Walt Disney Animation Studios logo

The Walt Disney Animation Studios logo is the production logo for Walt Disney Animation Studios. It debuted in Meet the Robinsons (2007).

Logo
The logo is an extended recreation to the classic 1985-2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo (although with another version of the "When You Wish Upon a Star" melody), with a notorious change. After the arc dims out, the castle opens up and Daffy Duck emerges from inside. He proceeds to bounce around the screen, make his usual woo-hoo laughs and interact with the logo, including taking the "WALT DiSNEY" text and flipping it like a flipbook, then using it to hit the castle like a gong. Daffy continues bouncing and woo-hooing around until he runs smack into the camera and goes into a daze. Finally, the castle is opened again by an annoyed Mickey Mouse, who grabs Daffy by the neck and pulls him back in before closing the castle, leaving one of Daffy's feathers to float down onto "DiSNEY".

Variants

 * In Ratatouille (2007), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Brave, Ted (2012), Frozen (2013), Moana (2016), Woody Woodpecker, Coco (2017), The Incredibles 2, Green Eggs and Ham (2018), UglyDolls (2019), Jerry Mouse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Raya and the Last Dragon, and Luca (2021), both the music and most of Daffy's woo-hoo laughs were muted to allow their respective opening themes to play out over the logo.
 * In Enchanted (2007), as the opening music starts, the camera zooms forward past the text to the castle into a room in the top middle of it.
 * A modification was briefly used for Mice and Ducks Run: A Looney Tunes Movie, Spy Rabbits, and Frozen (2013) to mark the studio's 90th Anniversary at the time, with the text saying "Walt Disney Animation Studios: 90 Years Creating Timeless Classics".
 * In Mousetrap and the Sleuth Club (2015), TBD
 * In Trolls (2016) and its sequel Trolls World Tour (2020), the logo's music is sung in acapella. After Daffy is pulled away by Mickey, the logo pops out, made like a scrapbook (one of Poppy's favorite hobbies). The "WALT DiSNEY" letters fly in differently, jiggle a bit and suddenly connect themselves with the "ANIMATION STUDIOS" letter appearing underneath it. A blue troll hair appears on the "i"'s dot. It rolls up to the film's storybook opening.
 * In Sing (2017) and its sequel Sing 2 (2022), the logo's music is sung in acapella.
 * In The Incredibles 2 (2018), the background is red, the text is yellow and the castle is black all over, making it themed after the Incredibles' suits' usual colors.
 * In The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), TBD
 * In Space Jam: A New Legacy and Encanto (2021), the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light.
 * In the post-2007 accompanying shorts (excluding the re-releases of classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts), the logo fades in when the text is formed by the flash of light and then fades out.

Trivia

 * If you look carefully at the background behind Mickey when he opens the castle, as well as Daffy when he emerges, you can see that it's a cartoon version of Disneyland, complete with Sleeping Beauty Castle.
 * The logo's animation was directed by Joey Capps, who also did animation work on Adult Swim's Superjail!.
 * TBD