Giant Egg Studios

Background: Giant Egg Studios is the sub-division of Nintendo Animation Studios. In 2006, Nintendo sold the company, and the rights to Yoshi's World with it (except Nippon still owns the rights to the Nippon-produced series), to Ultimate Enterprise Studios.

1st Logo

(1995-2014)

Nickname: "The Yoshi Egg Logo", "EGGS!", "The Egg from the Underworld", "The Egg of Evil"

Logo: On a black background, we see a large Yoshi Egg with "GIANT EGG" in front of it, and "Studios" below in far smaller type font on a red rectangle, zooming up in a V of Doom style, getting closer. When it gets to the point where the egg takes up nearly the entire screen it suddenly stops in the awkward position.

Trivia: On Yoshi's World, the main character Yoshi lives on the 1212 Giant Egg Street in Yoshi's Island, an allusion to the company. One of the Koopa Troopas also has a Giant Egg Studios poster in Baby Bowser's room.

Variants:

Starting in 1997, the red rectangle is deleted.

In 2006, the background became dark blue. This was also seen on split-screen credit airings of Yoshi's World when aired on PBS Kids.

On Yoshi's World 02, there is a copyright stamp under the logo.

On the Yoshi's Island movies, the egg is smaller and the background is a different shade of green. The egg is also more realistic and there's no copyright stamp below.

FX/SFX: The egg zooming in.

Music/Sounds: The Crown Classics music. Sometimes, the closing of the show's theme was heard during this logo, and a few cases it would have a customized theme.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the first season of the Nippon version of Yoshi's World (the first show to have this logo in any form), it was a beatboxing rapping tune that carried over to the Nippon logo. For all later Nippon-produced episodes after that since the second season, a snippet of background music from the show (consisting of a mystifying trumpet that is used in the SNES Donkey Kong Country game) was used with the second variant of the logo. The latter version was also heard on the Christian anime series David and Goliath as well, which was distributed by CVS.

On Brain Age, a dramatic rendition of the Brain Age theme was heard accompanied by a soundbite of the rooster crowing.

The Yoshi's World 02 show have the closing of the show's theme playing over the logo.

On all Yoshi's Island movies, you can hear a sampling of the Yoshi's World 02 theme music.

At the end of Nippon's Yoshi's World episode "Yoshi's Christmas", a re-endition of "Deck the Halls" plays, going into "Jingle Bells" once going to Mystery Programme and the Nippon logos of the time.

At the end of the Nippon's Yoshi's World episode, "Yoshi's Birthday", the music is delayed on some airings.

During airings of Yoshi's World when on PBS Kids, the music for the second PBS Kids logo would play over it, also going into the said logo.

Availability: Common. It's currently seen on Yoshi's World part of The Welcome Back to the 90's! on Playhouse Nippon. Home video releases of Yoshi's World, Brain Age and David and Goliath keep the logo intact. The black background variant was seen on season 1 episodes of Yoshi's World, which is now available on DVD and is currently seen on split-screen credits of said show on Playhouse Nippon.

Scare Factor: It all depends on the music and the egg zoom-in, but also depends on the variant:

Medium to High for the Yoshi's World and David and Goliath variants

High for the Brain Age variant. It depends on what you think of the music and the rooster crow.