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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.

◄	DIC Toon-Time Video

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 ===Background===
-DIC Home Entertainment was the home entertainment arm of [[DIC Entertainment]] Corporation (later "[[Cookie Jar Entertainment|Cookie Jar Entertainment]], Inc.", then "DHX Media" and now "[[WildBrain|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.
-==DIC Video==
-===(1987)===
-[[File:DiC Video.jpg|center|350px]]
-{{YouTube|id=gIv9VLgXigA}}
-'''Logo:''' On a black/{{color|#8400FF|purple}} gradient background, we see the word "<big>{{color|#E0BEFF|DiC}}</big>" in its standard font. Below it is the word “VIDEO” sandwiched between two white lines. A constellation is above the whole thing.
-'''Technique:''' None, if you don't count the fade in/out.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
-'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. This is only known to appear on ''Heathcliff'' releases released by [[Golden Books Family Entertainment]]. Most releases that use this logo on the packaging (like other Golden Book Video or [[Kids Klassics]] releases) just use the regular 1987 logo or the "PRESENTS" version of the latter.
-==DIC Toon-Time Video==
-===1st Logo (1991)===
-[[File:Fa56f64d43d26941017f93d8cb47bed7.jpg|center|350px]]{{YouTube|id=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oselbFnfarg}}
-'''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 {{color|gold|yellow}} cartoon TV emerges from it. It has a {{color|blue}} screen and the DIC logo (in {{Color|#C4C4C4|silver}}).  "{{color|blue|TOON-TIME}} {{color|darkviolet|VIDEO}}" ("{{color|blue|TOON-TIME}}" is in {{color|blue}} while "{{color|darkviolet|VIDEO}}" is in {{color|darkviolet|purple}}) appears below it in a crude font, with 2 eyes in place of the 2 "O"s in "TOON".
-'''Technique:''' Zooming effects for the TV.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the [[DIC Entertainment|TV counterpart.]]
-'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. Only known to appear on the 1991 BMG Kidz release of ''Wish Kid''. It might have been seen on other BMG Kidz DIC releases as well. When Buena Vista Home Video reissued these tapes, this logo was plastered with the standard 1990 DIC logo.
-===2nd Logo (June 7, 1994-July 12, 2000)===
-[[File:Dic toon time video.jpg|center|350px]]{{YouTube|id=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVUyRR1ezzE}}
-'''Logo:''' Against a {{Color|#C4C4C4|gray}} background, the {{color|gold|yellow}} TV from before with a {{color|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 DIC logo (with "{{color|blue|DiC}}" in it's standard font in {{color|blue}}) appears in the center. Then, "{{color|blue|TOON•TIME VIDEO}}", in {{color|blue}} and in a different font, appears in {{Color|blue|blue}}.
-'''Technique:''' Standard DIC-quality animation.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the 1990 DiC logo, 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:''' Very rare. Appears on DIC VHS releases distributed by [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video]].
-* This logo is seen on VHS releases of ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' (Some releases have the standard 1990 DIC logo), ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (SATAM), ''Double Dragon'', ''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad'', ''Rimba's Island'', ''Old McDonald's Sing-a-Long Farm'', ''What-a-Mess'', and ''Sailor Moon'', as well as ''Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures!'', ''The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers'', ''Jingle Bell Rock'', ''Mummies Alive!: The Legend Begins'', and ''Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Greatest Gadgets''.
-* Some DIC VHS releases have the print logo on the packaging but have the standard 1990 DIC logo on-screen.
-* It first appeared on ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' tapes ''Sonic's Song'' and ''Road Hog'', and the ''Double Dragon'' tapes ''The Legend Begins'' and ''Deadly Mutants'', and last appeared on ''Sailor Moon: The Doom Tree Series''.
-==The Incredible World of DIC Home Entertainment==
 ===1st Logo (August 28, 2001-December 23, 2008)===
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 {{YouTube|id=88KJ0CWkL5c}}
-'''Logo:''' Just the normal DIC logo used at the time, but with "Home Entertainment" in a {{Color|blue|blue}} script font zooming out below. The globe part of the logo itself is a little bit smaller than the regular version.
+'''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.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The sped-up version of the normal 2001 DIC tune.
+'''Audio:''' The sped-up version of the normal 2001 DIC tune, composed by Andy Heyward's daughter, Bianca.
-'''Availability:''' Common.
+'''Availability:'''
-* It appears on all [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment|Lions Gate Home Entertainment]], [[UAV Corporation|Sterling Entertainment]] and pre-2009 [[NCircle Entertainment]] distributed releases of DIC shows.
+* 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 (2002-2005?)===
+===2nd Logo (2002-2007)===
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+{{YouTube|id=VYJ0K7AYPJ0|id2=l5YZ9cBiueo}}
-'''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 {{Color|gold|yellow}} helicopter rotors. It flies outward to a {{Color|#C4C4C4|gray}} helipad situated on top of some dark letters, which rest on a large {{Color|red|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".
+'''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".
 '''Variant:''' There is a version of the logo that says "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" on one line instead of "FEATURE PRESENTATION".
-'''Technique:''' CGI animation.
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''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:'''
-* "Feature Presentation" - Uncommon. 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.
+* "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" - Extremely rare. It appears on various promotional DIC DVDs given away with General Mills cereals in 2004. It was also seen on ''The Littles: The Complete Unedited Series'' (from [[S'More Entertainment]]) as part of a Bonus Feature that showcases other DIC logos.
+* "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:WildBrain]]
 [[Category:American home entertainment logos]]
 [[Category:United States]]
+[[Category:English-language logos]]