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Background

DIC Home Entertainment was the home entertainment arm of DIC Entertainment established in 2001 to distribute DIC releases on video. Releases under the label were distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment (2001-2002), Sterling Entertainment Group (2003-2005) and NCircle Entertainment (2006-2008), although shows that were released through other distributors like 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment simply used the regular DIC logo for their branding on-screen.

Following the purchase of DIC by Cookie Jar Entertainment in 2008, the subsidiary was folded, and Cookie Jar's logo instead appeared on NCircle material.

1st Logo (August 28, 2001-December 23, 2008)

Visuals: Just the normal DIC logo used at the time, but with "Home Entertainment" in a blue script font zooming out below. The globe part of the logo itself is a little bit smaller than the regular version.

Technique: Same as the TV counterpart, with added zooming effects for the text.

Audio: The sped-up version of the normal 2001 DIC tune, composed by Andy Heyward's daughter, Bianca.

Availability:

It appears on all Lions Gate Home Entertainment, Sterling Entertainment Group and pre-2009 NCircle Entertainment distributed releases of DIC shows.
It sometimes plasters older DIC logos on Sterling and NCircle releases, although later NCircle releases keep the older logos on pre-2001 DIC material.
Also appears on promotional DIC DVDs that were given away with General Mills cereals in 2004.
It first appeared on the DVD releases of Sabrina: The Animated Series - Sabrina's World and Mummies Alive! (the VHS versions use the standard 2001 DIC logo for an unknown reason), and last appeared on the NCircle reissues of Sylvanian Families - The Big Adventure, Siegfried and Roy - Masters of the Impossible and Sonic the Hedgehog - Super Sonic. Releases after 2008 have the Cookie Jar logo.

2nd Logo (2002-2007)

Visuals: There is the words "The Incredible World of" written in its usual script font (next to a simplified version of the DIC globe) attached to a set of yellow helicopter rotors. It flies outward to a gray helipad situated on top of some dark letters, which rest on a large red table. As the logo lands, the rotors stop spinning and fold up inside the logo. Then, the letters below light up, revealing that they read "FEATURE PRESENTATION".

Variant: There is a version of the logo that says "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" on one line instead of "FEATURE PRESENTATION".

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The sounds of the rotors spinning, some whirring/clicking sounds as the rotors retract, and a weird "sproing" as the lights turn on. The "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" version uses lesser-quality stock sounds.

Availability:

"Feature Presentation" - It appears at the beginning of all 13 of the DIC Movie Toons (which includes Inspector Gadget's Last Case and Dennis the Menace in Cruise Control). It is always preceded by the 2001 MGM logo on the original North American MGM Home Entertainment prints of the movies. Cookie Jar prints of the movies sometimes remove this logo, and so start off the movie without any logos at all.
"Home Entertainment" - It was only seen on Disc 5 of The Littles: The Complete Unedited Series (from S'More Entertainment) on the "Visual History of the DIC logo" bonus feature. This variant was likely intended as a replacement for the logo above but was never used officially on any release.

