Bugs gets a makeover....

[Brian in Mesa]

i'm not mad - just annoyed. maybe i'm just noticing it more or maybe i'm just getting old but it seems like everything is a retread.

shawn

Don't worry...someday your clone will like this stuff.

 

[FischerKing]

Don't worry...someday your clone will like this stuff.

shawn

 

[Gee!]

Calm down people. The old bugs will still be there. I heard on tv its just for some kinda special they are doing this.

 

[Phlegyas]

"What we're doing is taking Bugs Bunny, a classic and changing him for the kids – making him fresh, cool and hip."

Excuse me, but...



I think that usually any way to try to make something that's classic "fresh, cool and hip" usually backfires. Hey, there's a reason why both kids and adults like the originals--because they work. They're hilarious.

Another thing is...on a documentary on one of the Looney Toones DVDs, one of the creators say that they never had kids in mind when they were making the cartoons. Never. So I think that if they try to make something that was available to everyone only for a specific age group (kids), it probably won't work.

I predict that this project will fail. Probably miserably. Or, it might actually be a good show and people could like it. But I doubt it. Who knows, though.

 

[Chaplin]

Excuse me, but...



I think that usually any way to try to make something that's classic "fresh, cool and hip" usually backfires. Hey, there's a reason why both kids and adults like the originals--because they work. They're hilarious.

I predict that this project will fail. Probably miserably. Or, it might actually be a good show and people could like it. But I doubt it. Who knows, though.

Not so sure of that. Tiny Toons exploded back in the day when it came out, not to mention the licensing opportunities.

 

[Phlegyas]

Not so sure of that. Tiny Toons exploded back in the day when it came out, not to mention the licensing opportunities.

Hmm. You do have a good point there, Chaplin. Sometimes, the project does not backfire and it does work. However, the project director for Tiny Toons was Steven Speilburg, who had another cartoon, done in the spirit of Looney Toons, called Animaniacs. Steven Speilburg is good at what he does. I'm not so sure about these people, however. I will just have to wait and see.

 

[FischerKing]

Hmm. You do have a good point there, Chaplin. Sometimes, the project does not backfire and it does work. However, the project director for Tiny Toons was Steven Speilburg, who had another cartoon, done in the spirit of Looney Toons, called Animaniacs. Steven Speilburg is good at what he does. I'm not so sure about these people, however. I will just have to wait and see.

i was just going to post about Animaniacs - that was such a great project and it was original too. all new characters, the writing was good, the animation was good - it was a well done, successful and original idea.

shawn

 

[Chaplin]

Hmm. You do have a good point there, Chaplin. Sometimes, the project does not backfire and it does work. However, the project director for Tiny Toons was Steven Speilburg, who had another cartoon, done in the spirit of Looney Toons, called Animaniacs. Steven Speilburg is good at what he does. I'm not so sure about these people, however. I will just have to wait and see.

But Animaniacs came about after Tiny Toons, and was the result of the success of Tiny Toons. But I see your point regardless. I just don't think it's worth getting all bent out of shape about.

 

[FischerKing]

But Animaniacs came about after Tiny Toons, and was the result of the success of Tiny Toons. But I see your point regardless. I just don't think it's worth getting all bent out of shape about.

if not this, what then?

































j/k chap

shawn

 

[Evil Ash]

are you serious? why not come up with something new and original instead of trying to continually cash in on retreads? what the hell do those people in hollywood get paid for anyway - it's obviously not original ideas. what next, remaking Underdog, Speed Racer, Johnny Quest and the Flintstones?

blech...

shawn

Already been done.

Johnny Quest was tried for a revamp around the year 2000 where they added computer graphics and things of that sort to modernize it. Never watched it but I remember seeing commercials for it all the time on Cartoon Network years ago.

Flinstones weren't remade per se but they did have like 8 spinoffs ... Pebbles and BamBam, Flinstones Kids, and hell even Captain Caveman had a spinoff which didn't last that long.

Cartoons are constantly either remade or spunoff of popular classics, its just a matter of whether they'll be successful (and with quite a few of them they usually aren't successful, therefore its never really heard about).