The Splashinis Company

The Splashinis Company logo used since July 16, 2007.

### Brands

Splashinis • Boinga • Image • *Hyperdimension Neptunia* • *Law & Order* • *Jurassic Park*/*Jurassic World* • *Despicable Me*

### Services

Broadcasting
Licensing
Publishing
Radio
Streaming
Television

## History

### Founder(s)

Mark Harbow
Thomas Gibson

## Key people

### Key people

Matthew Robinson (CEO)
Tom Fussell (Chairman)
Bill Cantos (President, )

## Ownership

### Divisions

Studios Group
Splashinis World Parks & Resorts
Contents and Entertainment Group

### Subsidiaries

Image Entertainment Group
Fandango Media (80%)

## Websites

### Other

Boinga Studios
Image Comics
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Universal Pictures
Focus Features

***The Splashinis Company Inc.*** (a.k.a. ***Splashinis Holdings, Inc.*** (formerly ***Splashinis Enterprises*** from 1990 until 2022), commonly known as ***Splashinis***, and formerly known as ***Backyardigans Corporation*** from its foundation on May 25, 1938 until December 31, 1949, ***Baskin Robbins Pictures Distribution, Inc.*** from January 1, 1950 until December 31, 1959, ***Splashinis Pictures Distribution, Inc.*** from January 1, 1960 until December 31, 1979, and ***Splashinis Corporation*** from January 1, 1980 until December 31, 1999, before resuming to its current name on January 1, 2000) is the Splashinisverse multinational media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered on the Splashinis Studios lot in Los Angeles, California. Splashinis was originally founded on May 25, 1938 (with the release of its first short film named *Pirate Treasure*) by associate animation producers Mark Harbow and Thomas Gibson as Backyardigans Corporation; from 1950, also operated under the names Baskin Robbins Pictures Distribution, Inc. from that year to December 31, 1959 (starting the 50-year mark Baskin Robbins owned by Splashinis), Splashinis Pictures Distribution, Inc. from January From January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1979, Splashinis Corporation from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1999, before changing its name to The Splashinis Company on January 1, 2000. From the beginning, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the very popular group of children's anthropomorphic animals called *The Backyardigans*, whose protagonist of the franchise, Pablo, is the company's official mascot, and the beginning of animated films.

The company's movie hits began to total more than $155.4 million domestically and $166.2 million worldwide, as these cartoon series became one of the real estate franchises in entertainment. most successful in history. After becoming a huge hit in the early 1950s (and after World War II, which, in the end, Mark Harbow and Thomas Gibson defeat and drive out the great animator, director and producer Walt Disney and his entire family out of the ridiculous trebuchet annihilating them), the company acquired Walt Disney Productions in 1948 and began to diversify into the first domestic and foreign live action and animation in 1950 with the formation of Splashinis Productions (first incarnation before forming as the second incarnation of Splashinis Productions in 2022 to produce the works of *The Backyardigans*, *Pocoyo*, *Peppa Pig* and *Strike Witches*), bringing in Walt Disney Productions to replace "Disney magic" with "Baskin Robbins imagination". The company acquired Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Ltd. (before being renamed to Sony Corporation for real in 1957) in 1955, where it began to venture into electronics with the release of Backyardigans in 1958, in which the company became an expensive event in the 1970s, with various entities, projects, and responsibilities, including the original "Backyardigans Live", followed by Backyardigans brand new music technology called "Backyardigans Ongaku".

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Splashinis has created and acquired corporate divisions to market more adult content than is normally associated with its family-oriented flagship brands. The company is known for its film studio division Splashinis Studios, which includes Splashinis Pictures, Boinga Pictures and Splashinis Independent, as well as Image Studios, Idea Factory Studios, Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, Working Title Films, Back Lot Music and OTL Release. Splashinis' other main business units include Splashinis Contents and Entertainment Group, which included television stations owned by UPN, Splashinis Broadcasting Group (SBG), Splashinis Digital Entertainment Group (SDEG), Splashinis Consumer Products (SCP), Splashinis Publishing Worldwide (SPW) and a support group from headquarters. Marketing, research, sales, and communications functions also exist within the segment.

