Gecko Studios

Background
Gecko Studios was a production company that was formed by Elliot Strange in 1987 and based in Tyler, Texas. Gecko was initially formed by Strange in order to co-finance a syndication package for The Halloween Gang after leaving the network run following ABC setting out to restructure their programs under the guidance of the Q5 Corporation. In 1989, Gecko expanded to film production, producing a new film, as well as aiding on the localization of an acquired anime which was released independently. In 2002, Gecko was acquired by Sterner Stuff and became their animation division, aiding on acquiring and managing animated properties, though the venture would end in 2006 following the financial failure of their last film and Gecko was spun-off. The company would shift their focus to short-form entertainment but would become dormant by the end of 2012. The company resurfaced in 2017 but kept its presence to online entertainment initially. In 2020, Gecko announced they would be involved in producing reboots of two television shows. At the conclusion of their last program, the company shut down and Strange exited the television industry.

1st Logo (1987)
Logo: On a black background, we see a grey box containing a circular image of a girl with her hair arranged in a pony-tail fashion and wearing a red sports shirt with blue jeans, standing in a fighting stance. The girl throws a few rapid punches before the image freezes. Beneath the frame is the text "GECKO STUDIOS" in black.

FX/SFX: The punching.

Music/Sounds: Various punching sounds, ending with a bell sound.

Availability: Appeared on syndicated episodes of The Halloween Gang. This and the Sternwest Productions logo would also plaster the Blessard Animation Productions logo on episodes from the show's first season and the first five episodes of the second season (the latter being attributed to a trade-off during the show's initial broadcast.) The same principle applies to initial home media releases by Family Home Entertainment as Strange sanctioned those.

Editor's Note: After Blessard bought back the rights to the show, as a reversal of Gecko's plastering practices the Blessard Animation Productions logo plastered the Gecko Studios and Sternwest logos, while those for DiC Entertainment were replaced by Cookie Jar Entertainment. The plaster jobs on newer Blessard Animation Productions' prints, at least on the show's latest DVD release were infamous for their low quality:


 * In spite of DiC producing the syndicated episodes, due to the amount of other logos shown (given that it was to credit companies that invested in the season) it was referenced through an in-credit mention instead, yet the Cookie Jar logo appears (then again as the company acquired DiC's catalog, this is understandable.)
 * All of the episodes wound up removing the logos for not only Gecko Studios and Sternwest Productions, but oddly those for Atlantic/Kushner-Locke, The Maltese Companies, Scholastic Productions and New World Television. While it is understandable that New World's logo was removed due to Blessard buying back the entire rights to the show from New World's successors, and the removal of the Sternwest and Gecko logos can account for the same reason, there was no reason to remove the other three. Laughably, the Blessard Animation Productions logo fills the space with the audio still playing underneath.

2nd Logo (1989-1993)
Logo: We fade in to a white background with scribbles on it, as well as a black number "3". The area flashes a bit before cutting to the number "2" against the same background but with smaller, more faded blue scribbles, then cutting to "1" with green and yellow scribbles. Suddenly, the image from before fades in. The background flickers as the girl throws a punch before the image clears out, leaving an image of the girl in a circular frame, with "GECKO" above her in yellow and red squares (a gecko embryo replaces the "O" in "GECKO" and "STUDIOS" below in a spaced out font. All of this is on a grey stone background.

FX/SFX: Traditional animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on The Key to Laurie Locke and the Streamline Pictures dub of The Fairies of Silver Platte.

3rd Logo (1998-2011)
Logo: On a desert landscape at night with a crescent moon visible, we see the girl from before (now named Judy) sitting on a chair and reading a book. Suddenly, a live-action fist comes down and crushes her.

Variant(s): On The Halloween Kids, different events happen in the logo. The fist version seems to have been the main variation.


 * Ars Enim Ansam Dederunt: The live-action hand flicks Judy out of view.
 * Die-Section: The main variant plays here.
 * Playing the Dozens: A live-action foot comes down and stomps on Judy.
 * I Love My Kids... Seriously: A giant fly lands by Judy and prepares to eat her, but a giant flyswatter crushes them both.
 * Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Simple: Rockets form on the chair and launch Judy skyward.
 * Blood is Thicker than Liquid: An angry mob is heard off screen and Judy runs off.
 * Unusual Suspects: A full moon appears instead of the crescent, Judy transforms into a werewolf and runs off.
 * Bad Seeds of Doubt: A fork drops down, catching Judy and the head of Elliot Strange appears, eating her.
 * Foul Play: Judy gets caught in a wave.
 * If Mirrors Could Kill: Nothing happens and Judy just shrugs.
 * This Disposable Life: A dummy representing Judy appears in her place. Nothing happens.
 * Lights Out: Judy is nowhere to be seen.

FX/SFX: Stop-motion animation. This was designed at C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Music/Sounds: The sounds of crickets. In 2000, we hear a snipe of Judy saying "Ow!" as by then she had a voice actor.

Music/Sounds/Variant(s): On The Halloween Kids, it's sounds coming from the variants.

Availability: Appeared on the short-lived The Halloween Kids and first appeared on the ultra short-lived 1998 revival of Inner Sanctum. Was later brought back for the web series Big Judy, Smaller Issues and Odd Reads as well as the Machinima miniseries Grid Gen. The fist variant is considered the main variation and is thus the most common. The Unusual Suspects variant also appeared at the end of the direct-to-video film The Incredible Hulk Vs. The Wolfman.

4th Logo (2002)
Logo: On a blue/grey gradient background with various objects littered about, we see the text "GECKO STUDIOS" in a red and gold jumbled font. To the right of it is a sunburst containing the girl from the previous logo, two other girls, a muscular woman, a teen girl and a teen male.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Appeared on the video game Green Jean.

5th Logo (2006)
Logo: We see a table with various pieces of lab equipment and full beakers on it. We zoom into a filled beaker with bubbling green liquid until it overtakes the screen. Soon the liquid turns purple as atoms zoom forward. The background slowly turns black and white as a city skyline materializes, while the atoms materialize into wireframe cubes, with one being bigger than the others and materializing into a box, the box itself is set at a 45-degree perspective, and the image gains color. "GECKO STUDIOS" is beneath the picture with the former word in a white box and the latter in a black box.

Trivia: The skyline present is that of Houston.

FX/SFX: 3D animation.

Music/Sounds: Electronic sounds, ending with a 15 note synth tune.

Availability: Appeared on The Doomed Stones. This doesn't appear on The Incredible Hulk Vs. The Wolfman, which has the 3rd logo at the end.

6th Logo (2020-2021)
Logo: We start in a surrealistic purple environment, full of towers, coral reefs, anemones and characters from the previous logo. We zoom back and a door shuts. On it is the black text "Gecko Studios."

FX/SFX: The environment and the door.

Music/Sounds: Wind blowing, along with the sound of laughter and the door shutting.

Availability: Appeared on Sami and the Princess Natasha reboot.