Flynn's Arcade Video Games

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Neon Art

Name/Title

Flynn's Arcade Video Games

Entry/Object ID

2016.16.2

Description

Skeletal neon arcade game iconography created by Disney to be displayed along with a replica of the Flynn's Arcade sign (also in MONA's collection) to promote the 2010 reboot of the 1982 film "Tron" at Comic-Con in San Diego. The signs were later displayed at Disney's California Adventure theme park.

Category

Signs

Made/Created

Date made

2010

Interpretative Labels

Label

Flynn’s Arcade 2010 Donated by The Walt Disney Company, with thanks to Buena Vista Special Events and Walt Disney Imagineering The iconic Flynn’s Arcade from the movie "Tron" (1982) was the user-world centerpiece where character Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) lived, worked, and planned his revenge against a man and company that stole the popular video games he had designed: Space Paranoids, Light Cycles, and more. When the story was revisited by Tron: Legacy (2010), the shuttered Flynn’s Arcade was a mysterious puzzle and portal to a digital world. In celebration of the second film, Disney constructed this neon arcade sign for San Diego’s Comic-Con and used it again at Disney’s California Adventure for a year-long ElecTRONica celebration.