Talk:Nickelodeon Home Entertainment

Dora the Explorer

I wonder if many employees at duplication/replication plants operated by Deluxe Video Services/Global Media Services, Cinram International and/or Technicolor Home Entertainment Services were disgusted having to watch Dora the Explorer while duplicating/replicating VHS tapes and DVDs of the show. 69.85.235.224 17:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Even though the original "Yo Gabba Gabba!" show was broadcast on Nickelodeon (as part of its Nick Jr. block) from 2007 to 2011 and the Nick Jr. Channel from 2011 to 2015, the show was never officially co-produced by Nick Jr. Productions or Nickelodeon Productions - the latter which got folded completely into the latter in Q1 2009.

In addition to the broadcasting rights, Nickelodeon once held the distribution, home entertainment and digital/streaming rights to the show, at least until the late 2010s. Wildbrain Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Wild Brain), which co-produced the show, was acquired by DHX Media, Ltd. in Q4 2010, making it a subsidiary of that company. DHX was later renamed WildBrain Ltd. in Q4 2019. NCircle Entertainment (the children's division of Alliance Entertainment Corporation) acquired the home entertainment rights to some later seasons of the show, as well as some of the show's specials, sometime in 2011/early 2012.

The copyrights to the franchise were co-held by GabbaCaDabra LLC (currently known as Yo Gabba Gabba! LLC) and Wildbrain. GabbaCaDabra LLC also held the trademark rights to the franchise's name.

The cancellation of the show had to do with the creative differences between GabbaCaDabra LLC and Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon wanted the rights to the show, but Christian Jacobs, who co-created the show (in addition to co-founding GabbaCaDabra LLC and The Magic Store Productions, the latter which also co-produced the show, in association with the former) with Scott Schulz, did not want changes made to his masterpiece if he were to give the rights away.

A few early DVDs of the show had a copyright/trademark notice that erroneously says: "© [2008 or 2009] Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. NICKELODEON, NICK JR., YO GABBA GABBA! and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. TM & © [2008 or 2009] GabbaCaDabra LLC." (That DVD was also the only Nickelodeon-era "Yo Gabba Gabba!" main release DVD with a Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo added at the end of each episode)

Meanwhile, most DVDs of the show have a somewhat corrected copyright/trademark notice saying: "© [2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012] Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. NICKELODEON, NICK JR. and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Yo Gabba Gabba! TM & © [2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012] GabbaCaDabra LLC." (Even though Nickelodeon had its logos revamped in the summer of 2009, some 2010 Paramount Home Entertainment-distributed Nickelodeon DVDs, including some 2010 Nickelodeon-era "Yo Gabba Gabba!" main release DVDs, still used the silent mid-1990s Nickelodeon "Fish" bumper at the beginning of the video content, and the 2008 Nickelodeon "Lightbulb" logo at the end of each episode included on the DVD)

69.85.235.224 17:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Little Bill

There were five official main VHS releases of this television series that were released direct-to-sell-through between mid-2001 and late 2002. The first two were "Me and My Family" and "Big Little Bill", both released on June 5, 2001 (same day that the first two official main Dora the Explorer direct-to-sell-through VHS tapes "Swing Into Action!" and "Wish on a Star" were released); even though both tapes were released on the same day, the former is often regarded as the first, while the second is often regarded as the second. The third was "What I Did at School", released on August 21, 2001 (same day that the Dora the Explorer direct-to-sell-through VHS "To the Rescue" was released, which was exactly two weeks after the release of the two Rugrats "Decade in Diapers" volume-numbered direct-to-sell-through VHS tapes). The fourth was "I Love Animals!", released on February 5, 2002 (same day that the Dora the Explorer direct-to-sell-through VHS "Dora Saves the Prince" and the Rugrats direct-to-sell-through VHS "Easter" were released). The fifth was "Merry Christmas, Little Bill", released on September 24, 2002 (same day that the Dora the Explorer direct-to-sell-through VHS "Christmas!", the Rugrats direct-to-sell-through VHS "Christmas", and the direct-to-sell-through DVD "Nick Jr. Holiday" were released).

All five direct-to-sell-through VHS releases of the series included the Nick Jr. "Bears" and Nickelodeon "Bone" logos. The "Merry Christmas, Little Bill" VHS was the final Paramount-distributed Nick Jr. home video release to use the Bone.

