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'''Nicknames:''' "The Early Pegasus", "Pegasus Over Pyramid", "'80s Pegasus", "Majestic Pegasus", "The TriStar Pegasus"

'''Logo:''' On a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}}/{{color|purple}} evening background with {{color|pink}} skies, a splashed white stallion gallops into view coming from the left. When it gets really close, three stars coming from the left, right, and bottom of the screen crash into each other, forming a "{{font|Times New Roman|'''T'''}}" in the Didot font (the same font used for the CBS text as CBS was one of the joint owners of Tri-Star until 1985). The stallion suddenly grows a pair of wings (if watching in HD, you can easily notice the wings appear on the stallion out of thin air) and flies over the "{{font|Times New Roman|'''T'''}}". It zooms out, revealing two more letters: "{{font|Times New Roman|'''R'''}}", and "{{font|Times New Roman|'''I'''}}", and below it is the word "{{font|Times New Roman|'''STAR'''}}", reading the stacked words "{{font|Times New Roman|'''TRI STAR'''}}". The text continues to zoom out. A {{color|gold|golden}} outline of a triangle zooms out with the spaced-out word "{{font|Times New Roman|'''PICTURES'''}}" under it, surrounding the text and the background. As this happens, the triangle outline reveals an abstract drawing of a Pegasus "jumping" over the logo.

'''Logo:''' We start out on a black background. Then we see part of a dark background, which slowly fades in and brightens to reveal that it is made up of dark cumulonimbus clouds with fog on the bottom. A white flash of light then starts to glow and gets bright, as it almost fills the background. A Pegasus appears from the far distance, as it spreads its wings out and takes a few steps, causing the fog to flow. "{{color|gold|{{Font|Impact|T{{small|RI}}S{{small|TAR}}}}}}", in a shiny chiseled font, slowly fades in at the top of the screen with the letters "'''T'''" and "'''S'''" in a bigger font than the other letters as the flash dims away slowly. The Pegasus stops when its wings are fully spread out and the "{{color|gold|{{Font|Impact|T{{small|RI}}S{{small|TAR}}}}}}" text fully appears. The text slowly shines as the fog still flows and the Sony byline fades in (described below).

*The logo bears an intentional resemblance to the Columbia logo introduced around the same period. This is done to reinforce the connection between Columbia and TriStar.

*It's the same current print logo that appeared on movie trailers during its early years, and looking similar to the last print logo. The Pegasus is placed inside a box, with a cloud background overlapping the top. Its wings overlap both ends of the box. Below the logo is the phrase "'''A T{{small|RI}}S{{small|TAR}} R{{small|ELEASE}}'''", or "RELEASED BY" above the logo with the SPE byline underneath. Sometimes, "A TRISTAR RELEASE" isn't there. Sometimes, it's bylineless.

*One early variant of such featured the boxed Pegasus logo at center, with "T{{small|RI}}S{{small|TAR}} P{{small|ICTURES}}" (in Bank Gothic MD BT) and the SPE byline below one another. This particular closing variant happened to appear at the end of the features ''Chaplin'' and ''Cliffhanger'', which both used the old logo at the beginning, although the latter was the last movie to use the old logo at the beginning; though this may be unsurprising, since both Columbia and TriStar first introduced their new logos for their home video and television divisions a year earlier in 1992. The movie ''Wilder Napalm'' has the "A TriStar Release" text above.

*After the end credits of ''The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra'', the logo is still and the print logo is replaced.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A majestic reorchestration of the last logo's fanfare, this time composed by Bill Johnson. It starts with an ascending and descending back-and-forth piano glissando, followed by a three-note descending xylophone tune, on the last note, the French horns playing the same six opening notes from the last logo begins. Between the third and fourth notes, there is a delay filled with a four-note tuba tune. The music rises in intensity as we hear more and more instruments come in (including brass instruments and drums), ending in a very majestic fanfare.