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Hero Collector Launches Tron: Light Cycle Collection

Published Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:59:11 -0600

Eaglemoss' Hero Collector line has revealed a license for an upcoming line, the Tron: Light Cycle Collection from Disney's 1982 Tron movie. The die-cast collectible follows the artwork publishing model and features screen-accurate, hand-painted light cycle figurines and is intended to be a perfect match for the original CG model, and will come in each of the colours seen in the original film – blue, orange, and red. The first Light Cycle item is available now,

Hero Collector's Tron: Light Cycle Collection offers fans of this classic franchise their very own light cycle! A design taken from one of Flynn's own video games, the light cycle was repurposed for the MCP's deadly gladiatorial challenges. Fast, agile, and capable of leaving a solid 'jetwall' in its path, each light cycle steadily built a deadly maze around its opponents – until they were forced into a high-speed game over!

A good percentage of British magazine publication is based on the partwork model, wherein a volume is serialised published weekly, fortnightly or monthly. In recent years they have also incorporated a physical object that can be collected or combined with other objects to form a larger whole. These cover any topic from Roman architecture to fishing to classic sitcoms to superheroes. Eaglemoss and Hachette have also taken this to comic books, with the lead statue, chess pieces and mini-hardcover comics being popular examples, and selling them for the first time into the comic store marketplace. They have also expanded into licensed collectible items. This all played out over Eaglemoss' foray into the direct market of comic stores with Marvel and DC figures so popular that it spawned other lines and market approaches and quite surprised the publisher, used to getting magazines on the newsstand and then shifting as many customers as they can to subscription in order to complete the partwork. The direct market showed them, instead, a committed market who would keep coming back, leading them to regularly extend the partworks repeatedly. And thus the Hero Collector line was born. Other lines include Star Trek, Doctor Who, Alien, Predator, Back to the Future, WWE, Harry Potter's Wizarding World, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and James Bond. And now… Tron!

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