Baby Looney Tunes series announced (1 Viewer)

[Brian Cruz]

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthrea...threadid=36877
Didn't the "take perfectly good cartoon characters and turn them into kids/babies" trend die off about a decade ago? Weren't Muppet Babies, The Flintstone Kids, The Tom & Jerry Kids, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, etc. etc. more than enough? I thought Tiny Toons did a fine job of creating young Looney Tunes without actually turning the original characters into kids. But now they've gone and done it anyway.

 

[Jason Seaver]

1. Tweety looks exactly the same.
2. Who the heck is that other duck? I guess you've got to do something to get some female characters in there - I always found it odd that there weren't more female LT's, since they first appeared when strong female leads were generally billed above the male leads in live-action films.
3. Looking at the time-slot they're talking about (weekdays 9am), I can't say I'm really against this idea - I'm not saying the originals or Tiny Toons are inappropriate for the Pre-K crowd, but the new series described really seems tailored to them. This reminds me of "Muppet Babies" in a good way - it uses familiar characters, but not the "real" ones, so the characters we love aren't "dumbed down" for kids.
4. I don't see Wile E. Coyote... I'm ticked!
5. New Theatrical Shorts - Hot Damn! Sure, they'll wind up dragging me into movies I wouldn't otherwise see, since I can't be sure they'll be included in the Brattle's next annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival (for example, has anyone seen Link Removed? Anyone?)
6. Anyone else remember the way "Taz-Mania" savaged this sort of idea in "Taz-Babies"? Art Vitello and company really zeroed in on how cynical an idea this sort of thing is.

 

[Mike Broadman]

I rolled my eyes when I first saw this, but now that I think about it, it's OK. It allows them to bring back the Looney Tunes format without butchering the original characters.

 

[Bill Slack]

Tiny Toons and Muppet Babies were both good.

I'll give it a chance.

 

[NickSo]

Yeah, tiny toons and muppet babies were awesome... I remember always waking up saturday mornings crawling into my parents bed to watch it...
I love the little green duck in Tiny Toons:
"watah go down da hooole"

 

[Rob Lutter]

What is the point? Why not just make more 'Tiny Toons' episodes? That show was great!