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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Street Date: 10/28/03
MSRP: $64.92

They're the crown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 56 of the very best animated shorts starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Golden Collection!

Just barely contained in four special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original, uncut, anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark animated marvel after another, there's that icon of carrot-crunching aplomb, Bugs Bunny, in a dazzling assortment of his very best classic shorts. Also highlighted in their own delightfully zany series of cartoon gems: the ever-flustered Daffy Duck and eternal straight-man Porky Pig. Plus, all the rest of the beloved Looney Tunes lineup starring in some of the most wildly imaginative cartoon shorts ever created!

Including an array of exclusive bonus DVD features from expert commentaries to insights into the evolution of these classic characters, this is the ultimate animated experience for anyone who's ever thrilled to the timeless query: "Ehhh? what's up, Doc?"

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The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection
Street Date: 10/28/03
MSRP: $26.99

They're the clown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 28 of the very best animated shorts starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection!

Just barely contained in two special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented animation celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark cartoon classic after another, there's Bugs Bunny's monstrously merry encounter with the tennis-shoe clad creature of Hair-Raising Hare. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner racing to cartoon immortality in Fast and Furryous.

Oscar-winning animated gems, scenery-chewing Tazmanian Devils and much more! Plus, a dazzling array of totally Looney DVD bonus features!

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Looney Tunes: Reality Check!
Street Date: 10/28/03
MSRP: $19.98

Hold on tight! Because all your favorite Looney Tunes characters are zooming into a head-on collision with the world's most popular reality TV shows! Th-th-th-that's right, folks! It's time for a REALITY CHECK!

Overflowing with outrageous Warner-style comic mayhem, these all-new Toons spoof TV like it's never been spoofed before! Plus, you'll get a load of exclusive added gotta-have-'em DVD bonus features that are positively Looney!

In this hilarity-jam-packed volume: Porky and Tweety give you the score and more in Sports Blab. Granny makes Sylvester, Daffy and Yosemite Sam cry uncle in Tear Factor. Then, Bugs, Porky, Daffy, Taz and the rest of the gang are outcast, outclassed and out-to-lunch in a kooky quest to become the lone survivor (get it?) in the spectacularly zany Toon Marooned! And there's more wackiness on the schedule with reality show send-ups from Aluminum Chef to Judge Granny!

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Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction
Street Date: 10/28/03
MSRP: $19.98

It's spooky. It's wacky. It's STRANGER THAN FICTION! Exploding with sheer cartoon craziness, these all-new Toons star your favorite Looney Tunes characters making big-time fun of everything from mysteriously goofy TV shows to sci-fi movie blockbusters! Plus, you'll also be treated to an irresistible assortment of must-see, new-and-improved-deluxe-extra-special Looney Tunes DVD bonus features!

In this eerily-entertaining volume: Porky and Yosemite Sam go creature-hunting and end up in a Loch Ness Mess. Daffy hosts a preposterous paranormal TV show featuring everything from the fearsome "Mexican goat-sucker" to crazy crop circles and a Shakespeare-spouting Taz! Then, Porky and Daffy land on the very odd Planet of the Taz - and discover some even stranger sequel-planets! Plus, more way-Looney spoofs and shorts full of weirdly wonderful Warner-riffic fun!

hmmm.. kinda slim on extras and a little bit more expensive than the disney tins. I may end up getting it.. if the reviews state that there is quality image and that the extras are worthy.

Let's hope they're not censored!

Case in point:

Where's Speedy?

Does anyone know if the 2 Disc Set will contain the same cartoon shorts that are in the 4 Disc "golden" Collection?

The 4-disc contains 56 shorts and the 2-disc contains 28 shorts, exactly half of the 4-disc's, so I would guess the 28 on the 2-disc are exactly the same as 28 of the 4-disc's. Is that clear?

"Including an array of exclusive bonus DVD features from expert commentaries to insights into the evolution of these classic characters..." The features haven't even been all announced yet...

"...restored and re-mastered to its original, uncut, anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory!"

bigtime !

Wonderful, this is an automatic purchase. My wife and I love Looney Tunes, I can actually remember a lot of these being played with all the un PC stuff when I was younger, and I definitely notice the changes nowadays.

So some of us took a survey on these 'potential' dvds a while back. What is the point of the survey if they are releasing them all anyway?

I think character themed sets would have been nicer. ala disney tins.

TVShowsOnDVD announced the extras, and the video/sound specs too.

Also mentioned that there is a 5th release in this promotion: Space Jam 2 Disc Special Widescreen Edition.

You nailed exactly what the survey had that isn't in this release: the character-themed sets. The survey mentioned a "Bug Bunny Carrot Collection". It isn't being released, at least not in this promotion.

how disappointing

This is cool. I love the loony tunes. I'm glad to see that they aren't planning to censor/edit them.

All I have to say is:

sweet

not sure if i'm excited about this or not...

Just a guess, I'd say no Speedy cartoons, but the shorts that are included in the collection will be uncut. Does that count as being uncensored or not?

IF they truly are uncut then it looks as if they’re going to be very "selective" in terms of what is included (as is evident by the total denial of Speedy’s existence) which is basically the same thing they did with the first Tom and Jerry DVD (and even the second to a certain degree).

Oh well. God Bless Kazaa.

Speedy's in there!

That link has a complete disc-by-disc breakdown of all the stuff on the multi-disc LT sets! Some awesome things in there!

Well I hope these are good. I have been awaiting these for quite some time now.

This set sounds amazing..Mel Blanc would be very proud

Here's a shot of the old vs. remastered picture from Cartoon Research:



Looks nice. I only hope these are good sets and they sell well enough for them to release more. WB did release 5 Golden Age of Looney Tunes sets and they were more expensive and sold to a much smaller audience, so there's a good chance we will see more sets.

Thanks for the link on the details of the Golden Collection and the redundancy of the Premiere Collection. Now I know to anticipate getting just the Golden.

Are these shorts from the golden era of Looney Tunes or has WB added some of the crappier shorts from the mid 60s???

Standing on top of Marc Anthony's head.

While it's extremely doubtful they will release the more overtly racist shorts, I hope they don't skimp on the shorts that have "objectionable violence".