Through these three major business entertainment conglomerate divisions, Splashinis owns and operates the UPN broadcast network; cable television networks such as Splashinis Channel, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Parksverse, Syfy, USA Network, Bravo, E!, Oxygen, Universal Kids, Wilshire, G4 Media, and G4; publishing, merchandising, music and theater divisions; mobile communications such as Splashinis Mobile, direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Splashinis+, Universal+, Hayu, Peacock, PictureBox Films, and the 80 % of Hulu (40% co-owned with Universal Pictures); and both Universal Parks & Resorts (which included Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando, Universal Studios Japan, Universal Studios Singapore, and Universal Beijing Resort) and Splashinis World Parks & Resorts (the Six Flags rip-off).

## Background

Before the birth of The Splashinis Company in 1938, animation producer Mark Harbow was born on December 7, 1893, and lived in Hollywood, Los Angeles. At age 4, he drew a human figure and at age 13 in the year 1906, he trained in drawing everything around him and worked at the Kansas City Art Institute to practice cartoon drawing. In 1909, he first wanted to secure and began naming animation creators, so Mark Harbow met Thomas Gibson (born May 11, 1902) at Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 Thomas then went up to practice bikes, while Mark decided to continue drawing everything about animals (for example, monkeys, elephants, zebras and others). Mark and Thomas wanted to set up their new relief theming and later went to work at the Art Students League of New York.

In 1914 Harbow and Gibson moved to New York City to make drawings and set out to take the painting to an art gallery where they saw everyone over the drawings featuring people and animals. Harbow and Gibson later started their own business called Harbow-Gibson, and created their own newspaper strip "Love and Memories", which is about two boys who fall in love with two girls, who both start having relations. having two boys embarrassed by two girls. Harbow and Gibson later worked at the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1926 for *Steamboat Willie*, a project that Harbow and Gibson did not like, and left the animation studio. Thomas Felderman, who founded his calculation company called Dual Power in 1923, stated: "We will be coming to have and wanted to bring calculators within us." Meanwhile, Harbow and Gibson fight the Dual Power employees and burn down *Dual Power* in 1927. Harbow and Gibson decided to begin their plans to create their new characters.

Harbow and Gibson drew on the three sister magical hippo/pig/tapir hybrid creatures named Fimbo, Florrie, and Baby Porn, along with the purple striped mole named Rocky Mo, the blue tree frog named Rockit, and the pink bird named Bessie. The two even drew a male orange-furred chick named Ribble. Harbow and Gibson showed them off and introduced them to all the employees, but people hated them, thinking all the characters were ugly. Harbow and Gibson decided to recreate their concept with their own characters: a large, purple, bear-like creature named Big and a hyperactive, noisy little orange dog-like creature named Small, even a pink mouse with red hair named Ruby. Both also drew a light green apple worm with curly hair named Twiba. They showed them to everyone in Los Angeles and pitched their ideas to Walt Disney. Meanwhile, Italian President Enrico de Nola declared "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!", as Harbow and Gibson dismissed all concepts. Until finally, Harbow and Gibson decided to create a better concept with the characters. Harbow and Gibson began to have ideas, when Harbow named Gibson after a pink-spotted creature. Harbow and Gibson together drew a creature with pink spots. Harbow and Gibson cared for the creature and liked it, so they decided to name it "Uniqua". Harbow and Gibson were then tasked with asking if they would do more. Harbow and Gibson then draw a blue penguin with a yellow beak, on which they name him "Pablo". Next, they drew an orange ginger moose and named it "Tyrone." Harbow and Gibson got ahead of three of them, and they liked them, so they wondered if they wanted to build more than the other, and interacted with the trio of Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua known as the Backyardigans, who would have two additional characters to join their lines.

