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[SirBruce]

NEW YORK Feb 17, 2005 — Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future way in the future. The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children's series, "Loonatics," that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters' descendants Buzz Bunny and the like will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

The network's animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.

"We all flipped for it," David Janollari, president of the Kids' WB, said this week. "We just said, `Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.'"

Janollari said both boys and girls enjoyed the new action figures in test runs of the show. Their parents may be a little surprised, however.

"I think the legacy is intact," he said. "If anything, it's an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy."

Scared?  Well, take a look:



Here's another gratuitously large picture of the new characters.

Bruce

[Shockeye]

I died a little inside when I looked at that picture.

I must hug my Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs even closer to my chest now. Heal me Mel Blanc!

[schild]

So, is this what death moans sound like? And if not, can someone tell me when they start? Thanks.

[Strazos]

....Why?

[Signe]

I like 'em.

[Shockeye]

I like 'em.

Stop drinking and posting.

[SirBruce]

I don't necessarily dislike the idea of a futuristic looney toons show, with the angle-drawn characters and bold colors.  After all, when I first heard about Tiny Toons, I was skeptical, but they made them work and even went on to make them babies.  It's tempting to think, therefor, that the media is just trying to unfairly spin this new Loonatics show as a "facelift" for the old looney toons characters, when it really isn't anything new.  The problem is, however, that it seems that Warner Brothers really is pushing that theme, rather than simply passing it off as another new show.

Also, the pink bunny is aparrently futuristic "Lola Bunny" from Space Jam, rather than Babs Bunny.

Actually I'm most annoyed at Buzz's color -- it's like that bad yellow you get from an old yellow marker which has picked up too much green or something.  I'd much rather he were the blue or green one.

Bruce

[Llava]

Step one:
Fuck with classics.

Step two:

Step three:
Profit!

[Trippy]

This reminds me of Marvel 2099.

[Signe]

I think they're kind of cool looking...  a bit evil-ish and metalic shiny.   Who knows about the shows... I don't really watch that sort of children's program..  I shouldn't think there would be plots that I would enjoy very much or anything.  Weren't Animaniacs messing with classics, too?  What's the difference?  Everyone seemed to pretty much like those.

[Samwise]

Fuck no. 

Dispatch the winged monkeys!

[Strazos]

The last classic remake I watched was the new Ninja Turtles series.

My heart cried for my lost childhood.

[Llava]

Thing is, they don't breathe a word about comedy in that article.  He says they'll be superheroes.  Action figures.  If the show's just another goofy gimmick to keep with the same Looney Tunes sense of humor, great.  No problem.  If they're turning them into action heroes, the doom and gloom opinion stands.

[Signe]

I just took it for granted that it was for some new cartoon show, like animaniacs.  I don't have kids so I don't shop for things like dolls or action figures.  My nephews are a bit too old for it, too, although one kind of had a thing for a 'powderpuff girl' which worried me for awhile. 

Sometimes it surprises me the sorts of things you guys are passionate about, but it's also very, very sweet and makes me smile.  I have a friend like that, but his is for Thunderbirds and Dexter's Laboratory.  It's cute.

[Mi_Tes]

Where is the red one?

[HaemishM]

FUCK YOU, WB.

The Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were funny, but they weren't trying to change the entire style and theme of the characters. This... this is a goddamn anime-inspired, pokemon-seizure inducing abortion of an idea, breaking the bones of my childhood and sucking the marrow out wholesale.

[kidder]

Check out the Blue Roadrunner.  IMO the best of looney toons was the roadrunner and coyote.


How about Speedy Gonzalez?


I too wanna know, when does it start?

[Shockeye]

The last classic remake I watched was the new Ninja Turtles series.

My heart cried for my lost childhood.

That new show is great! I watch it daily with my son. Hell, I even bought the DVDs. The new show is so far superior to the old one that I don't know where to start listing its greatness.

[Shockeye]

FUCK YOU, WB.

The Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were funny, but they weren't trying to change the entire style and theme of the characters. This... this is a goddamn anime-inspired, pokemon-seizure inducing abortion of an idea, breaking the bones of my childhood and sucking the marrow out wholesale.

Font size 4tehwin.

I never cared much for Tiny Toons was Animaniacs was "the shit" for awhile there.

[HaemishM]

YW+D  : It's time for Animaniacs
        And we're zany to the max
        So just sit back and relax
        You'll laugh 'til you collapse
        We're Animaniacs!
 
Y+W   : Come join the Warner Brothers
Dot   : And the Warner Sister, Dot
YW+D  : Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot.
        They lock us in the tower whenever we get caught
        But we break loose and then vamoose
        And now you know the plot!
 
        We're Animaniacs!
        Dot is cute and Yakko yaks.
        Wakko packs away the snacks
+       While Bill Clinton plays the sax.
++        We've got wisecracks by the stacks.
+++         We pay tons of income tax.
        We're Animaniacs!

Fucking genius.

[Paelos]

Hey how about that? Bend over childhood, the WB has a great idea!

[Kenrick]

This is just the worst idea I've ever seen.

Makes the "eq2 pizza hut" idea look like the discovery of penicillin.

[Alkiera]

Yakko: Folks, we'll paint your ceiling for only $19.95. Right. How do we do it? No overhead. When we're done, you'll have nothing overhead. You hire us, you have nothing in your head. We paint ceilings, ceilings, and only ceilings. We don't do floors 'cause they're beneath us.


Absolutely Brilliant.  8)

Alkiera

[Fargull]

Maybe it is just me, but I think Episode One bent my childhood over much farther than this move...

[HaemishM]

Jub-jub, bitch.

Lucas was bending my childhood over long before the childhood itself was over.

[Strazos]

[Sarcasm]That new show is great! I watch it daily with my son. Hell, I even bought the DVDs. The new show is so far superior to the old one that I don't know where to start listing its greatness.[/Sarcasm]

I noticed ya missed a tag there; Happy to help.

[WayAbvPar]

If they fuck with this guy, there will be hell to pay. I may have to go Will Munny over at the WB.

[Llava]

I'd like to mention that the new Duck Dodgers show they have on Cartoon Network is worth a watch.  They recently did an episode with Cadet (Porky) introducing Daffy to an MMOG and all of his guildies.  Though they didn't use those words.  It was pretty damn funny.

Personally, though, I really have a soft spot for this guy:

[Shockeye]

    * Slick (Wile E. Coyote)
    * Roadster (Road Runner)
    * Spaz (Taz)
    * Lexi (Lola Bunny)
    * Duck (Daffy Duck)
    * Buzz (Bugs Bunny)

[SirBruce]

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Bruce

[Shockeye]

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Fixed.


_{I hate this damn software.}

[Strazos]

Just watched the trailer...

Any chance I can sue WB for RAPING MY INNER CHILD?

[SirBruce]

That preview makes me 

Bruce

[Llava]

It is everything I feared.  It is the animated concept of bad.

[Strazos]

It is everything I feared.  It is the animated concept of bad.

I guess we're not talking about MJ's "Bad"...