Hi-Tops Video

(1985-1992)

Nicknames : "Shoelaces", "The Shoe"

Logo : On a gray background, we see a red vertical rectangle (representing a stylized shoe). Animated "shoelaces" appear at the bottom and begin to slowly make their way up the shoe, culminating in a nice big bow when the shoe is completely tied. The shoe zooms out while turning pastel and "HI-TOPS VIDEO" fades in below it. A byline "A Division of Heron Communications, Inc." fades in underneath.

Variant :
 * On the English-Canadian Hi-Tops Video releases from Astral Video, this logo is followed by a black screen with the words:

HI-TOPS VIDEO Presents Then, the Astral Video logo comes out.
 * On French-Canadian releases, after the logo zooms out and the text appears, hense without a ® symbol, a translated byline in that language appears.

FX/SFX : The shoelaces, and the camera.

Music/Sounds : It begins with a synth drum, followed by a loud, bouncy 80's synthesizer beat. On some releases, the music would fade out early.

Availability : Originally appeared on My Pet Monster, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Encyclopedia Brown, Cricket, Babar and Father Christmas, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Rub-a-Dub Dub, Madballs, the Baby Songs trilogy, later Heron releases of Peanuts specials such as She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown, and lots of other children's videos, some co-released by Saban Video and Video Treasures. Outside of the USA and Canada, it can be found on PAL tapes from the UK (after the VPD logo) and Australia (after the Family Home Entertainment logo).