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4Kids Entertainment
Logo descriptions by Mikintosh and Sliversword55
Logo captures by Hoa and others
Editions by Silversword55, Shadeed A. Kelly, V of Doom, and Wyraachur
Background: First known as Leisure Concepts, Inc., this production company was established in 1970, specializing in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the world. The company is most well-known for its range of television licenses, which has included the multi-billion dollar Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! media franchises. They also run a program block on Fox stations known as 4Kids TV and aimed at children. In May 2008, 4Kids now airs a block alongside with the programs aired on the former "Kids! WB", now called "The CW4Kids" on The CW Television Network. As of December 27, 2008, 4kids TV ended on FOX, leaving them to handle TheCW4Kids.
1st Logo
(1998-1999)
Nicknames: "4Kids Supernova", "The Pokemon Logo"
Logo: The background is a murky bluish color, and quickly a reddish-purple supernova-like explosion brings forward a silver embossed plate that contains the 4Kids logo. To finish, a small shimmer hits part of the plate.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The light explosion, the shimmer on the logo.
Cheesy Factor: Rather bright animation.
Music/Sounds: A weird synth fanfare; otherwise, the theme plays over the logo.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was last seen on the 1998-1999 episodes of Pokémon on Boomerang (whenever they decide to rebroadcast it). Some episodes might replace this logo with the 2nd logo below. The version with the music and without the (R) bug appears on early Viz tapes of Pokémon.
Scare Factor: Low; the logo is rather harmless, but its quick appearance during the ending credits can jar first-time viewers.
2nd Logo
(1999-2005, 2008- )
Nicknames: "Golden CGI 4Kids", "The Other Pokemon Logo"
Logo: The background is a swirl of blue, green and yellow. The plate is already present, with "4Kids" already "cut out" of the plate as opposed to embossed on it. This time, "ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PRODUCTIONS". On the theatrical variants, the parts of the 4Kids logo fly out from the outside, and when they come together, "ENTERTAINMENT" fades in.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The light explosion, the shimmer on the logo.
Cheesy Factor: None; this is a pretty spiffy logo, although the movie versions have a slight "shaking" effect, which was rarely seen on TV as well.
Music/Sounds: None; the theme plays over the logo. In its movie and video appearances, a "swoosh" sound effect can be heard.
Availability: Uncommon; usually saved on the post-1999 episodes of Pokémon (whenever Cartoon Network decides to rebroadcast it), and on the theatrically and DVD-released Pokémon movies. This logo was used for the closing credits of Pokémon untill the end of the Advanced Challenge season. It also appears on episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! on rare occasions. This logo made a surprise come back on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension and Pokemon: Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles, but it's probably an error on the compressed credits.
Scare Factor: Same as logo 1.
3rd Logo
(2005- )
Nickname: "The Red Ball"
Logo: On a black background, a red ball appears from the center of the screen and moves towards us and shines, then moves back. When the ball shines, the 4Kids logo appears. When the red ball stops on the I, there's an explosion, and the explosion causes the 4Kids logo to colorize. After the explosion clears away, we see:
written in a large, bulging font. The logo shines at the end.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The ball shining, the explosion.
Music/Sounds: A long, drawn out synth chord plays throughout, with a loud "WHOOSH" as the ball flies into view, and a zapping sound as it hits the logo and colours it. This jingle, however, is limited to its home video division, as all 4Kids shows have the ending theme of the show playing over the logo. Episodes of Viva Pinata on the 4Kids Video On Demand service use a complete different jingle, which sounds like a bunch of rapid drum beats.
Availability: The "entertainment" version of this logo can be seen on DVD releases of 4Kids shows (Usually with a copyright at the bottom of the screen). The TV version is featured at the end of post 2005/2006 episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 8th and final season of Pokémon to be dubbed by the company, Advanced Battle, Pokémon Chronicles, their discontinued One Piece English dub, Yu-Gi-Oh! (From the World Championship arc onward), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Viva Pinata, and Dinosaur King, among others.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
Logo captures by Hoa and others
Editions by Silversword55, Shadeed A. Kelly, V of Doom, and Wyraachur
Background: First known as Leisure Concepts, Inc., this production company was established in 1970, specializing in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the world. The company is most well-known for its range of television licenses, which has included the multi-billion dollar Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! media franchises. They also run a program block on Fox stations known as 4Kids TV and aimed at children. In May 2008, 4Kids now airs a block alongside with the programs aired on the former "Kids! WB", now called "The CW4Kids" on The CW Television Network. As of December 27, 2008, 4kids TV ended on FOX, leaving them to handle TheCW4Kids.
1st Logo
(1998-1999)
Nicknames: "4Kids Supernova", "The Pokemon Logo"
Logo: The background is a murky bluish color, and quickly a reddish-purple supernova-like explosion brings forward a silver embossed plate that contains the 4Kids logo. To finish, a small shimmer hits part of the plate.
