DOGFIGHT DOUBLE - LIGHTCYCLE & TANK from TRON (1982)

Written and Directed by Steven Lisberger / produced by Donald Kushner

In 1982 Walt Disney Productions made an imaginative and innovation motion picture that was set in an imaginative vision of the virtual world ‘inside a computer’. This was the vision of Writer / Director Steven Lisberger. The film shows us a landscapes, vehciles and characters that all exisit solely as a series of 1s and 0s.

Appropriately, computers were used to craete several minutes of spectacular ‘SynthavVision’ imagary. Without a doubt the highlight of the is the scene with the light cycles where Flynn (Jeff Bridges) with Tron and Ram make an escape attempt and face off against 3 other faceless light cycles. This is a terrific sequence and is breathtaking even today..

Following this scene they encounter Tanks. This is featured in this 'dogfight double'. I imagine the modle kit parts would be made in either tinted clear plastic or regular plastic with transparencies and an interior for the bike riders. These would be a challenging paint job with their intricate designs that look like printed circuity.

The kit suggests a scale of 1/32nd which transposes real world scale into the computer, assumimg the digital characters are the same size as real world humans.

Electronic World Vehicles designed by Syd Mead

Computer Graphics Choreography Bill Kroyer

Visual Effects supervsied by Harison Ellenshaw

What If Model Kits #10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NxS9vxPvQ&t=70s