Harbow and Gibson then drew the strong-willed yellow hippo named Tasha and the shy but fun-loving purple kangaroo named Austin. After drawing all five characters, they sought out and expanded the concept called "Backyardigans" into a series of cartoon shorts and presented them to Disney animators, who smiled, looked, laughed, and liked them. So Harbow and Gibson started producing their new short film called Pirate Treasure, starring only Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua and Austin, but Tasha didn't return, which Harbow and Gibson directed. Harbow's brother Sam is reportedly co-producing the film with Peter Feldman, Gerald Johnson, Ernest Fertenstein and Ward Kimball set to co-produce these projects. Gibson's son Matthew joined them to work on Pirate Treasure. Harbow and Gibson set Pirate Treasure for release on May 25, 1938, and released the film to positive reviews.

## History

Mark and Thomas earned over $160 trillion to start their own self-owned animation company. Mark and Thomas, before the release of Pirate Treasure, went to war with the release of Walt Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* in 1937. Mark and Thomas officially began a new media company named Backyardigans Corporation which is developing several action and anime films and has initiated deals with various companies. Backyardigans Corporation was incorporated on May 25, 1938, and at the time was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After the release, “Pirate Treasure” became a big hit and was applied to attract movie-watching audiences with only four characters. *Harrison's Reports* wrote Pirate Treasure was "meant to be the greatest cartoon classic of all time featuring our four new heroes Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua and Austin, and there will be a wonderful adventure for feel the rest of the innovative accessories". The film also won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and was nominated for several Oscars, including 20 Annie Awards from 30 nominations, including Best Animated Feature, Best Original Song and Best artistic direction. At Backyardigans Corporation, they have started evaporating the success of media and entertainment that is compatible with the good idea. Backyardigans Corporation was commissioned to enter into a four-year contract with Technicolor to produce a 35mm color film, to be called *The Heart of the Jungle* and released in 1940 Backyardigans Corporation sends to win $153.3 million and won the Academy Honorary Award. Mark and Thomas were okay seeing how they felt with everything around them.

During the 1940s, World War II approached the world, and then employees of the Backyardigans Corporation, including Harbow and Gibson, struggled to fight. This marked the invention of the catapult that Harbow and Gibson defeated Walt Disney and his family, so he throws Walt Disney and his family, including Roy O. Disney and Roy E. Disney, by pulling them into the catapult and sending them to die away. still. Harbow and Gibson win World War II. Backyardigans Corporation received a major suspension that fired some of the animators and cut $10 million, and revenues were falsified due to World War II. Harbow and Gibson decided to team up with 500 U.S. Army soldiers to stop Walt Disney from accepting World War II munitions. At the time of World War II, the following Backyardigans shorts were broadcast from 1941 to 1949 at the time: *The Yeti*, *Secret Mission* , *It's Great to be a Ghost!*, *Riding the Range*, *The Key to the Nile*, *Knights are Brave and Strong*, *Viking Voyage*, *Casaways*, *Race for the Tower of Power*, *The Flying Rock Quest*, *Polka Palace Party*, *Surf's Up*, *Race Around the World*, *Monster Detectives* and *Cave Party*.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service was suggested to bring in Mark and Thomas and the United States Courts Administrative Office hired Harbow and Gibson to invest in acquiring Walt Disney Productions in 1948, when they decided to foil the acquisition. They agreed to bring in around $325,000, and they wanted to bypass the money and bring in more money to acquire the Backyardigans series. Harbow and Gibson wanted to make even more money and they accepted his fate by acquiring Walt Disney Productions, so they decided to buy the company. In early 1948, the guys at Harbow and Gibson bought out the company and handed $153,000 to the employees of Backyardigans Corporation, and let it out to reach $15,000 to acquire all the assets of Walt Disney Productions, the latter being sold to the Jackson Hole Preserve. Harbow and Gibson weren't asked to bring everything on the lease, and they felt upset about it. Harbow and Gibson decided to repay his retitions and wanted to spell big bucks to bring a life back. In 1950, Harbow and Gibson set out to create and develop the first ever theatrical feature film, which would be produced in 1953, the first to come being *The Little Train Who Could*. In 1954, Harbow and Gibson decided to continue filming with new films and managed the film's understudy resources. Harbow and Gibson decided to visit the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, where they were to meet with William T. Orr to create an award party at Warner Bros. Presents.