Variants:
- On some shows, the logo starts at the part where the "shimmer" hits the plate.
- On the rare theatrical trailer of the first Pokémon movie, "ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PRODUCTIONS". This variant seems to run in slow/delayed motion. This variant also has no (R) bug.
FX/SFX: The light explosion, the shimmer on the logo.
Cheesy Factor: Rather bright animation.
Music/Sounds: A weird synth fanfare; otherwise, the theme plays over the logo.
Availability: Extremely rare. Was last seen on the 1998-1999 episodes of Pokémon on Boomerang (whenever they decide to rebroadcast it). Some episodes might replace this logo with the 2nd logo below. The version with the music and without the (R) bug appears on early Viz tapes of Pokémon.
Scare Factor: Low; the logo is rather harmless, but its quick appearance during the ending credits can jar first-time viewers.
2nd Logo
(1999-2005, 2008- )
Pokémon Split Screen Variants
Nicknames: "Golden CGI 4Kids", "The Other Pokemon Logo"
Logo: The background is a swirl of blue, green and yellow. The plate is already present, with "4Kids" already "cut out" of the plate as opposed to embossed on it. This time, "ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PRODUCTIONS". On the theatrical variants, the parts of the 4Kids logo fly out from the outside, and when they come together, "ENTERTAINMENT" fades in.
Variants:
- Sometimes this plays at warp speed.
- There is a weird "muddy" variant on Pokémon Heroes.
- Sometimes this may be shown in letterboxed format on TV.
- Some shows, like Sonic X, play the theatrical variant.
- This logo may be shown in 16:9.
FX/SFX: The light explosion, the shimmer on the logo.
Cheesy Factor: None; this is a pretty spiffy logo, although the movie versions have a slight "shaking" effect, which was rarely seen on TV as well.
Music/Sounds: None; the theme plays over the logo. In its movie and video appearances, a "swoosh" sound effect can be heard.
Availability: Uncommon; usually saved on the post-1999 episodes of Pokémon (whenever Cartoon Network decides to rebroadcast it), and on the theatrically and DVD-released Pokémon movies. This logo was used for the closing credits of Pokémon untill the end of the Advanced Challenge season. It also appears on episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! on rare occasions. This logo made a surprise come back on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension and Pokemon: Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles, but it's probably an error on the compressed credits.
Scare Factor: Same as logo 1.
3rd Logo
(2005- )
Standard Variants
Pokémon Split Screen Variant(s)
Nickname: "The Red Ball"
Logo: On a black background, a red ball appears from the center of the screen and moves towards us and shines, then moves back. When the ball shines, the 4Kids logo appears. When the red ball stops on the I, there's an explosion, and the explosion causes the 4Kids logo to colorize. After the explosion clears away, we see:
4k!DS
TV
TV
written in a large, bulging font. The logo shines at the end.
Variants:
- This logo was first called "4Kids Entertainment" before becoming "4Kids TV". "ENTERTAINMENT" was written in light blue. The 4Kids.tv website has the logo as "4KidsTV: The Games Station".
- At the end of episodes of Pokémon Chronicles, the red ball comes into view as the credits near the end (Usually as the company copyrights come onto the screen).
- Episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (from the Search For The Rainbow Dragon arc onwards) alter the logo, placing "TV" next to "4Kids" instead of under it.
- Episodes of Viva Pinata on the 4Kids video-on-demand service use a completely different logo animation, which uses the alternate jingle stated below.
- On DVD releases of 4Kids shows, the logo has a copyright date to the year of the DVDs release.
FX/SFX: The ball shining, the explosion.
Music/Sounds: A long, drawn out synth chord plays throughout, with a loud "WHOOSH" as the ball flies into view, and a zapping sound as it hits the logo and colours it. This jingle, however, is limited to its home video division, as all 4Kids shows have the ending theme of the show playing over the logo. Episodes of Viva Pinata on the 4Kids Video On Demand service use a complete different jingle, which sounds like a bunch of rapid drum beats.
Availability: The "entertainment" version of this logo can be seen on DVD releases of 4Kids shows (Usually with a copyright at the bottom of the screen). The TV version is featured at the end of post 2005/2006 episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 8th and final season of Pokémon to be dubbed by the company, Advanced Battle, Pokémon Chronicles, their discontinued One Piece English dub, Yu-Gi-Oh! (From the World Championship arc onward), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Viva Pinata, and Dinosaur King, among others.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
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When watching an episode of Viva Piñata, the logo has the screen blue instead of red, and in 1 straight line instead of going upa dn down, 4kids is on the right and TV is on the left. Is is a mistake while doing the split-screen credits, or not?
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| AsdfTheRevival | The 2005 logo is still being used. | 3 | Mar 30 2008, 10:40 PM EDT by Shadeed329 | ||
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I saw it on a 2007 episode of Viva Pinata on demand.
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