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[Hitman]

"'The new series will have the same classic wit and wisdom, but we have to do it more in line with what kids are talking about today,'says Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. Animation. The plots are action-oriented, filled with chases and fights. Each character possesses a special crime-fighting power.

That so horrible, why don't they jsut make up new characters and called them the Super Toons or something. Why ruin the images of their more famous cartoons.

 

[J2 Cool]

Fuck YOOOOOOOU WB!

 

[Spiritreaver]

And I was so pleased with the results of Baby Looney Tunes too, this is just a terrible move. Despite how great the series may turn out, I'd feel differently if there were only minor changes to the characters, or an introduction of new characters like Tiny Toons. This is just drastic though.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Consider my childhood raped.

Mines feels like a gang rape victim still high on roofie WTF

 

[J2 Cool]

Yeah, screw "updated". They were brutally raped by their foster parents and nobody in the studio realized the immorality in this act.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

The zany Daffy Duck is the humorless one if you ask me. It wears thin after like two features. Completely one dimensional. The greedy, looking out for number one, wise-craking Daffy was more versatile. The zany Daffy could never be Duck Tracy or Duck Rogers. Sticking him with Speedy Gonzales in the late 60s though is what kind of sucked.

Actually, Duck Twathy was from the zany Bob McKimson-directed Daffy Duck era. That one episode with the Mr. Meek guy > all Chuck Jones' Daffys

"Warner Bros to your Childhood Memories: 'Get in the Van, I have Candy'."

My thoughts exactly.

 

[aoi tsuki]

And I was so pleased with the results of Baby Looney Tunes too, this is just a terrible move. Despite how great the series may turn out, I'd feel differently if there were only minor changes to the characters, or an introduction of new characters like Tiny Toons. This is just drastic though.

Well, Tiny Toons was essentially an updated collection of the characters in the Bugs Bunny universe. By creating characters with new names that bore similar characteristics/roles of old characters, they didn't completely alienate fans of Bugs (at least younger fans), while still producing a successful show. i'm actually surprised they didn't go the Teen Titans route with the new Bugs/Buzz and go with a severly anime-"influenced" look.

But i'm actually kinda surprised at the negative reaction. It's not like Bugs was created in the last ten years or so. They're so before our time (most of us), it's not funny. Now the upcoming Tron remake, that's something worth bitching about. How dare they trample on my nostalgia!!

 

[Son of Godzilla]

Finally, somebody picked up on it! Thank You.




In the grand scheme of things, because they aren't replacing the originals, yeah, it means nothing. Kinda like Tiny Toons.

But the classic Looney Tunes era of 40s and 50s had and appeal about them that were just about timeless. They didn't put mop haircuts on them in the 60s, they weren't hippied or discoed up for the 70s, and when I grew up with them in the 80s, they weren't wearing legwarmers or have multicolored hair nor did they change the classical scores to new wave. Bugs and his pals peacefully coexisted alongside He-man or Transformers or Thundercats or whatever. I just think it's a little sad that some kids today get to miss out on some really good, classic animation.

I dunno, Tiny Toons was as early 90s as you can possibly get.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Get a grip, pal. Bugs Bunny was a cartoon about Elmer Fudd hunting him. Or Daffy Duck getting involved. Or Bugs Bunny running away from lions. How does what you say make any sense? A shot at the childhood's of many millions of people? What planet are you from? I doubt that line makes sense anywhere in this universe, translated to all the languages in existance.

You're hopped up on nostalgia. Just like everyone else. Your memories and childhood experiences were fed to you by multi-million/billion dollar corporations, and you're whining about them adjusting to the times?

Just... everyone, get a grip. Think for once. This shouldn't mean anything to anyone.

shut up. just....shut up.

