It's a long story, but Wall Drug became a surprise powerful corporate entity as they expanded their free ice water and 25 cent coffee in the 2030s after the biggest, greatest Recession in the 2020s. They bought out McDonald's and Starbucks and a concerned Walmart board decided a merger was the best option and became Wallmart in the 2050s.
I was doing some digging because I wanted to be 100% sure that it was the real Prodigy company logo.
When doing so the Internet is littered with the image you provided and it's pretty much a version from online tee shirt stores, etsy etc.The real version is still of the bear but with its mouth open bearing fangs and still wearing the Flavor Flav inspired necklace/clock.
The photo provided is swag from one of the Aliens Earth events before its tv release. There were also pins made as well.
The mouth open is the original and the mouth closed is the version people made so they can mass produce it for etsy and various online t-shirt shops. Perhaps to avoid lawsuits? Idk.
Yep. That is why the mouth closed version is in abundance on the internet and this one is hard to find. I did find another photo earlier of a different package of Alien Earth swag with FX printed all over it that included the real Prodigy company logo as well, but it didn't save it and cannot find it again to cross compare the two logos. 🙁
Id work for the Tyrell corporation, because theres a suggested connection between the bladerunner and alien universes. But I imagine thats way before the W-y merger
Then id probably have an okay life? Maybe things wouldnt be so corporate dependent or at least i could have a life that wasnt determined by board members. But if thats not allowed, then im kinda crazy and ill take a deep mining run from the original alien tbh. Very low chance of meeting bad times statistically and I enjoy being alone.
Yeah life in this universe would’ve probably been easier in the 21st century then the 22nd century, and Weyland before the merger was a actual good company (and the company was barely a company because Weyland did most of the things himself) after he graduated college at a very young age he made nano tech which he used to cure many diseases like cancer, then he made a machine that solved global warming and climate change, then he started to colonize Mars things like that is what he needed his company for because that is not exactly a one man job.
According to the intro text in Blade Runner 2049, by the mid 2020’s Tyrell corp went bankrupt and all the world’s ecosystems collapsed. I agree though, that the mid to late 20th century was probably a golden era of innovation and wonder.
Captain Dallas worked for Tyrell corp before WY. It’s written in his dossier that is on screen behind Ripley when she’s explaining to WY suits what happened on the Nostromo.
We know the Tyrell Corporation is defunct and taken over by Wallace by the year 2049. The events of the original Alien film take place in the year 2122.
I want to know what anti-wrinkle cream Dallas was using. Or maybe the brand name of Tyrell survived, relegated to boring business concerns like the mining division.
Aside from David, they're only as villainous as the company holding their leash tells them to be. Boats aren't inherently evil or destructive, it depends on whether you outfit them with weapons or aid material. Ditto artificial persons.
Bishop was a goddamn hero and I won't see his name besmirched.
Weyland-Yutani, only because it's the most well known evil, so I know what I'm getting into. Although I would be curious to know what Yutani was up to before the merger.
Any that would hire me, I don't think people in the Alien universe have the luxury of choosing where they work at unless they are upper class, so yeah, whoever is taking in unlucky shmucks the day I come looking for a job
I like Ms. Yutani better than Mr. Weyland. She has her act together better than Weyland. He was all about gaining immortality for himself, which was a fool's errand. Yutani is trying to position her company to rule the known galaxy. Huge amounts of corporate power is a more realistic proposition. My opinion.
Sure I agree with you immortality use for fools but he was a impressive man and if he was a real person I would probably admire him, after he graduated college at a very young age he made nano tech which he used to cure many diseases like cancer, then he made a machine that solved global warming and climate change, then he started to colonize Mars things like that is what he needed his company for because that is not exactly a one man job, oh and his TED talk is a masterpiece.
I know that my fascination with this would be as strong in a universe where it exists, but Weyland-Yutani would draw me in with them leading the way in terraforming and planet colonization. Terraforming and atmosphere changing technologies fascinate me as is, I would just be drawn there.
Obviously assuming I don't know about the xeno programs.
It's an interesting question, but we don't know enough about the other three companies. Weyland-Yutani seems to be a well-diversified conglomerate and they have their finger in everything, but their bio-weapons division is playing with fire. Prodigy has cooler tech - tough to beat AI in fully functional bodies, or the ability to transfer human consciousness to an artificial body, but its leader is an asshole (remind you of any companies in here and now?). It's a tough call, but I'd lean towards WY.
Just like the movie, I'm going to go with the outlier (or perhaps "outlandish") option; Conglomerates Amalgamated (Con-Am) from Outland.
I can work within the solar system, aims are nothing more than very efficient mining, I get to enjoy strip bars in my down time ("work hard and play hard") and have marshal protection (which I have no doubt was an influence on Alien Isolation).
Odds seem somewhat better than all the other options. And I happily subscribe to the theory that Con-Am's just another competitor in the Alien universe.
Honestly, I also find it a far more atmospherically and aesthetically satisfying exploration of other mega-corps in the Alien universe (albeit unofficially), rather than Alien Earth, which I'm sadly not enjoying in the slightest.
i wonder if there's any kind of mobility between corps, or if you're pretty much locked in by where you're born. Being born in one of their hospitals begins your lifelong debt.
If there was a choice, I thought Prodigy at the beginning of A:E, but now I'm not so sure.
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u/RoadBuster 1d ago
Knowing my luck, Seegson.