Logo Variations - Walt Disney Pictures

Logo descriptions by Sean Beard, Matt Williams, Nicholas Aczel, Internet Movie Database, and othersLogo captures by Eric S., wolfie14, lukesams, and EnormousRat These are the logo variations seen throughout the years by Walt Disney Pictures.Swiss Family Robinson (1940): The Disney+ print uses the 1985 logo in black-and-white.______________________________________________________________________________________Bambi (1942): On the 1997 Masterpiece Collection VHS, when the 1990 logo finishes, Tinker Bell flies out of the castle and changes the screen to a scene of the movie. Only appears before the featurette, Walt Disney's Bambi: The Magic Behind the Masterpiece.______________________________________________________________________________________The Lion King (1994, 2009 reissue):The sky is in a bluish-violet color and the sky is tinted purple.__________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Goofy Movie (1995): The logo fades out, but the blue background stays intact. Then, the opening credits and the movie's first scene appear over the logo's background. ____________________________________________________________________________________Pocahontas (1995) and Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble (1989, 1996 VHS): In order for the logo to keep in time with the opening music, the writing of the curve-line is delayed for a few moments. Later prints of "Pocahontas" have The Hunchback of Notre Dame variant. However, "Tummy Trouble" still uses the 1985 castle on the later prints, especially the 2003 VHS and DVD of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".____________________________________________________________________________________ Toy Story (1995): The first film to use Pixar's special Disney logo for use on their films. The logo zooms out and fades into Andy's cloud wallpaper. On the 2009 reissue, the sky is in dark purple tint. _______________________________________________________________________________________The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): The logo fades out right after the arc completes._______________________________________________________________________________________ That Darn Cat! (1997): Cats meow to the melody of the logo._______________________________________________________________________________________Jungle 2 Jungle (1997): A lengthier re-orchestration of the fanfare is heard, which carries over to the first portion of the TF1 International logo_______________________________________________________________________________________Meet the Deedles (1998): The logo moves into an underwater scene._______________________________________________________________________________________I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998): Christmas lights appear and flash constantly all over the curved line as soon as it gets drawn._______________________________________________________________________________________ Tarzan (1999): After the flash of light revealing the "Walt Disney" text, the background turns into a jungle. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Inspector Gadget (1999) and Inspector Gadget 2 (2003): The logo is mechanized and the white curved line is replaced by a gear. On the first movie, we see the castle mechanized, but then it dismantles itself and segues into the opening credits. _______________________________________________________________________________________ My Favorite Martian (1999): The logo slowly fades into Mars. Also, the logo freezes for several seconds before the curved line gets drawn._______________________________________________________________________________________Fantasia 2000 (1999): After the flash of light revealing the "Walt Disney" text, the background turns into space. At the end of the movie, the arc fades into the background. This variant also appears at the end of The Emperor's New Groove. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001): The logo is in steel. Light from the water below is seen reflected on the logo. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Recess: School's Out (2001): After the flash, Gus, Mikey, Gretchen, Spinelli, Vince, and TJ play the tune on kazoos while the rest of the logo plays out. _______________________________________________________________________________________Monsters, Inc. (2001): The opening logo is cut down to the last few seconds of the line drawing. The full logo is shown at the end with the closing music playing over it._______________________________________________________________________________________ The Country Bears (2002): The logo plays normally, but after that, it's on a wood background. A fire spark goes all the way to the bottom right. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Lilo & Stitch (2002): The logo is on a black background, and the flash that draws the curve line is now green and has a "pulsing" sound effect. The logo as whole is stolen by a UFO beam. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Stitch's Trail (2002): A deleted scene from the Lilo & Stitch DVD. The logo is on a gray background, the logo is all white, and alien text switches between letters before the text switches to English._______________________________________________________________________________________Return to Never Land (2002): As the curved line animates, pixie dust falls from it. A yellow glowing ball is drawing the curved line and then flies around and into the gate. Then, the logo zooms out to the left and is revealed to be on a cloud. The camera then pans around as the logo suddenly disappears as the movie begins. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002): The logo is formed by fireworks and the "Walt Disney" text writes itself. And the logo fades to a Cinderella castle, seguing into the opening credits._______________________________________________________________________________________ Treasure Planet (2002): The logo is cut to the last few seconds. This variant is also seen at the end of the film._______________________________________________________________________________________ Snow Dogs (2002): After the curved line draws, the logo turns icy and starts to snow. _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Jungle Book 2 (2003): The logo is in front of a piece of cloth behind a blue light as the logo fully animates, until it fades and the color changes. Also, the characters Shanti (Mae Whitman), Ranjan (Connor Funk), and Ranjan's father (John Rhys-Davies) are heard talking during this. