Gecko Studios

Background
Gecko Studios was a production company that was formed by Elliot Strange in 1987, based in Lufkin, Texas. Following creative issues at ABC centering on The Halloween Gang and them restructuring their programs under the guidance of the Q5 Corporation for that year's television season. Strange initially created Gecko to fulfill executive producer obligations due to him agreeing to helm the show's syndication package. Gecko would later expand to acquiring anime releases for localization and distribution on cable and independent junctures, commercials for business and brands like Subway, Munchos, RadioShack, Barq Root Beer, Whataburger, Sharp Electronics as well as NEC and SNK, along with a slew of animated shows and movies and collaborations with the Manitoba-based Entropy Films. Gecko would shut down professionally in 2009, with Strange seeking to build an online presence following the success of some early Newgrounds posts that were well received. Gecko would be brought back in-name only for a film in 2012 to reflect Strange's role as a producer on it.

1st Logo (1987-2012)
Logo: On a black background with yellow, orange and red circles, we see a girl facing away from the viewer. The girl is encased in a circle made up of the company name. She turns around, revealing she has two heads, both holding surprised expressions, and they jump to face the viewer. One head grins and waves her hand, the other has their hand out.

Variant(s):


 * On television broadcasts of the English dub of the OVA Champion, this shares the screen with the logos for GoodTimes Entertainment, Distant Horizon, Broadway Video and Central Park Media.
 * On Forget Tess, this shares the screen with the logos for Entropy Films, Cambium Productions (season 1 only) and Helion Productions.
 * Early on, the circles weren't present and the girl wasn't as detailed.

FX/SFX: None, beyond the fade-in.

Music/Sounds: A series of hard to describe noises, the closing theme of the show, or nothing.

Availability: Uncommon.


 * First appeared on syndicated episodes of The Halloween Gang. Was also seen on the short-lived The Halloween Kids, Forget Tess and the show's spin-off specials, the unsold pilot for Foxtrot, the Central Park Media dub the OVA Champion, the Streamline Pictures dub of The Fairies of Silver Platte, the ADV dub of Esteem, the TV movie Conjunction Malfunction and the films The Beast of Yucca Flats (1995), Tonka: Search and Rescue, Channel 2 and Don't Watch These: Five of the Worst Movies Ever Made.
 * It also appeared on the video games Green Jean 2: Enter the Nega Jean and Green Jean (2002). Strange assisted as a character designer and artist on both games.
 * This and the logos for Sternwest Productions and Entropy Films would wind up plastering the Blessard Animation Productions on local reruns of the first season and the eighth through thirteenth episodes of the second (those were traded off from the syndicated seasons) distributed through The Program Exchange. This also applies to earlier VHS releases through Family Home Entertainment, as Strange sanctioned the release. However newer prints, such as the budget DVD release by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, wind up removing the logos, and as is the case with shows produced by DiC Entertainment and those inherited Sony Pictures Television, the DiC and Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo are replaced with the Cookie Jar Entertainment and SPT Bars of Boredom respectively, while the Gecko, Sternwest and Entropy logos are replaced by the Blessard Animation Productions logo.
 * When Media Blasters reissued Champion, The Fairies of Silver Platte and Esteem, this logo was kept intact.