Tron Legacy dolls by Tonner

Tonner's Toy Fair 2012 display shows off new Tron Legacy, Batgirl, and Avatar dolls.

Link roundup

1. Links to the personal websites of the Tron Uprising art team.

2. Astonishing data on the number of politicians in India also facing criminal charges.

3. "'Huffington Post' Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine
Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine"

4. Are we headed to a future where our wars will be entirely fought by robots and the only people at risk are contractors?

5. Oops:

An advertising agency for BMW has paid to name a cold weather front sweeping Europe "Cooper" in Germany, after the carmaker's Mini Cooper.

But the public-relations stunt by the agency went wrong after the freezing conditions led to dozens of deaths.

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Illustration roundup

Tron posters by Martin Ansin going on sale Thursday ($90 a pair) at Mondo. Via.







A few by Lucas de Alcântara, who has art on sale at Etsy.




First Contact poster by Dean Reeves for a screening in Calgary.




Yeti by Chris Buzelli for an article in the NY Times. He has various prints on sale here.




Jenova Theory by A.J. Hateley available as a print here.

*Buy Mondo posters at eBay.

Tron Voltron and Fallout paper toys

Tron Voltron and Fallout paper toys by Randy Padama available for download here and here.

*Buy Fallout bobbleheads at eBay.

Sark cosplay

Sark cosplay from this NYCC cosplay gallery (including a dead-on Ruby Rhod).

Illustration roundup

Doesn't really work as a t-shirt, but I like this illustration by Becky Cloonan for Threadless (one of the new comic book-inspired designs).



Relatedly, Shadows of the Colossus wallpaper. Via.



Paul Revere/Tron mashup by Jason Heuser on sale at Etsy.



Cover by Travis Coburn for Ian Fleming's Commandos.



Kali Ciesemier.



Jack Hughes.

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Link roundup

1. Nintendo better get it in gear, GTA III and Superman for iOS both sound great.

2. Famous movie producer/spy.

3. Maybe there will be a cure for peanut allergies.

4. Gawker tries to explain Herman Cain's surge:

There's a specter of Tea Party, anti-establishment, and now, more specifically, panicky anti-Romney feeling out there that's migrated from Trump to Bachmann to Perry and now to Cain. It is an energy that takes over these bodies, one after the other, kind of like Voldemort's soul or one of the X-Men or whichever character it is from the pictures, we forget.

5. Tron-inspired wallpaper. Via.

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Illustration roundup

David's Secret Weapon by Ben Chen. Part of Threadless's $10 sale.



Alice's tea party by Sarah Watts, who has various prints on sale at Etsy.



Redesigned Legion of Doom by Aaron Diaz.



Vampires by Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura.



David Levy posted a bunch of Tron Legacy art.

*Buy DC Direct action figures at eBay.

Illustrations by Andry Shango

The blue screen of death, Calvin and Hobbes, and more by Andry Shango. Via these sites.

Tron Uprising footage and concept art

New Tron Uprising footage and concept art. Via these sites.

*Buy Neca Tron toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Chewy Black Forest Cookies recipe.

2. Tron Bit animated gif.

3. The BBTS posted preorder links for several 2011 SDCC exclusive toys including the Republic Commando set.

4. Craft book giveaway.

5. The Quiznos chain might be running out of money. (I love Quiznos as an alternate to Subway, and the rare chain to have Diet Mountain Dew as a fountain drink.)

Star Wars Fleet Commander and Tron Game Grid

Two very cool games designed by Arthur Nishimoto:

Developed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) by MS graduate candidate Arthur Nishimoto, "Fleet Commander" explores how a real-time interactive strategy game that would typically rely on complex keyboard commands and mouse interactions be transferred into a multi-user, multi-touch environment.

TRON: Game Grid was designed specifically to be played on a 16 Megapixel LCD Multi-touch wall. The game currently only has one level, the Ring Game. The gameplay is a hybrid of the ring game and disk arena games as seen in the film TRON. The game was developed in 4 weeks throughout September 2010. The first version, containing a complete Ring Game, was completed on October 6, 2010.

Link roundup

1. Really interesting article about how hit songs are manufactured and how much it costs to do so (the amount spent on promoting the song (bribery) is by far the largest amount). Via.

2. Tron Legacy 8 bit Extended Version.

3. Tattoo with a QR code that becomes animated when viewed through a smartphone. It'll be more impressive when the tattoo is invisible unless viewed through a smartphone.

Tron, Spider-Girl

"Data Fragmentation" by Patrick Bateman (who has lots of other Tron art in his gallery):



Patrick based his illustration on this photo by Marcus Ranum:



And Marcus's gallery is full of fascinating (and many NSFW) photographs including a gallery of Spider-Girl photos:



Via.

Link roundup

1. The LA Weekly's list of the best LA-related websites.

2. Space Paranoids arcade machine paper toy.

3. I'm rereading American Gods for the first time since it came out. I'm really enjoying it and can't imagine what I didn't like the first time. But anyway, this caught my attention:

"I read some book about brains," she said. "My roommate had it and she kept waving it around. It was like, how five thousand years ago the lobes of the brain fused and before that people thought when the right lobe of the brain said anything it was the voice of some god telling them what to do."

Link roundup

1. From LA Magazine:

My parents both worked at the park in the summer of 1959, a year into their marriage and just four years after Disneyland opened. My dad was assigned to the cars of Autopia (back then kids would frequently knock out their teeth on steering wheels)

2. Zero Punctuation reviews the 3DS (and hates it).

3. Phil Saunders has been posting lots of Tron Legacy concept art.

*Buy Disneyland posters at eBay.

Fanmade Tron video

Impressive fanmade Tron video featuring the return of Sark/Dillinger. Just like the real Tron: Legacy, the dialog is painfully clunky and goes on for way to long. Via.

*At Toycutter: Custom Tron toys.

Link roundup

1. Someone uploaded Tron: Legacy to Youtube - - the full movie as one, two-hour video. This has to be by Disney, right? It was mentioned on Reddit hours ago, and yet Disney hasn't taken it down. Or does it take much longer than I think for infringing videos to be removed?

2. Recipe for Horseradish Cream Sauce (so good with prime rib).

3. Noxzema now has two fewer ounces than it used to, but comes in the same size container - - which features a false bottom to disguise the smaller amount of product.

Link roundup

1. Tim Davis, a talented miniature painter, is looking for commissions.

2. Snuggie based on the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.

3. Tron vs. MCP animated gif.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

Tron Translucence vinyl album

Tron Translucence vinyl album - - a limited edition lp featuring Derezzed, Tron Legacy, End of Line, and Castor. There are several on sale at eBay. Via.