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Piglet's Big Movie (2003): The line drawing over the castle is pink instead of white, representing Piglet. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Stitch! The Movie (2003): The logo dissolves into the opening scene. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Freaky Friday (2003): One of the last films to use the original 1985 fanfare. The logo animates as normal, then fades into an aged parchment page, transitioning into the film's opening credits. At the end of the film, the logo starts when the castle is fully formed, it animates at a little smoother rate, and the curved line's shadowed reflection is not seen._______________________________________________________________________________________ The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003): The castle zooms in rapidly by segments, followed by letters coming (one after one) from the left. Then the logo begins to flash blue and red, like police lights. The curved line drawing is blue, and after the logo is done, it disappears, and the logo itself moves to the right. At the end of this film, the same logo from the film's opening is already formed, the flashing blue and red lights are removed, and after the curved line is formed, the logo fades out. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003): Dogs bark to the melody of the logo. _______________________________________________________________________________________George of the Jungle 2 (2003): After the logo is completed, George swings around the screen and hits the castle, causing it to fall over._______________________________________________________________________________________The Haunted Mansion (2003): The castle turns into a mansion while dark clouds cover the words. _______________________________________________________________________________________Lorenzo (2004):The logo is made up of colorful neon signs. Also, the logo is animated the way neon signs are._______________________________________________________________________________________ The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004): A re-orchestrated version of the 1985 music plays over the logo. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Home on the Range (2004): The logo is branded onto a piece of leather and then burns up.At the end of the film, the logo fades in on the brown background used for the credits.______________________________________________________________________________________Teacher's Pet (2004): The logo is animated in the same style of the movie. The opening theme from Pinocchio (1940) is used. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004): The logo is red over a Christmas ornament on a Christmas tree in the same style of the movie. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005): The logo turns into a cloud which resembles a castle. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005): The logo encounters a glitch, just like a computer would do. Also, the castle segments go backwards at the beginning, starting from the bottom segment of the castle appearing and more segments appear one-by-one until the top segment appears and then, the top segment flashes like a neuralyzer. ______________________________________________________________________________________ The Pacifier (2005): The standard "flashlight" variant is used, but a suspenseful rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" plays over the logo. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Ice Princess (2005): The "flashlight" logo is blue with ice coming out of the curved line. Also, the song "No One" by Aly & AJ begins playing. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Sky High (2005): The logo fades into a silhouette of the Disney castle as seen in the skyline. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Chicken Little (2005): The logo is on a sky background with a more realistically-rendered and colored Sleeping Beauty castle, and the "Walt Disney PICTURES" text zooms out and places itself under the castle instead of appearing in a flash, all rendered in the same style of the movie. Presumably a placeholder logo before developing the 2006 logo. At the end of the movie, the standard logo plays, but the background is black instead of blue. _______________________________________________________________________________________Tarzan II (2005): Exactly like on Tarzan, but the jungle is more detailed._______________________________________________________________________________________ Brother Bear II (2006): Birds fly out from behind the logo. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Bambi II (2006): The castle is surrounded by mist. _______________________________________________________________________________________Leroy & Stitch (2006): At the end, the background fades to space and the logo goes into hyperdrive._______________________________________________________________________________________The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006): After the logo finishes, the logo then fades to a morning sky background._______________________________________________________________________________________The Shaggy Dog (2006): The castle turns into a doghouse. _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Wild (2006): In the darkness, the particle makes its usual way above the castle while in voice-over Samson the lion is about to tell his son Ryan a story. Suddenly, as Ryan tells Samson he already heard his story a billion times it stops and rushes back. Then as the conversation repeats, it tries again, makes 2/3 of the distance, and rushes back again. Next time, the conversation occurs again and the particle is being drawn back by a hand. For the fourth time, the particle (and thus, Samson) finally succeeds, and the logo turns into the in-movie sun. The text is in 3-D, made of stone, and has some acacia trees surrounding the castle. _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006): When the logo fully forms, the camera zooms out to reveal a snow globe surrounding it that Santa holds. He then shakes the snow globe, which causes snow to surround the castle. