Behold, the new Bugs Bunny

[Needle]

link (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110852081412556108-IdjeoNhlaZ4n5yranuHaauEm4,00.html)

Now I'm feeling sick. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

[mr black]

that's Buzz Bunny. Like superman to clark kent. still scary though...

[Tetsuro]

I dunno, at least they're giving the characters *slightly* new names, which means they are not the *same* characters.

But yeah, this doesn't look very good. They should have created a whole new bunch of characters instead of modifying the old ones.

[Mark Lewis]

Will Elmer Fudd look like Vin Diesel?

[Mountain Man]

So this is what it's like to grow older. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[jimbob]

everything suffers from the "japanime" virus http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

[Kronx]

I love the classic Looney Tunes. I snap up the Golden Collections as soon as they hit DVD. For me, that is enough.

Sure, I'd love to see them produce 10-20 new shorts and play them in front of movies, but I doubt that would generate much cash. Nope, apparently now it's all about the 30-minute cartoon show which advertisers can use to pimp products to fresh minds who have no natural defenses to bulls**t.

You're never going to have a new Looney Tunes ANYTHING that will live up to the masterpieces of yesteryear. The anvil-dropping, fry-pan-smacking, dynamite-piano days are long in the past, and the new generation is incapable of recapturing that magic.

Perhaps they'll find new magic to capture. It CAN happen. There have been funny, quality cartoons from other formats. (I suspect Pixar's features will be the subject of many fond memories for today's children).

[Paroxysm]

Eh it's just an alternate version for a new series. It's like Tiny toons. (think that's what i was called) where they made child versions of everyone.

[Tetsuro]

Paroxysm said:
Eh it's just an alternate version for a new series. It's like Tiny toons. (think that's what i was called) where they made child versions of everyone.


Good point. But in Tiny Toons, the 'old' characters appeared often (usually as school teachers)

[Brick_Sledge]

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

[Imfamous]

"Yo Fud, whas cracka lackin'?"
"Not too much homeslice. Just loadin' up mah 9 to pop a cap in yo ass."

[Usurper]

Imfamous said:
"Yo Fud, whas cracka lackin'?"
"Not too much homeslice. Just loadin' up mah 9 to pop a cap in yo ass."



Is that what I missed during Space Jam when I had my head down to vommit?

[Nessus]

I can think of one thing they haven't tried to get kids interested in Loony Toons, showing them the damm original cartoons! All of them, unedited. If they put on the originals after school I think it would still be popular.

[Wooloomooloo]

[...]Warner Bros. is planning to launch a new cartoon series this fall based on "re-imagined" versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Lola Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.


Warner Bros. has created angular, slightly menacing-looking versions of the classic Looney Tunes characters for its new series[...]

I'd hardly call Lola Bunny a classic character.

Oh, and before I forget: http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

[Kalki]

This approach is something I'd expect from another company, that's ripping off their characters.

Jeez, build new characters for a new audience and if it doesn't work you don't have a right to be in the marketplace anymore except to sell old vintage. Then again, you're probably right in thinking that the classic characters will remain unaffected when this thing gets killed.

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Kev_Hectic]

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=1767


Warner Bros. Really needs to stop f*cking around with their classic characters like this, and use some of that tallent they have to come up with some new stuff....

I mean, Yeearggggg! \/ http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif :misteryuckface:

[thefly]

Nessus said:
I can think of one thing they haven't tried to get kids interested in Loony Toons, showing them the damm original cartoons! All of them, unedited. If they put on the originals after school I think it would still be popular.



YEAH.....like the PC crowd would let that happen.

I'm really amazed at how Disney and WB both have really taken their respective money makers in strange directions.


Now I'm feeling sick.



I was reading the WSJ in the car the other day when I first saw that article. I thought it was pretty weird to hear about this for the first time in a paper like WSJ.

[Tetsuro]

Am I the only one who thinks we should wait and see the result before making any conclusions?

[thefly]

Tetsuro said:
Am I the only one who thinks we should wait and see the result before making any conclusions?



One can make assumptions based on past experiences and judgements. I have made no conclusions (a final end to thought) like some have, but this just really strikes me as odd.

I probably won't watch it regardless if it is super great or crap. My interests really like elsewhere these days.

[LeadBullet]

<font color="yellow"> OMG FIRST GOERGE LUCAS AND NOW WB RAPING CHILDHOODS BECAUES THEY DREW THE CHARACTERS DIFFERENT </font>


Its kind of dumb though how everything is trying to look like a cross between anime and cheap flash cartoons.

