Loonatics
 

Warner Bros. apparently has a new "beyond" version of Looney Tunes under development, called Loonatics :

OK - the characters have changed often in the past, and they've had shows with alternate versions before, so it couldn't be too bad, could it?

http://www.nypost.com/photos/news02172005003.jpg


Uhhh.... :whofart:

This warranted a spot on the nightly news last night. They interviewed kids and asked what they thought of the new Bugs. They thought he looked evil. :lol: Not quite what WB was shooting for, I bet.

With an idea like this, why can't they just make it something original?

God forbid that Bugs Bunny look like an actual, you know, cartoon instead of a video game character. :grunt:

http://www.post-gazette.com/images3/...poster_350.jpg

If there were ever an act to warrant the end of the world...

:whofart:

What the hell are they thinking?

-screwy-

It may looked f-ed up, but so did The Batman when we saw the artwork first, and that series turned out to be pretty cool. I'll reserve judgement until I see it on TV.

They must really hate children.

Based on the animation, I'll give WB idea of a "slightly menacing-looking versions of the classic Looney Tunes characters " a :down:

I have a bad feeling about this.

WB, you are -screwy-

I think the Buzz Bunny looks kind of cool, but not as an update to Bugs Bunny!

Also, I just did a search for 'Buzz Bunny' on Google. 90% of them are for sex toys. Apparently, 'Buzz Bunny' is the name of a popular clitoral stimulator. Way to go, WB!!!! :lol:

About this so-called "reimagining"...

It's not as bad as it appears at first glance. Many (ok, pretty much ALL) of the sources that reported this story yesterday, such as the Wall Street Journal, erroneously (and I suspect, purposefully, in order to stir up crap) reported that these "hip, edgy" new designs would be REPLACING our beloved Looney Tunes characters. Even Dan Rather got on the "replacement" bandwagon; further proving his emminent retirement needs to be hastened.

But these "replacement" stories are NOT true. If you read this article carefully, you'll see:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...714803,00.html

These are going to be NEW characters. It's not Bugs Bunny--it's "Buzz Bunny." These are new characters who live in the year 2772 and fight crime with their superpowers. It's no different than what Warner's did with "Batman Beyond" or "Baby Looney Tunes." Familiar, yet seperate characters. Whether it's a good or bad idea or whether it will be watchable is open for debate, but they will not, repeat NOT, replace the original characters we all know and love. So calm down. And don't get me wrong--I'm not defending this idea--like most people I also think it's execrable. 5 years from now people will still be watching the original Looney Tunes and this "Loonatics" show will be nothing more than a trivia question only Ken Jennings can answer.

That statement is worthy of being in someone's signature...

... like mine. ;)

Must be something like a jack rabbit.

... all six of them:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/toonz3.jpf

I'm tired of this slacker animation style. All the sharp edges and lines probably save a lot of time on the old animation table -- and the excuse is that it's 'hip' and 'updated' It seems like the trend started when Cartoon Network began to air its own new shows. A need to quickly churn out hours of animation plus the help of flash and other computer aids has shifted the look of cartoons to what you now see.

17 posts and still no "raping my childhood' comments?? You people are loosing your touch!!! :D

So the Coyote and Roadrunner -- excuse me, "Cool-yote" and "Radrunner" are teammates now? I guess they worked out their differences.

Daffy looks posessed.

On the news they kept hyping up the segment with "Warner updates Bugs Bunny for the new millenium" or something to that effect. I figured it would be the 3D route disney is going.

They all look alike. Except the fat one. He looks fat.

I thought that phrase was reserved for George Lucas. :D

Goldberg, I think you missed one...

http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/itchy/pics/poochy.jpg

So sad... -ohbfrank-

Looney Toons are timeless classics. Kids of any generation can enjoy watching them. Why do they feel a need to reinvent the show by creating different, yet similar, characters?

I just looks like a really bad animation project. I bet Mel Blanc and others would turn over in their graves.

This is the crappiest idea I think I've ever seen. It just looks so stupid.

There's a quicktime trailer for the show here:

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=1788

Man it's gonna be bad when little kids start watching the show and search Buzz Bunny. Parents are going to be happy about this.

Another show that the WB is doing is Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island... looks a like a rotten version of Sponge Bob.

http://news.toonzone.net/images/2005-02/coconut.jpg

^Damn cartoons suck so bad now. The 80's and early 90's were the best. Now they seem so cheap.

What about Elmer, Porky, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Tweety, etc?

Well, it looks like it's a superhero team made up of the six main people. They'll probably update some of the ones you listed as supervillians and then some of the others might be ancillary characters or something.

so it's Duck, Slick, Roadster, Lexi Bunny, Spaz, and Buzz Bunny. the promo isn't that bad. if you think of it as a brand new series, rather than an update.

I'm just going to pretend this show doesn't exist and keep my fond childhood memories of watching the original Looney Tunes characters fresh by watching some of my Golden Collection dvd set.

Jimmy Kimmel mentioned the Loonatics on his show and said they're reserving a spot in hell for Sander Schwartz, the president of WB animation and the guy who greenlit this. They showed an interview with Schwartz and he was talking about how "hip and cool" this modern version was going to be. Kimmel goes "this guy knows hip and cool about as much as Ryan Seacrest" :lol:

These guys need to lay off this 'reimaging' crap. If they wanna do superheroes just stick with the DC comics characters. More Batman, Superman and Justice League please.

Well, the concept of modernizing the characters worked before. Tiny Toon Adventures anyone?

At least that show still kept the same type of humor and look though.

you're forgetting how much porn Tiny Toons genereated over the web
(as to how I know this: it's amazing what you can find when you accidentally mispell a word or two in a search bar)

Wow, this looks awful.

Ye gods. That picture just screams "see you in your nightmares!"

I'm not sure why, but that coconut makes me think of the sponge monkey things from last year's Quizno's commercials...

But it has also horribly failed, like with Baby Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network, and don't forget that movie, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, the one that bombed, like this new show will!!!