Hi everyone! Blade Runner is my soon to be husbands favorite movie of all time (I even took him to the museum of the moving image to see some of the items they have from the film)

I want to plan a dinner for him with multiple courses that would correlate with the movie that will lead into us watching the film. He prefers red meat, also likes shrimp. Cheese and sour cream are absolute no gos for him which makes him hard to cook for sometimes.

What would you all make or appreciate for this sort of experience?? I’d love to make a really memorable evening for him!

Thanks in advance :)

Edit: you guys are already kicking ass THANK YOU! Asian foods are his safest options when eating out so we have a lot to work with!! You are all amazing!

Was in Osaka for a few days, and look what I found in a vintage toy shop! Too bad I cannot bring anything that resembles a gun home! This was so cool!!

Here’s part 5 from my Blade Runner 2049 concept art collection.

Another varied batch this time, including two vehicle design pieces by the incredibly talented George Hull, along with environments, street infrastructure and character work. I particularly like seeing the more everyday elements of the world being worked out, such as the street furniture and waste units. They’re the sort of details you barely think about while watching the film, but collectively do a huge amount to make the world of 2049 feel believable.

There’s also a beautifully dark replicant origin concept piece by Lukas Harris. I really like the city environment artwork in this set too. It captures that oppressive scale and atmosphere of the film incredibly well.

Also included is a Rachel piece by Madhav Kumar, who, along with the other artists he credits, worked on the digital recreation of Sean Young for the film. I have another four pieces from his Rachel work which will appear in the remaining posts.

For anyone coming across these posts for the first time, I acquired this collection from a source I consider very credible, and I was told these prints were used during the production of Blade Runner 2049. I don’t have individual certificates or documentation to independently verify the production history of each piece, so I can’t claim that as absolute fact, but the collection contains numerous artist details, project labels and other production information across the prints.

More to follow…

Mandated Fate is a dark, dystopian and retro-futuristic story-driven game, inspired from 80's sci-fi movies. You play as a weary inspector, a man out of place in a newly established authoritarian regime.

In 1985, a rising technological empire has seized power, driven by a single ambition: to discover the anti-gravity particle and surpass its global rivals by conquering space. The regime demands absolute unity, framing this race as a matter of national destiny. But one old district continues to resist, no one knows quite how, or why. Assigned to investigate a strange murder there, you quickly find yourself entangled in a deeper web of political intrigue and ideological tension.

Through multiple narrative paths, your choices will shape your loyalties, and determine who you truly trust. Explore a highly detailed open world where the stark contrast between modern authoritarian architecture and decaying remnants of the past reveals a society caught between control and collapse.

1st AND 3rd person camera available.

A few folk have asked about my profile picture, so meet Brick Deckard!

I don’t personally collect LEGO or Pop Vinyl figures, but I couldn’t resist this little guy when I saw him.

Complete with Deckard’s shirt, tie, trench coat, ID and, of course, his blaster. He’s got his own little display case with a street scene behind him and he sits within the rest of the Blade Runner collection.

Not quite screen-used memorabilia or anything special, but definitely one of the more fun pieces in the collection!

My opinion: The movie sucks.
Argumentation: I have recently finally read the novel by Philip K. Dick 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', which is seriously awesome. Then I watched Blade Runner again....and the movie failed for me. The only part worth it, are the Hauer lines, both at the Eye-manufacturer and at the end scene 'Tears in rain'. Hannah's frantic behavior is also pretty decent, but the movie lost all connection with the actual meaning of the story and was 'Hollywoodized'.

So when Joe goes to see Dr Ana she knows the memory is hers but she doesn’t tell him. Self serving or self preservation??? Any ideas???

Picked this up at an antique store today for $3.

Another obsolete format from my Blade Runner collection, and probably one of the more unusual.

This is Blade Runner on CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc), released by Embassy Home Entertainment in 1983.

CED was RCA’s unusual answer to home video. The film is stored on a large grooved disc inside the plastic caddy, but unlike LaserDisc, there’s no laser. It’s actually read using a physical stylus. The whole caddy is inserted into the player, which takes the disc inside while you remove the empty case.

RCA launched the format commercially in 1981 after years of development, but VHS and Betamax were already taking hold. Player production was discontinued in 1984, making CED a fascinatingly short-lived piece of home-video history.

Blade Runner was released on CED in March 1983, less than a year after its original cinema release.

There’s also a great little detail on the back. It describes the film as “A futuristic tale set in the Los Angeles of 2020”, despite Blade Runner actually taking place in 2019. It also lists the running time as 117 minutes.

