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Here, direct from Comic-Con, is the teaser trailer for Tron Legacy (aka Tron 2.0 or TR2N). Note, this is essentially the same video from last year, just much better quality.

So Flynn Lives, eh. I’m certainly looking forward to this. Look for Tron Legacy to hit theaters in 2010.

Let’s get right to it, shall we.

• FoxxFur has posted a half-year report for the Magic Kingdom highlighting the refurbishment activity that’s been on-going. As usual she provides some great insights.
• LaughingPlace.com has a huge preview of the World of Color show coming to California Adventure. One of the best I’ve seen.
• The Architectural Record turns their steady eye on The Walt Disney Family Museum. The museum opens October 1.
• The Hollywood Reporter has word that an auction of rare props and other items from ABC’s hit TV show LOST will be previewed at the San Diego Comic Con.
• Last year at the SDCC, a proof of concept trailer of the new TRON (aka TR2N or Tron 2.0), was the sleeper hit. Now, with production well under way, Disney is rolling out a viral marketing campaign in the form of an ARG. FirstShowing.com has done the initial detective work for you.
• Reverberations from The Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Fox Family TV channel (and other Saban Entertainment properties) is still being felt. In this case a lawsuit saying that Mr. Saban tried to skip out on paying taxes.

Dwayne Johnson will stop by “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to discuss his new Disney adventure, “Race to Witch Mountain.” Watch the exclusive interview this Friday, March 13th! Check your local listings or visit www.ellentv.com for more information.

Debbie Ryan, from Disney’s The Suite Life On Deck, is on Twitter. She talks about it on the red carpet for Race to Witch Mountain, which you can catch on Disney Society.

Buena Vista Obscura is a new series on 2719 Hyperion where FoxFurr looks into Walt Disney World’s past. This week it’s 1972’s Golf Resort.

Heather at The Examiner has the scoop on a contest for Annual Passholders to win a piece of the old SpaceMountain at WDW. It’s going down for rehab mid-April.

Don’t miss this offbeat take on Disney’s American Idol Experience by a fan of the TV show who is a tad bit too cynical to enjoy it all for what it is. But it makes for a funny read.

NYTimes Carpetbagger reports on the ruckus raised by the glimpse of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s upcoming live action/cg mix take on Alice in Wonderland.

David Price of The Pixar Touch takes on the ‘gender gap’ at Pixar.

Finally, below the cut here’s a video remix of Snow White with music by Daft Punk. Yeah the same group that is going to do the score for Tron 2.0 or TR2N or whatever they’re calling it.

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Ain’t It Cool News has some new details outlining the plot of the Tron sequel. It goes without saying there are spoilers aplenty, so don’t click through unless you want to be spoiled.

It sounds like they are still trying to decide on the title for the movie. It’s not likely to be TR2N or Tron 2.0. Whatever they call it, at least in online circles TR2N is shaping up to be Disney’s most anticipated future release and it doesn’t even open until 2011.

Previously: TR2N.

TRON 2.0, aka TR2N, the long anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking original Disney film has been picking up cast members and apparently impressing them. Olivia Wilde was quoted on the Golden Globes red carpet making some fairly lofty statements.

“It’s going to be a kind of revolution in filmmaking and film watching,” [Wilde said.]

“Now that everyone has such great entertainment systems in their house,” she continued, “they don’t need to go to the movies anymore, but we’re going to give them a reason to. Not only will it be 3-D, but they’ll be seeing things they’ve never seen before in film.”

The moviesblog at MTV News has more of the interesting details.

Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon, a movie news website, had never seen the original Tron movie before. Hard to believe I know. But it provides him a unique (non-fanboy) perspective on TR2N, aka Tron 2.0, after watching the original for the first time.

one thing the first film does do is set up the sequel with many avenues to go down. Tron was something of a man against the system story, and it opens the door to a man against man inside the system story; it’s just a matter of whether or not man will continue to die while inside the system and how much effect the Disney production factor will have on the film’s storyline.

Obviously The Matrix already ripped off a lot of what Tron brought to the table initially, but in a far more elastic way. Tron is set in a very controlled environment, but it appears there is some leeway for a rogue program inside the system, which essentially is what Neo and Morpheus were when they jacked into the Matrix.

Lots of other interesting ideas there too.

I’m really jumping ahead a bit here, But the proof of concept footage leaked from Comic-Con showed me that TR2N could easily become another Walt Disney Pictures epic trilogy along the likes of Pirates Of The Caribbean or Narnia for Disney.

The basics rules for the rich world of Tron are already established, they just need to be fleshed out to a world wide level. There are also plenty of heavy issues involved with computers and their influences on our lives that haven’t been addressed since the original TRON was released. The original Matrix touched on it, but the sequels took another direction.

With some great screenwriters I think we could be loving this new world of TRON for years to come.

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Found another copy of the TR2N teaser trailer. It’s back up on the original post until the lawyers request that copy be removed too. It’s really not fair for Disney to show the trailer to an open event and not expect others to want to see it.

• LAist has a great article that looks at the history of ticket prices at Disneyland. The increase in the last four years has been more than $20.
• Michael Barrier has some additional information about the Petrified Tree Stump that Walt Disney gave to Lilian for their Anniversary and how and when it came to end up in Disneyland.
• Wall Street Analysts are getting smart to Disney’s Vacation Club and how its affecting the Walt Disney World resort. One of the questions to Bob Iger in the recent quarterly results call was about the under construction Bay Lake Tower, the DVC resort opening adjacent to the Contemporary Resort, that still hasn’t been officially announced yet.
• WDW Celebrations, a fan organized group that celebrates different Disney World anniversaries, has a big event planned for the end of September. Some reservation cut-off dates are coming soon and a new Dive, Dine, and Discover event has just been added.
• Steve Hulett from the Animation Guild blog checks in from Walt Disney Animation Studios and how the Hat building has been transformed for the final legs of the Princess and The Frog animation. The new configuration is meant to increase communication between the directing animators and their artists and correct some of the flaws that were designed when the building was conceived during Eisner’s era.
• Boxing promoter Don King lost his libel lawsuit against Disney and ESPN. He plans to appeal saying the fight has just begun.
• I’m still excited about that TR2N, aka Tron 2.0, teaser trailer that played at SDCC. I’m even more excited now that it’s been confirmed that members of the original team are still on the project.