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TRON: Legacy - Young Sam's Room

Sam's room features items inspired by the original TRON, including bed sheets, pillow cases and several toys. There are a pair of light cycles and a Coleco handheld game on the top shelf. In TRON, Kevin Flynn also had a Coleco handheld game in his arcade office. On the second shelf sits an action figure that resembles Sark, one of TRON's villains on the grid. An red-orange Bit and yellow light cycle are placed on the center shelf, with a resting gray Bit just below.

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TRON: Legacy - Young Sam's Room

In addition to the TRON memorabilia, Sam's room is filled with items connected to the Walt Disney Company. The Black Hole novel on the top shelf refers to the science fiction film released by Walt Disney Studios in 1979.

A statuette to the left of the yellow light cycle appears to be the Silver Surfer, a Disney-owned Marvel Comics character. Even though Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer was deemed a failure, its been rumored that Walt Disney Pictures & Marvel Studios are discussing a new Silver Surfer production.

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TRON: Legacy - Young Sam's Room

The camera focuses on a few of Sam's things; a copy of The Black Hole, a Rubik's Cube, a pair of TRON figures, a Marvel Comic Book (with Galactus on the cover) and a pocket-sized Coleco Video Game. (Oddly, this combination of items doesn't appear in the wider shots of Sam's room.)

The Black Hole was a science fiction film released in 1979 by Walt Disney Studios. The Disney Company hoped to create its own vessel to tap into the sci-fi popularity created by Star Wars. Somewhat successful financially, The Black Hole was easily forgettable, overshadowed by George Lucas' original trilogy. Coincidentally, TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has been attached to a rumored Disney remake.

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TRON: Legacy - Helmet Hidden Mickey

Mickey hunters have cited the sticker on Sam Flynn's motorcycle helmet as a possible Hidden Mickey in TRON: Legacy.

The decal is actually a stylized 89 logo, a symbol of the year Kevin Flynn went missing. Although the 89 logo on the Dumont Garage door looks nothing like Mickey, the smaller decal could have been made to resemble a classic Hidden Mickey.

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TRON: Legacy - Flynn's Arcade

Sam arrives at the abandoned Flynn's Arcade, which happens to be located on Mead Street.

Mead Street is named for famed concept artist and futurist, Sydney (Syd) Mead. In addition to TRON: Legacy (2010) and the original TRON (1982), Mead's designs have appeared in numerous films, including sci-fi standards Blade Runner and Aliens. As an industrial artist, Mead has designed for the likes of Ford Motors, Phillips Electronics, Sony and Honda.

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TRON: Legacy - Flynn's Arcade

As Sam looks behind the TRON arcade cabinet, he doesn't notice the game's sequel, Discs of TRON.

TRON & Discs of TRON were both created by Bally-Midway to capitalize on the film's popularity. Neither arcade game appeared in the original TRON (1982), but both are featured in the sequel, TRON: Legacy (2010).

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TRON: Legacy - Flynn's Arcade

Sam walks by a pair of arcade games programmed by his father, Kevin Flynn. The two consoles on the left are Space Paranoids and ArcWars, two of the game titles stolen from Flynn in TRON (1982).

While working as a programmer for ENCOM, Kevin Flynn used his free time to create video games. Another ENCOM programmer, Ed Dillinger, stole Flynn's work and passed the games off as his own. The success of Flynn's games led to Dilliger's rise to CEO, leading to Flynn's firing from ENCOM. While searching the ENCOM mainframe for proof the games were stolen, Flynn is digitized and pulled into the grid.

TRON: Legacy - Flynn's Office - TRON MCP

While Sam accesses the computer in his father's secret office, fans of the original TRON might notice a metallic replica of the MCP. The MCP sits on the right side of the wheeled tray table's top tier (on the left side of the office).

In several Joseph Kosinski interviews, the TRON: Legacy director revealed that Flynn's secret office is filled with quite a few interesting items (Easter Eggs).

TRON: Legacy - Rinzler & Bit

TRON: Legacy's Rinzler is named after Lucasfilm executive editor, J.W. Rinzler. In addition to his work at Lucasfilm, J.W. Rinzler is also a New York Times bestselling author. His titles include, The Making of Star Wars, The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

Fans of the original TRON may have noticed the pair of geometrically organized fireworks to the left of the light cycle scoreboard. The orange octahedron-shaped fireworks are inspired by Bit, a grid character from TRON. Considered of the one of the earliest CGI movie characters, Bit communicated with simple YES & NO answers by changing its shape. A red geometric spiked star signified NO and a yellow-orange octahedron conveyed YES. The Bit fireworks in TRON: Legacy seem to be saying YES-YES.