Things on the Grid were so promising. A new movie, years in the making , was on the way. A new roller coaster opened at Walt Disney World . Red lightcycles and data discs were coming to stores . And Hasbro geared up a super elaborate collectors’ set for fans to get their hands on. But then, in classic Tron fashion, it almost all derezzed.

The roller coaster will live on forever, but the same can’t be said for that Hasbro set. After a little over six weeks of availability, the “ Tron : Heroes of the Grid” set failed to reach the minimum number of backers to go into production. It’s dead.

This can happen from time to time. The Tron set was released as a “Haslab” project , a special section of Hasbro for more ambitious, expensive projects, which only happens if a certain n

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