Nickelodeon Movies

Background : Nickelodeon Movies is the movie production arm of Nickelodeon, established on February 25, 1995 to produce movies based on their shows, which are distributed by Paramount Pictures (except for The Adventures of Tintin, which was distributed domestically by Paramount and internationally by Columbia Pictures, and The Loud House Movie, which was distributed by Netflix), a division of Viacom and subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc. They have also produced some original films such as Clockstoppers. Their first film was Harriet the Spy.

1st Logo (July 10, 1996-July 2, 1997)
Nicknames : "The Rhino", "Blue Rhino", "Nick Rhino"

Logo : A blue  rhino is shown running on what appears to be clouds (a send-up of the TriStar Pictures logo). However, he repeatedly bumps, slips and crashes into the clouds in the logo, which turn out to be cardboard cutouts on a movie set. The blue rhino trips over the Nickelodeon logo, shaped like a cloud, and crashes into the camera. The blue rhino pulls himself off the screen and hangs onto the Nickelodeon cloud on a black background, causes the cloud turns into the splat design. The blue rhino swings a bit on it and then smiles at the screen.

FX/SFX : 2D animation produced by Wild Brain in San Francisco.

Music/Sounds : Dramatic orchestral music that starts getting messed up as the blue rhino trips, along with yelping from the blue rhino when he's about to crash into the camera. The music builds up to the blue rhino crashing into the screen, which segues into a rap-style vocal version of the Nickelodeon jingle.

Availability : Extremely rare. Originally used as a Summer 1996 network ident. It's only seen on Harriet the Spy released on July 10th, 1996.

2nd Logo (1997)
Nicknames : "Home of the Good Burger", "Orange Soda"

Logo: On a black and blue gradient background, we see orange  soda being poured into a large cup. When it's done pouring, the cap of the cup with a straw closes the top and the cup drives around the screen until it brakes and falls down, leaves the cap open behind. The soda spills out of the cup, revealing "NICKELODEON".

Variants:
 * On full-screen prints of Good Burger, the logo is choppier.
 * On the trailer for Good Burger, the Paramount logo stretches into a still alternate render of this logo.
 * On The Making of Good Burger, the word "MOVIES" (in the same font of the wordmark; "M" is bigger than the rest) is seen below "NICKELODEON".
 * On some TV spots of Good Burger, the logo is in form of a print logo.

Trivia : This logo pays homage to a Nickelodeon Productions logo from 1995.

FX/SFX : CGI.

Music/Sounds : Soda pouring and car sounds. The brake sounds are accompanied with the vocal Nickelodeon theme: "Nick nick nick nick, na-nick nick nick, Nickelodeon!".

Availability : Only seen on Good Burger (1997).

3rd Logo (1997)
Nickname : "Crane Operator"

Logo : On a white background, we see an orange movie camera with "NICKELODEON" (in its well known font). A green filmstrip sticks out reading "MOVIES".

FX/SFX : None.

Music/Sounds : The TV spot/trailer music.

Availability : Extremely rare. This logo was made specifically for the first trailer for The Rugrats Movie, although it was used as a print logo from the company's inception until the premiere of the 5th logo.

4th Logo (November 20, 1998)
Nicknames : "Slap T. Pooch", "Slap's Fleck", "The Nick Footprint"

Logo : On a black screen, we see Slap T. Pooch spotting a blob of red orange goo. It then goes to a really close zoom on his face and hand as he starts fidgeting with it. It then gets stuck to his fingers and he struggles to throw it off. Once it does, it starts bouncing off the walls and then gets stuck to his foot. He then walks around to wipe it off, making more red orange spots on the ground. A shadow then appears over Slap T. Pooch, then a giant purple foot stomps on the dog and red orange goo, turning into the Nickelodeon foot as seen on the gates to the Nicktoons Studios in Burbank, California. The camera pans to reveal it, then Slap T. Pooch falls off of it. It then fades out.

Variants :
 * On publicity for The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (as well as the videogame of the latter), a blue oval reading "MOVIES" in Arial Narrow font accompanies the foot.
 * On full-screen prints of The Rugrats Movie, the logo is choppier.
 * On 35mm film scan prints of The Rugrats Movie, the logo is in open-matte.

