Which is like a lethal game of air hockey (just one of Tron Legacy's classic-arcade game nods), as black-suited Capoeira-style foes send electric frisbees ricocheting around a glassy area.īut the new-look light-bike battle royale is something else. For the first 20 minutes on The Grid, Legacy ’s velocity is thrilling: Sam is abducted, suited in neon-ribbed body armour, loaded into a gladiatorial stadium and hurled into a disc fight. Īlthough curiously, unavoidable echoes of Blade Runner seem to lie everywhere: otherworldly women, elevators to the heavens, charred skies even one character’s haircut is pure Rutger Hauer. It’s stunning, seductive and uniquely Tron. Upgraded in breathtaking style by Kosinski’s team, this stormy, apocalyptic city is a fearful, magnificent world of dark space, reflective surface and searing light. ZackAttack refers to this vehicle as "the whitecycle" on the Flynn Lives message board.After a spectacularly ludicrous scene in which Sam hacks the Encom mainframe before free-fall parachuting off the top of the building like Ethan Hunt, it’s a matter of minutes before we’re blasted into cyberspace.Ī mysterious message from Flynn’s Arcade.The black variant has the number "0.82" printed in its place. The number "786" is printed just in front of the back wheel.In TRON: Evolution - Battle Grids, the 2nd generation light cycle is a unlockable playable vehicle in the Light Cycle Arena mode and the Light Cycle Races mode.
In TRON: Uprising it is generated from special white-colored baton.In TRON: Evolution, the 2nd generation light cycle leaves behind a white light ribbon, but the ribbon is more of a bluish color in TRON: Uprising.In TRON: Uprisinga black variant of the 2nd Generation light cycle is seen piloted by Tron, Dyson, and their team of Black Guards in episode 9.Programs in TRON: Uprising refer to this light cycle as an ENCOM 786.Able, an older program, is known to have one among his collection of light cycles. While Kevin owns the original, there is a non-persistent baton version that exists for programs, called the ENCOM 786. The most notable feature is that, unlike the original light cycle and the newer incarnations, this light cycle is persistent and does not require a rod or baton to generate it. Its white color scheme contrasts starkly with the black and color-lit designs of all other vehicles in the system. It also appears to be able to travel off the Grid without trouble. It had a covered canopy that hinged open to allow rider access through the top. The second generation light cycle has the hallmark thick wheeled look common to all light cycles, however it differs from other light cycles in the Tron system in several ways. The second generation light cycle is succeeded by three more generations of light cycles, yet is still claimed to be "the fastest thing on the Grid". It is reputed to have been Kevin's original light cycle, having been copied over from the ENCOM servers and customized. The 2nd generation light cycle (alternately known as an ENCOM 786) was designed by Kevin Flynn in 1983 and was the fastest light cycle ever made.