Lyrick Studios

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Logo descriptions by McDonald's1

Background
Lyrick Studios, formerly known as "The Lyons Group", was founded in 1991, and was a video production and distributing company, best known for their production and distribution of Wishbone and Barney and Friends. They did not start using a logo until 1997. Later, the company was bought out and rendered defunct by HiT Entertainment.

1st Logo
(1997-1998)

Logo : On a white background, six letters zoom out to the center of the screen, in 30 degrees. The letters then separate themselves, revealing the word "Lyrick" in a crazy font with colors (blue, yellow, red, green, purple, and then finally, orange). After the letters have settled, a blue dot falls down and dots the "I" (aka. the Jim Henson Productions logo), and the word "STUDIOS", with a line above it, wipes itself in on the bottom right of the word "Lyrick". The trademark symbol fades in to the right of that same word.

Variants :
 * On certain tapes from the company, the words "Distributed by" wipe in above the logo as it is animating.


 * There is a still version of this logo. It fades from-and-to black. Slience throughout.

FX/SFX : The zoom-out of the six letters, the "dot-the-I" sequence, the wipe-in of "STUDIOS" and it's line, and then the fade-in of the trademark symbol.

Music/Sounds : A dramatic piano synth tune, accompanied by three low-pitched synth violin notes as the "dot-the-I" sequence happens, followed by a toy xylophone and a synth violin stringer. The "Distributed By" version feaytures ringing bells when the words "Distributed By" and "STUDIOS" wipe in, although it features only two synth notes for the "dot-the-I" sequence. The tune ends with a synth piano and a synth stinger.

Availability : Rare. This logo was only used for a year, and can be found on certain Barney and Friends, Veggietales, Wishbone, Kids for Character, and Francesco's Friendly World tapes. However, the tapes are long out of print and are hard to find, and the latter two properties are obscure, for all of those VHS releases by Lyrick Studios. Although the tapes are long out of print, the Barney and Friends tapes are the least scarce of the bunch, so those tapes would be your best bet to find this logo. For example, the logo appears on It's Time for Counting!.

Scare Factor : None.

2nd Logo
(1998-2003)