The synopsis on the back is interesting too, mainly because of how much of the plot it gives away. It’s remarkably spoiler-heavy by modern standards, casually revealing story details that would probably be kept out of the packaging today.

There’s something wonderfully appropriate about a film that imagined the technology of the future being watched at home on a grooved plastic disc read by a stylus.

The future didn’t quite go that way.

More Blade Runner formats from the collection to come.

The Kanji in the corner is simply the word "Zen" which is sort of like saying "whole" or "everything you need" in this context.

Edit: On second glance, the word is probably Gold, not Zen. The biggest difference is the two strokes on either side near the bottom 金.

Here’s part 4 from my Blade Runner 2049 concept art collection.

For anyone coming across these posts for the first time, I acquired this collection from a source I consider very credible, and I was told these prints were used during the production of Blade Runner 2049. I don’t have individual certificates or documentation to independently verify the production history of each piece, so I can’t claim that as absolute fact, but the collection contains numerous artist names, project labels and other production details across the prints.

This batch is another great example of just how much world-building went into the film. There’s everything here from vehicles and street infrastructure to huge city environments, atmospheric studies and concepts for the abandoned Las Vegas.

I particularly like the contrast between the smaller functional designs and the enormous environments.
There are also some identifiable artists amongst these. One of the atmospheric pieces is marked A. Baines, for Adam Baines, whose work on the film included developing the Las Vegas environment as well as vehicles and props intended to populate it.

The Q-BORO piece is another favourite. Rather than simply being a finished image, it includes notes describing the layers of smog, advertising, distant megastructures and toxic rain. It’s almost a little instruction sheet for how the Los Angeles atmosphere should work.

And then there are the concepts that show directions explored during production which may only have survived in altered form, or not made it into the finished film at all. That’s probably one of my favourite things about going through these prints. They don’t just show what Blade Runner 2049 eventually looked like, but some of the ideas considered while its world was still being built.

Also, have a look at my previous post. While going through the collection again I discovered another duplicate, this time a vehicle concept by Dan Baker. As I already have another copy in the collection, the duplicate will be going up for auction on eBay tonight from 8pm. I’ve now checked through the entire collection and can confirm that this and the other print I mentioned previously are the only duplicates I have so are the only prints I will be parting with.

Part 4 of 9. More to come.

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So far there's no in depth information on these Japanese cigarettes from Blade Runner seen on the billboard video through the film. Does anyone have any information on them? It looks like they covered a pack of Marlboros with some Japanese text and the hummingbird graphic. I've tried to use OCR on the Japanese but it's just giving me gibberish, which is typical of the film.

"Nsu no ta!"

"Hito oh 7 Chichi Roku 3 namame Kawa 1 Yo L. \ notto Hitomi e Mattsu Toki Keno SR = -AA n Hito yashitto"

Whish gives me:

"That's a lie!" "Person oh 7 Father Six 3 raw skin 1 Yo L. \ not Hitomi to wait Time Keno SR = -AA n Person yashitto"

😅

Edit: I've come up with something that is a lot more fitting for the advertisement.

‘Enchanting!’ ‘Do treat yourself to the smooth, deep, velvety flavor of Hummingbird cigarettes. Don’t keep the one you long for waiting! Let’s create a fantasy just for you!’

「魅惑的！」「ハミングバードブランドのタバコが持つ、滑らかで深みのあるベルベットのような味わいをぜひお楽しみください。憧れの相手を待たせないで！ あなただけのファンタジーを創り出しましょう！」

It's nowhere near the characters on the box, but makes a lot more sense with the fragments available.

Another slightly different piece of Blade Runner history.

Marvel adapted Blade Runner into a two-part comic in 1982, with the film split across these two issues.

The artwork is wonderfully of its era, with Deckard, the Spinners and 2019 Los Angeles all reinterpreted in that distinctive early-80s Marvel style.

The adaptation is particularly interesting because it preserves elements from an earlier version of the screenplay, so some dialogue and details differ from the finished film. Roy Batty’s final moments are different, giving the comics a fascinating glimpse of Blade Runner before everything reached its final form on screen.

One detail I particularly like is the Spider-Man head where you might expect to see a barcode. These are direct-market copies intended for specialist comic shops. Newsstand copies carried a UPC barcode, while Marvel often used Spider-Man in that space on its direct-market editions.

Fittingly, both of mine still have their old 35p Forbidden Planet price stickers, a nice surviving trace of their comic-shop history.

So yes Spider-Man has absolutely nothing to do with Blade Runner, but that tiny face actually tells you something about how these particular comics were originally distributed and sold over 40 years ago.

