It's the stuff that childhood dreams are made of. When you were young, you sat down, took out your favorite Disney movie of the week lovingly stored in one of those large plastic VHS cases and popped it into your VCR. Soon, you were met with one of the most magical sights to ever grace your TV: a glowing silhouette of Cinderella's Castle followed by Walt Disney's legendary signature.
You were about to be transported to a world of princesses, talking toys and swashbuckling pirates. It was time to immerse yourself in 90 minutes of wonder by watching a Disney movie.
The 1985 animated feature The Black Cauldron was apparently the first Disney animated film to use the now iconic Walt Disney Pictures logo. It wasn't until a decade later with the release of Toy Story in 1995 that Disney decided to use its first variation on the logo to introduce the film. For its first film with 3-D animation studio Pixar, Disney appropriately switched up the logo and used a CGI version.
However, as widely recognized as this logo is today, Disney has actually changed things up quite a bit over the 20 years since Toy Story first hit theaters. You can check out all of the variations of the Disney logo that appear before each of its major motion pictures over two decades thanks to a whimsical compilation video created by YouTube user Ethan Jones.
As you watch the 10-minute video (hey, Disney has made a lot of films, mmmkay?), you'll notice that Disney often playfully tailors each of the opening logos to the plot or style of the film. The logo gets Christmas lights for 1998's I'll Be Home For Christmas, gets a chilly makeover for 2002's Snow Dogs and gets abducted by aliens for 2002's Lilo & Stitch.
The logo changed once again to its current computer-animated version in 2006 with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Its final (for now) incarnation came in 2011 when only the word "Disney" appeared in the logo for The Muppets movie.
The most recent film included in this round-up is 2014's Into the Woods since none of Disney's 2015 movies were released digitally at the time Jones created this video. I can only imagine that Tomorrowland will have a pretty sick logo.
Check out the full video below, and watch your childhood flash before your eyes.
[H/T Fast Company]
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