One of my all-time fave cartoons about to be defiled

[jazz]

:shame:

http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4210111/detail.html (http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4210111/detail.html)

Animators Draw New Look For Bugs Bunny And Pals

Bugs' New Look (http://www.nbc4.tv/slideshow/news/4210199/detail.html?qs=1;s=1;dm=ss;p=news;w=320)

The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children's series, "Loonatics," that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters' descendants -- Buzz Bunny and the like -- will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.


The network's animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.


"We all flipped for it," David Janollari, president of the Kids' WB, said this week. "We just said, 'Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.'"


Janollari said both boys and girls enjoyed the new action figures in test runs of the show. Their parents might be surprised.


"I think the legacy is intact," he said. "If anything, it's an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy."

[Trizzak]

...I'm shocked

[jims]

what in the fuck is this outrage!!!?!?!?! :plain: they cant do that!!! heads are gonna roll....gonna fucking roll down corperate america's stairs

[Trizzak]

I pray to God, Allah, and every other invisible man in the sky...make this show be cancelled.

[jims]

a jihad on them

[JDMCivicHatch96]

yeah, jessica and I think they butchered them :cry:

[jims]

and its all for the youth of the world...they fucking suck

[Parabola7001]

:dual: lets kick some ass...

[jims]

yay..now i get the oppurtunity to shout "RUN MOTHERFUCKER!!" for a reason :pepper:

[iha]

I heard about this.. that's crazy. They're messing w/ a classic :(

[iha]

here's a better picture of them
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20050217/capt.ny11502172330.tv_loonatics_ny115.jpg

[jims]

young kids...so angry these days

[iha]

they made their feet to fat. and the colors are annoying

[jims]

and all sharp and stuff...i was reminded of batman when i saw them.....

[Nostawen]

"I think the legacy is intact," he said. "If anything, it's an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy."

When somebody says something like this, it´s because he knows he´s screwing things up.

[greg]

glayme

[DeadOhioSky]

those things are scarey.

[The Judas Cow]

This is wrong.

[phi]

What the fuck? That is sacrilege.

Superhero action figures? Leave that to the Justice League! Oh wait they fucked them up too. :shame:

[Fhilly]

how horrible...

[jims]

i hope they end up in doggy bags

[iha]

I think they're trying to make it look more Japaneseish.. b/c that's what the kids go for these days it seems.

[jims]

true...then they should have created something new...instead of stealing the past and changing it into something wrong

[iha]

true...then they should have created something new...instead of stealing the past and changing it into something wrong
Well creating something new they start from scratch. Redoing them they already have name recognition and they get more plublicity (all the news people that reported on it).

[jims]

damn these monsters i say!

[iha]

bdf is going to have to get a new Taz shirt.

[jims]

:cry:

[EvAn]

:shame:

[bigisy]

okay the batman mini toon series i could forgive. even the spiderman cartoons were okay at best but this!? for fucking fucks sake stop fucking up the classics people!

[jazz]

they made their feet to fat. and the colors are annoying

they should've made bugs dark blue and the roadrunner purple. :rolleyes:

[jazz]

true...then they should have created something new...instead of stealing the past and changing it into something wrong

well, i guess that makes too much sense for them.

[bigisy]

looks like EA got to these guys aswell ;)

[jazz]

i wonder how long 'til the episode taking place at a best buy. :what:

[Darken Elise]

This sucks. Hell, I was pissed when they started marekting them on sweatshirts dressed as "ganstas" and "street smart" type of characters. Did Buggs ever reall need to be seen wearing Air Jordans and a black leather jacket?!?!

How about this for reintroducing them to a new millenia... PLAY THE ORIGINALS. Assholes.

[jazz]

just proof that today's kids are getting shortchanged when it comes to their cartoons. ours were 100X better.

[Trizzak]

here's a better picture of them
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20050217/capt.ny11502172330.tv_loonatics_ny115.jpg
That isn't wholesome. No longer do I get to watch the coyote try hard to catch the roadrunner, only to be outwitted or have something go wrong in his near perfect plans.

This roadrunner will pull out a Tec-9 and finish the coyote off himself.

They look like villians!

[ElleJae]

Michael Bolton: That is the worst idea I've ever heard.
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.

[jims]

well, i guess that makes too much sense for them.

:lol:

[kris46and2]

that has pissed me off, im boycotting

[jims]

They look like villians!

thats right..and cuz we are the under appreciated and unwanted generation our opinions dont mean jackshit

[Heath]

Fuck me running! That has to be the single gayest thing I've seen in my entire life.

Can't the kiddies just go buy the Bugs Bunny DVD box set?

[Trizzak]

Le Bump

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809 (NWS)

Watch and laugh

[Capt]

i still watch the original ones all the time, its on a few times a day on the cartoon channel... that's the best cartoon ever

[Pun'KinG']

Le Bump

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809 (NWS)

Watch and laugh

:lol: boy that is looooooooooonnnng....

still funny though.

[Trizzak]

:lol: boy that is looooooooooonnnng....

still funny though.
It dragged a bit at one point for me. But then the hat and crack part brought it right back in.

EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!!!

[bdf]

bdf is going to have to get a new Taz shirt.

Not a chance.

