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In October 1995, The Disney Channel UK's logo was a simplified Mickey Mouse head, with 'The Disney Channel' text on the bottom. Six idents for the 1995 logo were created by Lambie-Nairn.
On 28 February 1997, the channel dropped 'The' from its name, with a new splat logo, for the launch of Disney Channel France. On 22 March 1997, Disney Channel France adopted the same logo and idents.
On 1 May 1999, to prepare for the new millennium, Disney Channel refreshed its identity as it launched its new Circles logo, with symmetrical circles forming the logo itself. The new ident set was created in CGI animation, with various objects forming the Disney Channel logo. The new identity package was created by French graphic design company, GÉDÉON. Other design agencies, such as Gamma Studios, Estructura7, Velvet, and Pedall, collaborated with the project.
| List of Disney Channel UK's "Circles" idents (1999–2003) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Description |
| Discoball | Seven disco lights move to the rhythm of the music, which then transitions to a discoball with two disco lights at the top. |
| Raindrops | The logo is formed from three raindrops in a glass window. |
| Pumpkins | Two pumpkins ride a roller coaster, then they bounce to another pumpkin in the end. Frequently used during the Halloween night. |
| Computer | A computer uses a few programs until two orange mini-discs and a blue optical disc appears on the disc drive. A snippet of the 'Video Game' ident also appears here. |
| Laboratory (Glass Charger) | A laboratory is seen where two green blobs are carried to a plasma glass sphere, forming the logo. This ident was created by Marc du Pontavice, who is the producer of Oggy and the Cockroaches, with animation by GÉDÉON. Also, this ident won an award (and shown as an example) in Disney Channel France's Les Grands Prix De L'imagination. |
| Clouds | A blue balloon passes through a wormhole in a digital sky background, then it flies over to two clouds on a blue gradient background, forming the logo. |
| Chrome Blob | A silver blob moves around a metal surface until a blue metallic blob lands on it, splitting it into two blobs. The blobs join together to form spheres to form the logo. |
| Spotlights | An orange spotlight circles around the red curtain background, and two yellow spotlights also appear, then all spotlights align to form the Disney Channel logo. Also used throughout Disney Channel Germany's first birthday on October 2000. |
| Soap Bubbles | The camera zooms in on bathroom tiles until a big dark blue bubble rises up on the screen and then two light blue bubbles appear, then they align to form the logo. It is one of the first 9 idents produced by GÉDÉON (along with Discoball, Raindrops, Pumpkins, Computer, Laboratory, Spotlights, Clouds, and Chrome Blob), and they are known as "the first 9". |
| Peacock | A peacock shows off its feathers, which contains the Disney Channel logo formed by two yellow circles and a blue circle. A night version of this ident was also created. |
| Computer Mouse | The logo is formed from two @ symbols and a computer mouse. |
| Moon | A moon is seen in a night forest as comets strike the clouds, forming the logo. |
| Video Game | Two red spheres race in a video-game style, then when the spheres finish the race, the Disney Channel logo appears, which is formed by the spheres and a gold medal. |
| Grapes | A picnic table is seen with a plate with two green olives and a purple grape. |
| Planet | Two stars burst into sparkles over a blue planet, forming the logo. Also used during the Long Nights programming block on Disney Channel Germany. |
| Chameleon | A chameleon chases a blue bug, which then the bug sticks to the tongue and lands on the chameleon's eyes, forming the logo. This ident was originally used by Disney Channel Latin America. |
| Chess | All the chess pieces on a chess board battle each other, until two black pawns and a white king form the logo. |
| Picnic | Yellow plates arrange on a picnic blanket, and an apple falls over the plates and another apple falls over the first apple and a plate, forming the Disney Channel logo. |
| Spinning Top | A blue multicolor top spins on a purple gradient background, then two yellow-green yoyo's spin above the top and their ropes are tangled on the top, forming the logo. This was the last of the idents to be aired on Disney Channel France. |
| Sun Cooler | The sun heats the nearby planets, then two fans blow the sun's rays, and then the fans position over the sun. This ident is stop-animated. |
| Bubble Paper (Soda) | A white paper sphere submerges in a pool of multicolor water, then in the end, two green bubbles and the sphere float over the water. |
| Dog Food | An invisible dog follows a trail of dog biscuits around a house until it kicks two red dog bowls and a green water bowl to form the logo. Introduced during the premiere of Home Improvement in 1999. |
| Lawn | A series of lawns is seen, until three piles of rocks form the logo on a green lawn. First used before Home Improvement in February 2000. |
| Grapevines | Three bunches of grapes form the logo in a vineyard. Often used before A Bug's Life. |
| Underground Turnips | Two red turnips and a yellow round mass of roots grow to form the logo in an underground soil background. |
