 This company was sold to the French game publisher Infogrames in 1999.GoodTimes was also one of the companies that wanted to bring "VeggieTales" into the mass market, However, according to Phil Vischer, they wanted to remove all religious references; however, by 1997, Big Idea got another company to release "VeggieTales" in the mass market, known as Lyrick Studios, who released shows like "Barney & Friends" and "Wishbone", which was later bought out by a UK studio owned by Mattel, HiT Entertainment, in 2001.At different times, GoodTimes contracted with Columbia Pictures, NBC, HBO, Worldvision Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera, Orion Home Video, Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures to release inexpensive tapes of many of their films and TV series.