Disney is planning big things to celebrate the release of Tron: Legacy, and we're not just talking dead-end scavenger hunts. For starters, they're redoing the Disney parks Tron style.

They're transforming their monorails into Tron monorails. How will that look? Like this:

The transformed trains will be visible on the Epcot monorail line as early as this month. And if you look close, you’ll notice that the design of the futuristic motorcycle-like vehicles from the upcoming film Tron: Legacy also includes walls of trailing colored light.

I'm far from an expert on the subject but it seems to me that outside of Warcraft, none of these Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing games ever actually work. It's a simply question of audience. They require a large group of interested players sticking with it over a long period of time and while your Star Trek Onlines of the world might have a brief period of popularity, they never seem to have any staying power and the people playing them invariably seem to drift back to Warcraft.

But it's safe to say that if you're going to try and launch an MMO that you'd better launch one with the biggest, existing fanbase possible. Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings. Making MMOs out of these make sense and yet, even those have struggled to find enough players. So what the frak are the people at a company called Bigpoint doing making a MMO out of Battlestar Galactica? I have no idea.

Don't get me wrong, I love BSG and so did a lot of other people. But BSG's fanbase is less then 10% the size of Trek's or even Lord of the Rings, and that's being generous. Turning it into an MMO seems doomed to failure, but it's happening anyway. As long as they're doing it, sign me up for my own Raptor.
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Comic Book Movie believes they may have uncovered evidence which proves Tony Stark will wear suitcase armor in Iron Man 2. That's right, I said suitcase armor. They believe his newest Iron Man 2 armor, the MK5 will collapse down to fit in a suit-case sized parcel which can then be carried around for easy transport.

You can see Pepper Pots dumping the Iron Man armor case out of a car in the following featurette at around the 4:28 mark:

And here's a toy version of what the new armor might look like on Tony. Note the ridges on the suit which make it look as though it could be collapsible: more...

This is not a joke. The students of the of Mississippi University have voted in Admiral Ackbar as the school's new, official mascot. AllVoices says the university, looking for a new symbol which would launch them into the new millenium, put the choosing of their new mascot to a student body vote. The Star Wars nerd infested student body voted for Admiral Ackbar, Supreme Commander of the Rebel Alliance Fleet as their man.

There's only one hangup here. The university's Mascot Committee stands between Ackbar and collegiate immortality. It's possible that they could overrule the vote, though we hope not. If they let their Ackbar flag fly, Ole Miss is suddenly the world's most beloved geek university. It may however, not be the best place to go if you're hoping to meet girls.

Putting Ackbar in this position of responsibility makes sense. He's smart, confident, a product of diverse ethnic origins, and he can breathe underwater. He's a leader of men, in a position of supreme authority, and he's not the kind of guy you can lure into a trap. He's the perfect mascot really. Make it happen Ole Miss!

The Tron: Legacy viral game we've been waiting for is live and happening right now! Go to zerohour to play. How it works is like this: Instructions are appearing for different cities. Those instructions will lead you to a contact. In many cities, the locations are arcades, which I suppose makes sense.

So where's this all leading? On the viral site classic Tron images are starting to appear on a grid. Click the images and they flip over to reveal they're all part of a larger image. What is that image? It looks like a new Tron: Legacy poster. Could that be where all of this is leading? We'll find out.

As I type this Austin, London, Madrid, and New York have instructions posted waiting to be solved. Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Orlando, and Paris have already been solved. There's lots more to come! Updates as it develops.

In just a few hours, at 8am PST and 11am EST, the countdown running on the Tron: Legacy viral site Zerohour will count down and lead us to... well nobody knows. But tonight the Flynn Lives site sent out a new email which offers clues to those already signed up with the site. Here it is:

To all those who passionately believe that Kevin Flynn, digital pioneer and legendary game designer, is still alive... LISTEN UP!

Our last event at Flynn’s Arcade was a call-to-arms for those of us who won't buy into Encom-driven public propaganda about what happened. We're not crazy - there's more to this story than they are letting out.

Today, we have the chance to find out more... to get closer to the truth. WE NEED YOUR HELP!

PREPARE FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF OUR MISSION

We need operatives in 25 different cities around the world on Wednesday, February 24th. Organize now. For more information visit:

FlynnLives.com/ZeroHour

ALSO…

The Flynn Lives website is about to launch private Member Profile pages to better organize our group. If you haven't already, click here to set up your username and password.

Get ready to replace that tattered old Jerri Ryan poster. This fall you’ll find a new replacement when Olivia Wilde shows up as the official computerized love interest in Tron: Legacy. She’s been on the scene for awhile but this is the first time she’s really done anything, outside of the wearing a bikini, worthy of putting her on your nerd radar. But why wait to start your Olivia Wilde obsession? This week she’s on stands in Elle Magazine, doing a ridiculously hot photoshoot. In honor of her hotness, we’ve got the images from her Elle shoot below, along with some of her other more poster worthy work from the past. Browse the gallery after the jump, get her on your desktop, and hope Tron: Legacy has ditched those bulky, plastic outfits of the original movie in favor of digitized bikinis. more...

Disney is bringing Michael Jackson's 3D sci-fi movie back to life. The film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by George Lucas, ran at Disney's parks in the 80s. It starred Michael as the captain of a ragtag spaceship crew who, of course, eventually ends up fighting bad guys with music.

Here's Disney's announcement:

On Tuesday, February 23, as a tribute to the magic, music and messages of “Captain EO,” the 3-D musical adventure is returning to the Tomorrowland theater in which it debuted. While it’s not possible to replicate some special effects elements from the original presentation, it will boast a new 70mm print of the film, and it will sound better than ever thanks to acoustic enhancements made to the theater since the film last played there in 1997.

Nimrod Antal's new Predators movie is well underway and set photos have been leaking out onto the street. The street, in this case, being the internet.

Bloody-Disgusting has a great new batch of photos taken from the very creepy set they're using as the Predator home planet. I've dropped a few of the images below, see the rest in high-res over there.

Steven Spielberg is working on a new drama series for Fox which, sounds an awful lot like Land of the Lost. It's called Terra Nova and here's how Variety describes it:

Spielberg and Peter Chernin are in negotiations to board the drama project "Terra Nova," which is described as following a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to the strange and inhospitable environs of prehistoric Earth.

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