They are, Dacey, they are.

This is the same technology that they used at the start of X3 to get McKellen and Stewart looking like younger versions of themselves. That didn't quite get away from a waxy look, but Benjamin Button a year or so later managed to make us all believe that Brad Pitt was 21 again, looking just as he did in Meet Joe Black and the like.

So when they announced - back when the story was revealed a year or so ago - that the opening scenes of Tron Legacy would feature Kevin Flynn in 1985, that's really when I started going gaga over the potential of this film, knowing that, although Flynn might age, Clu would basically remain the same, seeing as he's a program that wouldn't age.

That trailer you posted WAS awesome...I'm really trying NOT to get pumped up about this only to be disappointed, but it's hard. Everything about this film screams that - okay it's being made for commercial reasons - but everything screams that it's being done with integrety.

I'm just surprised, so far, that we haven't had the announcement yet for the first film on Blu-ray. Whatever else, they'll want to make sure newcomers are up to speed on the story...or maybe not. Maybe they don't want to put people off, so they may be holding a BD release back until the new film is ready to debut on disc. But at the same time I think it could much better on BD as opposed to the old VHS or DVDs that people will probably rent before they go, or see on TV as they inevitably show it in the run up to the release.

Akiyama...the chanting also sounds awesome. Sounds like the ending may well involve a gladitorial showdown between two certain characters...

I'm sure that Tron will be out on BD 1-2 months prior to the new film's theatrical debut. And it had better be a good disc, as I just sold my DVD set.

Someone managed to get video of us doing the chants.

That's what "worries" me...if the BD was to come out in, say, September/October, we'd have had an announcement by now. My guess is that they will rely on the current DVD and TV showings to bring people up to speed, and minimise "disappointment" or "offputting" people by not playing up the original film - a flop, remember - too much before they are wowed by the new one.

After that, they'll do a "see how it all began" campaign with the new one on disc, and probably bring out a rebate type offer for when you buy both films at the same time. That would also be pretty cool, and I think I'd prefer that, than to a lame rushed disc whose only new feature is a "sneak peek at the all new Tron Legacy movie"...!

But the original will be on BD soon enough, probably with all those 20th Anniversary extras intact, though it'll be interesting to see if the concept art for what was then Tron 2.0 remains, or if they snip out that from the documentary as "dated" or incorrect material. But the movie is sure to be stunning!

As for the Con audio session...that is just plain friggin' a-m-a-z-i-n-g if that ends up in the soundtrack. No doubt they will tweak and add their own tracks too, but as a basis that is just the coolest thing to know you're one of many videogame warriors shouting those words, and they way they organized that was very well done and lighthearted too. Excellent!

News from the other side of the screen: the original Tron is mid-way through an HD "upgrade" for later release on BD. So, it doesn't sound as if it's going to be announced for this year, and is more likely to make it tied into Legacy's disc debut - maybe as a set? - next spring.

Hopefully they don't tinker with things too much with an "upgrade" as opposed to a restoration/remaster, but I'd be pretty happy if they found a way to keep the original's intentions intact while helping the original effects along a little. Not as in changing them via Star Wars, but just smoothing out some matte lines and process shots.