Weyland Corporation's logo/inspiration may have featured early on in Blade Runn

Good find, Hypernova. I have to concur that the word shown is "Corporation". I've no idea what the sticker is actually meant to communicate, but the arrangement of triangles undoubtedly had some influence on the Weyland logo in Prometheus. I'm sure that the concept art for Ridley's earlier films (Alien & Blade Runner) were pored over in great detail by the production designers.

If you don't mind I would love to repost this on the Blade Runner 2 forum, unless you would like to do it yourself. :D

excellent find, and looks like it reads "Corporation" to me...

Thanks Freeze! Svanya would you please permit me to run this thread both here and upon the Blade Runner site, reason being is that this qualifies as being upon here is because it features a possible Weyland Corporation logo and thus that make it relevant for PROMETHEUS talk/chat as Peter Weyland is a crittical character within the franchise and he is quite possibly,through the blue-ray archives doubly connected to Blade Runner with regards to the Digital Memo sent crytically from Peter Weyland to his mentor/rival and challeger ''Eldon Tyrell". Cofirmation of this second theory can be confirmed if someone could please tell me if they have come across theACTUAL WAY the supposed 'REAL' Eldon Tyrell died as it was indicated that the Tyrell killed in Blade Runner is a Replicant just keeping up the pretense for the benifit of the companies destiny as he: the REAL Eldon Tyrell died another way then in that regard. Batty knows this because he supposedly saw all of the workings and mechanisms inside the false Tyrell's body. He then proceeds up to the very top of the Tyrell Pyramid 1 or 2 , I'm not sure which and sees the body of the real Tyrell lying there in stasis and has done so for, I think the last four years during the time of his bodies discovery by Batty.

Well, I don't think there is anything but what was shown in the movie.That he died at the hands of batty in his tower. I haven't read the book in ages and I know it is very different from the movie, a lot of people never died in it that die in the movie.

Of course, that is what I would love to see, anything Blade Runner related to be on the BR2 site as well. That scene was never filmed [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CkiDuHrxsM]Eldon Tyrell from Blade Runner was supposed to be replicant[/url], also keep in mind De lauzirika (producer of prometheus blu ray) recently stated that the Blade Runner/Prometheus connection on the blu ray was an easter egg for the fans (notice it was more of an implied connection than an objective/literal connection...no name mentioned etc.). De lauzirika said that he, rather than Scott, came up with the aforementioned connection and that it shouldnt necessarily be considered canon (though ridley didnt object to said easter egg).

So there fore is there any information of how the 'real' Tyrell actually died. For all we know that does take place, Batty's visiting Tyrells stasis crypt, we just never see it upon screen - that don't mean it didn't happen but according to Weylands cryptic message to his so-called Mentor/Challenger/ Competitor: 'the thing blew up in his face - literally!' This suggests that something the 'Old Man was dabbling in with early cybernetics went wrong and he got killed in the resulting explosion and it is this that Weyland could be alluding to and so the Tyrell Corporation ties in with this theory by replicationg their own 'creator' of sorts, ironic - replicatiing the replicaor! The Irony-of-Ironies! So does annyone know or have read anything else anywhere that states how the REAL Eldon Tyrell actually dies? As this would, in my view, make a strong case that they are both being subltly united through little back-doors within the duel franchises, this would make for a strong thought in that direction.

I haven't read any of the sequel books yet: Blade Runner's: The Edge of Human, Replicant Night and Eye & Talon. Can you Svanya or indeed anyone on here remember if there is anything mentioned throughout those three books, if you've read them, that could bring some pointers to this idea?

I'm pretty sure Tyrell is dead in the book. His neice, Sarah Tyrell, is featured in the second novel- "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human"

No I know, but have you come across anything that may have inferred about Tyrell Corporation's history and may have had one or two lines in it which refered to Eldon Tyrell himself and possibly his death? His supposed real death? You haven't come across any thing like that or magazine articles, anything?

Nope, all I have ever read and seen is that Tyrell dies at the hands of Roy Batty, up in his tower.

