Based on the box office results for Tron Legacy, it may be some time before we have a new Tron movie.  A shame, considering how pretty the thing is/was. (Olivia Wilde, need I say more?)

Anyway, Disney realizes that there was definitely an audience for it, and has decided to (appropriately) take advantage of it by creating a brand new animated series titled Tron Uprising.

You may have remembered seeing the preview for this show on this site over a year ago, but now the series is ready to launch. And to hype the premiere of the show on Disney XD in June, they’ve uploaded the first episode to YouTube! And, like a proper blogger, I’ve embedded it here!

Tron Uprising just screams production value, with a stacked voice cast including Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen, and Bruce Boxleitner, and they even got one of the guys who worked with Daft Punk on the score to score the series proper.

From what I’ve scanned of the episode (I’ll have to take some proper time to watch it), this looks like a great jump into the Tron universe, circa the period between the original and Legacy, and could end up being a very fun cartoon.

Tron Uprising premires on Disney XD on June 7th, 2012.