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unusual facts about TRON: Evolution


TRON command

The TRON command entered popular culture when it was used as the name of the 1982 Disney movie, "TRON." It has been subsequently included in a sequel movie, "TRON: Legacy," a television series, "TRON: Uprising," and two video games, "TRON: Legacy," and "TRON: Evolution."


A.P.N.G. Enterprises

Starlight Runner Entertainment and Jeff Gomez produced the Story Bible for James Cameron's sci-fi feature Avatar for Twentieth Century Fox and developed the Story Bible for the video game HALO for Microsoft and for the Tron franchise.

Adicolor

Trainers include characters on them such as "Trimmy" "Betty Boop" "Mr Happy" "Tron" "Miss Piggy", "Kermit the Frog" and Muhammad Ali.

Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky was founded in February 1987 by Chris Wedge, Carl Ludwig, Dr. Eugene Troubetzkoy, Alison Brown, David Brown and Michael Ferraro, who had previously worked on the Disney film Tron while employed at MAGI/Synthavision.

Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse

Despite featuring Bram Stoker's name in the title, the film is not directly based on any of his writings or a mockbuster to the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, but shares similarities to films such as Blade: Trinity, Dracula 2000, Underworld: Evolution and Van Helsing.

BTRON

BTRON was unable to gain a position in the desktop OS market, however other TRON operating systems continue to be extensively used in small devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, and CD players.

Christopher Grey

Christopher Grey is often confused with a Canadian film and television actor from Vancouver, British Columbia, known mostly for his anime roles and his role in X-Men: Evolution as Avalanche.

Composer-Tron

This invention was one of the first major steps that combined the producing efforts of the RCA Synthesizer, by Harry Olsen and Hebert Belar with the Marconi Company of America.

Crescent Beach, British Columbia

Scenes from the 2010 film Tron: Legacy were filmed along the waterfront at Crescent Beach, with one of the houses there functioning as the home of Kevin and Sam Flynn.

Digital Productions

Whitney and Demos felt that greater computer power was needed to produce effects such as those being made by Triple-I for Tron; Digital Productions became famous for using a Cray X-MP supercomputer to render their animations.

Discs of Tron

Tron is also introduced later, as Flynn witnesses him competing against (and defeating) four of the MCP's "warrior elite".

While the first Tron arcade game had several mini-games (Gridbugs, Light Cycles, entering the MCP cone and Digital tanks), Discs of Tron is inspired by the Jai alai sequence in the original 1982 film in which Kevin Flynn is forced to play against Crom, leading to Crom being "derezzed" by Sark.

Don't Shoot the Messenger

"REV 22:20" was released on the Underworld soundtrack, "REV 22:20" (4:20 Mix) was released on the Saw II soundtrack and "The Undertaker (Renholdër Mix)" was released on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack.

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# Meat Katie & Elite Force - Nu-Tron - Kingsize Records

Fox Movies Premium

Some of its design is based on the movie Tron: Legacy since the countdown to rebranding and has different station idents based on type and genre of the movie.

HR 8938 Cephei

The song has been used extensively in various sampled forms all throughout the first season of the Disney TV show Tron: Uprising, most often in the nightclub scenes.

Intellivoice

Even a promotional giveaway of a free Intellivoice by mail with the purchase of an Intellivision Master Component failed to kick-start sales of the Intellivoice game titles; the fourth Intellivoice game release, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold 90,000 units.

Judson Rosebush

Rosebush's television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for advertising agencies and networks worldwide; feature film credits include Walt Disney's Tron.

Ken Perlin

He was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. 1979-1984, where he worked on Tron.

Kia Asamiya

He maintains a website with news and information about his studio, TRON (named after the Disney film Tron).

Kirk o' Field

Lord Herries wrote in 1656 that Blackadder rushed out of a tavern at the Tron on the Royal Mile at the sound of the explosion and was arrested.

Larry Elin

Elin and Wedge were the key animators on MAGI's work on the feature film Tron, which included the Lightcycle, Recognizer, and Tank sequences.

Mathematical Applications Group, Inc.

During the production of Tron, animators and computer image choreographers Bill Kroyer and Jerry Rees invited John Lasseter (who would later co-found the famous CGI studio Pixar) to see some the light cycle animation.

Mu-tron

The effect can be heard in the intro to Porno Creep on Korn's album Life is Peachy and all throughout the Smashing Pumpkins' second album Siamese Dream.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Also, Muslim journalist Reihan Salam called the book "fascinating", and he has said that he considers it to be one of the most important books of the decade.

According to conservative columnist Reihan Salam, the book has received a favorable response within the Muslim world.

Professor and author Noah Feldman called it "elegant, accessible, and informed by historical scholarship" and "a wonderful view into the rich world of early Islam".

Race, Evolution, and Behavior

Evolutionary Biologist Joseph L. Graves (2002) notes that the theory had long lacked support and had been invalidated before Rushton's book was written.

Peregrine et al. (2003) argued, even though using "three versions of the ‘race’ variable, each representing one of the apparent definitions that Rushton used", that "Rushton’s predictions do not find much support, regardless of how ‘race’ is operationalized."

Robert N. Skir

He co-created and served as Story Editor on programs including Transformers: Beast Machines, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla, and Dino Squad, and co-developed the series X-Men: Evolution.

Scleral lens

Special effect scleral lenses have also been used to produce eerie eye effects in films, such as the whited-out eyes of the monsters in Evil Dead, or blacked-out eyes in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, or the Star Trek episode Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Singing with the Enemy

# K Tron and Exploding Triangles (maverick performance artist band) featuring performance artist Theo Adams vs. Code 5 (vocal harmony 'boyband')

Tana Mana

In his 1997 autobiography, Raga Mala, Ravi Shankar writes that he started work on Tana Mana in 1983 at the home studio of Frank Serafine, a sound effects designer for Hollywood films such as Tron (1982).

The Theft

Released as a promo single, it was the third overall single, out of four total, released by Atreyu that year, as the song "Her Portrait In Black", from the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack, was also released in addition to A Death-Grip On Yesterday's three singles.

Tron Theatre

The Tron Theatre is located at the corner of Trongate and Chisholm Street, in the Merchant City area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Tron: Betrayal

Tron: Betrayal was then collected as a 128-page trade paperback by Disney Press in November 2010 (ISBN 1-4231-3463-X), which contains a new 11-page retelling of the 1982 Tron film illustrated by Jeff Matsuda.

Tron: Betrayal is a two-issue comic book limited series which serves as the official lead-in to the film Tron: Legacy and was published by Marvel Comics beginning in October 2010.

Turok: Evolution

Tal'Set escapes on his pterosaur and rushes to Galyana, where he stops the Brachiosaurus artillery from destroying Galyana's walls and then evicts the Slegs from the premises.

Along the way, he uses a Quetzalcoatlus to evict the Sleg from the jungle and destroy their air ship.

Vincent Gale

His other acting credits include the films Bye Bye Blues and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, and the television series Neon Rider, Queer as Folk, Da Vinci's Inquest, X-Men: Evolution, Dragon Boys, Eureka, Blackstone, Stargate Universe and Battlestar Galactica.

Walt Disney World Monorail System

On March 19, 2010, Disney debuted Monorail TRON on the Epcot line as part of a marketing plan for Tron: Legacy.


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