| Soccerball | A soccer ball is bouncing on a soccer stadium, which then crashes into a scoreboard with two circles. Although this ident is originally created for sport-related programs, this ident joined the regular line-up along with the Basketball ident on July 1999. |
| Temple | A pedestal opens up, revealing a puzzle, then the puzzle is arranged, causing the gate to open. When the camera moves towards the boulder, it drops, rolls, and stops on the puzzle where two snakes coil above it, forming the logo. Originally planned to be used for Misterios y Leyendas on Disney Channel Latin America in February 2001, but instead first appeared in the UK in December 2000. The original "Misterios y Leyendas" version used the full sequence, but the UK version cuts to the puzzle instead of starting at the pedestal. The ident is created by Tr!ck, a design agency in Madrid, Spain. Also, this ident also won the "Best On-air Ident" award at the PromaxBDA Awards in 2001. |
| Swimming Pool | Two yellow beach balls and a red swim tube form the logo on a swimming pool. Frequently used during the summer season. |
| Basketball | Four stopwatches play with a basketball on a court, then one of the stopwatches shoot the ball onto two silver stopwatches. This ident is originally used for special programs, then it joins the line-up along with Soccerball on July 1999. |
| Snowy Window | A shape of the logo is made on a snowy window, which shows a winter forest with Santa flying above. The completed logo is the two small circles on a black sky color and the bigger circle on a blue gradient color with a cottage seen in the circle. First used during the Christmas season of 1999. |
| Wreath | A wreath falls off a door and it rolls and turns into a snowball (knocking a snowman on the way) and then it crashes on a Christmas tree, causing two red baubles and a green wreath to fall on the ground, forming the logo. Frequently used during the Christmas season of 1999, then as a regular ident on February 2000. |
| Popcorn | Popcorn move around a film projector with countdown frames before the logo is formed from two film reels and a popcorn bucket on a blue background. Introduced in July 1999, this ident was frequently used before movies, then used on regular programming in early 2000. There's also an another version of this ident introduced in October 1999, this time with the frames of the 1997 Wonderful World of Disney intro instead of the countdown frames, the orange background and an abridged version of the 1997 Wonderful World of Disney music. This was the first of these idents to be aired on Disney Channel Italy. |
| UFO | A silver space station drops two UFO's and they fly smoothly through space until they land on a green planet. First seen during 'Lion King Sunday' on November 1999. |
| Paint Palette | Two red paint pots and a blue palette form the logo on a yellow background. |
| Flowers | A garden is seen where two pink flowers and a sunflower form the logo. First used in spring 2000. |
| Butterfly | A butterfly flies into a field where it lands on a flower, until the wind blows the flowers and the leaves and petals make the circles form the logo. The butterfly then lands on the floral logo. Only used on Disney Channel Latin America since spring 2001. |
| Greek Pot | A Greek pot is seen where the Disney Channel logo is engraved. First used before Hercules on March 2000. |
| Sunset | Two black clouds and a setting sun form the logo on an empty plain. First used before Lion King 2 on Disney Channel Germany in April 2000. |
| Liquid Lightbulb | Two light bulbs and a blue liquid sphere form the logo on a galaxy background. Used for Disney Channel France's Les Grands Prix De L'imagination on March 2000, then appeared as a regular ident in the UK on August 2000. Also used as a generic logo of Disney Channel France. |
| Map | A shape of the Disney Channel logo is seen on a map and is represented by two green islands and a compass rose. First aired during Peter Pan on November 1999. |
| Space Bubbles | Three blue bubbles float in a space background as a satellite pass through one of the bubbles, then the two other bubbles pass through the first one, and the big bubble burst into two light blue bubbles and a dark blue one, forming the logo. Used before Buzz Lightyear of Star Command in June 1999, then became a regular ident on July 1999. |
| Paint Blob | A red blob and a yellow blob separate to form the Disney Channel logo. |
| Green Paint | A yellow circle and a blue circle move around a big red circle, and when the yellow and blue circles cross each other, they turn green and form the Disney Channel logo. Also used for Playhouse Disney. |
| Cake | Two red and green cupcakes and a pink cake form the logo. |
| Purple Blob | A purple splat expands and causes two yellow blobs to appear. Used for Art Attack, then used as a regular ident on March 2000. |
| Paint Splat | Some paint blobs burst into splats on a yellow background, until two red blobs and a blue one clear the other blobs and splats as the three blobs burst into splats, forming the logo. Used as a generic logo and as a Red and Blue ident since 1997, then as a Circles ident since 1999. There is also an alternate version of this ident introduced in February 2000, in which two red circles and a blue one simply circle around until they form the logo on the same yellow background. |