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Enchanted (2007): After the logo fully forms, the camera pans up from the castle into a room in the top middle of it. _______________________________________________________________________________________Presto (2008): At the beginning of the short that was shown before WALL-E, we see the castle on a red textured background as an homage to the old Disney cartoons. It reads "Walt Disney Pictures Presents" underneath.___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bedtime Stories (2008): The logo turns into a pop-up book. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008): The logo moves into the opening title. _______________________________________________________________________________________ High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008): The logo morphs into a disco ball. _______________________________________________________________________________________Race to Witch Mountain (2009): The logo darkens and the castle turns into the titular mountain. _______________________________________________________________________________________Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009): The music is a rock version of the fanfare._______________________________________________________________________________________G-Force (2009): Sounds heard in the movie accompany the logo._______________________________________________________________________________________Alice in Wonderland (2010): The logo is darker than usual.__________________________________________________________________________________________Tron: Legacy (2010): The logo is gradually formed by graphics like those found in the Grid. The company name is slightly off-center.__________________________________________________________________________________________ Mars Needs Moms (2011): The logo is tinted in red except for the company name.__________________________________________________________________________________________Prom (2011): The logo starts off normally before turning into a pencil drawing placed on a scrapbook page. The "Walt Disney" scrap of paper is part of the 1985 logo. The fanfare also turns into a rock version of the fanfare when the logo transforms._______________________________________________________________________________________Winnie the Pooh (2011): The logo is tinted in yellow except for the sky, the castle, and the company's name._______________________________________________________________________________________Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011): The logo fades in from blue fog, the flag on top of the castle is replaced by the Jolly Roger flag, mermaids appear in the river, and the logo is tinted in dark blue.At the end of the film, the logo is still tinted in dark blue. _______________________________________________________________________________________ John Carter (2012): The logo is tinted entirely in deep red, except for the "Disney" text, which is in its normal silver color._______________________________________________________________________________________Frankenweenie (2012): The 2011 logo starts as normal in color. In the final few seconds before "Disney" is revealed, the music changes into an organ piece and the logo transforms into the trailer variant without the rain.Also, the music is re-orchestrated.______________________________________________________________________________________The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012): The logo fades to white.______________________________________________________________________________________ Wreck-It Ralph (2012): At the end of the movie, the logo glitches as errors appear with "RALPH" misspelled as "RALF". Then, it turns into a parody of the Pac-Man kill screen. The 1985 logo is briefly seen. The logo ends with a TV off effect.At the end of Paperman, the short film shown before Wreck-It Ralph, the logo is black & white, "Disney" is written in chalk, and the castle is stylized like the short. Also, the curved line is drawn by a paper airplane from the short. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Oz the Great and Powerful (2013): The 2011 logo is in black and white, in an art-deco style, and in a 4:3 aspect ratio like the first fifteen minutes of the film. The stars in the background are cheaply animated and the logo zooms out from the top of the castle to show the entire logo, with the "Disney" text already formed. The camera then zooms in through the castle gate and into the opening credits sequence. _________________________________________________________________________________________________The Lone Ranger (2013): The logo is a darkish-gray color._______________________________________________________________________________________Planes (2013): When the logo finishes, the highest tower of the castle begins to shine like a lighthouse. After one full rotation of light, the flag on top of the tower becomes a blinking red light and two planes fly past the logo towards the screen, transitioning into the opening scene of the film. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Get a Horse! (2013): The logo is in black and white, with "Disney" written in an older-looking signature font with an underline. Clarabelle Cow is seen leaping over the castle and leaves behind the trail of pixie dust. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Maleficent (2014): The parts of the castle have been rearranged into the same formation as Maleficent's. ____________________________________________________________________________________________Into the Woods (2014): At the beginning of the movie, the logo fades from black (similar to Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but without the fog), and it is darkened. The fireworks are absent. The glowing pinpoint fades in, moving as usual, arcs over the castle becoming the moon and the sparkles disappear early. The camera backs up into the woods as the "Disney" text appears. The logo fades to black. The opening sounds are used.____________________________________________________________________________________________ Feast (2014):The logo is decorated on a plate, and the man in the short squirts ketchup onto the plate, creating the arc over the castle.