A package arrived this afternoon from Flynn Lives, PO Box 236 San Diego CA 92101. Inside was some packing paper and the little object I’m showing off above. A little object any child of the 80s will recognize as Bit from Tron. Bit was the binary program that aided Clu and friends, and it could communicate only by morphing into shapes that represented ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ The shape above is Bit’s neutral configuration.
Written inside the lid of the box was /zerohour, which when added to the Flynn Lives website brings you here. It’s a countdown clock of some type, using Bit’s form to represent numbers. It’s counting down to a time next week, apparently – some speculate it’ll be when the Tron Legacy trailer is released online.
Does this mean Bit returns in Tron Legacy? Are we about to see our first real footage from the film? Is Disney going to keep creating cool promotional elements like this and the Alice in Wonderland book? Stay tuned to find out!
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I am sooo looking forward to this movie. Cool promotional material! This movie and the original 1978 Superman are near and dear to me. Lets hope they don't screw it up!
Man, I wish I had that. Or even the red one the other sites got.
I guess I'll just go back to building my own lightcycle.
It's obvious that you just wanted to show off your Apes poster.
Can't wait to see this.
Unlike Alice In Wonderland, I believe Tron Legacy has a chance at being something more than average.
I've seen some of the footage (some of which everyone will see in the upcoming trailer). Balls will be blown. In a good way. I still don't have a grasp on how well they'll deliver the story, but the visuals will be a dripping with cool. And semen. I'll stop writing now.
That blue thing in your hand is a game changer.
That is one of Tron's actual testicles. Probably the right one. He gave his left nut to get the sequel made.
Re: the link to the countdown page, it's a binary clock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock
I want one. Where can I get one?
it's counting down to noon 2/24
My friend and I worked this out. It's not quite a binary clock – it's binary coded decimal. So it's 8 nibbles, as opposed to 4 bytes. It goes:
80D 8D 80H 8H 80M 8M 80S 8S
40D 4D 40H 4H 40M 4M 40S 4S
20D 2D 20H 2H 20M 2M 20S 2S
10D 1D 10H 1H 10M 1M 10S 1S
Which means this event is only a few days away. My guess is it's counting down to the trailer premiere.
The code is
0000 = 0
0001 = 1
0010 = 2
0011 = 3
0100 = 4
0101 = 5
0110 = 6
0111 = 7
1000 = 8
1001 = 9
From an European POV, it leads to 2/24, 16:00 @ GMT+1 – #11 might live in NY then 😉
Bruce Boxleitner!
Is it just me or some letters started appearing on the bottom of the page?
See you on the site! E
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