But the classic Looney Tunes era of 40s and 50s had and appeal about them that were just about timeless. They didn't put mop haircuts on them in the 60s, they weren't hippied or discoed up for the 70s, and when I grew up with them in the 80s, they weren't wearing legwarmers or have multicolored hair nor did they change the classical scores to new wave. Bugs and his pals peacefully coexisted alongside He-man or Transformers or Thundercats or whatever. I just think it's a little sad that some kids today get to miss out on some really good, classic animation.

thank you. learn from him god's hand. you lousy hippie communist.
christ, why couldnt they just use the regular and classic WB characters in the same show? that would be sooooooooo much better.

 

[demi]

Perfect avatar for the perfect thread.

 

[Rlan]

Conan O' Brien: YOU'RE A SPACE MAN THAT CHOKED ON A MUFFIN!
Space Ghost: THAT, SIR, IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE I AM ALLERGIC TO MUFFINS!
Conan O' Brien: Oh, I'm sorry.
Space Ghost: Yeah. You're thinking of Muffin Hunter. He's different.
Conan O' Brien: I saw that on the WB, actually. They'll carry anything. (Laughs.)
Space Ghost: Well, they won't carry anything, Conan, because I pitched them a show where Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny were teenagers, and I was a teenager too, and we were all pirates, but every week we would have different jobs and identities. And they called back and said it was stupid!
Conan O' Brien: Well...
Space Ghost: And that I was stupid too! And let me tell ya something. There's nothing stupid about a teenage rabbit teaching good hygiene! Nothing!
(Space Ghost pounds his fist so hard on the desk that it bursts into flames.)

 

[Blackace]

Why do entertainment companies do this? Characters don't have to be "to the extreme", for people to like them. Stick with what everyone loves

or just make new ones

 

[The Guivre]

Tiny Toons I remember not minding so much, I think I even played the NES game that came out for it. The Baby versions I tolerated, even Disney's done that with their Pooh characters for diapers and the like.

I'm going to chalk this one up to the whole need companies now feel to be edgey or something like that. I'm not entirely sure how it works. Maybe Disney will make their characters into something cool too, like.. well, not superheroes but maybe Extreme Sports fanatics or maybe, just super heroes. Though Disney likes magic and stuff so maybe they can all be knights and sorcerers and stuff and fight dragons.

"Ride, the Walrus!" - Fishy Joe's

 

[mightynine]

With Disney considering reinventing Mickey

Christ, do they just WANT to shut down the Disney empire?

 

[Tunesmith]

)(/&%¤#""

 

[sprsk]

the design from a line standpoint is retarded, but thats no where near as bad as black and yellow. who the hell's idea was that?

i know! what two colors look like absolute shit next to each other?? really? okay! lets go with that!

 

[Brannon]

Of all the banned phrases I want to say, I'll opt to say one that HASN'T been banned;

THERE ARE NO WORDS...

 

[EekTheKat]

But the classic Looney Tunes era of 40s and 50s had and appeal about them that were just about timeless. They didn't put mop haircuts on them in the 60s, they weren't hippied or discoed up for the 70s, and when I grew up with them in the 80s, they weren't wearing legwarmers or have multicolored hair nor did they change the classical scores to new wave. Bugs and his pals peacefully coexisted alongside He-man or Transformers or Thundercats or whatever. I just think it's a little sad that some kids today get to miss out on some really good, classic animation.

Looney Tunes just got progressively worse over the years to be honest, in the late 70's and 80's they were left just as a mere shell of their former selves. One of the more awful ones I keep remembering was the one where Bugs Bunny would prance through the woods blowing kisses or something to rocks and trees ("Hello, rock....Hello Tree").

That to me was the wake up call that they've finally watered down all the Looney Tunes so much that they just lost a good part of their appeal.

The 40's and 50's stuff were highly original "edgy" toons for their time really, and IIRC they were really all theatrical shorts that had broader appeal (kids and adults).

And well as much as Duck Dodgers gets panned as garbage by a lot of people, that show was really the last "decent" attempt at reviving that old Looney Tunes spirit (meaning it wasn't "watered down" exclusively for kids).

