In October, Warner Home Entertainment will bring Volume Two of the Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection to Blu-ray. This set offers fifty additional Looney Tunes cartoons from Warner's animation vaults.
The first disc provides an assortment of popular shorts featuring the most iconic characters in the Looney Tunes stable. These cartoons include:
Disc One -
"A Wild Hare"
"Buckaroo Bugs"
"Long-Haired Hare"
"Ali Baba Bunny"
"Show Biz Bugs"
"The Wise Quacking Duck"
"What Makes Daffy Duck?"
"Book Revue"
"Deduce, You Say"
"Porky In Wackyland"
"You Ought To Be In Pictures"
"Porky In Egypt"
"Back Alley Oproar"
"Little Red Rodent Hood"
"Canned Feud"
"Gift Wrapped"
"Birdy And The Beast"
"Home, Tweet Home"
"Going! Going! Gosh!"
"Zipping Along"
"Scent-Imental Romeo"
"The Foghorn Leghorn"
"The High And The Flighty"
"Tabasco Road"
"Mexicali Shmoes"
The second disc, on the other hand, mixes in an arrangement of familiar and more obscure one-shot cartoons alongside viewer favorites like "Wabbit Twouble" and "Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid."
Disc Two -
"Wabbit Twouble"
"Rabbit Fire"
"Rabbit Seasoning"
"Duck! Rabbit, Duck!"
"Drip-Along Daffy"
"My Little Duckaroo"
"Barbary-Coast Bunny"
"Tortoise Beats Hare"
"Tortoise Wins By A Hare"
"Rabbit Transit"
"Porky's Hare Hunt"
"Hare-Um Scare-Um"
"Prest-O Change-O"
"Elmer's Candid Camera"
"Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid"
"The Bashful Buzzard"
"The Lion's Busy"
"Strife With Father"
"An Itch In Time"
"A Horsefly Fleas"
"Hollywood Steps Out"
"Page Miss Glory"
"Rocket-Bye Baby"
"Russian Rhapsody"
"Dough Ray Me-Ow"
Each short has been digitally remastered and restored in 1080p. Further technical details are still unknown, though the three-disc package does contain a number of bonus supplements, such as:
Bonus featurettes on selected shorts
Commentaries by animation experts
Alternative audio tracks
Alternate audio tracks:
Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery And The Looney Tunes Revolution
Tex Avery, The King Of Cartoons
Friz on Film
Friz at MGM
The World Of Leon Schlesinger
Real American Zero: The Adventures Of Private Snafu
Bonus cartoons (in SD):
Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons
The Best Of The Rest Of Tex
Private Snafu
Mr. Hook
Volume Two of the Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection streets on October 16th.
YES!!!! Hopefully this means Tom and Jerry Golden Collection V2. isn't far off....? Which I think is delayed only so they can restore the recent finding of Mouse Cleaning (whose original nitrate negative was found).
I was really hoping that these would look and sound better than they did. It's great having them but it wasn't much of an upgrade from the DVDs. I'll still be pre-ordering it.
Yay - Tex Avery on BD!!!! But will we ever get the Compleat Tex Avery? Even the French DVD set was politically corrected, and they worship him as a god over there.
Still hoping against hope for a chronological by character compliation the way Disney does with its old cartoons. Again, I don't like the "suits" telling me what my favs are supposed to be
Day one purchase if the audio is lossless. I only pay bargain bin prices for blurays with DVD-quality audio. When Disney releases their old shorts, they use 320kbit/sec Dolby Digital, which is decent enough. But for any of these Looney Tunes, where the music and sound effects are so integral, I really want to hear it 24-bit/lossless.
My question is are these cartoons including volume one all Complete and UNCUT??!! Political correctness be damned i want all the "Now ive seen everything ...BLAM(Gun to the head gag)", Black sassy mammy voices on the headless maids". I want it all the way i watched them on tv when i was a kid
I'm bummed that "Hair-raising Hare" and "Water, Water Every Hare" featuring my favorite character Gossamer aren't included. The Golden collection had them both on the first volume.
hey everyone i emailed Jerry Beck, and he told me that next year, is all he can say about when Tom and Jerry vol. 2 comes out, so guess we got to wait till then
How many of these shorts are already included on the six volumes of the "Golden Collection DVD"? How many are new ones? Thanks!
The people at Warner Brothers could also put more cartoons on each discs. 25 shorts per disc makes around 175 minutes of HD video; a Blu-ray disc can contain much more than that (and even more if the audio is lossy, which I'm afraid it will be).
Day one for me. I still dislike the design of the first set, and they'll likely follow it with a similar layout. I just wish the classic Looney Tunes lettering had been used on the spine instead of the sans serif "PLATINUM". Looney Tunes should be the main ingredient for the title, not PLATINUM. Sorry; I'm a designer and this just "bugs" me (pun intended).
Brilliant! I taught this was stuck in Limbo with Part 1 left to sit alone forever, I love the first collection so can't wait to see what comes with this
Another digibook I hope. And I really dislike the rating system on comments here, the two hidden ones you'd assume were some kind of troll or vulgar comment, but they turned out to just be opinions on the quality and audio. Go figure, intolerance of opposing opinions.