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 ===Background===
-DiC Home Entertainment was the home entertainment arm of [[DiC Entertainment]] Corp. (later "[[Cookie Jar Entertainment (Canada)|Cookie Jar Entertainment]], Inc.", then "DHX Media" and now "[[WildBrain (Canada)|WildBrain]]"), established in 2001 to distribute DiC releases on video. Previously, DiC released their material through their "DiC Video" and "DiC Toon-Time Video" labels.
+'''DIC Home Entertainment''' was the home entertainment arm of [[DIC Entertainment]] established in 2001 to distribute DIC releases on video. Releases under the label were distributed by [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment|Lions Gate Home Entertainment]] (2001-2002), [[Sterling Entertainment Group]] (2003-2005) and [[NCircle Entertainment]] (2006-2008), although shows that were released through other distributors like [[20th Century Studios Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]] simply used the regular DIC logo for their branding on-screen.
+Following the purchase of DIC by [[DHX Cookie Jar|Cookie Jar Entertainment]] in 2008, the subsidiary was folded, and Cookie Jar's logo instead appeared on NCircle material.
-===1st Logo (1987)===
+===1st Logo (August 28, 2001-December 23, 2008)===
-'''Nickname:''' "Constellation"
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+File:The Incredible World Of Dic Home Entertainment (2005).png
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=88KJ0CWkL5c}}
+'''Visuals:''' Just the normal DIC logo used at the time, but with "Home Entertainment" in a blue script font zooming out below. The globe part of the logo itself is a little bit smaller than the regular version.
-'''Logo:''' Just a still variant of the 1987 DiC logo, with a slighty different space background and "VIDEO" in white between two lines underneath.
+'''Technique:''' Same as the TV counterpart, with added zooming effects for the text.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+'''Audio:''' The sped-up version of the normal 2001 DIC tune, composed by Andy Heyward's daughter, Bianca.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
+'''Availability:'''
-'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. This is only known to appear on ''Heathcliff'' releases. Most releases that use this logo on the packaging (like other Golden Book Video or Kids Klassics releases) just use the regular 1987 logo.
+* It appears on all [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment|Lions Gate Home Entertainment]], [[Sterling Entertainment Group]] and pre-2009 [[NCircle Entertainment]] distributed releases of DIC shows.
+* It sometimes plasters older DIC logos on Sterling and NCircle releases, although later NCircle releases keep the older logos on pre-2001 DIC material.
+* Also appears on promotional DIC DVDs that were given away with General Mills cereals in 2004.
+* It first appeared on the DVD releases of ''Sabrina: The Animated Series - Sabrina's World'' and ''Mummies Alive!'' (the VHS versions use the standard 2001 DIC logo for an unknown reason), and last appeared on the NCircle reissues of ''Sylvanian Families - The Big Adventure'', ''Siegfried and Roy - Masters of the Impossible'' and ''Sonic the Hedgehog - Super Sonic''. Releases after 2008 have the Cookie Jar logo.
+===2nd Logo (2002-2007)===
-'''Editor's Note:''' This was possibly a placeholder logo for a home media division for DiC. However, this was rejected later on due to the 3rd normal DiC logo being used on most home media releases.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+File:DIC Entertainment (2002).jpg
+File:DIC (2004).jpg
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=VYJ0K7AYPJ0|id2=l5YZ9cBiueo}}
+'''Visuals:''' There is the words "The Incredible World of" written in its usual script font (next to a simplified version of the DIC globe) attached to a set of yellow helicopter rotors. It flies outward to a {{Color|#C4C4C4|gray}} helipad situated on top of some dark letters, which rest on a large red table. As the logo lands, the rotors stop spinning and fold up inside the logo. Then, the letters below light up, revealing that they read "FEATURE PRESENTATION".
-===2nd Logo (1991)===
-'''Nicknames:''' "Deek!", "DiC TV"
-'''Logo:''' Same as the 1990 version of the "Kid in Bed" logo, except the spiked star is replaced with just a shining star in the distance. Then, a crudely-drawn {{Font color|gold|yellow}} cartoon TV with a {{Font color|blue|blue}} screen and the DiC logo (in silver) in it zooms in, and "{{Font color|blue|TOON-TIME}} {{Font color|purple|VIDEO}}" ("{{Font color|blue|TOON-TIME}}" is in {{Font color|blue|blue}} while "{{Font color|purple|VIDEO}}" is in {{Font color|purple|purple}}) appears below it in a crude font, with 2 eyes in place of the 2 "O"s in "TOON".
-'''FX/SFX:''' Same as the TV variant, as well as the TV zooming in, and "TOON-TIME VIDEO" appearing.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the TV counterpart.
-'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. Was only seen on the 1991 BMG Kidz release of ''Wish Kid''. This might have been seen on other BMG Kidz DiC releases as well. The Buena Vista Home Video reissues of the BMG Toon-Time Video releases replace this with the regular 1990 logo.
-'''Editor's Note:''' Another attempt of a home media logo that was scrapped. DiC continued to use the regular third logo on their releases until 1994.
-===3rd Logo (June 7, 1994-July 12, 2000)===
