In the 1980s, Ludwig Ickert, who became known in the 1960s as the lead guitarist in the
blues rock band Royal Teens (later renamed The Rangers, The Trembles, and Royal Oldies), founded the company Super-Sound-Video-Einzelhandels GmbH in
Rosbach vor der Höhe. The company went bankrupt in March 1985, but reopened as LUI.TV on July 24, 1986. In 1992, Ickert founded Media Concept together with his wife Roswitha Haas, who later wrote various children's books. The studio was located in Ickert and Haas' house in the Dillingen district of Friedrichsdorf. They produced their first animated films for LUI.TV,
Griechische Sagen: Perseus and
Die Nibelungen Sage: Siegfried; Haas wrote the films' scripts while Ickert did the character designs and animation. The production of Media Concept's animated films involved recording the hand-painted backgrounds and syncing the animation (produced with
Deluxe Paint for the
Amiga) to the camera. Following lawsuits filed against
Filmation and
GoodTimes Entertainment by
The Walt Disney Company for copyright infringement, the studio was inspired to produce and release their first
mockbuster film,
Aladin. Media Concept's films were based on fairy tales and concepts similar to those used for films by companies including Disney,
Pixar,
Don Bluth Productions and
DreamWorks Animation. In addition to the low-budget animation, the films used small voice casts and stock music (from Killer Tracks and Bluevalley), and had character designs plagiarized from characters in Disney and Don Bluth Productions' films. including Simone Greiss, Armin Drogat, Raija Siikavirta, Thorsten Morawietz, Can Oral, Rainer Maria Ehrhardt, Georg Feils, Best Buy Movie in 2000–2001, and Best Entertainment in 2001–2005. They were also dubbed into other languages, notably
Swedish and
Italian. and included the film, as well as a small collection of minigames. An edited clip from the Italian dub of
Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier became a meme called "Yee", due to a scene in which Oro, the dinosaur teacher, scolds Piek for mocking Tio, the protagonist, pronouncing his name in a way that sounds like Yee. Following the deaths of Haas on December 8, 2015 and Ickert on November 14, 2019, their relatives inherited the studio and its equipment. On May 26, 2021, independent label Vier Sterne Deluxe Records announced that it was negotiating with the current owners of Dingo to release the films as radio plays. Musician Simon Bohnsack and the new CEO, Josef "Jimmy" Roederer, also had plans to make new films, The radio plays were released between August 2021 and December 2022, beginning with
Wabuu der freche Waschbär. In September 2024, the relatives donated the studio's equipment, backgrounds, storage devices and documents to the Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm. == Reception ==