Logo History: Jacob Hanson Home Video

== 1st Logo (1987-present) ==
Nicknames: "Blossom" "That Nostalgic Blossom" "Walt Disney Home Video Logo Parody"
Logo: On a black background, we see Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls, standing on a blue spotlight on a black background. The camera slowly begins zooming up to her hand, and then a magic spark flashes and appears above Blossom’s hand. We zoom past Blossom as the spark begins swirling around and begins to write "Jacob Hanson" in the corporate Arial font in red. As we zoom out, the words "HOME VIDEO", also in red and in the same font as before, zoom out and settle underneath "Jacob Hanson". The logo "shines".
Variants:
* The text may vary from a magenta color (which seems more common) to a regular red color (as in picture #1) or a vermilion color (as in the "ALSO FROM" variant picture) or a blue color (as in some Jacob Hanson Home Video tapes and discs)
* On one occasion, this logo is shown without Blossom, leaving a blank space until the spark writes out the words. This appears on the 2000 VHS and DVD of Hello Kitty and Daniel's Lovely Christmas and the 2003 DVD of The Tag and Norrie Show: The Complete Season 1
* Sometimes, the Blossom-less variant begins by simply fading in to the spark animation. This appears on the 1998 VHS and the 2002 DVD of Hello Kitty: The Movie 2
* On some tapes and discs, the Blossom part is replaced with the spark swirling around in slow-mo until the regular animation plays.
* Sometimes, "presents" in white, or in all-caps "PRESENTS" in red, fades in below. The "presents" version has it fading in with spark effects, while the "PRESENTS" variant has it simply fading in without sparks.
FX/SFX: The spark flying and writing, and the logo shining.
Music/Sounds: A low-key, gradually rising synth theme with a held-out synthesized B-flat French horn note at the beginning.
Music/Sounds Variants:
* In its early years, the music was more synthesized.
* There is an extremely rare short version with a series of droning synth notes, incorporating "dings" that are perfectly synchronized with the logo "sparkling". This can be seen on a handful of early '90s re-releases; notably the 1990 VHS release of Blackbeard's Ghost. It was also on the Laserdisc release of Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and a Canadian VHS of Something Wicked This Way Comes. An even rarer long version without the "dings" can be found on a few international releases.
Availability: Very common, seen on just about any Jacob Hanson release from this time period all over the world.
Scare Factor: Minimal, this logo is very clean and professional, compared with the predecessor. However, the deep synthesized chord at the beginning may get to some.
== 2nd Logo (Late 1991-present) ==
Nicknames: "The Gold Text" "Shining Jacob Hanson" "Another Walt Disney Home Video Logo Parody"
Logo: On a black background, we see the golden words:
Jacob Hanson
HOME VIDEO
with "Jacob Hanson" in the corporate "Arial" font. The words shine.
Variants:
* Sometimes, a gradient blue background or a gradient green background would be used instead.
* On some releases, the words are light blue and "presents" is seen below. This was seen from 1993-1997.
FX/SFX: The "shining".
Music/Sounds: A lilting, dreamy string tune, which sounds somewhat like the "Great Ovation" Feature Presentation theme.
Music/Sounds Variants:
* On the 1998 DVD release of Hey Duggee Unrated: Volume 1, the logo is silent.
* A version with the Jim Henson Video music (which itself is already a slower version of this logo's music) was used around 1993-98, on tapes like Hey Duggee Unrated: Volume 1, Jacob Hanson's The Powerpuff Girls: Volume 1, Hey Duggee Unrated: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and the 1998 widescreen VHS of Hello Kitty: The Movie 2. It was also on the 2003 DVD of Jacob Hanson's The Powerpuff Girls Volume 2 DVD and the 1998 DVD of Hello Kitty: The Movie 2
Availability: Fairly common
Scare Factor: None to low. The music may turn some people off; otherwise, it's a clean logo.
== 3rd Logo (1994-present) ==
Nicknames: "The Maze"
Logo: The camera travels through a curvy blue maze and drops down a strange hole, revealing several blue and purple copies of the maze. It then pans through the bottom-most area of the maze and reaches a yellow light coming out of another hole, then begins to travel upward through the hole and spins around a bit, eventually revealing the word "JACOB HANSON".
Variant: A rare short variant starts with two copies of "JACOB HANSON", one on top of the other, being viewed from the left side, before the camera goes through the first "C" and travels quickly between the two copies until coming out again through the second "C". The ending is largely says JACOB HANSON presents... or JACOB HANSON.
FX/SFX: The CGI maze. Extraordinary CGI animation for its time.
Music/Sounds: A dramatic tune sounding like something off an action film. The short version has a heavenly chorus.
Availability: RARE! 
Scare Factor: Low to medium, the music will get to you, but it's really relaxing, but nothing is compared to the next logo....
== 4th logo (1999-2009) ==
Nicknames: "Neon Blossom" "Evil Blossom" "Blossom the Terrible" "The Many Outlines of Blossom" "Francesco Mennella Studios Home Entertainment's daughter"
Logo: On a black background, we see a large red outline of Blossom's silhouette, appearing and then panning aword, then it changes to some colors (like orange, yellow, and more colors), as the same 1994 Jacob Hanson text appears in White, then it disappears, and then it comes back but with the words Home Entertainment on the Home Entertainment font from DreamWorks Home Entertainment, last but not at least, the Blossom outlines changes one by one to magenta.
FX/SFX: The Blossom outlines, the text appearing.
Music/Sounds: A loud orchestral fanfare, composed by Buddy Baker.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- In the Hey Duggee Unrated: The Halloween Special, a horror halloween theme plays.
- In Jacob Hanson's PPG: The logo is silent.
- In Hey Duggee Unrated: Happy Birthday Tag! An happy birthday theme is played.
-In The Tag and Norrie show: The meeting of Blossom, The Powerpuff Girls theme song is played, and the logo is slow as usual.
Availability: It can be seen on some Jacob Hanson DVDs and VHSs.
Scare Factor: Medium to nightmare. The bad qualities of the scanimate graphics, as well the loud fanfare, mit not well some people, The colored Blossom doesn't look that friendly looking ether.
Hey Duggee Unrated: The Halloween Special variant: NIGHTMARE! The creepy theme makes this logo even worse.
Jacob Hanson's PPG variant: Low to high, the outlines are still here, but without the music, makes this logo not cheesy.
The Tag and Norrie show: The meeting of Blossom variant: Low to medium, with the PPG theme song and the slow Blossom outlines, makes this logo not scary as the original.
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