I think this is just the next natural progression for a once great stable of characters like this. They're going to have to seriously get some MAJOR talent to get this show to work.

 

[Spectral Glider]

I dunno, Tiny Toons was as early 90s as you can possibly get.

That's my point, they were Tiny Toons, they weren't the Looney Tunes. It was somewhere in the early to mid-90s that they quit showing the classics on Saturday mornings for whatever reason. Plus, Tiny Toons was a weekday afternoon thing, if I recall correctly.

Looney Tunes just got progressively worse over the years to be honest, in the late 70's and 80's they were left just as a mere shell of their former selves.

The classic studio that produced the theatrical shorts closed in 69. They did produce the feature film "The Bugs Bunny/ Road Runner Movie" in 79 which was just a repackaging of the classic stuff from the 40s and 50s. The other cartoons produced in the late 70s and early 80s were just primetime TV specials (either for holidays or otherwise) for CBS that contained a few new shorts thrown in with the classics.

I was talking about the original theatrical shorts that were shown on TV in some form from like 1960 to somewhere in the 90s on either The Bugs Bunny Show, Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show or Bugs and Tweety on CBS and/or ABC. It was just the classic stuff of the 40s and 50s without any "timely attitude" adjustments for each decade.

 

[dog$]

Actually, Duck Twathy was from the zany Bob McKimson-directed Daffy Duck era. That one episode with the Mr. Meek guy > all Chuck Jones' Daffys

If "Wise Quacking Duck" is what you're referring to:

That was actually done by Clampett.

 

[olimario]

Holy Shit, It's built in!

 

[Justin Bailey]

Fucking fuck.

 

[WordAssassin]

Noooo! I was right! RoadRunner IS just a rocket now! AARRGH.

Also, I just thought of something...how will this team work when three of the six characters don't talk? Or is that part of the "re-imagining"?

 

[Spiritreaver]

Well, Tiny Toons was essentially an updated collection of the characters in the Bugs Bunny universe. By creating characters with new names that bore similar characteristics/roles of old characters, they didn't completely alienate fans of Bugs (at least younger fans), while still producing a successful show. i'm actually surprised they didn't go the Teen Titans route with the new Bugs/Buzz and go with a severly anime-"influenced" look.

Eh, my Tiny Toons reference wasn't towards the look of the classic charcters, but rather the addition of new characters. I'd rather see them create new chracters for this sort of show than change such old classics.

But i'm actually kinda surprised at the negative reaction. It's not like Bugs was created in the last ten years or so. They're so before our time (most of us), it's not funny. Now the upcoming Tron remake, that's something worth bitching about. How dare they trample on my nostalgia!!

Wait wha? Because it was created well before our time we can't bitch about it? We still grew up with it, I watched plenty of them as a kid and along with Tiny Toons and Baby Looney Tunes I still get a kick out of those classic characters.

But yeah whatever though, I honestly don't care much about this, even from a cartoon standpoint, this does look like much will come out of it anyways. I doubt it'll get much more interest than "The Batman", then again I'm not much of a cartoon person anymore. So yeah, I'm out of this thread for now.

 

[Bregor]

...

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.....

No sir, I don't like it.

 

[ShadowRed]

They just showed a promo for the Loonitics show on a local nes channel. It showed Buggs and gang being transformed into their ne form.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

The End IS coming!!!

=_______________________________(



There are no words for the pain I feel..

 

[Manabanana]

There were some cross-over episodes of Tiny Toons, so I might watch an episode of this if the original crew came and mocked the new guys. MAYBE. All those character designs define lame.

 

[Vlad]

There were some cross-over episodes of Tiny Toons, so I might watch an episode of this if the original crew came and mocked the new guys. MAYBE. All those character designs define lame.

Been quite some time since I've seen Tiny Toons, but wasn't the idea that they were going to school and the original Looney Toons were the teachers? I seem to recall seeing Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, etc on a fairly regular basis. Either way, it was definitely more than just a few cross-overs.

