thinking about how the tron legacy lightcycle design was based off a lightcycle design syd mead drafted for tron 1982, where the backs of the lightcycles merged with the riders to symbolize that the programs were merged with the vehicles, but the animation technology at the time wasn’t advanced enough to render it, so it sat unused for the original film, then remained unused in tron 2.0 and kingdom hearts (in which jet and sora(?) use a different lightbike designed by mead). only to see use in legacy. and that the detail of the back merging with the program was kept intact when they built the roller coasters. so when you ride tron lightcycle/run you’re both 1) merging your code with the ride (watsonian) and 2) becoming a part of syd mead’s original vision for TRON (doylian).
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fascinating interpretation!!
the Syd Mead design is always gonna be one of my faves…
partly because it fits with my headcanon about how the cycle– as an extension of the living program, which likely uses and optimizes the program’s energy, instead of having its own fuel and motor– is therefore more analogous to a pedal-powered bicycle than a motorcycle