[jazz]

i still watch the original ones all the time, its on a few times a day on the cartoon channel... that's the best cartoon ever

i know. which makes this thread all the more depressing.

[jims]

Le Bump

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809 (NWS)

Watch and laugh


:haha:

thats funny

i'll fuck your mom in the ass with a razor dildo while i'm in a driveby on a buick with a fucking monkey! you like that shit, motherfucker?

[MAGO]

that sucks!..i guess i'll have to buy the classic looney toons on dvd now....

[Godless]

IS NOTHING SACRED?

[dionysusolympus]

if that's what they look like, they've got some serious creep factor with those animations.

[jims]

IS NOTHING SACRED?
nope

[JTMoney]

nope

[jims]

epon

[DeadOhioSky]

that was funny.

[bleuMadonna]

The network's animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.

This week's sign that the apocalypse is upon us...:shame:

[PatrickBateman]

We as Americans, should not have to put up with this shit.......I am going to go kick a wall or something

[bdf]

This week's sign that the apocalypse is upon us...:shame:

:werd:

[jims]

We as Americans, should not have to put up with this shit.......I am going to go kick a wall or something

:lol: WALL KICKERS!!!! UNITE! :knight:

[PatrickBateman]

:lol: WALL KICKERS!!!! UNITE! :knight:
Any wall kick or punch that doesn't land on a stud, is a good one

[jims]

:nod:

i say kick and punch till it bleeds

[Trizzak]

"You fuck cows in retrospect!"

Months from now that animation will still be funny to me.

[jazz]

i was gonna post this last week, but i had changed to firefox and forgot i had the link to this article saved:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/27/cartoon.controversy.ap/index.html

Boy's campaign saves Bugs Bunny

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) -- Eleven-year-old Thomas Adams thought Warner Bros. had gone daffy when he saw the company's plans for a new cartoon called "Loonatics," based on Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals.

The grimacing, hollow-eyed, power-fisted prototypes of a futuristic Bugs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner struck the boy as dark and scary. In the words of Daffy Duck, he found them "dethh-picable."

Now, nearly two months after starting an Internet petition drive against the TV series' fall debut, Thomas has gotten the company's attention.

Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott Rowe said his company wants the thousands of fans upset by the made-over characters unveiled in February to know "that's NOT all, folks." (Warner Bros. is a division of Time Warner, as is CNN.)

Those "early drawings" have been revised into characters that are softer and less menacing, he said.

"We heard the outcry from fans, including Thomas," Rowe said.

That's enough to draw an emphatic "YESSS!" from the lanky fifth-grader who started the stir with fewer than 20 signatures on a piece of paper at his private school.

Thomas couldn't figure out what was up with the plans to turn the old Looney Tunes gang into their Japanese anime-styled descendants. The prototypes depicted sword-eared superheroes, such as "Buzz Bunny," battling evil in the year 2772.

"Those weren't the Looney Tunes I know," said the boy, whose favorite classic character is the Tasmanian Devil "besides Bugs, of course."

Thomas' parents, Rachel and John Adams, suggested he might have more success by taking his drive to the Web. A family friend who runs an Internet design business was willing to help.

Between piano lessons and shooting hoops, the boy pedaled his bike to the friend's house over several evenings to work on the site's content. On February 28, www.saveourlooneytunes.com (http://www.saveourlooneytunes.com) came on line.

The petition asked Warner Bros. to create entirely new characters for the series instead of "ruining" the old ones.

Within days, the response had overwhelmed the family's home computer. By late March, more than 25,000 people from around the world had signed the petition. After a CNN story on Thomas aired in mid-April, the site had tallied 80,000 signatures and 95,000 hits, the family said.

"Keep up the fight," fellow fans urged in their e-mails, calling the boy an inspiration.

The passion of fans for the old characters is understandable, said Bob Bergen, the voice actor behind Porky's stutter and Tweety's "putty tat" the past 15 years.

"They've been around since the 1930s," he said. "They've been around as long as classic motion pictures."

Bergen, who decided at age 5 he wanted to be Porky Pig and "just pursued it," is not involved in the new series' development, but he cautions fans against rushing to judgment before it airs.

"The kids who are going to be seeing this are not as versed in classic Looney Tunes as these fans are," he said. "Let the target audience be the judge."

The "Loonatics" -- scheduled to air Saturday mornings come fall on Kids' WB! -- is aimed at 6-to-11-year-olds. Test groups loved it, Rowe said.

It's not intended to replaced the original characters, which appear in new episodes on Cartoon Network and classic shows on the network's station Boomerang.

"We just wanted to create something that would be accessible and fun to a new generation of kids," he said.

He said the redrawn characters will be unveiled at a later date but that "Loonatics" will remain an action-adventure show.

Thomas, who has dreams of becoming a cartoonist or comedian, hopes Warner Bros. also will continue to create new episodes for the old Looney Tunes gang.

Thrilled to have made a difference in a way his mother calls "a David and Goliath story," the young activist is considering a new protest.

"I was thinking about doing one against homework," he said.

[Capt]

i can't read that because of the formatting

did he stop them?

[Trizzak]

sort of

[bdf]

i can't read that because of the formatting

No kidding, me either. :loon: