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*The reason for the "MP" logo being absorbed and then mysteriously reappearing is to provide a place to cut the logo so that it is not as long. In most cases, however, the logo is shortened so that only the tail-end of the animation is seen. | *The reason for the "MP" logo being absorbed and then mysteriously reappearing is to provide a place to cut the logo so that it is not as long. In most cases, however, the logo is shortened so that only the tail-end of the animation is seen. | ||
*This logo was designed and animated by Gary Demos and John Whitney at Digital Productions (known for ''The Last Starfighter, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and Labyrinth''). The concept of the chrome Spidey flying through space was bizarre, but that was the assignment. | *This logo was designed and animated by Gary Demos and John Whitney at Digital Productions (known for ''The Last Starfighter, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and Labyrinth''). The concept of the chrome Spidey flying through space was bizarre, but that was the assignment. | ||
'''Variants:''' | '''Variants:''' | ||
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*On ''Robocop: The Animated Series'', the logo fades into the New World International logo. | *On ''Robocop: The Animated Series'', the logo fades into the New World International logo. | ||
'''FX/SFX:''' The zooming and panning of the MP, as well as Spider-Man's actions. | '''FX/SFX:''' The zooming and panning of the MP, as well as Spider-Man's actions. Amazing CGI for the time period, rendered on the Cray X-MP/48 supercomputer and a DEC VAX-11/780 mainframe. The modeling was done on an Evans and Sutherland PS-300 terminal. The animation was done on an IMI 500 display monitor. The texturing and lighting was done on a Ramtek 9460 framebuffer. The logo was recorded to 35mm film on a III PFR-80 (The company Gary and John worked at before they founded DP). | ||
'''Music/Sounds:''' It begins with a THX-like "chord" sound with some futuristic "whooshes", then a synth note that plays deeper toward the end. At other times, the ending theme plays over it. | '''Music/Sounds:''' It begins with a THX-like "chord" sound with some futuristic "whooshes", then a synth note that plays deeper toward the end. At other times, the ending theme plays over it. | ||
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'''Availability:''' Uncommon, bordering on rare. The short version was seen on many shows, including the late 1980's Marvel Action Universe block (''Dino Riders'', ''RoboCop'', and the ''Pryde of the X-Men'' pilot), the first season of ''Biker Mice from Mars'' (New World Animation took over from the second season onwards), the animated ''Blondie & Dagwood'' special (and its sequel, ''Second Wedding Workout''), ''Rude Dog & The Dweebs'', ''Spacecats'', and the animated adaptation of ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes''. It was most notably seen on Henson co-produced shows like ''Muppet Babies'' and ''Fraggle Rock'' (the animated version). The long version is very rare, and was used to plaster the original logos on later prints of pre-1986 Marvel shows such as ''Spider-Woman'', the 1978 cartoon ''The New Fantastic Four'', the 1981 ''Spider-Man'' cartoon and even the 1966 series ''The Marvel Super Heroes''; it also appeared on early '90s video releases of Marvel material. The extended music variant was so far only found on the recently-found ''Spider-Man: Don't Hide Abuse'', the first in a series of 4 educational ''Spider-Man'' VHS tapes that were distributed to schools, and since the remaining 3 remain lost, it is unknown if those videos have this variant as well. | '''Availability:''' Uncommon, bordering on rare. The short version was seen on many shows, including the late 1980's Marvel Action Universe block (''Dino Riders'', ''RoboCop'', and the ''Pryde of the X-Men'' pilot), the first season of ''Biker Mice from Mars'' (New World Animation took over from the second season onwards), the animated ''Blondie & Dagwood'' special (and its sequel, ''Second Wedding Workout''), ''Rude Dog & The Dweebs'', ''Spacecats'', and the animated adaptation of ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes''. It was most notably seen on Henson co-produced shows like ''Muppet Babies'' and ''Fraggle Rock'' (the animated version). The long version is very rare, and was used to plaster the original logos on later prints of pre-1986 Marvel shows such as ''Spider-Woman'', the 1978 cartoon ''The New Fantastic Four'', the 1981 ''Spider-Man'' cartoon and even the 1966 series ''The Marvel Super Heroes''; it also appeared on early '90s video releases of Marvel material. The extended music variant was so far only found on the recently-found ''Spider-Man: Don't Hide Abuse'', the first in a series of 4 educational ''Spider-Man'' VHS tapes that were distributed to schools, and since the remaining 3 remain lost, it is unknown if those videos have this variant as well. | ||
'''Editor's Note:''' This logo | '''Editor's Note:''' This logo remains a popular one by logo enthusiasts. | ||