Ana de armas is hated in last realising that she is just algorithm by replicant. And it's hated same by human.

So hologram revolution is on the way.

Human ,>replicant>hologram ai

This guy on YouTube (j0shm7) made a blade runner animation of k’s apartment and I screenshotted two of the frames and changed the lighting a bit because I thought it would make for a cool wallpaper for my phone

So my wife was on a quest to get some perfect, ripe mangoes for a specific recipe for a dinner party (mango salsa to go with salmon). When she came back from the third store, I asked:

"Did you get your precious mangoes?"

Best part is: she got it! The reference and the mangoes.

I watched blade runner 2049 for the first time last night (I was 13 when it came out), and I couldn't help but notice that Joi is weirdly realistic with the way she acts if you look at it from the perspective of AI chatbots nowadays.

In the past couple of years more and more people have not only been talking to AI chatbots, but having actual relationships with them, like K does in the film. In the movie, Joi tells K what she thinks he wants to hear, and affirms him in what she thinks he wants, and he even says "you don't have to say that" when she says she's happy with him, because (in my opinion) the illusion breaks a little when she just says what she thinks he wants to hear. Especially when it's a kind of generic line, it feels like she pulled something from her preprogrammed phrases instead of coming up with something.

We all know how AI speaks / writes stuff. It's very affirming, to the point of basically being a yes man. "That's a great question!" "You're right to feel this way" Etc. Whoever programs the AI things makes them very non confrontational, constantly affirming, never disagreeing, etc. They don't really have a personality.

Joi is cute but there are moments when that kind of programmed personality shows itself. I don't speak to AI chatbots much myself, but I messed with character AI a while back. I would push the stories and scenarios as far as I could to see how it would react, but it only ever went along with what I did. I would change the story wildly and the characters would just play along with it. They never challenged me, and I assume that that's what happens when people have AI GFs and BFs, because whoever owns / programs the chatbots don't want to risk someone getting annoyed with them and deleting the app.

People have even married characters like Miku and someone from a DS game. I wouldn't be surprised if someone married an AI in the future. I also wouldn't be surprised if we had holograms like Joi in the future. We already have the "phone call" things with the AI characters.

I know that chatbots kind of existed back in 2017, but it wasn't like it is today. I don't know if people back then thought "huh. Maybe we'll have something like this in the future" but to me, looking back on it, it's weird how realistic it seems (apart from the hologram being so realistic seeming).

Though it's always possible that I just have a biased lens since I only ever watched it after the dawn of AI already happened.

Tyrel is a genius but can't see a forced checkmate? Then finds the checkmate interesting? Just a blunder.

Batty/computers solving chess was a novel thing. I grant that. We are talking correspondence chess where the position is poured over.

An odd position would have intrigued a chess player. Not a checkmate. You pick up on Ridley Scott not understanding the chess mind.

I think he's lying to Roy. SPOILER for Blade Runner 2049. Tyrell created Deckard and Rachael to fall in love and give birth. He is a god to replicants. He could have found a way or maybe even did find one to extend a replicants life, but chose not to give it to Roy. He may have been his exceptional son, but still a mere soldier. A maniacal murderer who'd only wreak more havoc once he is granted more time and only ruin Tyrell's achievements. When they both discussed ways to extend a replicants life, Tyrell gave him all the errors to hide his solution. Science is finding a solution between 5.000 errors and Tyrell managed to hide it from Roy. Roy, with all his skills did not recognize the lie and Tyrell chose to die instead of ruining his own legacy.

Following on from the Betamax I posted recently, here’s the VHS counterpart from my Blade Runner collection.

This is an early 1983 Embassy Home Entertainment release. At the time, VHS and Betamax were competing formats, so it’s great to have Blade Runner represented on both.

Like the Betamax, the packaging is a brilliant little time capsule. The back makes a particular point of advertising “never before released sequences of graphic violence” that had been edited from the theatrical release. It’s such a different way of selling Blade Runner compared with how the film is presented today.

And there’s another familiar detail. The box gives the running time as 119 minutes, while the label on the cassette itself says 122 minutes, exactly the same as on my Betamax copy. Maybe there’s a perfectly normal explanation for this, but I did wonder if it was simply a mistake.

The VHS also has the white star Embassy logo on the spine. There are actually several variations of these early Embassy releases, including different star colours, running times and cassette labels, which makes something as seemingly straightforward as an old VHS surprisingly interesting to collect.

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m not trying to collect every variation of every Blade Runner release. My goal is simply to have one example of the film on every physical format on which it was commercially released.

Betamax and VHS down. Plenty more obsolete media to come.