Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future – way in the future.
(The Associated Press)
The Warner Brothers network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new childrens 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 networks 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, its an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy.”
IMHO, this sucks ass.
IMHO, this sucks ass.
Word, dude. I wasn't upset 'til I saw the character designs. Ick.
Bring back the Tiny Toons or the Animanics. Or *shocking thought* rerelease the original Looney Tunes for TV without those ass edits for violence.
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WTF?!
It's rarely a good thing when people start throwing about words like “homage” to describe their work. More often than not, it means they've screwed the original beyond recognition.
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Seeing the Wyle E. Coyote being blown up in creatively violent ways is a high point of the saturday mornings of my childhood.
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I can see some borg marketdrone thinking “how can I milk this for all the money it's worth”?
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Yeah, the big flub there? The big flub there was saying “rather than the destruction of.”
No, it's the destruction of. I wants me my Animaniacs back. They rocked the hizz0use.
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Ducky go down the hoooooooole!
And the milk spraying cafeteria scene was the bestest.
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Yes. And, and! Spinoffs! Pinky and the Brain: Mouse of La Mancha!
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I lurve Pinky and The Brain.
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For me, the original Looney Tunes will remain the bestest. I mean, Bugs Bunny as the Barber of Seville, Pepe le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner (meep! meep!), Marvin the Martian, *happy sigh*
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Yuuuuk!!! This is criminal and it is not funny at all. I saw a preview on tv and it seems more violent than the original. Buzz Bunny has laser vision and is a martial-arts expert and he's got the 'tude of a yo :-(
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I totaly agree with wanting the Animaniacs back. What? Is Speilberg to lofty now to touch them? They were silly but chock full of wit! I'm just glad my rommie has two of the VHS.
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