An Sony Wonder/Summary

## 2nd Logo (1995-2008; 2013-present)

**Nicknames**: "The Ribbon", "The Sunny 'WONDER' Ribbon"

**Logo**: On the time-lapsed cloudy environment. The word "WONDER" (in Herman font, more simple from before), in a pink ribbon, flies in from the top-right to the bottom of the screen and stops in the center. The ribbon then turns blue, and we then see a CGI yellow sun appear in place of the "O" in "WONDER" via a cheesy light effect. The Sony logo fades in at the top of the ribbon. The end result is almost the same as the first logo.

**Variants**:

* Sometimes, the logo is shortened:
	+ Beginning with the ribbon flying in.
	+ Beginning just before the sun appears. Seen on Season 1 episodes of *The Beginner's Bible* (Surprisingly, it was also seen both the beginning and end of the 2002 Time Life Kids VHS of *The Beginner's Bible* episode "The Nativity".)
	+ Sometimes, the logo fades to black earlier.
* The color of the CGI sun in "WONDER" can vary.
	+ On nearly all Sony Wonder releases, it is gold-yellow.
	+ On many Sesame Street VHS releases from late 1996-early 1998 such as *Sing Yourself Sillier At the Movies* and *Kids' Guide to Life: Telling the Truth*, it is orange-yellow.
	+ On early 1996 Sesame Street VHS releases such as *Elmocize* and *Rock & Roll*, it is brighter, making it appear in a white-tinted color.

* Sometimes, like on Classic Media releases, the logo is surround by the light blue faded border.
* In 2014, the logo made its return for *The Swan Princess* installments beginning from *A Royal Family Tale* onwards, and on *Honey Girls* (2021). It is already-formed and still against a different cloudy sky environment.

**FX/SFX**: The ribbon flying, the sun and the Sony logo both appearing.

**Music/Sounds**: When the logo starts, we hear a riveting string note being held out, and when the ribbon appears, descending harp notes play in-sync with the ribbon. As the ribbon is in its position with the sun appearing, a brief flute melody plays, and when the Sony logo appears, everything rises to 1 majestic note complete with tubular bells that slowly stops once the logo fades. This is all synthesized, with some samples produced on the E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestral digital synthesizer.

**Music/Sounds Variants**:

* The second short variant has the music shortened.
* The fourth short variant has either the closing theme, or the show's music with the male announcer saying "Only from Sony Wonder."
* The logo's return version has the opening theme.

**Availability**: Common. It can be seen on many Sony Wonder VHSs/DVDs of the time, such as *Sesame Street* videos, and Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Workshop videos (from 1994 to 2008) and releases from Random House Home Video & Harvey Entertainment/Golden Books Family Entertainment/Entertainment Rights/Classic Media. It can also be seen on Canadian/American VHS/DVD releases of *Caillou*. This makes a surprise appearance on the 2007 DVD sets of *Sesame Street TV Episode Fun Pack Vol 1,* and *Vol 2* despite having the next logo on the packaging, even though the last release to use this logo on the packaging is the 2006 DVD of *Sesame Beginnings, Exploring Together* released on November 7, 2006. However, this doesn't appear on any Big Idea releases distributed from the company.

## 3rd Logo (2006-2008)

Nickname: "Cheesy Sun", "Flash Sun", "Twirling Sun"

Logo: On a white background, we see a crudely drawn gold circle that zooms incredibly close to the screen, then pans back, followed by rapid flashing. Several lines appear across the circle, making it a sun, then spin around. The lines blur, then are re-drawn. The sun bounces to the middle of the screen, where the text "SONY", in its corporate font, slides in from the left and bumps the logo. "WONDER", also in the Sony logo font, then slides in from the right and makes the logo positioned correctly. The sun rays spin around one more time and wiggle around (ala the animation style of Ed, Edd n Eddy).

FX/SFX: Simple Flash animation.

Cheesy Factor: The re-drawing of the sun rays is an unnecessary scene that likely only serves to slightly pad out the runtime, not to mention that the flashing after the sun pans back could cause some seizures.

Music/Sounds: We hear a quick jet zooming sound, then several xylophone notes and a "TWING!" as the circular sun zooms back. As the sun spins around, there is several drum taps, then 3 bouncing sounds. 2 "dwong" sounds are heard as the Sony Wonder logo is finally formed, followed by an ascending twinkle.

Scare Factor: Minimal.