____________________________________________________________________________________________Million Dollar Arm (2014): The logo is darker than usual. Also, the logo is shaded in purple. ____________________________________________________________________________________________Cinderella (2015): The 3D variation of the 2011 logo fades to the opening shot of the film (which, oddly enough, isn't in 3D).___________________________________________________________________________________Tomorrowland (2015): The castle is replaced with Tomorrowland's buildings and structures, complete with flying machines.___________________________________________________________________________________Frozen Fever (2015): The castle appears as normal, but one of the tiny snowmen from the short is standing on the right, and leaps over thecastle from right to left, leaving a trail in the shape of the usual arc.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Zootopia (2016): Normal on the actual film, but in an advertisement for the film's video release, the front of the castle logo is grafted on top of the Zootopia skylinein a scene from the film, with the arc being formed as usual but wider, and "Disney" appears below as usual in the same color and texture as the film's logo._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Jungle Book (2016): The entire logo, including the fireworks and the castle, is recreated in traditional, hand-drawn animation. The word "Disney" is gold and when the logo finishes the word "Presents", in the same font as the opening credits of the 1967 film fades in below "Disney" before the logo zooms out to a hand-painted jungle that transforms into a photorealistic, CG jungle. At the end of the movie, it's the normal closing variant but "Disney" zooms in off center._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Finest Hours (2016): The logo is darker and shaded in sepia brown._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Beauty and the Beast (2017):The logo features the Prince's castle (with Villeneuve village in the background) in the evening before his masquerade party starts. A rosebush appears near the castle and the Enchantress picks a rose from it, leading into the opening. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017):The logo is stormy sky, the fireworks are absent and the logo is slightly darker, similar to the Into the Woods variant. Also, the flag on the top of the castle is replaced once again by the Jolly Roger flag, the spark that draws the curved line is noticeably absent and the sparkles forming the "Disney" text are nowhere to be seen.._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Last Warrior (2017, Russia): The flag and the bottom of the castle look slightly different and as soon as the logo's panning animation finishes, a chicken wearing a house costume on its head can be seen jumping through the river. Also, the sparkles forming the "Disney" text are nowhere to be seen._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Coco (2017): The music is a Mexican-style version of the logo's theme._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A Wrinkle in Time (2018):The 2011 logo starts as normal in color. At the end after "Disney" is revealed, the music ends and the logo transforms into the trailer variant._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Incredibles 2 (2018): The theme and the style of the movie as well as the art of the comic book are incorporated in the logo. It is in different shades of red and the word "Disney" is yellow. At the end of the movie, the full normal version is used, with the closing theme of the movie that segues into the Pixar Animation Studios logo playing over the logo._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Christopher Robin (2018): The 2011 logo changes into a hand drawn illustration of the logo on a book page.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018): The 2011 logo's music is reorchestrated. Also, at the end of the logo, the company's name fades out. A bird flies in and the camera follows the bird by panning left from the castle to the movie's opening scene.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Mary Poppins Returns (2018): The 2011 logo has the London skyline, the Big Ben, and Tower Bridge behind the castle. Also, the river in front of the castle is replaced by a road and sidewalk and there are also trees and lampposts in front of the castle.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018): At the end of the movie, Ralph talks over the logo (as well as the Walt Disney Animation Studios one) as "Never Gonna Give You Up" finishes. He says "Alright, well, you're welcome to stay. There's not really any more surprises, but you know. Good luck getting that song out of your head, it's a real earwig. Anyway, what else, uhh..." before being cut off by the logo turning off with a TV effect, that was directly re-used from the first film.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Aladdin (2019):The logo is tinted in a dark yellow shade and, at the end, a light shines to the upper left of the castle and segues to the opening scene, with "Disney" fading out.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Toy Story 4 (2019): The logo plays as normal, but Randy Newman's score replaces the normal music.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The Lion King (2019):Same as the 2016 Jungle Book variant, but without the word "Presents". When "Disney" fades in, it's still and it's large. Also, the camera stops moving just before the final three notes are heard and when the logo finishes, the logo fades out. At the end of the movie, the full normal version (like the one in Incredibles 2) is shown, but silent.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019): As the logo finishes, the camera moves in an upper right direction, panning away from the logo.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Lady and the Tramp (2019): Once the logo finishes, the logo turns into a sepia-tinted version with some brown highlights.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Noelle (2019): At the very end of the logo, the company name fades out. After that, snow begins falling over the logo. Then, Santa Claus rides with his sleigh and reindeer over the castle. The camera then follows Santa Claus and his sleigh through said castle.