Kid Saves Looney Tunes

[G.I.R.]

Clickey Linkey

Looks like we don't have to worry about the Loonatics anymore. At least not being the travesty that they were going to become.

[Dragonsbane]

This kid deserves a medal. He's a true hero.

[Patrat]

YES! THIS KID IS AWSOME! We should give him R-....wait...
nevermind.
Anyway, i wonder if we could send him a link to the loonatics thread. Heh.

[shiney]

Brian says he's a PR stunt. He's probably right. :B

[Bob The Mercenary]

Wow, I never thought those online petitions actually worked. I say good job to that kid. But, I still want to see what they meant by "softening the characters."

[RickZarber]

Ah well. Either way the kid gets to be a hero; he gets his 15 mins of fame.

Years later when he discovers the truth he'll become bitterly disillusioned, and probably kill himself by ingesting "softened" Loonatics action figures. But that's just life.

[Raiden]

Some people take their cartoons WAY too seriously. I mean, I don't think they needed to write a petition. If he didn't want to see the characters like that, then just don't watch the show. If as many people feel the same, then not many will watch it, and the show would die on his own. But to "soften" the characters?

Seems like a lot of work for a kid to do for a show that he probably never intended to watch anyway.

I wasn't too impressed with the characters, but it didn't bother me much.

But that's just me.

[Nique]

Modern renditions of classic cartoon charecters just lack so much ... well, sorry for the bad pun, charecter.

This loonatics thing is a stupid idea, but there would be a few kids, maybe enough to keep it going, that would eat it up. Its stylized action adventure - kids today are all about pokemon, yu-gi-oh, shaman king (whatever THAT is), dragon ball Z (GT? X? Gah!) and then a slew of stuff on the american side of things... W.I.T.C.H., power rangers, Kim Possible... bleh. I can't stand it.

It's a shame to alter charecters this way. I've always preferred classic cartoons. Origonal Disney cartoons, Looney Tunes... What was always great about those, was that they weren't JUST mindless-kid-stupid-funny, it was real humor... good jokes, great dialog, good visuals. Donald Duck Cartoons still get me rolling.

Very few current cartoons have emulated that kind of entertainment vaule. In fact, I can't think of any cartoons that have within the last few years. 'Animaniacs' was one really good show... I think its still funny to this day. Before that, 'Tiny Toons' delivered some decent punchlines (not really great, but I really liked that show when I was a kid)

Disney hasn't been able to do much good outside of the movie department, and recently, not even that. Their cartoons consist of Disney channel garbage..'kim possible' and the like, and the entirly depressing 'house of mouse'. House of Mouse is a noble effort to salvage the cartoon short, but it doesn't compare in quality to old disney cartoons... Modern Looney Tunes renditions fail in a similar manner.

I think that they should try and make cartoons like they used to, with minimal shows that are more storyline based - Ducktails is the only one I can think of that was a more storyline based cartoon that I really enjoyed... 'course everyone else was watching Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... those weren't bad either.

[CHICAGO¤lollie]

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

Oh, those cheap sons of--*explodes*

I was ready to welcome the new designs, to embrace them as the new "Usual," perhaps even emulate the style and eventually combine it with that of my own. I was ready to submit my soul to that of the "Loonatics."

But then came a child.

A child full of hope, hope to keep life within the old, within the current "Usual" characters that make Warner Brothers. It was he who got in touch with the family friend in the Internet design business, who traveled over to this friend's dwelling over several evenings to work on the content, to work on the petition.

It is he who gets my dooming.

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."

"Dethh-picable," BLASPHEMER! T`is the hopeful child and his petition that is worthy of such a dismantled example of the "English" language. His attempts to thwart such a fine example of the animated realm have succeeded to an extent. The extent of which Warner Brothers is revising the drawings into, as per the article, "characters that are softer and less menacing."

What is it with children? Is there something about the sharp look that doesn't appeal? Do the children of today prefer the look of traditional ink and cel, made to have about as much violence as a light switch, where energy comes and goes with the flick of a single finger?

No, that can't be it. Refer:

Thomas couldn't figure out what was up with the plans to turn the old Looney Tunes gang into their Japanese anime-styled descendants.

Odd. Japanese anime has a lot of violence backing it's history. Even the overlived likes of Pokémon have pretty explosions alongside physical and supernatural forms of attacks, not to mention the copious amounts of Brock's bad pick-up lines and Misty's ear-pulling to learn from. What is it that's ever so hard to figure out?

Unless this child was never introduced to the likes of Invader ZIM, its creator (Jhonen Vasquez) well known for Squee!, Filler Bunny, and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. That may explain the child's dislikage of the dark atmosphere around the sharply tuned Loonatics.

A shame, really. Cartoons seem to have an effect on children. The lighter ones provide innocence, while the darker ones provide insight. Now that child will grow up to disregard life and treat it as another daily function, rather than appreciate what he has.

That sick, twisted little devil heathen.

[Kupo-chan]

As always, I think there is no better way to descibe my feelings then in something Chiago said. I really think I would have enjoyed seeing how this ew design would have worked out.

But on te other hand, these are targeted at kids, and kids don't really [b]want[b] insight, they want cheep jokes. Hell, That's what most people OUR age want.