I know it’s fashionable to hate every new entry into the Looney Tunes franchise because it’s not immediately as perfect and timeless as “Duck Amuck” or “What’s Opera, Doc” (forgetting that Looney Tunes is subject to Sturgeon’s Law same as anything else), but despite this I think The Looney Tunes Show is pretty damn great. It doesn’t try to plagiarize famous moments from the past; instead it just takes a set of characters, puts them in a neighborhood, and lets them interact. No one’s exactly the way they were sixty years ago, despite being recognizably themselves, and that’s for the best. Stuff’s gots to evolve, man, and not just exist in this living death of ad nauseum rehashery.
Plus, dude, I now live in a world where I legitimately enjoy Lola Bunny. Possibly more than Daffy. If you’d told me this was possible two years ago, I would have punched you in the face.
What I’m trying to say is that Space Jam is bad and it should feel bad.
Anyway, I’m a big enough fan of the show that I was super excited to learn there’s some figurines! The designs are based on the character models seen in the promotional material and resemble sort of how the characters look in the first season. By season 2, everyone sorta got Chuck Joneserized, which is kind of annoying. Do they always have to look the way they did in 1950? It was nice seeing them evolve visually a little. I think I may have touched upon this subject before.
Toys”R”Us has an exclusive five-pack of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer, and Lola. There’s also two-packs, some of which have different characters, but the ones I found during my visit only had repeat guys from this set. (There’s Daffy/Marvin, Sylvester/Tweety, and potentially Coyote/Roadrunner sets out there.) The figures are bigger than I’d guessed from the photographs, being about 2-3 inches high at my estimation. Each figure’s head turns, though Daffy’s is a little restricted due to his sculpt.
I am not exactly why Elmer is in this set. Well, okay, the answer is that he’s a popular and recognizable character. However, he’s shown up for one Merry Melodies segment about having sex with a sandwich plus a cameo so far out of dozens of episodes, so he seems kinda back-burner. And I don’t think he’s ever been seen in his classic hunters outfit.
What I want is a Tina, dammit. Speedy wouldn’t be bad either, but there’s no way they’d make him to scale.
Anyway, I found these guys in TRU’s plush animal aisle. Yeah. Glad I searched the store pretty thoroughly.
However, he’s shown up for one Merry Melodies segment about having sex with a sandwich
Both with and without context this is fucking hilarious.
I was gonna say, to be fair, that segment was pure fucking gold.
Isn’t Chuck Amuck a documentary about Chuck Jones? As interesting as it is, I’m sure many would rate “Duck Amuck” above that.
I love the new Looney Tunes show too. Daffy’s my favorite still, though.
Yeah, I got this set too! I was excited to see Jessica Borutski’s designs ( http://www.foolishkingdom.com/ ) made into figures like these. I’ve been a fan of her work since I saw ‘I Like Pandas.’
Space Jam was awesome and you should feel bad.
Doing what with a sandwich?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxu75V4HHAk
Okay, wait a tick – who’s the target audience for this show again? I’ve heard of getting stuff past the radar, but this is ridiculous, in at least six senses of the word.
It wouldn’t be Loony Toons unless they got stuff past the radar!
For years animation buffs have made jokes about Elmer Fudd’s sexuality.
The truth is more horrifying than their wildest imaginings.
Schway! Looks like I gotta find that Daffy/Marvin set. I’m with Noel Schornhorst in the “Daffy Rocks” camp. Still need to find somebody to do a sketch of him dressed as Deadpool facing off against Taskmaster…
Hope this line continues to run for a bit & that we’ll get alternate costumed characters like Wizard Daffy, High School Jock Porky and Business Suit Bugs. A Tina figure would be cool. Foghorn Leghorn as well. Pete the Puma/Taz, Gossamer/Witch Lezah and a three pack of Mac and Tosh with Yosimite Sam would be sweet!
