"Closing Logo
(1985)

Nicknames: "(Outer) Space", "The Final Frontier... AAH!!!!", "Space from/of Hell/Doom", ''Space '85''

Logo: We start out zooming in space, with an orange planet at the right of the screen and a blue planet at the left. Suddenly a comet appears and flies towards the center of the screen. When it reaches the center it "blows up"--i.e., there is a
flash and the screen turns yellowish tint and a few yellow streaks emerge from the center and fly toward the screen, slightly moving left as they do so. A large Golden Book Video logo glowing blue zooms out as the yellowish tint fades. The logo shines and zooms out with a shadow effect.

FX/Cheesy Factor: This animation is NOT suitable AT ALL to follow children's programming; it's very dark, the comet animation is very choppy (even worse than Hanna-Barbera's animation), the "explosion" is really fake and amateurish, and the "shadow effect" is bad enough... ugh!!!

Music/Sounds: A strange humming sound as we begin, with a "whoosh" as the comet appears followed by a synthesized explosion sound, another strange humming sound, and a gradual synthesized fade-out.

Availability: Seen at the end of Golden video releases from 1985 (that have the "version 1" fanfare on the beginning logo). This logo was spotted on VHS releases of "Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales" and "Herbert the Timid Dragon and Other Tales."

Scare Factor: High to NIGHTMARE; what with the dark theme and bad, scary animation, combined with the scary music, this may be one of the scariest of children's logos, especially when viewed from the perspective of a child!"

Which is probably why it was retired so quickly.

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