Sony Wonder: Difference between revisions

'''Variants:'''  

 

* On <u>the 1994 VHS release of ''Jim Lee's Wild C.A.T.S. Cry of the Coda''</u>, the still logo is seen with the words "'''{{font|times new roman|ALSO AVAILABLE FROM}}'''" above it in the same color as the Sony logo. This is after the initial logo's sequence ends.

'''Audio:''' Either the opening/closing theme of the program or silence.

 

'''Audio Variant:''' For the "'''{{font|times new roman|ALSO AVAILABLE FROM}}'''" variant, an announcer says "Also available from Sony Wonder."

* It can be seen on pre-1995 Nickelodeon tapes from the era, one of which is ''Ren and Stimpy: Incredibly Stupid Stories''.

* The later Nickelodeon tapes (the ones under "Nickelodeon Video") have the next logo.

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*On trailers for ''Sesame Street'' VHS tapes and cassettes, the logo is already formed with only the clouds in the background moving. The ''Sesame Street Video and Audio'' trailer, however, has it in lower quality and, in one of the shots, is lazily overlaid on top of a CRT television.

*On a Brazilian ''Enchanted Tales'' advertisement, the advertised VHS tapes are in front of a still of the logo's background (from the beginning of the logo). Once the tapes fade out, the background fades to a warp-speed version of the logo.

*On ''Generation O!'', the "www.generationO.com" URL appears underneath the logo. The logo was either fullscreen or boxed inside the credits.

*Starting in 2014, with ''The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale'', the logo was redone in widescreen. It's a still image, sporting a different cloud background and (strangely) a slightly different Sony logo.

'''Audio:''' When the logo starts, a riveting string note is held out, and when the ribbon appears, descending harp notes play in-sync with the ribbon. As the ribbon is in its position with the sun appearing, a brief flute melody plays, and when the Sony logo appears, everything rises to a majestic note complete with tubular bells that slowly stops once the logo fades; this is all synthesized. Guy Moon composed the entirely-synthesized music, with some samples produced on the E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestral digital synthesizer.

*For <u>the early version</u> of the logo, some of the instruments are much quieter. This variant only lasted for a few months, as ''Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown, Class Clown'', released on August 8, 1995, was the first known VHS to use the normal music.

*On the 2003 DVD releases of ''Zoe's Dance Moves'' and ''Elmo's World: The Great Outdoors,'' a whoosh panning from the right to the left can be heard during the ribbon's movement, along with a twinkle during the bells. The VHS releases didn't have this, as they used the normal music.

'''Visuals:''' On a white background, a crudely drawn gold circle zooms in incredibly close to the screen, then pans back, followed by rapid flashing. Several lines appear across the circle, turning it into a sun (same design as the previous logo, but slightly redrawn and with ten rays instead of nine), then spin around. The rays blur, then are re-drawn. The sun bounces to the middle of the screen, where the text "SONY", in its corporate font, slides in from the left and bumps the logo. "WONDER", also in the Sony logo font, then slides in from the right and makes the logo positioned correctly. The sun rays spin around one more time and stop. Their website URL (in {{color|grey|grey}}) then fades in under "WONDER."

The entire time, the rays wiggle around (a la the [[Tom Snyder Productions]] logo and the animation style of the Cartoon Network series, ''Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy'').

'''Visuals:''' On a blue-and-pink, lighted environment background filled with with auras and bubbles (likely a stock image), the text "'''{{Font|Helvetica|Sony wonder}}'''" in a bold white Helvetica font is in the near center of the screen.