FX/SFX : Traditional animation produced by Wild Brain (like the 1st logo).

Music/Sounds : A weird three note tune, followed by cartoon-like sound effects and music cues, a cartoon-like fanfare, and a hip-hop mix of the Nickelodeon theme accompanied with a tuba "wah-wah" sound effect that reverberates.

Availability : Rare. Can only be seen on The Rugrats Movie, released on November 20, 1998. Was also shown as an ID on Nickelodeon in Fall 1998.

5th Logo (February 11, 2000-December 21, 2001)
Nickname : "The Man and the House"

Logo : Here are the logo variants used:
 * Snow Day : A man shovels the snow off the walk to his house and his Golden Retriever dog is watching him, sitting down on the snow. Then, a giant snowball falls onto his house and completely destroys it in a very graphic manner. The dog runs off barking in a panic and the man does a double take. The snow falls off the snowball revealing an orange ball, and we see the text "NICKELODEON" on the ball. The background turns black and the ball then bounces to the middle-left of the screen, and then a small orange ball and a blue ball appear. The word "movies" is on a blue ball, and then it fades out.
 * Rugrats in Paris: The Movie : There is a special Parisian variant in which it is nearly the same, except the regular man is replaced with a stereotypical French man, accompanied by his dog, raking leaves in front of his house in the autumn season, and the Eiffel tower can be seen in the background not too far from his house. The ball smashing the house is now just the big orange ball with the "NICKELODEON" text on it. Then when the logo resumes like normal, the live-action dog appears on the bottom-right of the screen and barks at the logo.
 * Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius : We start with the orange Nickelodeon ball bouncing to the middle-left of the screen alongside the smaller orange ball. Then Goddard runs into screen with a synthesized bark. He looks at the logo and whimpers, knowing it's incomplete. He activates a laser beam on his back and creates the blue "movies" ball (with "movies" in a noticeably different font than the previous two variants). He puts away the laser and curiously looks at the audience. This variant was also used in the TV special The Making of Jimmy Neutron albeit shortened.

Variants: On the ID for each of them, the movies ball is deleted.

FX/SFX : Depends on the variant.

Music/Sounds :
 * The Snow Day version has a light whistling tune that abruptly stops just before the house gets destroyed by the snowball, and then changes to one of the following:
 * When a snowball starts breaking, a rock tune is heard with a choir singing briefly when it shot fades to black.
 * When "' NICKELODEON'" is revealed, a short tuba tune is heard, followed by a tuba/whistling version of the Nickelodeon theme.
 * The Rugrats in Paris: The Movie version has an accordion playing the whistling tune. When the house is destroyed, an accordion/whistling rendition of the extended Nickelodeon tune (with three "barks" from the dog) which leads into an accordion/tuba version of the Nickelodeon theme, followed by one last "bark" from the dog.
 * The Jimmy Neutron version has a funny sounding version of the Nickelodeon theme with a trombone, cartoonish sound effects, and the noises that Goddard makes, provided by Frank Welker.
 * The Making of Jimmy Neutron variant has John Debney's music playing over it.

Availability : Seen on Snow Day, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, with each movie having their respective variants of the logo. The Snow Day and Rugrats in Paris versions were also modified as IDs for Nickelodeon to help promote the respective movies.

6th Logo (June 28, 2002-June 13, 2003)
Nicknames : "Sneezing", "The Wiggling Balls", "2002: A Nick Odyssey"

Logo : On a black background, a faint black crescent sphere (representing the moon) moves to the bottom of the screen, causing a crescent earth, the sun, and a moving starfield to appear; this part of the logo. As the moon moves off-screen at the bottom, the earth starts to wiggle and "sneezes", causing it to crash into the camera. This causes the moon to bounce back onto the screen, which is revealed to be an orange ball with "NICKELODEON" on it. The starfield suddenly transitions to a plain black background a la a Steven Universe episode as the earth becomes a spinning blue ball with "movies" on it, and the sun becomes the small orange ball. The small ball flies around the screen before hitting the blue ball, stopping it from spinning. When all three balls are in their normal positions in the logo, the blue ball sneezes again, causing the orange balls to briefly "jolt" forward. The blue ball then turns back to the camera to finish the logo.

