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'''Music/Sounds Variants:''' Throughout its 14-year run, this logo had many different audio variations: | '''Music/Sounds Variants:''' Throughout its 14-year run, this logo had many different audio variations: | ||
* 1987 (TM bug variant): The first (and original) music variant sometimes featured a synth note and a whispering synthesized choir singing | * 1987 (TM bug variant): The first (and original) music variant sometimes featured a synth note and a whispering synthesized choir singing "Deeeeeek..." This variant earned the nickname "Chorus from Hell" for its unintentionally creepy nature and was only used in early fall 1987. | ||
* 1987 (TM bug variant 2): Same as above, but the logo continues over the Coca-Cola Telecommunications jingle, as an attempt to plaster it on video releases. | * 1987 (TM bug variant 2): Same as above, but the logo continues over the Coca-Cola Telecommunications jingle, as an attempt to plaster it on video releases. | ||
* 1987 (TM bug variant 3): Featured an extended wind gust, that lasts 2 seconds longer. With the extended wind gust on this variant, the 2 pairs of keyboard synth notes play 2 seconds after the star animation, making it out of sync, in contrast to the standard variant. Featured on VHS releases of ''Barbie and the Rockers''. It's unknown if the original TV airing used this variant, and the special has not been released on DVD, except in Italy, and it's unknown which logo it uses. | * 1987 (TM bug variant 3): Featured an extended wind gust, that lasts 2 seconds longer. With the extended wind gust on this variant, the 2 pairs of keyboard synth notes play 2 seconds after the star animation, making it out of sync, in contrast to the standard variant. Featured on VHS releases of ''Barbie and the Rockers''. It's unknown if the original TV airing used this variant, and the special has not been released on DVD, except in Italy, and it's unknown which logo it uses. | ||
*The 1987 “PRESENTS” variant had synthesized bells playing near the end. | *The 1987 “PRESENTS” variant had synthesized bells playing near the end. | ||
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'''Availability:''' Uncommon. As with the variant above, it was commonly used to plaster older DIC logos. | '''Availability:''' Uncommon. As with the variant above, it was commonly used to plaster older DIC logos. | ||
*First appeared on the Lions Gate Home Entertainment VHS/DVD releases of ''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' and ''Mummies Alive!'' plastering the previous logo and later made its TV debut on ''Alienators: Evolution Continues''. | *First appeared on the Lions Gate Home Entertainment VHS/DVD releases of ''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' and ''Mummies Alive!'' plastering the previous logo and later made its TV debut on ''Alienators: Evolution Continues''. | ||
*It was seen on newer DIC-produced shows such as ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', ''Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!'', and ''Liberty’s Kids'', and as noted above, plastered older DIC logos in some cases (such as on the 2003-2008 "DIC Kids | *It was seen on newer DIC-produced shows such as ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', ''Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!'', and ''Liberty’s Kids'', and as noted above, plastered older DIC logos in some cases (such as on the 2003-2008 "DIC Kids Network" syndication package and the 2006-2007 "KOL Secret Slumber Party" block that aired on CBS Saturday mornings), but is becoming rarer as Cookie Jar plasters DIC logos with their own logos on television programming and DVD releases. | ||
*Strangely, This TV's airings of ''Sonic Underground'' preserved both this logo and the opening variant of said series. | *Strangely, This TV's airings of ''Sonic Underground'' preserved both this logo and the opening variant of said series. | ||
*This last appeared on ''Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot'' (A show which DIC didn't produce) and ''DinoSquad'', both of which had the same premiere and end dates and used the regular longer variant. It could also be seen on the first season of ''Sushi Pack'', which switched to the Cookie Jar logo on the second season and ended in February 2009. | *This last appeared on ''Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot'' (A show which DIC didn't produce) and ''DinoSquad'', both of which had the same premiere and end dates and used the regular longer variant. It could also be seen on the first season of ''Sushi Pack'', which switched to the Cookie Jar logo on the second season and ended in February 2009. | ||