WHV Announcement: Looney Tunes Super Stars

The list of shorts has already been released on tvshowsondvd.com, but for convenience sake:

Bugs Bunny: Hare Extrordinaire:

No Parking Hare
Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk
Hold the Lion, Please
What's Cookin', Doc?
Which is Witch?
Mutiny on the Bunny
Bushy Hare
Hare We Go
Rabbit Every Monday
Fair Haired Hare
Foxy by Proxy
Hare Lift
Upswept Hare
Hare Trimmed
Robot Rabbit


Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl:

Tick Tock Tuckered
Ain't that Ducky?
Nasty Quacks
Daffy Doodles
Along Came Daffy
The Prize Pest
Quack Shot
The High and the Flighty
Boston Quackie
Don't Axe Me
China Jones
Daffy's Inn Trouble
Quackodile Tears
Good Noose
Fast Buck Duck

I am looking forward very much to having these classics finally on DVD.  Bushy Hare is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons.

Nice.

Guess the marketing numbers showed that single disc, character themed releases were the way to go. I'll gladly pick these up and place them next to my Golden Collections, especially since there are no repeated films.

It should be noted that tvshowsondvd just retracted their contents listing at the request of Warner Bros.  I'll leave my original post up, but now all bets are off regarding the actual shorts.

Well, here's hoping that whatever 30 films they are they are indeed not repeats of the Golden Collection films.

as stated as long as its not repeats these are mine as well, but i was really hoping for something so much bigger, they have really scaled down on the great releases, never going to see another Tarzan collection, maybe i should just be happy that these are not archive collection i guess. but it seems that all the great anouncements never seem to get finished, where are the rest of the Popeyes? The long rumored Tex Avery set?, WB when the Golden Collection went away, i was expecting the next big thing, 1080p, 4 disc, looks like it will just have to wait, like my missing Woody Woodpecker, or the Tom & Jerrys that were left off for censorship reasons.

More great news!!  Thanks WB!!!

I really hope that Bushy Hare and Which is Witch are still going to be included.

TVShowsOnDVD just updated with a new post.  Apparently the original list of shorts was incorrect.  The new list as it appears on WHV's internal site is....


While we lost Which is Witch the list did keep Bushy Hare.

Interesting!  When I first saw the artwork, I thought we were doomed for re-releases, but this is a pleasant surprise.  My only disappointment is that I'm frankly tired of Bugs & Daffy - I want a Foghorn collection.  I'll be picking this up nonetheless.

TVShowsOnDVD is still speculating on what cartoons will be included. The finalized list should be posted at Cartoon Brew. I'll wait for that.

Fingers crossed that Which is Witch is still included.  It is a great Friz Freleng short that has rarely been aired on television.

Nice to see these are continuing and not in the archive series.

At least they are starting to release some more Looney Tunes.  Hopefully, there won't be repeats of cartoons from the "Golden Collection" series as other posters have stated.

We already know these are new-to-DVD. See post #10. Also verified by Jerry Beck on Cartoon Brew.

Cartoon Brew lists the same films TVShowsOnDVD did in their revision, meaning a few cartoons have indeed been dropped. Jerry Beck says the dropped films were due to restoration issues.

Beck also mentions a few other things: both he and WB are aiming to eventually restore and release the entire library of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. These two new DVDs are aimed at everyone, collectors and families alike (both the Golden Collections and Spotlight Collections were too expensive for the average consumer). He is involved with the planning of future releases and additional titles can be expected later this year. There are plans for Looney Tunes on Blu-ray.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dvd/new-looney-tunes-dvds-in-april.html

Happy as I am for the Blu-ray folks, there's a real possibility that Warner will get distracted by the shiny new bauble and never actually get all of these out on disc.  I'm more than a little fed up with this ridiculous treadmill where we just regurgitate the same stuff ad infinitum.

By this, it appears that the so-called "Censored 11" will eventually be restored

I wouldn't count on them making it to pressed discs though.  My guess is that these will make my first archive purchase.  I hope I'm wrong, but WB has showed very little guts when it comes to releasing questionable material.

Ironically enough, these new releases actually cost more. 15 shorts per disc with an SRP of 20 bucks means $80 for 60 shorts. The Golden Collections had an SRP of $65... with 60 shorts and loads of extras.

Sure, one or two purchases @ 15 bucks each is not the same as over 50 bucks in one purchase, I get that. But as someone who has bought all the Golden Collections I must admit that I'm still a bit peeved that I now pay more to get less.

The Golden Collections were going for approx. $50 bucks at amazon and some retail stores on release week. that comes out to .83 cents a short.  If you paid SRP of $65, that comes out to $1.08 per short.

The new collection is currently $13.99 at Amazon.  .70 cents a short.

You might actually be paying less.
Edited by Midnight Mike - 1/14/10 at 2:02pm

The Archives stand as a way of releasing films that do not have a justifiable retail audience. There's no reason to assume content issues would keep any release from store shelves.
Edited by Traveling Matt - 1/14/10 at 3:11pm

While you may technically be right, by the time they even bother to put out those cartoons, there probably won't be much of a retail audience left.  I'm not convinced you're right, mind you.  I think everyone here has mentioned at least once about some particular title that found it's way into the Archive that probably could have weathered a retail release.  But that's a whole different matter.

15 shorts for $14 is .93 a short, not .70.

Me too. Surely it wouldn't kill Warner to include these? It's common knowledge that most commentaries are done by the commentators for free, and the music and effects tracks for most of the post-48 shorts are readily available. Another example of Warner treating DVD as a shiny round video cassette.


Well said. I thought the Golden/Spotlight Collection was a pretty good model. Apparently there will be more single disc releases later this year. Is there any reason why Warner couldn't have packaged a four-disc set for hard-core collectors and release them in singles for the casual buyer?

Whereas I would preorder the Golden Collections and look forward to them with excitement, I shall be waiting for these to drop into a sale. They are clearly good sets, but for me they don't have the "wow" factor.

"15 shorts for $14 is .93 a short, not .70."

Opps, that's right. I stand corrected.

I wonder how this new line will progress.

There are enough Tweety and Sylvester, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn and Pepe le Pew cartoons for them to get their own DVD in this series (some could even get two). But most of the Bugs and Daffy shorts have already been released (likewise Speedy Gonzales), so WB at the rate they're going will exhaust all their star character shorts in 2-3 years.

For the sake of getting as much of the LT library as possible, I hope WB will eventually do "All-Stars" discs in which remaining star character shorts are mixed in with a few one-shots and lesser recurring series. Doing single-disc collections already removes the largest barrier to entry for Looney Tunes' DVD's (cheaper, more attractive to blind buys, more likely to be stocked by major chains, etc.)

I'd also at least like to see the B/W Porky and Daffy shorts released. I can understand how expensive, all-B/W collections like Popeye or the Three Stooges sets might've been too much for the average consumer, but would a couple of monochromatic shorts mixed in with color shorts be such a deal breaker?