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Meet me in Chattanooga for TRON: LEGACY !

One of my favorite toy trolls, 'elfie' (AKA 'edgeling' on DeviantART, and Joel at the Water - Sewer - plug it NOW! Department), invites me to join him at the opening of Disney's TRON: Legacy at Nashville's Regal Opry Mills 20 IMAX. Well, several seconds of searching reveals that the Opry Mills IMAX attraction is still closed due to May's flooding; and according to some, may never reopen...

Flood waters from the 2010 Tennessee floods in early May reportedly reached as high as 10 feet inside the mall, and forced the closure of the facility temporarily. The entire property was remediated.

As of September 2010, restoration work has been halted while litigation over insurance claims plays out in court, and many of the mall's retailers have sought locations elsewhere in the area, either permanently or until the mall is restored and reopened. The initial reopening date was set for August 2011, but that is now in doubt due to the litigation.

There is speculation that Simon Malls may not reopen the mall at all, due to Simon Malls' choice to stop renovations to the mall during litigation. Simon Malls denies that it has plans to close the mall permanently. The Bass Pro Shops store reopened October 14, 2010 separate from the rest of the mall.

I've visited Bass Pro several times since their reopening, but the rest of the mall is boarded off and one cannot access the property.

A shame I can't watch TRON: LEGACY in the company of 'elfie' here in Nashville. I might go to Chattanooga to catch it (but not on opening day!). The original TRON was pretty decent as I recall, for a 1982 Disney film, but probably nothing as compared to today's visual fare. I expect this latest release to be spectacular, even if it is a Disney release.

As for elfie, can't blame him for wanting to get out of his 'house'...

' Edge Ling the Elf ' as TRON Guy !

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