Homeless in Vancouver: Tron Bambi gets with the program

First Tron cars and now this.

A Fairview dumpster diver found it yesterday: a slightly lamed-in-the-rear-legs—but not the least bit lame vinyl figure of the famous white tailed Disney deer Bambi done up in Tron gear.

And wouldn’t you know it—it was made exclusively for a high-end Disney store in Shanghai, China.

More evidence the Chinese have been Tron-atized

Tron Bambi was created in 2011 exclusively for a “pop up” Disney store in Shanghai called Man is in the Forest run by Asian retailer CLOT. The store opened in 2010 to sell high concept Disney-themed merchandise created by leading designers.

Tron Bambi was based on a sculpt by Edison Chen, co-founder, with Kevin Poon, of CLOT.

CLOT’s Disney store takes its name from a line in the Bambi film.

This crossover of two Disney properties followed the release of Tron: Legacy, Disney’s 2010 sequel to the 1983 film Tron.

Dear old Bambi is the title character of Disney’s fifth animated feature film, Bambi, released in 1942.

In other Sino-Tron news

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is bringing a low-cost, Android-based gaming console to the Chinese market.

Huawei debuted its TRON gaming console at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.

The TRON is built around a Tegra 4 processor and 2GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.2.3. It has all kinds of connectivity: 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0—which connects to the accompanying controller—and a full-sized USB 3.0 port.

It also outputs 1080p video via HDMI, and will be available with either 16GB or 32GB of storage.

Huawei plans to sell the Tron console first and foremost in China for less than US$120.

The government of China just happens to have lifted a 13 year ban on dedicated game consoles—sales of consoles will be allowed in the free-trade zone of Shanghai.

But Huawei says its console would not have been affected by the ban because the TRON is a multi-purpose home entertainment device for watching videos and listening to the music—gaming is just one of its functions (cough).

According to reports, like this one and this one, another of the functions of this soup-can sized and shaped console will be playing PC, PS3, and Nintendo DS games.

So, if you’re going to buy only one thing…

Seriously, doesn’t the TRON sound like just the thing for a country awash in pirated movies, music and computer video games of every kind?