YouTube Kids Studios

1st Logo

(2006-2015)

Logo: On a blue background, we see an anime version of the biplane from the 1991 Universal Animation Studios logo, flying by. Then the camera pans down to reveal the YouTube logo with a bunch of anime cats dancing below it followed by a bird flying past them. At the end, the words "KIDS" in the same style as the 1999 PBS Kids logo fade in.

Variants:

On the Pokémon episode "Pokémon - I Choose You! ", the logo is seen on a video game and is the same, except that "KIDS" in the same font as "Youtube" appears above and fades in with "YouTube". Then the logo freezes completely, the sound looping. A hand with a controller attempts to press the A button, but is still frozen on the logo. Then the TV is turned off and the logo disappears.

On the 2014 DVD release of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the biplane was replaced by Mega Mewtwo Y (from Pokémon) flying. Also, the cats are replaced with the dancing viruses from Dr. Mario and the bird is replaced with Diddy Kong in his jet pack shouting "RIGHT TO BED, CHILDREN!". This was seen after the WonderWorld Media logo.

On Fun With Oscar, the plane is replaced by Oscar the Eagle and the cats are replaced by random Japanese letters.

On Star Fox, the biplane was replaced by an Airwing. Also, the cats are replaced with the bunch of animals and the bird is replaced with the spaceship.

On the Pokémon The Series: XYZ episode, "The Synchronicity Test!", the the biplane was replaced by Pinchface from the Nickelodeon Pinchface bumper. Also, the cats are replaced with the SSF from the second Klasky-Csupo logo dancing and the bird is replaced with Baikinman (from Soreike! Anpanman) appearance saying "OH NO!".

On Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the biplane was replaced by Pikachu (from Pokémon), the cats are replaced with the dancing Tom Nook from Animal Crossing and the bird is replaced with Meta Knight from Kirby shouting "This is a load of barnacles!".

FX/SFX: The cats dancing and the bird flying, along with the biplane passing by.

Music/Sounds: Various sound effects (a cat meow, a car honk and a lip-flapping) when the biplane flies, and when the camera pans down, a techno pop tune with drums and a bass that sounds like the 1st PBS Kids logo from 1993 along with the bird tweeting.

Music/Sound Variants:

On certain prints of Pokémon: The Johto Journeys, when the camera pans down, the music is the ending theme of the first season of Pokémon.

On the Pokémon The Series: XYZ episode, "The Synchronicity Test!", when the camera pans down, the music is the V of Doom theme along with the 1985 Worldivision Home Video music.

On the 2014 DVD release of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, when the camera pans down, the music is "Fever" by Cascada.

On Star Fox, when the camera pans down, the music is "The Final Countdown" by Europe.

Availability: Common; Currently seen when Capcom, Nintendo, SEGA, Namco, Natsume, Taito and Hatena Educational Group shows of the era air on YouTube, and also on Busy Land every time they air on YouTube. It also appears on the Japanese DVD of Super Mario Galaxy and the WonderWorld Media prints of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Scare Factor: Depending on the variant:

None; this is a cute logo, but the transition to the Lost Power Studios logo may throw people off.

High to Nightmare for the Pinchface variant, it'll get lower if you're a Baikinman fan.

2nd Logo

(2015-)

Logo: The logo has two versions:

Version 1: We see the YouTube logo against the white background, the black letters "K", "I", "D" and "S" appear as balloon suddenly pops-up and inflates one-by-one, while the YouTube logo becomes smaller and moves quickly to the top-left of the "KIDS".

Version 2:We see the YouTube icon on the red background, then it opens into the colorful tunnel of red, pink, dark red and light-blue colors with white streaks passing by, while the huge black letters "K", "I", "D" and "S" flies around with black liquid briefly drips from them, before crashing into the light-gray background, forming the word "KIDS" in jumbled manner while the small red TV-tube shape zooms in from behind the letters, with "You" swiveling in from behind the tube and "Tube" coming in from the top of the tube inside.

Trivia: First and second versions of the logo are actually the animation at the beginning of the introductory video and the startup animation of YouTube Kids, respectively.

FX/SFX: Incredible 2D animation created by Hello Monday.

Music/Sounds:

Version 1: A balloon inflating sound followed by the popping sound.

Version 2: A door opening seguing into the synthesized swoosh sound followed by the splattering sound.

Availability: Brand new.

Scare factor:

Low for the first version; the sudden popping may startle you.

None to minimal for the second version.