[Tetsuro]

LeadBullet said:
<font color="yellow"> OMG FIRST GOERGE LUCAS AND NOW WB RAPING CHILDHOODS BECAUES THEY DREW THE CHARACTERS DIFFERENT </font>


Well at least they're not denying that the original characters still exist http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

[Karthik]

Has this got something to do with Duck Dodgers?!

[motionblur]

Paroxysm said:
Eh it's just an alternate version for a new series. It's like Tiny toons. (think that's what i was called) where they made child versions of everyone.


Yes - but the 'Tiny Toons' were produced in the same spirit as the classic Loony Toons. That new approach is just stupid. Everybody has a special 'crime fighting power'.
WHAT? Crime fighting power? Not only did they turn the style around 180° - they also turned the story around. Other than Tiny Toons this is not a geting style up-to-date. This is creating a new generic anime style cartoon with the brand names of the classic cartoons. It's just stupid.

[IHerman]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......

[Eddy Willson]

Bah, Humbug! Back in my day we had REAL cartoon characters, not half Anime, half superhero rip offs.

http://raymondscott.com/folks.jpg

Ooh, when I were a lad...

[hellchicken]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYY??

The end is nigh.

[Grande 3:16]

Paroxysm said:
Eh it's just an alternate version for a new series. It's like Tiny toons. (think that's what i was called) where they made child versions of everyone.

At least that spawned a fun Sega Megadrive game though. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Eddy Willson]

Grande 3:16 said:
At least that spawned a fun Sega Megadrive game though. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


And a DopeFish cameo (http://www.dopefish.com/images/tinytoons.jpg)

[Zztx]

Lola is a whore.

[gamejunkie]

Right now as we speak, Chuck Jones is rolling around in his coffin screaming "WHAT THE F***K IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?"

[Bonny5278]

gamejunkie said:
Right now as we speak, Chuck Jones is rolling around in his coffin screaming "WHAT THE F***K IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?"



If only Chuck Jones would come out of his coffin and strangle the people who are doing this to such a great cartoon character.

*sigh*

[Orochi Avlis]

jimbob said:
everything suffers from the "japanime" virus http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif


I don't find them to be "animized".
Just the typical, supped up, bad ass look, which is horrible IMO.

[Opus131]

Orochi Avlis said:
Warner Bros. isn't sending the venerable original Looney Tunes cast into retirement. But it is trying to update the characters' appeal among modern kids. The classic characters were wisecrackers who rode their irreverent humor to stardom in the 1940s



I grew up in the 90s and i loved those cartoons more then anything.

That's 50 years later, what's there to update ? Who's appeal ? Not of any kids that i know of, that's for sure.

A few months back i bought a Tommy and Jerry DVD collection and whatched it with my uncle's daughter when i went there this chrismas.

She's only 8 and she was laughting so hard she was in tears.

Now counting 70 years, those cartoons still seem to have the same effect on kids.

Mind boggles.

BTW, this was a real gem :



If "Loonatics" is a hit on Saturday morning, for example, it is likely to ripple through the company's merchandising, home-video and movie divisions. "That's the ultimate goal of all kids programming," says Mr. Janollari. "If we score, it's a gold mine."

[Grande 3:16]

Imfamous said:
"Yo Fud, whas cracka lackin'?"
"Not too much homeslice. Just loadin' up mah 9 to pop a cap in yo ass."

And they'll probably upgrade Pepe Le Pew to a fully fledged serial rapist. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Piano Man]

I have one thing to say about the new bugs bunny...

I THINK I'M GOING TO THROW UP...

That is really bad. Thats really really sad... It's the end of an era folks.

[Beelze]

This is sacrilegious! Bugs Bunny was my childhood hero, and I still love him!

Instead of this, they could just have made some Duck Dodger spin-off!

[Remy]

Paroxysm said:
Eh it's just an alternate version for a new series. It's like Tiny toons. (think that's what i was called) where they made child versions of everyone.


Tiny Toons still had at a good deal of the spirit of the original Looney Toons in it - it was in the characters, the stories, the drawings and the animation. When I take a look at the "reimagined" version of Bugs Bunny showcased on the linked page I get the feeling that nothing of that can expected to be found in the new series. Seems more to me as if they're bent on $#&!ing Tex Avery's corpse...

[LeadBullet]

gamejunkie said:
Right now as we speak, Chuck Jones is rolling around in his coffin screaming "WHAT THE F***K IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?"