The first four releases use combined made-for-video closing credits sequences (which use a "Nickelodeon Home Video Production" credit at the end); on these four releases, during the Nick Jr. Productions "Claymation People" logo, the very end of the logo with the erroneously misrepresenting trademark notice ""Little Bill" and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc." (below the logo) fading out and switching to the copyright notice "© [year] Viacom International Inc." is plastered over with a freeze frame of a majority of it which still has the aforementioned trademark notice. The fifth one uses the original closing credits sequences from each episode included on that release and, therefore, keeps the very end of the Nick Jr. Productions logo with the copyright notice (dated 2001) from the last episode on that release intact.

69.85.235.47 16:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Nick Jr.'s Imagine That!

This was the only Nick Jr. compilation video release to be released on VHS; it didn't even have a DVD equivalent.

Contents (Opening):

1. Paramount Home Video/Paramount Home Entertainment "Feature Presentation" bumper / warning screen (1995-2008; version with "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation.")
2. Paramount Pictures logo (opening) (1995-2008; filmed version)
3. Nickelodeon "Banana" bumper / Nick Jr. Video "Just for Me" bumper (opening) (2000-2003)
4. Dora the Explorer opening sequence (seasons 1-2, 2000-2003)

Contents (Closing):

1. Closing credits sequence of the Rugrats episode "The Jungle"
2. Klasky-Csupo logo (1991-1999; 1992-1999 revised version)
3. Nick Jr. Video "Just for Me" bumper (closing) (2000-2003)
4. Nick Jr. "Monkeys" logo (1996-2004) (with copyright/trademark notice bylines for Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues and Little Bill)
5. Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo (1990-2009) (with the Rugrats copyright/trademark/"Created by" notice byline)
6. Paramount Pictures logo (closing) (1995-2008; filmed version)

The Nick Jr. Productions "Claymation People" logo was stripped off from the Dora the Explorer and Little Bill episodes that were included on this compilation video. Also, the Nick Jr. "Monkeys" logo has a total of three copyright/trademark notices:

         © 2001 Viacom International Inc.   All Rights Reserved.   Nickelodeon
          Nick Jr., Dora the Explorer and all related titles, characters and
                  logos are trademarks of Viacom International  Inc.

                © 2001 Viacom International Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
          Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Blue's Clues and all related titles, logos
              and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.

                © 2001 Viacom International Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                     Little Bill is a trademark of Smiley, Inc.
             Original Little Bill characters © 1997 William H. Cosby, Jr.

The Rugrats copyright/trademark/"Created by" notice on the Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo says:

                © 2001 Viacom International Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
          Nickelodeon, Rugrats and all related titles, logos and characters
                   are  trademarks of Viacom International  Inc.
                Created by: Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, Paul Germain.

They literally wasted resources with the closing logos and bumpers on this compilation video. They even left the original closing credits sequence from the bonus Rugrats episode "The Jungle" (originally paired with "The Old Country") intact, instead of making a made-for-video closing credits sequence for the bonus Rugrats "The Jungle" episode. In my opinion, they should have left the Nick Jr. Productions logo from the Dora the Explorer and Little Bill episodes intact. Also, the Nick Jr. Video "Just for Me" closing bumper and the Nick Jr. "Monkeys" logo should have followed the Little Bill episode. Also, either the Nick Jr. "Monkeys" logo should have been byline-less and followed by the Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo with this copyright/trademark notice byline, or the Nick Jr. "Monkeys" logo should have had this copyright/trademark notice byline:

                © 2001 Viacom International Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
        Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer and all related
       titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International  Inc.
                      Little Bill is a trademark of Smiley, Inc.
             Original Little Bill characters © 1997 William H. Cosby, Jr.

The Rugrats episode should have followed, and the Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo with the Rugrats copyright/trademark/"Created by" notice byline should have followed the Klasky-Csupo logo.

69.85.235.47 12:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Orange Cassette Shells

It's rumored by some people that 9/11 was the reason that orange cassette shells were phased out from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. VHS releases in favor of the normal black shells. Is this actually true?

One of the comments of this video states this supposed "rumor".

2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:84D9:99EA:9BA0:1C25 20:13, 13 April 2024 (UTC)