LOONEY TUNE-UPS

The New York Post ^ | February 17, 2005 | ADAM BUCKMAN

[MadIvan]

February 17, 2005 -- HAS Warner Bros. gone daffy?

For Kids' WB's new show "Loonatics," a futuristic bugs Bunny loses his light-and-fluffy look to become a fierce, sharpclawed beast with superpowers. Warner Bros.

That's what fans of the studio's classic cartoon characters might be asking after they get a look at the new, futuristic versions of some of their favorite animated heroes, which Warner unveiled yesterday.

The Looney Tunes characters — six in all — have been "reimagined" (in studio parlance) for a new series called "Loonatics," which is set to air next fall on WPIX/Channel 11 as part of the Saturday morning Kids' WB program lineup.

[MadIvan]

They showed this on the news here and some British kids got a look at the new characters. Thumbs down.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Eragon]

You have GOT to be kidding me! UGGGG. Crappy looking new cartoons are bad enough with out destroying good, old characters.

[GeronL]

good grief.... the WB is full of maroons

[Gumption]

That's dithspicable.

[GeronL]

hey, my post didn't come up

[GeronL]

there is it

[Gumption]

Are you logged in?

[GeronL]

How many times do I have to refresh to see it?? =o)

[GeronL]

I still think WB owes me money for using my family name, and the medicine company GERON CORP owes me too =o)

signed, Floyd Geron Looney

[Gumption]

Sometime it shows up right away. Sometimes it takes awhile. I have no idea why that is.

[Polonius]

As someone who grew up on the classics (just re-watched "What's Opera, Doc?" recently), I have one word: Ugh. I wonder what the old Termite Terrace crew would say about this.

[Mo1]

Is that the rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter?

[Mr. Silverback]

LOL!

[Mr. Silverback]

Looney Tunes fans to Warner Brothers: Of course you realize, this means war!

[RayChuang88]

I wonder have you seen some of the stuff that Disney Worldwide Publishing (Italia) has done in the last ten years.

They actually turned Donald Duck into a superhero in a series of Italian-language comics sold under the PK name, which has proven to be quite popular. In short, Disney got there first when it came to a drastic change in one of their "signature" creations.

(Mind you, I'd love to see Disney turn that into an animated TV series....)

[Salamander]

Nobody remembers MTV's "The Maxx"?

It's already been done.

[Lexinom]

It's part of the site's load-balancing scheme. You happened to hit "post" at the same time as twenty-five or 100 other users, and the requests get queued, prioritized, and finally committed to the database one after another. So there's NO need to re-post, just be patient :-)

This site, with the incredible data throughput volumes it must maintain, is truly a marvel of cyberspace.

[GeronL]

FR is the best website ever, bar none

[Lexinom]

I heartily agree. Think about how we've each played a little tiny part in shaping history through the exchange of ideas. Or in a few cases, a bit more than tiny: Buckhead comes to mind...