Little Einstein (Pilot) (2024)

Little Einstein was the original idea that later became Little Einsteins.

It was a pitch pilot advertisem*nt to pitch the series to Disney (as stated by Lead animator Frank Summers). It premiered on multiple Baby Einstein DVDs and Playhouse Disney series DVDs including JoJo's Circus and Bear in the Big Blue House.

The stayed tuned bumper for Version 1 and Version 2 (Baby Monet 2005 VHS only) had Leo, Annie, Quincy, and June sitting in Rocket.

Releases for the Stay Tuned Bumper/1st Trailer from Fall 2004[]

• Baby Einstein: Language Nursery (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Mozart (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Bach (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Shakespeare (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Van Gogh (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Santa's Music Box (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Neighborhood Animals (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: World Animals (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Newton (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Neptune (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Galileo (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Numbers Nursery (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby MacDonald (October 26, 2004)
• Baby Einstein: Baby Noah (October 26, 2004)

Releases for the 2nd Trailer from Spring 2005[]

• Baby Einstein: Baby Monet (March 8, 2005)
• Jojo's Circus: Animal A Go-Go (March 22, 2005)
• Jojo's Circus: Take a Bow (March 22, 2005)
• Disney Learning Adventures: Mickey's Reading & Math Fun (March 22, 2005) (DVD only)
• Disney Learning Adventures: Mickey's Seeing the World (March 22, 2005) (DVD only)
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie (May 24, 2005)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Early to Bed, Early to Rise (June 7, 2005) (VHS only)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Storytelling with Bear (June 7, 2005) (VHS only)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Sense-Sational (June 7, 2005) (VHS only)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Heroes of Woodland Valley (June 7, 2005) (VHS only)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Visiting the Doctor with Bear (June 7, 2005) (VHS only)

Planned Releases[]

1st Trailer[]

• Rolie Polie Olie: Olie to the Rescue
• Rolie Polie Olie: Olie on the Move

2nd Trailer[]

• TBA

Versions[]

Version 1[]

The first version of the pitch pilot was a 30-second advertisem*nt of the characters at a possible playground. A female announcer (Baby Einstein creator and founder Julie Clark) talks about the series at the beginning and end. In the middle, we get the first look at 4 children (became Leo, June, Quincy, and Annie) playing on the playground. We see June, Leo, and Annie on a roundabout singing to the jingle. Then we see all the characters swing into the screen exiting to the left, then re-entering to the right giving closer details.

Version 2[]

The second version of the pitch gave us the official character designs of Leo, Annie, Quincy, June, and a simpler version of Rocket. It had a male announcer unlike the first and had more clips. We see the gang in the Starry-Night in most character scenes. Some things that changed were the interior of Rocket. In this pitch we saw Quincy in the front seat with Leo and Rocket's seats were green. Quincy strangely had very dark gray sleeves and they both had no ear detail unlike in the official. It kept the jingle from the first pilot. It was still announced as "Little Einstein".

Other[]

There are multiple sketches that were not animated, which showed character development. (etc. Annie having blue sleeves, Quincy with a blue and white shirt.)

Jingle Lyrics[]

Come on it's time to climb aboard and be a Little Einstein!

Trivia[]

• Despite animation tests being done for the character's. the rest of them have yet to surface
• On some Disney Junior/Playhouse flash games they used Quincy and Annie's pilot clothing instead of the normal outfits. It is unknown why they did that.
• June appears to be Chinese instead of Asian.
• Rocket appears as more of a golf ball rocket in the first promo compared to his final design in the finished product, his design In the second trailer is closer to his design in the 2D art.
• There were no full-length episodes that featured these designs or the title as this is meant to be a test pilot.
• Little Einstein(s) is officially made by the same company that did Baby Einstein as shown with the logo at the end
• There were plans to use the first teaser on two upcoming Rolie Polie Olie videos in December 2004, but never happened since both of them were cancelled.

Gallery[]

1st Trailer[]

2nd Trailer[]