Allow me to introduce the TRON Fandom
āWhat?ā you may ask. āThereās a fandom besides Doctor Who, Supernatural, and Sherlock on Tumblr?ā Yeah. Pay attention, the Avengers are pretty big here too, along with the rest of the MCU.
But Iām not here to talk about that. Iām here to talk about TRON.
āDo you mean that hokey 80s Sci-Fi flick Iāve never watched because it just looks lame, or that two hour Daft Punk music video?ā
Donāt you start with me. And stop interrupting.
We are the Tron fandom. We appreciate these movies. Know why? Because we actually sat and enjoyed the story.
Sure, weāre pretty small. Neither film did as well as Disney wanted in the box office. But you know what?
Yknow that game that came out, Disney Infinity? Yeah, the one with the figures. When it first came out we wanted TRON characters in it. So we asked. We pushed. And you know what?
We got em in the next version.
But they were DIGITAL ONLY????
We werenāt about to sit still for that. So you know what we did? We nagged again and we got our physical figures. Some of us donāt even play Disney Infinity and we bought the figures, both digitally and physically. Some of us have a little army of Quorraās on our shelves.
We may be small. We may not have a lot of content out there. But we are PASSIONATE. We snap up whatever we get. Heck, we waited nearly thirty years for a sequel movie to the first movie, and got a FPS video game in between. And we ate it up. We are the ones who buy the comics, who watched every episode of Uprising, even when it was on at MIDNIGHT. Not to mention we own every episode of TRON: Uprising on iTunes, Amazon Digital, etc.
Weāre the ones who sent Disney hundreds, possibly thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of glow sticks when we heard that our third movie was shelved, and boy do we refuse to say itās cancelled.
Weāre the ones who are going NUTS over every piece of beautiful concept art that was āleakedā from āTRON: Escape.ā
Weāre the ones who flipped out when we found out that āTRON: Escapeā actually was happening, only by a different name (TRON: RUN/r), and are buying it up on Steam EVEN THOUGH THE GAME ISNāT DONE YET.
Weāre the ones who read, watch, play, and buy anything with TRON on it.
Weāre the ones who have created intricate backstories and fan fictions and fan characters, some characters that are written so well they feel like they are canon.
Weāre the ones who refuse to believe that the Tron franchise is dead.