Yeah probably. But the joke will be on you guys when hes actually talking about all the sad idiots who are crying over one stupid cartoon.

Its not like they are going back and reediting all the old cartoons to make them look like they are in that new cartoon. If you don't like it you guys could always just STFU and go watch the old ones. Its just some stupid kids TV show.

[Needle]

LeadBullet said:
If you don't like it you guys could always just STFU and go watch the old ones. Its just some stupid kids TV show.


True. And if you don't care, you could just STFU and leave the thread. But you didn't. Becaus this is a discussion board and not a shut-up-and-write-nothing board.

Turning the Looney Toons into xtreme badass crime-fighting scifi super power rangers?! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif This is so utterly and completely wrong and stupid! That's just to hilarious to ignore.

What's next? Xtreme Super Smurfs In Space? Alf Of The Future - The Invasion? The Mighty Morphing Teletubbies?

[Karthik]

ROFL!

[Crispy Critters]

"OK, I think we're set for the name of our new character, all in favor of Buzz Bunny... and all in favor of Emphrum the Retarded Rabbit..."

[Dr.Dude]

A preview's up for "Loonatics" (http://www.aintitcool.com/downloads/LoonaticsPreview.mov).


---
After watching that, all I can think is...bleh. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif Geez, WB has lost its mind.

[Beelze]

As soon as I heard "what's up, doc?" I lost my mind. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

It's too stereotypically badass... the kids are gonna love it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[HobbesUK]

Opus131 said:
I grew up in the 90s and i loved those cartoons more then anything. That's 50 years later, what's there to update ? Who's appeal ? Not of any kids that i know of, that's for sure. A few months back i bought a Tommy and Jerry DVD collection and whatched it with my uncle's daughter when i went there this chrismas. She's only 8 and she was laughing so hard she was in tears. Now counting 70 years, those cartoons still seem to have the same effect on kids.



That's the best point made in this thread, I feel. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Having said that, I'm not against this new programme - a company can't sit on it's arse churning out repeats of 50 year old cartoons forever; they need to make something new and marketable.

So... a) I have no interest in the new 'Loonatics' programme b) I wish they showed the Looney Tunes classics more often and c) At least applaud the release of the classics on DVD. Then you can sit and watch them forever to your hearts content.

I don't think getting WB/Hanna Barbera <sp?> to make new cartoons in the same style as the 'classics' would work at all. They have become iconic in a way which would cause any new cartoons to look cliched and unimaginative. We'd never be satisfied.

P.S. I loved Tiny Toon Adventures.

<spam>
They're furry, they're funny,
They're Babs and Buster Bunny,
Montana Max has money,
Elmyra is a pain!
Here's Hamton and Plucky,
Dizzy Devil's yucky,
Furrball's unlucky,
And Gogo is insane!
</spam>

P.P.S I also loved Tazmania.

[NutWrench]

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Pansa]

strangly after seeing the preview..

i cant help but smirk..

i dont know whether its because i think that this looks like its poking fun at itself
or
because i think this looks SO bad , its almost as ridiculous as some of the so obvious jokes you would STILL laugh about in the old series..



im not mad about the setting ... if this actually would turn out with that wacky humor its known for , this could actually turnout as a spoof of all the other "cool badass crimeasskicker" series lately

i mean how dumb is the "codename" fpr duffy? *DUCK* common , seriously...

but , as long as will E. gets hit on the head ... oh sorry ... as long as SLICK gets hit on the head.....

[Karthik]

I'm gonna keep an open mind after watching the preview, I noticed how most WB cartoons seem to have weak season 1 and will only pick up during season 2!

[toadsponge]

I always thought Bugs Bunny was a prick.

[Synti]

Never really been a fan of Looney Toones. I just have never found that piano/anvil/dynamite thing being that funny. Although, they really haven't showed the originals here in Finland, but the little I have seen...I don't really give a crap if they bastardize it http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Though, I have to say that I HATE AND DESPISE that cheap and crappy flash-style. Yeah it worked for Power Puff Girls and Samurai Jack, but just lay it off, ok? Where is the real smooth and skilfull animation? It's great when they animate their cartoons like shit and when you try to blame 'em for it they just say "it's our style, man. You just ain't hip enough to understand it" Screw you and your pathetic style.

(The newsanchor looked like something straight out of Pokemon.)

