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'''Variants:'''
*On <u>season 2</u> of ''Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends'':
**A copyright notice now appears on the bottom half of the screen reading "{{Font|Times New Roman|{{color|gold|(C) Britt Allcroft Limited 1986}}}}" with the ''Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends'' logo shifted up a bit.
**The text above the logo is also smaller and now reads "{{Font|Times New Roman|{{color|gold|For Britt Allcroft Limited}}}}" instead of "{{Font|Times New Roman|{{color|gold|for Britt Allcroft Ltd}}}}".
**The show name is also now a part of the logo, evident by the lack of a thick black outline.
*On the <u>original [[ITV1 IDs|ITV]] broadcasts</u> of the first two seasons of ''Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends'' in 1984 and 1986 respectively, this logo fades into the 1983 [[Central Productions|Central]] logo of the time.
*On the <u>1991 reruns of season 2</u> of ''Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends'' on Children's ITV, this logo fades into the 1989 [[Central Productions|A Central Programme for ITV]] endboard.
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*It was seen alongside the Clearwater Features logo on TV broadcasts of the first two seasons of ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' during the 1980s and can also be found on [[Guild Home Video]], [[Screen Legends]], [[ABC DVD|ABC Video]], [[Pickwick Video]], [[CEL Video]] and early [[Video Collection International|Video Collection]] VHS releases of the show.
*All VHS and DVD releases (with the exception of both the Australian VHS and DVD releases of ''Truck Loads of Fun'' released in that country in 2001 and 2005 respectively, where it is kept intact on both "Trouble in the Shed" and "Off The Rails") of these seasons of the show have used the second logo since 1991, with early re-releases and both the Norwegian and later Swedish dubs of this show replacing both the Clearwater Features logo and this logo with a shot of Thomas from the episode "Saved From Scrap" instead, which listed the show's producers below, which then cuts to the second logo afterwards.
*The final UK VHS release to feature this logo was
*This was not seen on US prints of the show.
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The Britt Allcroft Company (known initially in the UK as "Britt Allcroft Railway Productions") was a British production and licensing company established in 1983 by Britt Allcroft and Angus Wright. They immediately bought the rights to The Railway Series of children's books and in 1984, created Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, recognized as one of the longest-running children's series (with new episodes being produced until January 2021). Other notable productions were Shining Time Station and The Magic Adventures of Mumfie. In September 2000, after the cinematic failure of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Britt stepped down as the company's CEO and soon, it was reformed as Gullane Entertainment.
Logo: On a blue background, the original logo for Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends is seen. The logo consists of a picture of Thomas with a puff of smoke that displays the show's name (which appears to be chroma-keyed onto the logo), in front of an oval that resembles a railway number plate. On the oval is the text "Britt Allcroft Limited 1983". Above the symbol is the text "for Britt Allcroft Ltd" (this logo was always preceded by the Clearwater Features logo, so that the complete text reads "A Clearwater Features Production for Britt Allcroft Ltd") in a yellow Bevan font (the same used for the original end credits).
Variants:
Technique: None.
Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Logo:
Variants:
Technique: 2D animation.
Music/Sounds: A happy-sounding flageolet/glockenspiel/synthesizer solo, which would later serve as the opening notes for the “Island Song”. Chimes are also heard sparkling when the words shine.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Quite common.
Legacy: A very well-known logo among fans of Thomas & Friends.
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