Lyrick Studios

Lyrick Studios, Inc., established in 1983 as The Lyons Group, was an American video production and distribution company based in Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb. They were known for releasing shows like Barney & Friends and Wishbone. They paired with Big Idea for reprints and prints of VeggieTales home videos.

According to Phil Vischer, he chose the company to release the videos since Lyrick Studios' founder and former chairman Richard C. Leach was a committed Christian, and the company let the religious tones on the shows remain intact, unlike other distributors Big Idea had asked beforehand. Their partnership lasted until after the company was acquired by HiT Entertainment in 2001. In 2002, Big Idea turned to Warner Home Video to serve as their new mass market distributor; HiT responded to this by filing a lawsuit against them, which was one of the major causes of Big Idea's 2003 bankruptcy.

Releases

All re-releases were mass market reprints of videos previously released exclusively to Christian retailers

Where's God When I'm S-Scared? (March 1998; reprinted in 2000)
God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (February 1999; reprinted in 2000)
Are You My Neighbor? (March 1998; "tested" in 1997 and reprinted in 2000)
Rack, Shack and Benny (August 1998; reprinted in 2000)
Dave and the Giant Pickle (August 1998; reprinted in 2000)
The Toy That Saved Christmas (October 1998; reprinted in 1999 and 2000)
Very Silly Songs! (June 1999; reprinted in 2000)
Larry-Boy! and the Fib from Outer Space! (February 1999; reprinted in 2000)
Josh and the Big Wall! (June 1999; reprinted in 2000 and 2002)
Madame Blueberry (October 1999)
The End of Silliness? (May 2000)
Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed (March 2000)
King George and the Ducky (August 2000)
Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen (January 2001; reprinted in 2002)
Lyle the Kindly Viking (March 2001)

Albums

Compilations/Triple Features

Trivia

The 1997 reprint of Are You My Neighbor?, using the original 1995 version of the episode and with only the Interpol FBI warning screens at the beginning of the tape, was presumably a test to see if the VeggieTales videos were "acceptable" for a mass market release.
- This is the only VeggieTales Lyrick Studios VHS not to have the Lyrick Studios logo anywhere on the VHS box cover nor at the beginning or end of the video, other than on the cassette ink label. However, there are some very scarce copies with the 1997 Lyrick Studios logo at the beginning and end of the tape.
The 1998 release of Bob and Larry's Favorite Stories! contains trailers for Where's God When I'm S-Scared? and Are You My Neighbor?
The 1999 reprints of Very Silly Songs! and Josh and the Big Wall! contains a trailer for the 1999 reprint of Madame Blueberry.
The 1999 reprints of Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, The Toy That Saved Christmas, and Madame Blueberry contains the trailer for Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed.
The 2000 reprint of The End of Silliness? contains a trailer for King George and the Ducky.
The 2000 VHS of King George and the Ducky and The Toy That Saved Christmas contains the teaser for Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen.
The 2001 reprint of Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen contains a teaser for Lyle the Kindly Viking and a message from Phil Vischer.
The 2001 VHS and DVD of Lyle the Kindly Viking contains one of the teasers for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
Five VeggieTales tapes have the text "Distributed by" in white font on a black background before the Lyrick Studios logo. The first two have the 1997 "Distributed by" Lyrick logo, and in 1999, these were both averted by using the 1998 Lyrick Studios logo with "Distributed by" above the logo and later a still version of said variant.
The Lyrick promos for Where's God When I'm S-Scared? and Are You My Neighbor? were narrated by Earl Fisher. A year later, Earl would begin to provide the voice for Pasqually from Chuck E. Cheese's which began their tie-ins with Big Idea on the very show where he debuted as Pasqually (Dance Party from April 1999).

Gallery

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