM August 6, 2009

I was prepared to hate this with all my might, until I saw the Dude abiding Kung-fu style.

dculberson

#2 – 11:22 AM August 6, 2009

Pantograph, I had the exact same reaction. Exact.

Steven Leckart

#3 – 11:26 AM August 6, 2009

Fellas, there is a scene in the movie where the first-film Bridges fights with the sequel Bridges.

Double the bridges, double the f-u-n.

RedShirt77

#4 – 12:04 PM August 6, 2009

The dude doesn't abide the dude?

I think the lighting on the bike is a great leap forward in lighting. We have had a bad habit of point source lighting on vehicles, which obscures their shape and size. It also makes all the vehicles blend together. lighting surfaces is so much better. I wish they could find a way to light streets in a similar way.

feedingfashionistas

#5 – 1:21 PM August 6, 2009

It's a shame the designers didn't grok that chainrings/cranks aren't, er, ensconced *behind* the seat/down tubes/bottom bracket. It looks like somebody drew a triangle on a photo of a bike with a luminescent sharpie.

But hey, maybe it angles out, to become a tiny little chain guard? lol :)

IWood

#6 – 1:50 PM August 6, 2009

You can do this sort of thing right now. EL wire! (One source: http://www.elbestbuy.com/, but there are many others). I've also used the cold-cathode DLG on my trike preferring (of course) the electric blue (http://rockthebike.com/down-low-glow --there *are* cheaper ways to do this, yes, but the DLG is a nice package).

Glowing things FTW!

Shelby Davis

#7 – 5:27 PM August 6, 2009

I... I was born to late to see the original Tron, I guess, but is this supposed to be a movie about a world where everything is designed by Evil Apple?

dalek g

#8 – 6:43 PM August 6, 2009

does this mean "Automan" will finally be released on dvd?

Pantograph

#9 – 1:04 AM August 7, 2009

#7 Is there any other kind?

Czapek

#10 – 10:20 AM August 10, 2009

#8 Automan!! Boy I hope not, but I'm as guilty as most geeks mur age for watching that show every week, and the motorbike/knightrider knock off Street Hawk

Robert

#11 – 9:23 PM August 10, 2009

Oh. My. God. That looks... incredible.

mdh

#12 – 6:25 PM August 12, 2009

It really tied the ROM together....

Andy Gates

#13 – 8:06 AM August 17, 2009

And for the mandatory steampunk tie-in, I have to name-drop Charlotte who rode a pennyfarthing a hundred miles overnight with EL glow wire wheels. The retrofuture is now. :)

(Not to mention the prospect of a Tron / Babbage reboot)