Variants :
 * A shorter version of the logo starts out with the balls zooming out from the middle of the screen.
 * On Rugrats Go Wild, the logo is slightly darker and cuts to black instead of fading out.

FX/SFX : CGI animation.

Music/Sounds : Each film has a different theme in the logo.
 * Hey Arnold! The Movie: A dramatic 4-note fanfare that is somewhat reminiscent of Also Sprach Zarathustra, which plays in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. During the last part of the fanfare, we hear a loud sneeze, then a light instrumental hip hop-like Nickelodeon theme.
 * Rugrats Go Wild: Two bell rings with sun ray sounds, followed by a different-sounding sneeze and an electronic version of the Nickelodeon theme.

Availability : Rare. The long version is/was seen only on ''Hey Arnold! The Movie and Rugrats Go Wild''. The short version of the Hey Arnold! variant appeared on split-screen credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie from 2005 to 2013, despite the fact that the movie never used this logo at all originally; the movie itself used the 8th logo.

8th Logo (2002)
Nicknames : "The Dog Spot", "The Dog's Nose", "Nick Dog", "Dog of Doom" “THX, Viacom, Screen Gems, Step Aside, There’s Another Scary Logo In Town”

Logo : We see a forest on a sunny day, as if it was seen in the grass. Then, the curious nose of a brown-striped white dog appears sniffs the camera, and then he sees the Nickelodeon Movies logo on the grass. We cut back to the dog, who licks the screen, turning it black.

Variants :
 * This was also used as a network ID, but with a few differences; the "movies" ball and the small orange ball are removed and the Nickelodeon ball is moved to the middle.
 * An open matte version of this logo exists on full-screen prints of The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Early full-screen prints have this logo cropped to 4:3.

FX/SFX : A mix of stop-motion and CGI animation created by Charged Animation and 2/8/0-Design, both located in New York City.

Music/Sounds : Before the dog appears, we hear the sounds of children playing, followed by sniffing and grunting sounds from the dog. When the company logo appears, we hear a "country" version of the famous Nickelodeon theme. When the dog licks the screen, a licking noise is heard. Composed by ShackedUpSound.

Availability : Rare. Only seen on The Wild Thornberrys Movie. It was also seen on a TV spot for Yours, Mine and Ours and was used as an ID in December 2002 and January 2003 to help promote The Wild Thornberrys Movie.

9th Logo (November 19, 2004)
Nicknames : "The Bubbles", "Underwater Bubbles", "Psychedelic Nickelodeon", "Nickelodeon Acid Trip"

Logo : On a black background, an explosion occurs. A blue-colored ball emerges from the explosion as several yellow streaks form in it. We zoom through the ball as the background fades to a kaleidoscopic sky. An orange rose grows, and dissipates into pillows-like-things, or sheets, etc, as an orange zeppelin flies through it. A ripple then occurs in the sky, where it fades into a kaleidoscopic view of several goldfish swimming. The logo then transforms into an orange bubble, which floats outward and spawns two more bubbles that form the Nickelodeon Movies print logo for it's time. The finished product is in an orange underwater environment.

Trivia : The blue ball seen at the beginning of the logo is a possible callback to one of Nickelodeon's original logo before the splat that featured a shiny silver ball, and the zeppelin that appears out of the rose later in the logo is quite similar to the Nickelodeon blimp, which the show still uses as a model for their Kids Choice Awards trophies.

Variants :
 * There is a shortened version on the video game version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie on the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox that starts when the Nickelodeon Movies logo forms.
 * On 35mm film scan prints of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the logo is in open-matte.

FX/SFX : Extraordinary CGI created by Brand-New-School (which also created Cartoon Network's post-2010 logo and bumpers).

Music/Sounds : A bouncy wind fanfare with drums that sounds like a reorchestrated version of the Nickelodeon theme, adding sounds including explosions and ripples.

Music/Sound Variant : On the video game versions of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and Barnyard, some bubble noises are heard.

Availability : Only seen on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, its video game counterpart for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox, and the teaser trailer and video game counterpart for Barnyard.

