Background: Tronix was a British independent television production company founded in 1992.
1st Logo
(1993-2000)
Logo: On a black marble background, we see blue stripes sliding side by side from the top and it starts to make a striped square. “TRONIX” in white rotates and zooms out from the bottom. A lens flare light appears and goes away. A copyright stamp fades in underneath.
Variants:
- A still version exists.
- On Chuck E Cheese’s: Most Wanted, “in association with WGBH and Tall Man Studios” in black fades in underneath.
FX/SFX: The stripes sliding in side by side, “TRONIX” zooming out/rotating from the bottom, the light.
Music/Sounds: A 8-note space-age synth chime theme.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- On some shows, the closing theme would play over the logo.
- On a few shows, it is silent.
Availability: Extinct. Seen on TV shows produced by the company at the time.
2nd Logo
(1996)
Logo: On a black background, we see the previous logo in white. Above is the white words reading “A TRONIX PRODUCTION” and below are “FOR BBC” and the 1988 BBC logo, and a copyright stamp.
FX/SFX: The logo fading in and out.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the TV movie.
Availability: Extinct. Only seen on the TV movie, When Loves Scatters Away.
3rd Logo
(2000-2007)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: Not bad CGI.
Music/Sounds: A warping whoosh followed by a zap, then a 5-note piano-string tune finishing with a choir.
Music/Sounds Variant: On a Discovery Kids UK print of The Club Penguin Show, the 2002 Disney Channel Original music plays instead, due to a poor plastering job.
Availability: Extinct.
4th Logo
(2007-2020)
Logo: On a black background, we see many coloured lines zooming in. The camera turns to the right side to see the lines moving, and the lines make a coloured striped square. Then, “tronix” in a white, thin font fades in on the square. “www.tronix.com” in white fades in underneath.
FX/SFX: The lines zooming, the camera turning, “tronix”, the URL fading in.
Music/Sounds: A jet whoosh and a blippy synth.
Music/Sounds Variant: Either the logo could be silent, or the closing theme music can play over it.
Availability: Uncommon.
5th Logo
(2020-)
Logo: TBA for the most part. “tronix” in a white, thin font writes. “www.tronix.com” in white fades in underneath.
FX/SFX: TBA, “tronix” writing, the URL fading in.
Music/Sounds: A string, a reverse cymbal and a “ding”.
Availability: Uncommon.