Disney’s new Tron action figures put your face and voice into the Grid

What’s higher than a cool Tron action determine? A cool Tron action determine with your face and voice, clearly. 

That’s the concept behind the Tron Identity Program, a new piece of merch that Disney might be promoting guests to the Lightcycle attraction that’s opening in Tomorrowland in Walt Disney World Florida on April 4th. The concept is that you just get your face scanned, file six strains of dialogue, and then manually customise your character’s look with totally different helmets, our bodies, and crew colours, and you’re left with a figurine that feels really “you.”

It’s a not dissimilar concept to Hasbro’s Selfie Series, which 3D prints your head onto an action determine of your selecting after you scan your face with an app. But whereas Hasbro goes down a 3D printing route with a lead time of a number of weeks, the Tron Identity Program merely reveals your face on a small LCD display screen inside the figurine’s helmet, based on Gizmodo. 

The result’s a dearer toy at $89.99 plus tax (versus $60 plus tax for Hasbro), but in addition one that may be rotated comparatively shortly. Disney’s press launch says the customization course of takes round 20 minutes, and that the figurine might be prepared to gather inside one other 60. So it’s a little bit of a compromise, however a minimum of you’re left with a reasonably cool piece of memorabilia by the finish of the day. Its field is even designed to appear to be a small Tron arcade cupboard.

It’s been a short while since Tron and its once-groundbreaking digital actuality world often known as “The Grid” has appeared on screens. Disney revived the franchise in 2010 with Tron: Legacy, however apart from a 2012 TV collection the collection has remained dormant for the higher a part of a decade.

That may all change very shortly, nonetheless. A 3rd Tron film titled Tron: Ares was (as of January a minimum of) scheduled to enter manufacturing in August this 12 months, Deadline reported at the time. Dr. Michael Morbius himself Jared Leto is about to star, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales co-director Joachim Rønning reportedly in talks to direct. Yippee.