 

[Dan]

Been quite some time since I've seen Tiny Toons, but wasn't the idea that they were going to school and the original Looney Toons were the teachers? I seem to recall seeing Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, etc on a fairly regular basis. Either way, it was definitely more than just a few cross-overs.

You are correct. The originals taught at Acme Looniversity where the young characters attended.

 

[Dan]

Look what I found.

What boring designs. They've all been taken from the same template. Replace the head and hands, change the color and wow, you've got a new character. I mean, I figured they'd all be extreme and all, but there's a distinct lack of variety. It's like Looney Tunes meets Power Rangers.

 

[Monk]

Dammit why is everyone raping my childhood.

 

[Belfast]

That's the way I liked him.

Me, too. Its just odd once you realize that he was originally a more mischevious character because pretty much everyone on this board grew up with the "sanitized" Mickey. For years he's been more of a figurehead for Disney than an actual cartoon character. Like I said, they can slap him into just about any generic hero role, but they're all usually boring, one-dimensional characters.

 

[Borat]

I WANNA SEE PORKY

 

[Cimarron]

who's that supposed to be in the bottom right hand corner?

 

[Talas]

who's that supposed to be in the bottom right hand corner?

The female bunny from SpaceJam or the token Pink Ranger.

 

[MrCheez]

Dear... God...

 

[OmniGamer]

"What's up, beyyyyoootttchhhh?"

:lol

It's as if they took everything that could be generically "badass" "extreme" "edgy", mixed it in a bowl, ate it, and, well....this was sifted out of the leavings.

And the sad thing is, i doubt any of the facial animations will be as sublt or varied as the originals. Those cartoons were very emotive and witty. And set in the far future? Oh joy, cue as many generic sci-fi elements as posible.

 

[WordAssassin]

Here's a clear shot of all the characters:

UGH. How shitty. I hate you WB. First you totaly screw up Iron Giant's release, then no Freakazoid or Tiny Toon DVDs, and now this. You bastards.

Edit: Here's a link to the story that goes with that. Apparently they have some video of it, but I'm not gonna install IE or WMP to watch it.

 

[ge-man]

This would be considered shitty even if it had nothing to do with the Looney Toons. There is absolute nothing interesting about these design changes.

 

[Dice]

They're expecting this to be as popular as Teen Titans?

 

[Rorschach]

So it's set in the future and these are descendents of the original Looney Tunes...I think they forgot about DUCK DODGERS OF THE 24TH AND A HALF CENTURY!!

Looks like really shitty flash animation. The rep says it's inspired by anime. :[

That tazz looking character's name is Spazz...-_-

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

I am REALLY tired of this trend in animation to go from impressive looking, curvy, smooth designs to these simple jagged characters with little color use. Cartoons from this country and looking cheaper and cheaper every year.

The article mentions how WB did nothing while Disney was putting out lots of new things... but that doesn't justify these designs. Disney in the 80s and 90s put out new interesting things, not a lame attempt to cash in on the fact that a lot of kids watch anime on Cartoon Network.

 

[BuckRobotron]

This must be some kind of New Coke reverse marketing angle. The very concept of this reeks so badly it must be a deliberate ploy to have people come to appreciate again and hunt down the real thing...

 

[ge-man]

Looks like really shitty flash animation. The rep says it's inspired by anime. :[

I really don't understand this. What kind of anime inspired this shit?

 

[jett]

David Jallonari,

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

Here's a clear shot of all the characters:

FUCK MOTHER SHIT FUCK CUNTS! >:|

 

[fallout]

I knew I shouldn't have looked at this thread.

 

[GG-Duo]

"YEEE" "YEE" "YEE" "HMPH!" "YEE" "YEE"

 

[Boogie]

Those are quite possibly the most horrific designs I have ever seen for a cartoon series.

And Tiny Toons rocked.