When Sam (Garrett Hedlund), the son of the now mysteriously vanished Kevin Flynn (Bridges), visits his dad's dusty, abandoned Flynn Arcade and ends up getting sucked -- through a "TRON" videogame!
Hillenbrand, a casket manufacturing business, acquired K-Tron, a pneumatic equipment company, in anticipation that the death-related services industry will not see much growth in the next few years.
"What I think Disney is doing is smart, " said Machos, who thinks it's a good idea to re-establish "Tron" for a new generation.
Could Cloues help sell Colortronic to Marcel Rohr who, as a former K-Tron executive, had originally engineered the purchase of the company?
As long as it's engaged in light-hurling bouts of force, or motorcycle chases through a landscape so ominously enveloping it looks like "Blade Runner" after gentrification, "TRON: Legacy" is a catchy popcorn pleasure.
Audi has shown a series of e-tron-branded electric cars, one of which, the Tesla Roadster-like R8, is going into limited production next year.
Her first attempt at a comedy show was last year at the Tron in Glasgow and she says she is starting to go "a bit bonkers with adrenaline" as the latest performances come closer.
"For anyone who witnessed the onset of computers and the dawn of video games, 'Tron' spoke to a lot of us with concepts about what it was like to be inside a computer or a virtual world, " he said.
Personal computing emerged in the 1980s as something Hollywood couldn't ignore, with films like "Tron, " about a hacker who gets trapped in a computer game, and 1983's "WarGames, " about a nerdy high school student who nearly causes a nuclear apocalypse after breaking into a military-operated computer network.
Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
In back you'll find the machine assembly plant and a wing leased to one of K-Tron's vendors.
K-Tron began life in 1949 as a maker of pneumatic scales, moving a couple of decades later into digitally controlled feeders.
Project literally does sizzle, with a cool video cover featuring Jeff Bridges hawking Tron: Legacy amid some suitably futuristic visual and audio effects.
The Tron Kirk will also transform into a new festival hub, a club that will open at 10:00 and run through to late evening - with performers from contemporary to vintage jazz.
Walt Disney Pictures came to Comic-Con in 2008 with test footage from what was then referred to as "TR2N, " a sequel to the 1982 cult classic "Tron, " one of the first films to use computer-generated imagery.
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The A3 e-tron has similar level of sportiness to a Mini Cooper -- minus the feeling of being in a go-kart.
"That deal almost sunk K-Tron, " says Cloues, who was a board member at the time and received a distress signal.
That said, the studio has had a long time to ponder its mistake, and "TRON: Legacy, " unlike its predecessor, really does make novelty look cool.
Cloues, who became chief executive in 1998, spent a good part of his early tenure reorganizing K-Tron, outsourcing expensive processes like metal bending and getting rid of assets--selectively.
But "TRON: Legacy" turns out to be a little too much like one of those logy trapped-on-Planet X sci-fi movies from the 1950s: There's a lot of dramatic stasis undergirding the visual wow.
That Tron-ish, equalizer-like graphic is actually a 3D representation of particle activity left behind by cosmic rays interacting within NOvA, the Department of Energy's under construction neutrino detector.
The digital rear-view mirror celebrated its dazzling premiere at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the R18 e-tron quattro and R18 ultra race cars which gave Audi a one-two-three win in the legendary race.
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And just as TRON: Legacy has come back to pop culture relevance after a long hibernation, Commodore 64 has been relaunched with the same classic look, but all-new, modern-day technology on the inside.
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Starting from the slow, but bustling, streets of SoHo downtown (A6 trailing us for support) with just under half a charge left, we could already feel how agile the A3 e-tron is.
The Audi e-tron, for instance, is an experimental sports coupe that relies on a battery alone to drive four electric motors one for each wheel.
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The best example of this was when we turned the A3 e-tron onto NYC's West Side Highway to head uptown while getting a feel for its performance on an open road.
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