According to Blue Sky Disney, if Tron Legacy does well in the box office, we should be seeing at least two more films [beginning a whole new trilogy of Tron BLANK films Tron Legacy being the first] and the Mouse House's Tomorrowland might be getting a light suit face lift.

On the theatrical front, this could be the beginning of a new trilogy. And I'm not talking about including the original Tron. If all goes according to plan you could see this as the first in a trilogy of films that start with the word "Tron" and end somewhere else... Legacy is only the beginning. There are preliminary plans to milk this into a franchise of "Pirate" proportions...

Also in the pipeline is a computer-animated television series, most likely slicker than Reboot, that could show up as early as end of 2011. This TV show would be made as an attempt to keep fans invested, and Disney's coffers full, in between the following Tron films.

Not to miss a merchandising moment, Disney also has plans to completely revamp its Tomorrowland, flooding the park with Tron-themed trinkets and rides, including an actual Flynn's Arcade which Blue Sky Disney claims will go in what was once the arcade next to Space Mountain. But that's not all, besides adding a Flynn's, Disney may also be building a "Tron Experience" ride. Which sounds similar to the "The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter" previously in Tomorrowland, which is much more of an audience participation show than a ride. Still, we see a lot of possibility in "digitizing" the audience.

But the park changes are a long way off, possibly 2012 at the very earliest.

Finally there's another new still from the upcoming Tron Legacy, where you can see Flynn's son wandering through a a rickety and forgotten Flynn's Arcade, that magically still has the lights on.

[Image via SlashFilm]

There's no word on how Disney's recent acquisition of Marvel (or Dubai's recent economic woes) will affect the development of the Marvel park in Dubai, but reportedly the plan is to open its doors in 2012. Off-site testing has already begun on at least three attractions: Flying with Spidey, Fantasticar and X-Men: Danger Room.

These concept illustrations come from Chimera Design, and show several designs from the park's planned City of Super Heroes, as well as a map of the park.

Dubai World Marvel Super Heroes Theme Park Concept [Disney and More via Neatorama]

According to the park's website the place is going to be loaded with goodies like:

- Upon entering the park through the "arches of Hogsmeade," guests will be greeted by the Hogwarts Express and station, and free to roam the 22-acre park situated in Universal's Islands of Adventure

- The three Broomsticks and adjacent Hog's Head pub will feature traditional British fare and drinks including butterbeer and pumpkin juice.

- Across from the Three Broomsticks is The Owlery, where owls roost and await their next delivery. The Owl post sends letter with a certified Hogsmeade postmark and sells official stamps from the Wizarding World.

- Dervish & Banges, featuring a variety of magical instruments, including "real" remembralls, spectrespects. They also feature Quidditch equipment and Triwizard apparel.

- Family-friendly hippogryph flights across the park (after training by Hagrid, of course).

- Elements of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, including a Dragon Challenge: two high-speed rollercoasters in one.

- Ollivander's, where guests can experience a "magical" wand selection just like the book and movie, and purchase the wand.

- Zonko's and Honeydukes shops.

But the biggest attraction is supposedly the Forbidden Journey ride which they didn't really spill much about, but apparently the ride will take guests through scenes and rooms from the movies and books inside a tediously decorated Hogwarts Castle which should feel 700 feet tall.

They had me at butterbeer. But seriously, will there be a ride where they kill Cedric?

The concept art is amazing, if they can pull it off I'll be first in line, scarf in hand. The park is said to open next spring with early previews, and for the public later on.

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• The plot is pretty basic: tourists visit a theme park and interact with realistic, lifelike androids. Of course, something goes wrong and they start murdering everyone, which makes it hard to run a business.
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• In the sequel, FutureWorld, the park is reopened after they've spent $1 billion dollars in safety improvements. They invite reporters (played by Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner) to come check the place out and vouch for the place. Whoops, something goes wrong. Again. Only this time, the demented theme park owner is trying to duplicate world leaders in cloned android form. There is nothing like an evil Walt Disney.
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• Yul Brynner's final film west FutureWorld, where he appeared again as the Gunslinger in a semi-dream sequence.
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• In the final sequence of FutureWorld, one of the dying clones tells the head scientist "They're the wrong ones!" as Fonda and Danner leave the facility. They were supposed to be replaced by evil clones who would give Delos a rave review, but they were outsmarted by the real thing. Fonda turns around and flips the scientist the bird.
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• The television show, Beyond WestWorld, was about the security chief in Delos trying to stop the head scientist from using the robots to take over the world. That probably wasn't in the job description. The show featured plots like this, "Quaid (the scientist) gets his hands on some uranium, and John (the security chief) and Pamela (Connie Sellecca!) must find another android who is hiding in a rock band." Why this was canceled after only five episodes, we'll never know.
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• Michael Crichton was inspired to make this film after visiting Disneyland and seeing the animatronic figures on Pirates of the Caribbean, so you can now blame that attraction for at least five movies: WestWorld, FutureWorld, and all the the Johnny Depp Pirates movies.
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• This was the first movie to use digitized 2D computer graphics in a film, and the sequel FutureWorld was the first movie to use 3D graphics. In fact, in FutureWorld, the 3D hand you see on screen belongs to Edwin Catmull, the co-founder and president of Pixar and of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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• The theme park in the film is actually called Delos, and was meant to be the ultimate vacation destination. Visitors could visit WestWorld, MedievalWorld or RomanWorld and actually have sex with the androids, who were programmed to be receptive to all sexual advances. All this pleasure only cost $1000 a day.
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• Yul Brynner's Gunslinger character is an homage to the character Chris he played in The Magnificent Seven, and he even wears the same outfit.
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• John Carpenter has said that the Gunslinger was an inspiration for the Michael Myers character in Halloween, and it sure seems like The Terminator owes a lot to this relentless killing machine as well..
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• The Brynner-Bot has his face burned off by acid at one point, which also destroys his visual circuits. However, he has infrared backups, and spends the rest of the film chasing the main character while faceless. Trust us, it's cool.
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• Not really trivial... but doesn't James Brolin look a lot like Christian Bale in this flick?

As illustrated by the photo above, the robot on the left is showing off a "not in the face!" reaction to being touched by the woman on the right, so the Korean government is in the process of drawing up this code of ethics so that one day when these androids become sentient they won't immediately wipe the human race off the face of the earth. Instead, they can head to Robo-Land.

South Korea also wants to have a robot in every home by the year 2020 (coincidentally, the year that the internet will control your whole body), which means roughly 10 million robopeeps. You can bet they'll need to blow off some steam from time to time, and thankfully the country will have two destinations for them to choose from. While it hasn't been revealed what rides will be at these parks, the dancefloor will sadly be lacking in innovation with only one dance going on. Move over Disney, there's a new kid in town... and he runs on batteries.