Warner Announces Looney Toons Volume 6(Last Volume)

[Mr. Toad]

Was listening to Shokus last week and he told us a little bit.

1) Release date will be a couple weeks later than normal in early November.
2) The best news - this year there will be 76 shorts instead of 60. Warner has a little more capacity to remaster and they are running short on extras. With that additional pace should only take 15 volumes rather than 17. Wow I will only be 50.

So Kewl

[Little Red Henski]

I hope this year we finally get some of the early Bosko & Buddy shorts

[PixarFan2006]

I hope some of the cartoons that I like (such as Design for Leaving and Rabbit Rampage) make it to this collection.

[Escapay]

2) The best news - this year there will be 76 shorts instead of 60. Warner has a little more capacity to remaster and they are running short on extras. With that additional pace should only take 15 volumes rather than 17. Wow I will only be 50.

A bit upset to hear they're running short on extras, but if it means upping the amount of shorts, I'm not complaining!

Of course, I'm still hoping a doofus Wal-Mart employee will accidentally misprice the sets again, much like they did back in April 2006. That way I won't have to pay as much for the sets, lol.

Albert

[JiminyCrick91]

Well I'm happy about the amount of shorts BUT I've still got to get Vols. 4 & 5 so it will be some time.

[Mr. Toad]

Shorts Jerry confirmed(taken from the GAC Forum discussion thread as I was not taking notes)

Norman Normal
Crowing Pains
Much Ado About Nutting
Raw Raw Rooster
It's Hummer Time
The Oily American
Horton Hatches the Egg,
Russian Rhapsody,
and one Road Runner cartoon

[Big Disney Fan]

2) The best news - this year there will be 76 shorts instead of 60. Warner has a little more capacity to remaster and they are running short on extras.

I hope they at least include more footage from the old Bugs Bunny Show, including bridging sequences from one episode and audios of recording sessions with Mel Blanc from another.

I also hope that they maintain the tradition of dedicating the first disc to Bugs Bunny, as usual. They need to include on that disc "Beanstalk Bunny" and "Hare Trigger" (which introduced Yosemite Sam).

[2099net]

Two words, and two words only:

Cool Cat

Come on, we've got to have some Cool Cat.

"I'll get you Cool Cat." But not on DVD it seems.

[Mr. Toad]

Yeah Netty, I dont think they have touched anything from the second and third studios yet. Cool Cat was kind of hit and miss but there are some really good ones.

For those of you who dont know Warner Brothers cartoons were created by three studios. The huge bulk were created by the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Brothers studios from the late 30s until the mid 60s. In the mid and late 60s Warner Brothers contracted out the cartoons to other studios although many of the creators continued on.

[2099net]

Just to go totally off-topic-ish, I was surprised the Bonnie and Clyde UCE recently released didn't have a Bunny and Claude cartoon on it. Obviously, Warners are not restoring any of the 60's stuff.

It is a shame, because Cool Cat is very good - I even like the design styling on these cartoons.

[MK Sharp]

For those of you who dont know Warner Brothers cartoons were created by three studios. The huge bulk were created by the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Brothers studios from the late 30s until the mid 60s. In the mid and late 60s Warner Brothers contracted out the cartoons to other studios although many of the creators continued on.

Four, surely? Poor old Harman/Ising Studios, forgotten again (or is that still?). Schlesinger only started his own cartoon factory in 1933 when H/I walked and went (eventually) to MGM.

It's a shame there's hardly any market for veteran 30s cartoons, otherwise Warners could take advantage of the fact that they own both the WB and MGM libraries and release a nice big box set containing all of the Harman/Ising studio's output.

[Mr. Toad]

Oh yeah, forgot about that. It was kind of outside the topic at hand and less face it as often as Harmon and Ising were surrounded by great animators, they were hardly that good themselves.

[Chernabog_Rocks]

I wonder if Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs will be released?

I've only picked up Volume 2 for the Golden Collections so far, everywhere I go they're priced at 40-50$ which is a tad much for me at the moment.

[Little Red Henski]

less face it as often as Harmon and Ising were surrounded by great animators, they were hardly that good themselves.

I find Harmon and Ising's animation to be the closet to Disney. That is the reason why MGM dropped Iwerks and hired them.

[MK Sharp]

Oh yeah, forgot about that. It was kind of outside the topic at hand and less face it as often as Harmon and Ising were surrounded by great animators, they were hardly that good themselves.

I don't know about that. Sure Rudolf Ising wasn't much involved in animation, but it has been suggested by animation scholars that Hugh Harman was in the late 20s a better animator even than Ub Iwerks - high praise indeed!

I'm quite fond of those very early H/I Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, primitive as they are, and it's a shame that there hasn't been much interest in releasing them as part of the LTGC. But I think you're right that they're focussing on the classic Schlesingers / Warners studio era, and ignoring the very early and very late WB cartoons. Mind you, I'm in no great hurry to see a great swathe of those lousy Speedy vs Daffy cartoons again.

[Mr. Toad]

I wonder if Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs will be released?

I've only picked up Volume 2 for the Golden Collections so far, everywhere I go they're priced at 40-50$ which is a tad much for me at the moment.

Well there was a clip of it in Volume 5. Really it is the only one of the censored 11 that is a good cartoon at least of the 8 I have seen. I think they are going to wait a little further into the series before releasing them. Probably a sound strategy, no use killing off the whole series over a backlash. I am not sure it would happen as Coal Black really isnt offensive like some of the censored 11.

[Big Disney Fan]

Shorts Jerry confirmed(taken from the GAC Forum discussion thread as I was not taking notes)

Norman Normal
Crowing Pains
Much Ado About Nutting
Raw Raw Rooster
It's Hummer Time
The Oily American
Horton Hatches the Egg,
Russian Rhapsody,
and one Road Runner cartoon

So it's safe to say that two of the cartoons will be ones with Foghorn Leghorn, who is seen in "Crowing Pains" and "Raw Raw Rooster".

[Mr. Toad]

Warner Brothers announced today that Volume 6 would be the last volume which really sucks given they had originally said they would go to Volume 8.

I guess the market is drying up. We will have a little over a third on DVD.

[Pasta67]

It's the last volume for the Golden Collection, but not the last release. Look here. Apparently, Warner still has plans for releasing shorts, but the Golden Collections are through. Strange, but at least we're still getting shorts in some manner.

I've still only got volume one, so I badly need to catch up. I've been holding off because I want to find a deal somewhere or luck out like Al did. Oh well.

[Mr. Toad]

It's the last volume for the Golden Collection, but not the last release. Look here. Apparently, Warner still has plans for releasing shorts, but the Golden Collections are through. Strange, but at least we're still getting shorts in some manner.

I've still only got volume one, so I badly need to catch up. I've been holding off because I want to find a deal somewhere or luck out like Al did. Oh well.

I smell double dipping.