[Needle]

http://www.people.freenet.de/bigd/tele.jpg
http://www.people.freenet.de/bigd/alf.jpg
http://www.people.freenet.de/bigd/smur.jpg

[Grande 3:16]

NutWrench said:
http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/attachments/787800-poochy.gif

Funny, that episode was on TV this evening. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Orochi Avlis]

Opus131 said:

Orochi Avlis said:
Warner Bros. isn't sending the venerable original Looney Tunes cast into retirement. But it is trying to update the characters' appeal among modern kids. The classic characters were wisecrackers who rode their irreverent humor to stardom in the 1940s





I never said that......

BTW Needle, great stuff.

[Ajaxx]

As far as remakes and reinterpretations go....gut instinct tells you (and rightly so) that most of them are misguided, half-hearted attempts to repackage an old idea for new-age consumption. It's usually better to just come up with something new altogether....not even original because, let's face it, it's all been done, but if you're creative enough, you can pull it off.......but then, who's to say you can't take this approach with remakes too?
....and if you take this approach while doing so, you can please the fans of the original and net in a whole new group of fans as well....

I remember my gut feelings when I first saw these previews.....

Young Avengers

http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC04/Marvel/YoungAvengers.jpg

New Avengers

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0408/16/newavengers1.jpg

The Ultimates

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Ultimates-01.jpg



All of these are reinterpretations of the classic Marvel Avengers led by Captain America.....and while I wasn't a really big fan of the original Avengers, I really didn't see why they had to go and muck up a good thing that so many people were already enjoying as-is.

But having read all three of these new interpretations, I can say personally that they inject fresh new ideas to an existing mythos.....enough so that even I myself have been fully drawn into it whereas before I was merely a perenial fan.

What makes these work, however is that, at the core, respect is paid to the what the original work stood for....character-wise and group-wise.
Now, while the little evidence presented so far suggests (and it is little) a very radical and wrong-hearted departure from what the original Loony Toons stood for, I would reserve judgement for the actual show. That's just my opinion.

[Remy]

Ajaxx said:
while I wasn't a really big fan of the original Avengers, I really didn't see why they had to go and muck up a good thing that so many people were already enjoying as-is.


IIRC the idea behind Marvel's Ultimates line was to provide new readers with a universe that hasn't got the 40+ years of sometimes very confusing continuity of the "classic" Marvel universe. It's comparable to what DC did in the 80s with the Crisis storyline, only that in the case of Marvel the new universe didn't replace the old one but runs seperately.

[Ajaxx]

Yeah, I understand that NOW....but the point I'm making is that, at the time when the ultimate line was being introduced, there wasn't a lot of info about it and most were lead to believe it was meant to be some kind of substitute replacement or revamp of the exisiting series (you'll remember there was a lot of speculation about eventually phasing out the regular continuity in favor of the ultimate one). But as it turns out, that's not what it was....it was just a well written re-interpretation that stands on it's own separate and apart from what already existed while maintaining some of the elements that made the original great....that's what I'm hoping Loonatics turns out to be (though it may not seem so) and that's what a lot of people seem to be fearing that it is not.

And for those who think it's a lot of to do about nothing, Bugs Bunny is not merely a kid's cartoon....over the years, Bugs bunny has become somewhat of a cultural icon.....an integral part of the upbringing of the typical american adolescent during that period (from which most of us probably learned about snappy comebacks and one-liners that are apart of our cultural lexicon) and a figure recognized in various parts of the world.

Therefore, if a new concept or interpretation is married to that icon, there is some responsibility that goes with it to preserve at least the essentials of what it stood for......even if it is dropping anvils on people and feeding them dynamite.....that was Bugs!
What they have now seems more like Jazz Jackrabbit or Bucky O' Hare than Bugs...

Ajaxx
Also...why is there no re-imagined version of Porky Pig? Was he not "extreme" enough? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Needle]

Ajaxx said:
Also...why is there no re-imagined version of Porky Pig? Was he not "extreme" enough? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif


No, he wasn't available. He's busy playing the pig cop in DNF.

[Beelze]

Actually, I could see Porky Pig having a role similar to Lex Luthor.

[Rider]

I want to k-k-k-k-k-k-kill super-m-m-m-m-man!

[Roger]

gamejunkie said:
Right now as we speak, Chuck Jones is rolling around in his coffin screaming "WHAT THE F***K IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?"

[Dash 9]

Tex Avery, Chuck jones, Mel Blanc, Robert McKimson and Friz Freleng and the whole gang of local 839 must be spinning like crazy into their graves as it is.

As a cartoon designer myself I feel it's a gangrape of all the beloved characters I have grown to love during the past forty years. Falling anvils, shotguns into the beak, falling off cliffs and dynamite will never be out of date despite what these idiots at WB animation are saying.

