Tempo Pre-School

1st Logo (1992-2005)

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Nickname: "Jack-in-the-Box"

Logo: On a white background, we see a black-outlined oval with a drawing of a jack-in-the-box juggling three blue balls. The jack-in-the-box has red and yellow-green sides with red polka-dots clothing and a matching hat and a red spring. The box is blue with a yellow zigzag drawn on it. Above the jack-in-the-box is "Tempo pre-school" in red drawn font.

FX/SFX: None; it's a still logo.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Uncommon.

• Seen on tapes in the Tempo Pre-School lineup during the early-to-mid 1990's, such examples include:
  • Read Along with Postman Pat and Postman Pat's ABC and 123 Stories
  • The It's Fun to Learn with Spot trilogy
  • The Little Learners series (Mr. Men: The Great Alphabet Hunt, Paddington's Alphabet Treasure Hunt)
  • A Day Full of Songs and A Day Full of Fun
  • Fun Song Factory and Fun Song Factory 2
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, A Golden Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, My Favourite Playgroup Video
  • Teddy Trucks
  • Bump: My First Video and Bump and Friends
  • Spot Goes to the Farm and Storytime with Spot
  • The Happy Birthday Video
  • Bedtime Stories
• The Oval-less version appears at the beginning on several Abbey DVDs licensed to Prism Leisure DVDs, including Mr Men: The Great Alphabet Hunt and for some reason, Mona the Vampire.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1996-2011)

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Nickname: "Jack-in-the-Box II"

Logo: We see a blue box with yellow zigzags around it, in a corner of a bedroom. The camera revolves to the front of it, then after a second, it shakes. It does so a few times, then a jack-in-the-box (in its same style as before) with two blue balls either side of its face and one on top jumps out and sways forwards and backwards 3 times. The words "Tempo pre-school" appear in the same font and in an arc via shining light, then the bedroom corner changes to a white background with the Jack-in-the-box in an oval. The Abbey Home Entertainment logo appears at the bottom right corner of the screen.

Variant: On the DVD release of MacDonald's Farm - When I Grow Up, the logo is silent, and cuts off before the logo changes.

FX/SFX: The shaking of the box, the swaying of the jack-in-the-box, and the words appearing one by one via shining light.

Music/Sounds: A keyboard synth with a xylophone back-up, plus a quiet thudding sound when the box shakes, followed by a springing noise when the Jack-in-the-box jumps out. When the words appear via light, a twinkling sound occurs.

Availability: Very common, appears on almost every release from the label at the time on both VHS and DVD from Abbey Home Entertainment, Just Entertainment, and Abbey Home Media:

• • It appears on the Fun Song Factory releases Christmas at the Fun Song Factory, Party Time at the Fun Song Factory, and "The Fun Song Factory at Old MacDonald's Farm" ("Fun Song Factory: Fun and Games" and Fun Song Factory: Nursery Rhyme Land solely use the Tempo Video logo), as well as two tapes from the 1998 TV series: " Colours, Collywobbles, Hide and Seek" and "Please & Thank You/Picnic Time/Helping". The 2002 reissues of the original live shows from Universal Pictures UK plaster this logo with theirs.
  • Oddly enough, it also appears on Redwall: The Movie, which uses Tempo Video branding on the packaging.
  • Bump's Christmas Story,
  • The MacDonald's Farm releases "1 to 10 and Back Again", "Springtime on the Farm", "Big Birthday Surprise" and "When I Grow Up" (DVD)
  • The Polka Dot Shorts releases Humpty's Fair Share, "A Star is Born", "Pardon My Garden", "Badge of Merit", "Bibble's Birthday", and "Sweet and Sour Surprise".
  • The Rolie Polie Olie releases "Gotcha! and "Doggy Day Afternoon".
  • WOW! That's what I call Nursery Rhymes and Bumper Favorites are a few other examples, sometimes with the Tempo Video logo appearing before or after this on AHE releases.
• It also appears on Wide Eye releases, and for some reason, the 2003 Prism Leisure DVD release of Mr Men: The Great Alphabet Hunt.

Editor's Note: The CGI looks pretty dated for 1996 standards, and still does today. Not to mention the logo retained the Abbey Home Entertainment logo even after that company was purchased by the Just Group in 2000 and changed their logo.