Street-legal Tron Light Cycle replica available for $55K

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 1st 2010 10:00PM

With the option to purchase an actual Tron Light Cycle out of the question -- 'cause, they're in the computer -- we'll have to settle with the dream of owning a replica by Parker Brothers Choppers. The shop made 10 street-legal Light Cycle machines and one of the four remaining can be yours for the rez-onable price of $55,000.

According to Autopia, the vehicle weighs 474 pounds, is over 100" long and 23" wide, with the rider lying 28.5" from the ground. It looks awesome and we'd totally ride on one, but only after we did the responsible thing and registered as an organ donor. Check out some footage of the real-world Light Cycle after the break.

Via: Escapist
Source: Autopia

Tags: Disney, microsoft, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps3, Tron-Evolution, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (90)

This gives me hope that maybe when im old this will be on sale.

If you buy the tron motorcycle suit you'd be set

@Jawmuncher
Don't forget your helmet!

@Jawmuncher
You would need the suit or else it wouldn't be as cool

@Jawmuncher
The price to make one of the lightcycle riders' suits in the actual movie was around $60,000.

Unless you mean those replica suits, good luck.

@TRONdll CHAIN BREAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No jetwall, no sale.

Does it come with Olivia Wilde?

@Riley Freeman

You drive around on that thing long enough and you'll attract all kinds of Olivia Wildes.

Boooooring!

I wanna see it pick up some speed dammit!

Looks like you need a long body to feel properly in control of the thing but still, a masterpiece for sure.

Looks the NUTS!

@DarrylKensley

Yeah, I wanted to see em take it on the road, but I guess they didn't feel like dying.

@DarrylKensley

It almost seems like the thing doesn't go faster than 5 mph....plus b/c of the geometry, even looks terribly uncomfortable to ride.

Well I called BS on them being able to make it for 55k or make it at all, so props for that.

I'll still say that the way they designed it you would not want to ride it for more than 10 minutes, as you're almost in a splayed push-up while driving

@satn

Does not look like a comfy ride at all.

@Aperture
I'd rather see the cyclones from Robotech

@Spookimitsu +1

@Spookimitsu

I'd rather see Kaneda's bike from Akira over the cyclones, but I didn't grow up watching Robotech either.

@Anticrawl Oh they made it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDJ1LFzc98

It looks awesome but then watching them ride it looks uncomfortable, I own a gsxr 700 and love it but I dunno about the laying flat like that for any length of time. Also would like to see them get to some reasonable speeds on it.

@MinkLei

Nothing some Swedish memory foam and a hand warmer on your gonads can't fix, although...you'd probably fall asleep...

I like the thought of having a tron bike, but there are some things in this world that shouldn't be replicated. This "Looks" proportionally wrong (not saying it isn't, just going by looks), it's like they need to shorten it some.

@OneBaldMan

Is it just me, or does it look like the motorcycle in the latest Batman movie? Maybe with some fabrication changed.

Anyway, it doesn't look quite right, but it looks pretty cool to me.

man... I've dreamed of riding a light cycle for as long as I remember. But seeing it live, in reality... it looks kinda dumb. That bike looks like a giant dildo... No bueno mi amigo.

@popephoenix

That's part of why tron worked. Things in it only make sense in a completely different kind of world from our own.

Take just about anything from tron into the real world and it's the lamest cosplay ever. Their death frisbees and leotards are not actually cool.

@Dustin F
I don't think it matters if freakin' DEATH FRISBEES are cool or not. "Oh, I apologize for my unstylish causation of your fashion-victim death. Maybe they'll host your obit on 'How Not To Die'. "

@popephoenix

Can't say I see how that resembles a dildo...

Could have done without the bad music and the idiotic biker imagery

@UseSplashAttack Ditto on both counts. Looks impossible to ride for more than 30 seconds too.

@UseSplashAttack
They wouldn't allow the montage on youtube without all that.

@UseSplashAttack

Right. Very cool concept; very lame video. If that's all they can do with the thing, maybe it's not really roadworthy.

@UseSplashAttack Agreed. The music, and the first and last 15 seconds of the video sucked. And why didnt it light up?

@UseSplashAttack

I could definitely see me flipping/dropping this thing in a tight turn; even in a turn that my Shadow could make.

That is sweet. Really, do want. Especially with this anticipation of Tron: Legacy flowing through me.

Would be cool if they had a light effect beaming out of the back. And the vehicle should be glowing in some areas.

You know as much as I thought it would have been cool to ride one in real life I now realize that I'd have more fun just riding them in a game. Hell a light cycle flash game would be more fun that trying to ride that,

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery
The official Tron Legacy site has a bunch of Unity Engine-based flash games, including ye olde lightcycles: http://disney.go.com/tron/index_flash.html.

@jastani
Although both Unity and Flash have browser plugins, they are in no way related. Unity isn't a 3D engine running whithin Flash, it is a totally different application.