10th Logo (December 17, 2004-December 15, 2006, January 13, 2009)
Nicknames : "The Moons", "The Nick Moons", "Planet Nickelodeon", "A Boring Nickelodeon Movie", "Universal Studios Rip-Off"

Logo : On a space background, we see the shadow text on a blue  tinted saturn planet that reads "NICK". The camera moves away from the ringed planet as the 3D text "NICKELODEON" zooms out from the bottom of the screen as the camera pans to reveal an orange  moon, which the text settles in front of. As this happening, a smaller blue moon appears from behind the orange moon and settles on the right, while an even smaller moon zooms out as the moons form the familiar logo. The word "movies" spins in around the blue moon to complete the logo. Then, the logo zooms down into the film's opening.

Variants :
 * There is a shortened variant, seen on Yours, Mine and Ours (2005).
 * On Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Barnyard, and Charlotte's Web, the logo pans down into the opening titles.
 * On the Game Boy Advance version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, it is a still logo in print form.

FX/SFX : Once again, well-rendered CGI animation.

Music/Sounds : The opening theme of the movie. None for Mad Hot Ballroom.

Availability : Can be seen on such movies as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mad Hot Ballroom, Barnyard, Charlotte's Web, and Yours, Mine & Ours. Also seen on the Hotel for Dogs game on Wii and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie on Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance.

11th Logo (2006)
Nickname : "Birds"

Logo : We see a group of blue birds flying to the right against a blue daytime sky with clouds. As the blue birds start grouping together towards the right of the screen in the distance, a group of orange birds fly to the left as both groups of birds form the Nickelodeon Movies logo. The birds eventually scatter as the camera pans down, segueing into the opening credits of the movie.

FX/SFX : The birds flying, forming the logo, and deforming it.

Music/Sounds : The opening theme of the movie.

Availability : Extinct. This was supposed to appear on Charlotte's Web, but it was scrapped, and the 10th logo appeared instead. The only way you can see this logo now is online.

12th Logo (June 16, 2006)
Logo : We zoom across a wrestling ring as lights flash in the background. We zoom to the bottom of the ring, where we see the logo printed onto an orange and blue wrestling bell. The bell rings two times and fades out to start the movie.

FX/SFX : CGI.

Music/Sounds : The sound of a crowd cheering, cameras flashing and the wrestling bell.

Availability : Only seen on Nacho Libre.

12th Logo (February 14, 2008-June 12, 2009)
Nicknames : "The Splat", "Flying Logo and Letters"

Logo : Against a black background, some orange fluid-like slime swirls out from the distance toward the viewer. The camera pans around and the slime forms the Nickelodeon logo with "movies" appearing letter-by-letter on its right.

Trivia : This was the last Nickelodeon Movies logo to utilize the famous splat logo.

FX/SFX : CGI animation, done by Picture Mill.

Music/Sounds : Slime sounds, and the opening theme of the movie.

Availability : First seen on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also appears on Hotel for Dogs (the Wii video game uses the 9th logo), Imagine That, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

13th Logo (February 21, 2010-March 15, 2019)


Logo : We zoom out under a orange paint drop facing the camera, which is falling down against a white background. As the camera pans out to position itself so that the orange drop is viewed from a side perspective, the orange drop falls off-screen, and shortly after splashes on top of something, which the camera reveals to the "i" in the current Nickelodeon logo. The orange drop upon impact with it dots the "i" in the logo, as the splash made by the orange drop quickly forms the dot. As the camera then zooms out to fully reveal the finished logo, "MOVIES" in purple fades in, which is then followed by a small TM trademark bug fading in to the right of the logo.

Variants :
 * An earlier version of the logo, used in 2010, has the Nickelodeon logo zooming out on a black background, followed by "MOVIES" in a purple color appearing letter-by-letter via some purple rays shining left to right. This version was used on trailers and promos for The Last Airbender, as well as the first trailer for Rango.
 * Starting with The Adventures of Tintin, both the drop and the logo are in a more orange color, the drop looks sleeker, "MOVIES" is in a red color, and the logo's background is brighter. The camera also zooms out at a further distance to show the finished logo.
 * On The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, we pan across the sea, and the logo is covered in seaweed.
 * On Monster Trucks, it is shortened, beginning when the logo is just about to finish its animation.