I came across this excerpt from a Blade Runner Wikipedia section, knowing what many have to say in reaction to anything wikipedia it can have a mixed review of reaction went anything from there is being used as a citation but you can't lie or make-up something to which we, as fans, are all familiar with with regards to Blade Runner so here is some information based upon Eldon Tyrell which has to fall in line with what we know because it is wide open to scrutinty and pulled up on for coninuity and so on so theses passages highlighted here which I came across seem to veify a few logical things. _______________________________________________________________________ "He refers to Replicant's as his children, part of his metaphorical comparison to God, as he demonstrates the power to create life, block the light of the sun as he wishes it, displays vast knowledge and lives in a vast golden place, where he is supreme ruler. Batty is his Lucifer, his most perfect creation rising up to challenge and then seeking to destroy his creator. Indeed all rogue replicants are presented as like fallen angels, faster, stronger and on the whole more intelligent beings than humans who can nevertheless walk among them, turning from the "Wisdom" of their creator and rising up against led by the greatest of them. He is also a master chess player, losing to fellow master J.F Sebastian only twice, and the second time, he lost because Batty told Sebastian what moves to make. He also possesses a pet owl, used as a symbol of wisdom, however as the Owl is artificial is can be seen as showing that Tyrell has "False wisdom". He also displays a somewhat condescending attitude to almost everyone. It was originally intended that the Tyrell murdered by Batty would be revealed to be a replicant, and as a result Batty would head up to the next floor, where he would discover the real Tyrell in cryogenic suspension. Sebastian would then explain that a incurable disease struck Tyrell, who had himself frozen until a cure is found. Subsequently Batty would demand that Sebastian awaken him. Two different versions exist on what would have happened next, in the 1st, Sebastian would brake down and admit that he made an error years earlier and resulted in Tyrell's death and in a rage, Batty kills him. In the 2nd Sebastian reveals that years before (estimated as 2013) a blackout struck the city, and during the approximately 45 minutes the power was out, Tyrell's life support failed and he died. Again Batty is struck by despair and feeling there is no hope, he kills Sebastian much as he did in the finished film. In the Blade Runner video game, it is shown that Tyrell met with rookie Blade Runner Ray McCoy shortly after meeting with Deckard and spoke briefly with him about the death of one of his senior Gravity Lab technicians, but he provides little useful information. It also reveals that just hours before his death at Batty's hands he had narrowly survived a confrontation with a Nexus 6 named Clovis who unlike Batty, does not ask for more life from Tyrell himself, but rather for the DNA data on the Nexus 6 in the hope of using it to find a way to prolong his lifespan himself without Tyrell's involvement. When Tyrell insists the 4 year lifespan is unalterable, Clovis moves to shoot him, but is thwarted by Tyrell's security team. Tyrell is also revealed to be attempting to convince Governor Kolvig to allow replicants to work on Earth, but the governor is killed by Clovis not long after this proposal is made." _______________________________________________________________________ It sheds light on a few tid bits of information in tandem with things we are currently familiar so putting them together makes for an interesting read, somewhat at least.

I would really like to know if the Weyland logo design has been already used in our world but we earthlings just are blind to it. The use of the 3 Diamond logo for Mitsubishi is very close to the Weyland logo design

I remember when we first saw images of the Weyland Corp logo from set pictures of Prometheus and I mistakenly thought it was the Yutani Corporation logo - My thinking was that the three triangles were the same/similar as those used in the Weyland-Yutani logo used from Aliens onwards to symbolise the Y of Yutani, but hey, can't win 'em all. [center][img]http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww193/FalconsPrey/weylandyutani.jpg[/img][/center] So we have The Prometheus Blu-Ray's easter egg inferring Weyland knew Tyrell and now Hypernovas well spotted Weyland Corporation logo in Bladerunner, while not forgetting that the Nostromo's Captain Dallas "Allegedly" worked for the Tyrell Corporation in in 2116 aboard the USCS Shussett (see below). [center][img]http://i55.tinypic.com/mbk1p0.jpg[/img][/center] I wonder what other little clues there are out there that link the two universes?

This is a great find Snorkelbottom! I have learned something new as well! I had not known that Tyrell Corporation titling featured upon the crew manifest/ details and listings of Dallas' profile. Also note there are other in-house references to the Alien creation (this time on the part of the writer/producers Ronald Shusset, the name Michael Seymore is connected to production and Ron Cobb, designer/futurist, etc. who worked on Alien.) [img]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7350/85054673.jpg[/img] With this 'find' there is now a third linkage with regards to the Alien universe Aliens and that of Blade Runner and Prometheus. This name/corporation referal to Tyrell upon Dallas' file, the 'apparant' Weland Corporation logo and the Prometheus Blue-Ray easter-egg regarding the kryiptic message/memo sent by Peter Weyland to someone he was connected to in his past that seems to hint at very closely and near-enough obviously to any reasoned thinker on this subject to Eldon Tyrell are all good indicators that the producers are on the one hand having fun but yet on another seem to be gearing up potentially to an Avengers type inter-connectedness with one-another. At least I hope that is going to start building to a kind of subtle crecendo of-sorts. I'm wondering if after the release of Alien then Blade Runner when Aliens went into production then many years later Prometheus thus did the same both directors James Cameron and Ridley Scott poured over the films little incidental things, seemingly hidden in the back ground within plain sight and began from ther to build upon the idea of the Weyland Corporations fictitious logo/emblem after-the-fact. Its not until Aliens comes out that the whole Weland-Yutani Corporation thing begins to be played like the identity, to the abiguous 'Company' which up to this time had remaind relatively an unseen yet often mentioned 'existing entity' but with no face. Later on after subsequent rereleases of both Alien and Aliens in the extras and bonus materials more references to Weyland-Yutani Corporation and its involvement with events to Alien became more apparant and more frequent.

Here's another image hinting at what appears to be, to the right hand-side from Deckards' head, a SECOND potential Weyland Corporation logo/sticker! Cool! [img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1927/59347180.jpg[/img] Its tantalizingly obscure to read what is at the begining of the wording/titles to the logo running underneath the black triangles upon a red background surface this timer as opposed to a white one on theversion to the left-hand side of the booth/kiosk in relation to Deckards field of view. This suggests four 'Hints' now with regards to Alien, Aliens, Blade runner and Prometheus. I tried to use a higher contrasr, change brighness etc but will have to try it some more. Interesting though don't you think!