| Bumper Cars | Two multicolored bumpers bump each other around until a big bumper appears and they align slowly to form the logo. |
| Amoeba | Two green blobs get carried by a yellow amoeba until the amoeba flings the two blobs into the air and they land on the amoeba, forming the logo. |
| Figure Skating | Two blue spotlights on an ice rink draw two blue scribbles until a pink spotlight draws a spiral trail, forming the logo while the crowd applause. |
| Spiral | A yellow and blue spiral appears on a green background, and the spiral transforms into two yellow circles and a blue one, forming the logo on a pink spiral background. First used on September 1999. |
| 2D Circles | Two orange circles inflate a blue circle and the orange circles jump over it, forming the logo. |
| Band | A corral of circles expand with band music, and a blue circle play the bass drum and two yellow circles appear as cymbals, forming the logo. |
| Squeeze | A purple circle drops over a blue circle, and another blue circle tries to get the other circle out of the purple one, then the circle jumps and squeezes the other two, and all three circles form the logo as the background changes to yellow. |
| Sun | Two blue yarn circles travel around a blue background, as one of them has a cold, and as they reach a yellow sun, the blue circle was relieved from the cold, and both blue circles position over the sun. |
| Frogs | Three green round frogs position on a yellow background, as two of them manage to catch flies with their tongues, but the other one gets angry, but it got a big fly, turning it purple and big, forming the logo. |
| Jump | Two purple yarn balls jump continuously as they get bigger, and a blue ball jumps from the right, and flies on top of the two balls, triggering the 3-note Disney Channel jingle and the text. Used between a switchover of Disney Channel France to Playhouse Disney. |
| Car | Two yellow round pencil shapes and a purple one appear on an orange background, then the circles imitate a car, before going fast and losing control, and they spin around and form the logo. |
| Balloon | Two orange balloons position over a blue circle, then one of the balloons jump from the circle and the other balloon follows, and when they bump each other, their strings disappear, and they fall back on the blue circle. |
| Triplets | Two yellow circles and an orange one appear on a pink background, then a yellow circle plays the flute, the other plays the cello, and the orange one plays the violin, but it became off-tune, and the yellow circles fix the orange one, and all of them play a finale before forming the logo and triggering a violin version of the Disney Channel jingle. First used in Disney Channel France and Playhouse Disney. |
| Nest | A tree opens up to reveal a bird-like brown circle and two yellow circles appear and they chirp loudly that the brown circle hid them and when it turns upside down, the two yellow circles pop out to form the logo. Also used on Playhouse Disney and their UK website. |
| Dance | Two blue circles and a red circle dance around on an orange background and then do tap dancing until they form the logo. |
| Tug of War | Two black circles pull a red circle out of the way, but one of the black circles get angry and pulled the red circle in the other direction, and the black circles start a tug-of-war, until both circles release the red one and jump over it, forming the logo. This ident was also used for Toon Disney UK. |
| Kicking Circles | Two yellow circles kick a blue circle to the air until it lands on the yellow circles, then the blue circle jumps and smashes to the ground, causing the yellow circles to bounce over the blue one and form the logo. Also used on Toon Disney UK. |
| Smash | Two purple circles smash each other, causing a blue circle to expand between them, forming the logo. This ident is also used in Toon Disney UK. |
| Spring | A yellow ring saw a loop of red string, which the ring turns it into a spring, then another yellow ring jumps over the spring and bounces all over the background, until the ring bounces into the spring and the first ring follows, forming the logo. |
In March 2000, Disney Channel France, who had adapted the same idents, "ran out of logos", and did a contest called Les Grands Prix De L'imagination, in which animators from all around France had to make new idents for Disney Channel International Networks, and two winners would have their idents shown on the French channel. The winners were Marc du Pontavice, the producer of Oggy and the Cockroaches (who did the "Glass Charger/Laboratory" ID with GEDEON for the 1999 line-up), and Eric Berthier (who did the "Alien" ID for the 1997 package).
On April 2001, for a week, the Disney Channel logo bug and the idents went missing as Disney Channel Germany promotes "Mystery Week", in which Disney Channel viewers will have to guess who stole the logo. At the end of the week, it was revealed that Donald Duck was the culprit, and after that, the logo bug and idents return to normal.
On the morning of 15 March 2003, Disney Channel adopted the same new logo as Disney Channel in US. The idents and bumpers were created by CA Square.
On 1 September 2011, when Disney Channel HD launched in the UK, Disney Channel adapted the new European smartphone app logo.
On 1 June 2012, Disney Channel adapted the new smartphone app logo from the US.
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