[LeadBullet]

If you want to make a cartoon for kids, you make one off what kids appear to be watching. Right now they seem to prefer animeish bullshit thats drawn all shitty.

This new stuff is aimed at a kids audience. Not 30-40 year old guys that sit around naked watching looneytoon reruns on cartoon network at 3am.

[DK2000]

Yes but you can't tell me that WB made the old toones just for kids. There were just too many jokes that a kid wouldn't understand. Even "pinky & the brain"(the last stuff I know) had pretty much of that jokes for example the reference to pulp fiction in "TV or not TV"

pinky:"what do they call a Quarter Pounder
in France"...

Just look at that list (http://snowball.frogspace.net/labnotes/brain.html) to see what i mean...

Well it seems like every generation will get what it deserves, while 1950 they had "rabbit of seville", 55 years later they get this stuff.... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

CU DK2000

[JR Ewing]

What happened to cartoons that are actually worth watching. You can turn on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon and the cartoons they have on there are some of the stupidest stuff I've ever laid my eyes on and my neices and nephew get a kick outta them. Call me old fashioned but some of this stuff kids shouldn't even be watching. It kinda scares me to think about what these kids are gonna grow up to be like http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Beelze]

"A New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

The link above leads to a Loonatics parody, featuring excessive audible explicit language, mild textual explicit Language, mild adult themes.

"I'M EXTREEEME!!"
"I'M ANIME ALL OVER!!"

[thefly]

^Wow, that is one of the best parodies I've ever seen. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Piano Man]

WOW... I can't believe some moron actually spent time creating that... That was complete tipe. It wasn't funny, or clever... Having said that... Since I hate the new Bugs Bunny...

I suppose I can't complain. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

[Kev_Hectic]

^ I liked it. It's funny and true. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Nacho]

I rather watch porn than the new Bugs Bunny.

Ok...bad comparison.

[Opus131]

Beelze said:
"A New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif




http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif

[gamejunkie]

Great cartoon, that made me roffle.

[DudeMiester]

I looked at that preview. Excuse me while I vomit. I hope WB is crushed and burns in hell, ***** morons.

Mind you, I never watched Bugs Bunny a lot, but this is probably the most disgusting disgraceful blastphamy of anything I have ever seen. Words do not describe the hatred I feel. I mean cartoons have just been going downhill lately, but now they have truely hit rock bottom. I can only hope that quality/real anime (not the amercian basterdisations, and Pokemen style, like Vampire Hunter D style) take advantage of this and gives American animation in it's current form a quick but painful death. Then perhaps independant artists, who animate because of their passion for the art, and not to feed the masses, will return and redeem the reputation American animation.

A short prayer:

God, please kill the media conglomerates ASAP!

[Piano Man]

DudeMeister... I truly second that notion...

I am so god-damn sick of all this latest cartoon Crap... For years the Japanese (I have nothing against them, just the kids cartoons they keep spewing out) have been bringing us plus the fact that they're all the same, they have monsters and it's just people battling their monsters with others monsters... Pokemon, Digimon, BEYBLADEZ, YU-GI-OH.....

WHERE WILL IT STOP??????? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN IS GOING TO EXPLODE THINKING ABOUT IT..... [Ok count to 10, don't pop any veins.... and calm down.]

I feel like I'm going mad. Plus the fact that they've re-invented the Mutant Ninja Turtles must tell you that the oldies must still be goodies.

Where did Dangermouse go... Sumarai Pizza Cats (I never watched it, but I've heard it was good for it's time.) What about all these shows that now have no place to go but the dirty, dusty closets of our TV Stations.



Such a pity.... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Steve]

Yeah, I seen the new bugs not too long ago and I have to say it looks like shit.

[Steve]

Beelze said:
"A New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

The link above leads to a Loonatics parody, featuring excessive audible explicit language, mild textual explicit Language, mild adult themes.

"I'M EXTREEEME!!"
"I'M ANIME ALL OVER!!"


Hole--leee---shit. One of the funniest flash movies I've ever seen! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Tetsuro]

Piano Man said:
I am so god-damn sick of all this latest cartoon Crap... For years the Japanese (I have nothing against them, just the kids cartoons they keep spewing out) have been bringing us plus the fact that they're all the same, they have monsters and it's just people battling their monsters with others monsters... Pokemon, Digimon, BEYBLADEZ, YU-GI-OH.....



That sounds more like the case of "What the US licensors want to import". And Yu-Gi-Oh is the lamest because it doesn't even have the monsters but CCG! I mean, imagine it: "Uuuhhh...so exhausted...can't...draw...card!"

