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Mike Reyes

The Tron Franchise Timeline Explained

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Greetings, Programs! Currently, visitors to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom can take a spin on the park’s most thrilling attraction: Tron Lightcycle Run. But there’s an entire history that leads from the formation of a fictitious computer company a little over 50 years ago to the current state of the Tron timeline. While that new Jared Leto film won’t be arriving at any point on the 2023 new movie releases schedule, it’s still a good time to review this chain of events from the first spark to the end of the line. There’s a lot of ground to cover, so let’s turn the clocks back to 1972, and dig into the legacy of Tron. 

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