-'''Nicknames:''' "Deek! II", "DiC TV II", "DiC Egg"
-'''Logo:''' Against a gray background, the {{Font color|gold|yellow}} TV from before with a {{Font color|blue|blue}} screen zooms out, rocking left and right as it does so, and then settles the center of the screen against an egg-shaped circle. Then, a button on the right side of the TV flashes, the TV screen lights up, and the "{{Font color|blue|DiC}}" logo in {{Font color|blue|blue}} appears in the center. Then, "{{Font color|blue|TOON•TIME VIDEO}}", in {{Font color|blue|blue}} and in a different font, appears in blue.
-'''FX/SFX:''' Just regular DiC-quality animation.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The 1990 "Kid in Bed" theme, "Deek!" voiceover and all, with whooshing sounds added as the TV zooms out, a thud as the button flashes and a brief cymbal when the DIC logo appears and flashes.
-'''Availability:''' Appears on DiC VHS releases distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, such as ''Mummies Alive!: The Legend Begins'', ''Old McDonald's Sing-a-Long Farm'', and ''Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Greatest Gadgets''. It last appeared on ''Sailor Moon: The Doom Tree Series''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' The animation is simple, but at least a nice attempt at making an actual home media logo.
-===4th Logo (August 28, 2001-December 23, 2008)===
-'''Nicknames:''' "The Incredible World of DIC", "DIC Globe", "The IWoD Globe", "Deek! III"
-'''Logo:''' Just the normal DiC logo used at the time, but with "Home Entertainment" in a blue script font zooming out below. The globe part of the logo itself is a little bit smaller than the regular version.
-'''FX/SFX:''' Same as the TV version, plus "Home Entertainment" zooming out quickly.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The sped-up version of the normal 2001 DiC tune.
-'''Availability:''' Common. Seen on Lions Gate Home Entertainment, Sterling Entertainment and NCircle Entertainment (pre-2009) distributed releases of DiC produced material. It sometimes plasters older DIC logos on Sterling and NCircle releases.
-'''Editor's Note:''' Just like its TV compartment, it may be annoying to viewers who preferred the previous logos over this one, or some older viewers may simply find it childish.
-===5th Logo (2002-2005?)===
-'''Nicknames:''' "The Incredible World of DiC II", "IWoD Helicopter/Chopper"
-'''Logo:''' We see the words "The Incredible World of" written in its usual script font (next to a simplified version of the DiC globe) attached to a set of yellow helicopter rotors. It flies outward to a gray helipad situated on top of some dark letters, which rest on a large red table. As the logo lands, the rotors stop spinning and fold up inside the logo. Then, the letters below light up, revealing that they read "FEATURE PRESENTATION".
 '''Variant:''' There is a version of the logo that says "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" on one line instead of "FEATURE PRESENTATION".
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''FX/SFX:''' This is some very nice animation!
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The sounds of the rotors spinning, some whirring/clicking sounds as the rotors retract, and a weird "sproing" as the lights turn on. The "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" version uses lesser-quality stock sounds.
+'''Audio:''' The sounds of the rotors spinning, some whirring/clicking sounds as the rotors retract, and a weird "sproing" as the lights turn on. The "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" version uses lesser-quality stock sounds.
-'''Availability:''' Appears on DVD and VHS releases of the DiC Movie Toons, like ''Inspector Gadget's Last Case'' and ''Dennis the Menace in Cruise Control''. It is always preceded by the 2001 MGM logo on the original North American MGM Home Entertainment prints of the movies. Not all the movies have this logo though. The "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" version appears during the "Visual History of the DIC Logo" montage on the ''The Littles: The Complete Unedited Series'' DVD set. It was also seen on promotional DiC DVDs given out in boxes of General Mills cereals in 2004.
+'''Availability:'''
-'''Editor's Note:''' Way better than the previous logo, since it is not as childish with some good CGI. A shame that this wasn't used as a television logo.
+* "Feature Presentation" - It appears at the beginning of all 13 of the DIC Movie Toons (which includes ''Inspector Gadget's Last Case'' and ''Dennis the Menace in Cruise Control''). It is always preceded by the 2001 MGM logo on the original North American [[MGM Home Entertainment]] prints of the movies. Cookie Jar prints of the movies sometimes remove this logo, and so start off the movie without any logos at all.
+* "Home Entertainment" - It was only seen on Disc 5 of ''The Littles: The Complete Unedited Series'' (from [[S'More Entertainment]]) on the "Visual History of the DIC logo" bonus feature. This variant was likely intended as a replacement for the logo above but was never used officially on any release.
+{{Chronology|[[DIC Toon-Time Video]]|}}
-[[Category:Home Entertainment Logos]] [[Category:Family/Animation Logos]]
-[[Category:WildBrain (Canada)]]
+[[Category:Home entertainment logos]]
+[[Category:WildBrain]]
+[[Category:American home entertainment logos]]
+[[Category:United States]]
+[[Category:English-language logos]]