Well okay, that sound s abit too comedic, but it's like a reality TV show about a guy who plays MTG against randomly encountered other MTG players http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

[Night Hacker]

WTF? There's nothing remotely funny about that video. I ended it before it completed.

[Opus131]

Night Hacker said:
WTF? There's nothing remotely funny about that video. I ended it before it completed.



Missing the point much ?

[scorpion]

Beelze said:
"A New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

The link above leads to a Loonatics parody, featuring excessive audible explicit language, mild textual explicit Language, mild adult themes.

"I'M EXTREEEME!!"
"I'M ANIME ALL OVER!!"


That was awsome http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

[Vexed]

Those drawings are awesome Needle!

[Karthik]

Needle said:
http://www.people.freenet.de/bigd/smur.jpg


Hell yeah, I'll pay anything to watch this one! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif

[Needle]

Looks like WB went in backpedal mode.
http://news.toonzone.net/images/2005-06/Loonatics.jpg
http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=3843

Still ridiculous. Hey WB! If you want to do a super hero cartoon, why not come up with something that's actually, you know, NEW?

Oh yeah. Because nobody would care for that generic shit. Right.

[GodBlitZor]

ok. Ive noticed how all cartoons are either shitty or anime(shitty in itself). There are a few Id watch tho - Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Spongebob, Dave The Barbarian, South Park(YES IT COUNTS!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), and My Dad, The Rock Star(out of principle)

A lot of them are just horrible. I can watch a few others but they just are the same old crap (Ed Edd and Eddy as an example). I think kids are retarded for these reasons. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Roger]

TerminX: they get their powers from cosmic dust huh
TerminX: /me rails a line



ROL


GodBlitZor said:
I can watch a few others but they just are the same old crap (Ed Edd and Eddy as an example).



Ed, Edd, and Eddy take an old-school approach to slapstick cartoons with some modern randomness thrown in- I like that, personally. (For those who wonder, I don't watch it regularly. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif) I do agree that most cartoons nowadays are the same, and in fact I find the few you mentioned in the first paragraph of your post- bar South Park- rather similar and cliché, both in terms of their overall cartoonishness and their art design.

If WB is going to make new cartoons, they should make a stab at recreating the original characters to make new episodes in the same spirit. As someone pointed out already, it already brings out laughs in current generation children, so, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" does apply here.

[Gatinater]

No one crosses the smurfs and gets away with it papa. Not Gargamel.. Not nobody.

You said it smurf.

What do you say we smurf em out?

Lets do this. Those sunz of a smurfinz are gonna pay

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[GodBlitZor]

I do agree Roger. Ed Edd and Eddy arent bad btw, but sometimes when i watch it I get a feeling of Deja Vu even if its a new episode. I will get off the computer to see a new episode of Grim Adventures though. That show is classic. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[JackpotDen]

Dr.Dude said:
A preview's up for "Loonatics" (http://www.aintitcool.com/downloads/LoonaticsPreview.mov).


---
After watching that, all I can think is...bleh. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif Geez, WB has lost its mind.



I didn't think lowly of wb untill i saw this. What the *****?

BTW : Difference between tiny toons and this? Tiny toons had the same attitude, "buzz" is more like arnorld schartznegger rather than Lenny henry.

[Needle]

He's no longer "Buzz Bunny". Now he is "Ace Bunny", which is much more original http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

[Opus131]

JackpotDen said:
BTW : Difference between tiny toons and this? Tiny toons had the same attitude, "buzz" is more like arnorld schartznegger rather than Lenny henry.



Tiny toons sucked too, this is however just sick...

[Beelze]

Needle said:
He's no longer "Buzz Bunny". Now he is "Ace Bunny", which is much more original http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif



"Another New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/243842) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Needle]

Beelze said:
"Another New Bunny" (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/243842) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif



Oh yeah. That's so hot.


http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[ZuljinRaynor]

I still see NO ANIME what so ever in it. Not even influences. The bodies are either way too skinny or too large, hair isn't spiky, no small mouths, etc.

Whatever. It still sucks. I like the old guys better.

[Needle]

ZuljinRaynor said:
I still see NO ANIME what so ever in it. Not even influences. The bodies are either way too skinny or too large, hair isn't spiky, no small mouths, etc.

Whatever. It still sucks. I like the old guys better.


It's more the poses and the style of action than the drawing style that's anime-esque. The drawing style looks somewhat flash catoony to me.