And, seriously, I thought I was going a bit loopy while watching “Rebel Without a Glove” the other night because Porky’s legs didn’t seem “right” for some reason. I miss the “backwards knees” look, ya know what I mean? Why, exactly, was there a change in character design?
- a_o_t_8.
Is this the show that Daffy Duck’s “The Wizard” short came from? Because that thing was just unmitigated epic.
That makes three canon Lolas:
- hawt Space Jam Lola with the bod that made many furries out of confused young men,
- the Lola with the Honey Bunny body in all the Space Jam licensing, the unrelated video game, the comic book, and as a child on Baby Looney Tunes, and
- this wonderfully ditzy Lola.
Considering that each of the original shorts could be considered its own continuity, this new show is a great reboot. The haters are just mad that Taz is a feral devil, not Tazmania’s hilarious verbally-challenged brother figure.
You know, I don’t really care for the new Lola. Too ditzy. Bugs already spends enough time dealing with idiots. If I were doing Looney Tunes though, I would have played her more as an intelligent foil for Bugs. His match, but not romantically (they’d both be too proud and competitive to get together). What can I say, I love it when there’s someone around who can get the better of Bugs Bunny. Like Cecil Turtle or the Gremlin.
Lola DOES get the better of Bugs, and without being a female clone of him.
My only problem with the Looney Tunes show is Bugs. While I get the show needed a straight man making Bugs that character really tones him down too much. It makes Bugs a dull character. Though it let bad things happen to this Bugs so I guess they needed to do this.
Oh and I love TLTS Lola.
Yes the greatness that is Daffy Duck the Wizard was born from this show.
Uh, space jam was one of our generations greatest sports movies, if not greatest movies period. YOU TAKE THAT BACK WILLIS.
<3 you buddy
Uh, space jam was one of our generations greatest sports movies, if not greatest movies period. YOU TAKE THAT BACK WILLIS.
<3 you willis
I like Looney Tunes Show but it just feels more like Regular Show with the Looney Tunes to me.
I LOVE the new Looney Tunes show. I’d elaborate, but you pretty much summed up my feelings already. I wish that season 2 hadn’t backtracked visually like it has. The background colors got garish and lost the weird, abstract brush splatter textures. Bugs and Daffy’s colors got homogenized and all the cool purple was sucked out. Still funny, though.
And I particularly love that we actually get to see some degree of character development for the first time in decades because the format doesn’t allow Bugs to always win with explosions and heavy things. He has to deal with situations and occasionally get stressed out. I dig this new show greatly.
Bigger than you’d guessed? So I take it they’re not JUST a little loony?
My god, there is other people ot there that enjoy this show too!
I’ve been loving the show a lot , but most of the online attention seemed to be people bitching because it was different. Sucks to be a person who can cope with change sometimes.
Remember Buzz Bunny? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9nOD1h0m8Q
I haven’t seen the new Looney Tunes show. Am I missing anything? 8)
What I’ve seen of Lola is freaking hilarious, but it also kind of bothers me that her schtick seems to be crazy girlfriend. So she’s funny, but her existence still revolves around a guy.
I miss Babs. She was hilarious and kind of inspiring.
I will say that Daffy Duck’s “This Wizard” is still one of the funnier shorts I’ve seen in awhile.
I find the new show kinda hit or miss, and takes one too many cues from outdated stock sitcom plots, but hating the show because it’s not the classics is just damn stupid.
It’s not bad but it’s no Duck Dodgers.
“Space Jam is bad”
Stopped reading there. David Willis you have jumped your last shark, and I officially ragequit you. I ragequit you so hard that I am also ragequitting Transformers, Batman, and the very CONCEPT of awkwardly humorous interpersonal relationships.
WOOT when I saw this on your blog yesterday I just had to have them not for being from TLTS but from Looney Tunes PERIOD so I raced to T RU today abd got mine YAY!!! thanks for sharing this with us SP-ers