In the event that WB sticks to their guns and refuses to readmit the missing shorts, where do the big home media sites go from there? Giving automatic negative scores to the T&J set, or better yet, refusing to review it at all are possible options. An open letter posted on the front page...
If Warner was worth giving the benefit of the doubt, this issue wouldn't exist in the first place; there'd be no need for us to discuss this here. As far as I'm concerned, even the nastiest and most insulting criticism over this is too flattering and lenient.
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As with Spotlight Collection V.3, that Warner is omitting these two shorts but including the much worse "His Mouse Friday" isn't just stupid, it's blatantly hypocritical. And if there wasn't a clearer indication that any release of the Censored 11 Looney Tunes is dead in the water...
I don't think Shout would've paid however many thousands of dollars to license the show if they had no earthly idea of what it would take to get it out. I think the show will be fine.
But that does jack-all if regular people aren't able to access them. Furthermore if these kinds of changes are so commonplace and acceptable, what is the point of Blu-Ray? We might as well just stick to our DVD's.
I'm curious. Where has Disney acknowledged that the look and feel of these films is being altered wholesale? The press releases and most reviews only go on and on about "restored", "remastered", "better than ever" but never a direct acknowledgement of alteration. Even if they did, does that make...
I want to see screencaps of the new set, to see if we still have crimson Captain Hook and a defoliated Never Land. Many of the animation people who criticized the previous knew the Nine Old Men. Some even worked with or for them and their contemporaries. So, the criticism wasn't just uninformed...
Also, the first set came out at a time when DVD was relatively new and restored sets of archival material were rare. By 2007-08, HUNDEREDS of DVD's were coming out, and releases like the Golden Collections were avalanched in the pre-Christmas rush. IF WB executives don't understand factors like...
FWIW, WHV retail is doing cartoons releases for retail again. For the Silver Age WB shows (TTA, Animaniacs, Duck Dodgers and Taz-Mania) and Tom and Jerry Kids, they're making the seasons sets look more like the kiddie "themed" compilations they've done for Scooby and Smurfs, particularly with...
But obviously, WB still feels that restoring Looney Tunes for DVD is worthwhile, hence the ongoing Super Stars sets which are selling well enough to continue. If you're not an insider on these discs, Paul, you should probably not act like you know every last detail about what goes on with these...
Who said ANYTHING about "releasing all their material at once". In what galaxy would releasing one or both of these shows in what would otherwise be a lull month for animation be "releasing everything at once", especially if these are just used CN prints and virtually no work has been done other...
It's great to see WHV plum their archives of lesser animated material again. And hopefully, this means they can cut down on all the rereleases of the classic material and focus on the T&J Golden Collections. This is a guilty pleasure from Cartoon Network back in the day.
You guys don't understand. Some of your fellow posters are defending the large gaps between releases by saying that "they're remastering the cartoons, they're looking for footage to restore, etc." If they aren't remastering stuff like Butch Cassidy or Ed Grimly, but are using the off-the-shelf...
The only reason DVD releases of Platinum V1 were demanded was because a scant handful of new-to-DVD cartoons were included, as well as another handful that were cropped into 16:9 for the initial wave of Super Stars DVDs. If those two things weren't the case, no one would have been clamoring for...
Unremastered. If they aren't going to remaster these shows and just dump the Cartoon Network prints onto DVD-R's, what is the point of these gigantic gaps between releases? Either crap them out or restore them.
Well obviously they suck at making decisions, if sets like Mouse Chronicles are bombing and the Platinum series is already in jeopardy with only the second set. And I'm confused. Aren't most of these sets aimed at the "parents of cartoon-loving kids". How much is Warner paying you for PR?
But EVERY one of these post-GC releases is aimed at the average consumer. Platinum Collection #1 has What's Opera Doc, Essential Bugs Bunny has it, even one of the still-in-print Spotlight Collections has it, and I've seen Wal-Mart stock it. Remember when it was easy to tell which releases were...
TL;DR. or rather had to skim. The bottom line is: Warner is obviously doing something wrong. Mouse Chronicles flopped and the Platinum Collection series is already in danger of cancellation with the second set.
I think the real, real heart of the problem is the Family Entertainment division. The Golden Collection series was George Feltenstein's "baby", and were handled by the live-action people with the utmost of care. Apparently, since the demise of the Golden Collections, the Looney Tunes are now...
It's both. In the years since the Golden Collections, there have been Platinum Collections, a Showcase collection, Super Stars DVD's, Essential Bugs and Daffy sets, and miscellanea like Mouse Chronicles and those Best of Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Unleashed DVD's. And on top of that, the Golden and...
No they aren't. What they are actually doing is packaging cartoons that were already on the Golden Collections with new-to-dic shorts, so if you want any of those new cartoons, you have to buy DVD's where the majority of cartoons are those you already have. Whether they're chronological or not...