FX/SFX : CGI, done at DevaStudios.

Music/Sounds : None or the opening theme of the movie. On the video game version of The Last Airbender for DS, the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions theme is used.

Availability : Very common. First seen on the Nick@Nite promo for Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and debuted theatrically with ''Rango. Also appears on The Adventures of Tintin, Fun Size, and Monster Trucks''. It was last used on Wonder Park (although the final trailer for said film uses the next logo) and on some promotional material for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run''.

14th Logo (August 9-November 8, 2019)
Logo: On a white background, the camera shows the current Nickelodeon logo forming in the same way from different angles, as the 2017 Nickelodeon Productions logo did. Afterwards, "MOVIES" in orange, jumps in for a couple of seconds, causes the letters of "Nickelodeon" to jump a bit before settling.

Variants:
 * When it was first unveiled in the final trailer for Wonder Park, and the later publicity material for Dora and the Lost City of Gold, it is still.
 * On Playing with Fire, it is enhanced. The animation plays slightly faster and the orange color now gives a gradient yellow.

FX/SFX: CGI.

Music/Sounds: The music from the 2009 Nickelodeon Productions logo, omitting the first two notes, which switches to the orchestrated rendition of the Nickelodeon theme.

Music/Sounds Variant: The still version has the trailer's music.

Availability: Rare, as this logo was short-lived. This logo was first unveiled in the final theatrical trailer for Wonder Park (although the previous logo is used onscreen). It ended up appearing on only two films, Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Playing with Fire.

15th Logo (August 7, 2020-)
Logo: We see a switch against a wall with what looks like green slime in the center and a pineapple key-chain hanging on the right, along with a tube connected to the switch. We then see the arm of SpongeBob SquarePants struggling to pull the switch. After a few seconds, he eventually succeeds and the energy from the switch increases and causes the slime to move along the tube (like a firehose). The camera proceeds to follow the tube to a light-bulb covered version of the Nickelodeon logo, which the tube connects to along with two others. The slime energy causes the logo to light up while a room shaped a like a box falls over, revealing a sunset-esque landscape with many hills and palm trees on either side of the logo. Several buildings can also be seen on the hill on the right. The Nickelodeon blimp then flies in from the right side of the screen to make the words “movies," before turning around and flying in the opposite direction.

Trivia: During the scene of the switch, you can see a sign which reads "Bikini Bottom Electric Co." (referring to the main location of SpongeBob SquarePants) and Nathan Love's name on it, along with a pineapple keychain (a nod to SpongeBob's house).

Variants:
 * On the international printings of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run on Netflix, the logo is faster and starts as SpongeBob starts trying to pull the switch.
 * The logo is still at the end of The Loud House Movie (the animated logo is used to open the movie up).
 * Scope and still versions exist.

FX/SFX: CGI, done at Nathan Love.

Music/Sounds: First, we hear machine sounds in addition to SpongeBob grunting many times while struggling to pull the switch until the machine works. Some zapping and whooshing sounds are heard as the machine functions and the tube fills up. We also hear the sound of lights turning on, as well as some whirring sounds, as the logo's light bulbs turn on. Then, a sparkling noise and the sound of metal walls opening are heard as the metal box opens. Finally, an orchestrated version of the usual Nickelodeon theme music is heard, ending with a ding, The motor of the blimp and some bird chirping are also heard at the end of the logo.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, SpongeBob shouts his iconic catchphrase, "I'm ready" voice before pulling the switch. He also sings along to the logo's music.
 * There's a short version of the above variant where the blasting electric sound effect (while the lights turn on) is absent and only eight light clicks are heard, instead of eleven. The flow is also slightly sped up. This was heard on international Netflix prints of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
 * On the U.S. release of Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, SpongeBob's grunting has been absent.
 * None for the still version.
 * The ending theme is heard on the closing variant.

Availability: First seen on The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and will be seen on upcoming films from the company, according to Nathan Love's website. The first trailer to use this logo is the official trailer for Paw Patrol: The Movie. It is also seen in The Loud House Movie, The J Team, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and Blue's Big City Adventure.