ELECTRIC DREAMS! THE UNIVERSE OF 'TRON: UPRISING'

The new all-new digital frontier of TRON returns in TRON: UPRISING. Images: DISNEY.

It's time to ready those lightcycles and get your computer disc throwing skills polished as we return to the incredible alternate reality of the stunningly realized computer program world of TRON, in a hit new animated series based on the recently rejuvenated DISNEY franchise starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner. This time, TRON: UPRISING expands on certain prior events from the stunning and inventive TRON: LEGACY movie of 2010 and also presents a new story, as Boxleitner returns as the once security program who fights for his "users" in our real universe, Tron, to help a new young program, Beck (voiced by THE LORD OF THE RINGS Elijah Wood, making the most of his acting genre hopping adventures), lead an uprising in their digital universe against the evil and all-dominating Clu (whose facial features continue to show those of its creator, Flynn (Bridges, but voiced in this new series by Fred Tatasciore), aided by an equally all-new collection of memorably animated heroes and villains (including the brilliant vocal talents of genre favourite Lance Henriksen as the evil General Tysler, FRINGE's Lance Reddick as Cutler, a military veteran of the digital universe, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's too sexy for her red dresses Tricia Helfer, as the voice of The Grid. In an nice nod to the second film, the equally lovely Olivia Wilde will also make occasional voice guest turns as her lively and often scene stealing character of Quorra.

Preview: FIRST LOOK - TRON: UPRISING - Animated Series Trailer - YouTube

Sportsman and super-warrior, Tron (voiced by Bruce Boxletiner), returns...

New hero Beck (voiced by Elijah Wood).

Resurrected villainy: the evil version of the Clu program, with the likeness of its creator, Flynn (Jeff Bridges).

Cyber-babe! Villainous cohort, Paige (Emmanuelle Chriqui).

New baddie, General Tysler (Lance Henriksen)

Adding more welcome continuity on the behind the scenes front, TRON creator Steven Lisberger is keeping a fun watch on his baby, backed up with co-developer Bonnie MacBird, whilst LEGACY writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have developed this new television prequel incarnation. It makes its 18 episode debut in the UK on the DISNEY XD HD channel from tomorrow at 4.30pm. US reaction to the series has been very positive.

Those fantastic light cycles return...

Heroes and villains clash...

New heroes, new adventures...

Classic creations hunt for their prey...

With all the recent advances in storytelling and 2D/ CGI animation quality seen in recent hits like STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, TRON must surely be the perfect franchise to make its way to the small screen in delighting fans and audiences of all ages.