Warner Home Entertainment has quietly announced the Blu-ray release of Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume One on their publicity website.
In the same manner that Warner followed their extensive Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs with the shorter (and less expensive) Looney Tunes Spotlight Collections, so does this Looney Tunes Showcase serve the same function on Blu-ray. This value-priced, single-disc set is a twenty-five cartoon abridgment of November's upcoming Looney Tunes Platinum Collection volume, including all of the shorts from Disc 1 of the first Platinum Collection:
"Hare Tonic"
"Baseball Bugs"
"Buccaneer Bunny"
"The Old Grey Hare"
"Rabbit Hood"
"8 Ball Bunny"
"Rabbit of Seville"
"What's Opera Doc?"
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
"A Pest in the House"
"The Scarlet Pumpernickle"
"Duck Amuck"
"Robin Hood Daffy"
"Baby Bottleneck"
"Kitty Kornered"
"Scaredy Cat"
"Porky Chops"
"Old Glory"
"A Tale of Two Kitties"
"Tweetie Pie"
"Fast and Furry-ous"
"Beep, Beep"
"Lovelorn Leghorn"
"For Scent-imental Reasons"
"Speedy Gonzales"
The Blu-ray also contains a number of bonus supplements, such as:
Alternate audio tracks:
- "Baseball Bugs" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "Buccaneer Bunny" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "The Old Grey Hare" commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
- "Rabbit Hood" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "8 Ball Bunny" commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
- "Rabbit of Seville" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "What's Opera, Doc?" commentary by Director Chuck Jones, Writer Michael Maltese, and Layout Artist Maurice Noble
- "What's Opera, Doc?" commentary by Historian Daniel Goldmark
- "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" commentary by Director John Kricfalusi with Director Bob Clampett
- "A Pest in the House" commentary by Writer Paul Dini
- "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier with Voice Actor Mel Blanc
- "Duck Amuck" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier with Director Chuck Jones
- "Robin Hood Daffy" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "Baby Bottleneck" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier with Director Bob Clampett
- "Kitty Kornered" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier
- "Scaredy Cat" commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
- "Old Glory" commentary by Historian Jerry Beck and Ink-and-Paint Girl Martha Sigall
- "A Tale of Two Kitties" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier with Director Bob Clampett
- "Tweetie Pie" commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford with Director Friz Freleng
- "Fast and Furry-ous" commentary with Historian Michael Barrier, Writer Michael Maltese, & Sound Editor Treg Brown
- "Beep, Beep" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier
- "For Scent-imental Reasons" commentary by Historian Michael Barrier with Writer Michael Maltese
- "Speedy Gonzales" commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
- "What's Opera, Doc?" Music-Only Track
- "What's Opera, Doc?" Voice Actor Mel Blanc and Voice Actor Arthur Q. Bryan Vocal Track
- "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" Music-Only Track
- "Duck Amuck" Music-Only Track
- "Robin Hood Daffy" Music-Only Track
- "Speedy Gonzales" Music-Only Track
Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
- Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of What's Opera, Doc?
- Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott
- Powerhouse in Pictures
- Putty Problems and Canary Rows
- A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
- The Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé le Pew
Warner has currently set the Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume One's MSRP at $24.98 and listed a street date of January 10th, 2012.
Sweet! I was very close to buying some of the Looney Tunes DVD collections at Walmart last week, but I talked myself out of it. I'm glad I did now, since this Blu-ray set is being released
This is almost funny. The Platinum edition has been criticized or being a hodpe-podge, best-of random compilation, and now they'll release and even more best-of best-of edition.
It's likely the BD equivalent of the condensed 1-2 disk sets Warner put out alongside the Golden collections, because Warner still neurotically believes more mainstream public want Best-of's than collectors want complete sets. They've had that bug in their head for FIFTEEN YEARS, and it's still gnawing away.
Bill Hunt at the Digitalbits says its "essentailly" disc 1 of the platinum collection at a budget price. If so, gotta wonder what analysis was done that told Warner that this wouldn't cannabalize sales from the Platinum set - which they've gone on unofficial record saying that sales of Volume 1 would detyermine whether future volumes would be issued...
With the current Amazon price of $39 for the 3-disc Platinum Collection, this would have to sell for $13 to give you the same bang for the buck. Those who buy this 1-disc release will most likely end up paying a higher per-disc price than they would if they got the Platinum Collection release.
I don't understand the point of this release despite money?
I thought this was, like a volume 2 or the limited, numbered edition was postponed or something...I need to have sleep before I read news.
Warners is God at multi-dipping. There's like five Deathly Hallows Part 2 coming out, multiple versions of each film, these. I'm holding out for a collector's edition of Tom and jerry though ala Looney Tunes with random collectibles like the shot glass, tin sign etc
