I know its not confirmed, but that's a pretty reliable source, so.... YAY! I've been waiting years for this to get released and with it not even on TV right now, I'm so craving Tiny Toons!TV Shows on DVD wrote:Last April we reported about a poll Warner Home Video was conducting, asking potential DVD buyers about their interest level in various cartoon properties they own..including Tiny Toon Adventures. We don't know if it "won the poll" or not, but we do know that this show is the most highly-wanted unreleased item from that poll among TVShowsOnDVD registered members. Now it looks like it might be finally seeing the light of day!
Ron "Keeper" O'Dell runs the "Keeper's Contemporary Warner Bros. Cartoon Files" website, and has been running that site for oh, about as long as the world wide web has been around. He's often been in-the-know about goings-on with many of the shows like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and more. This past Thursday (Nov. 1st) he posted this info: There currently are no plans for the final, volume 4 DVD release of Animaniacs. However, Tiny Toon Adventures has been green-lighted for release, in the same numerical-order format. Good news for Tiny Toons fans (although not-so-good for Animaniacs fans...looks like the studio will need some motivation in that quarter, so ask for the existing volumes you don't already own as holiday gifts, okay?).
With gossip about Freakazoid! also coming to light this past few days from separate (and multiple) sources, it sounds like Tiny Toons may indeed be set for release in 2008. Keep in mind, though, that Warner has not officially announced this, or even confirmed the info we're passing along. Count it as a rumor for now, and we'll update you when developments occur. Stay tuned!
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I liked TinyToons when it aired, but that was because there hadn't been anything like it before.
Since then, other shows have been bigger and better, and TinyToons really feels faded in humor and pacing now. If we were able to get a review copy, I'd be welcome to revisiting the show and seeing if it makes me laugh now, but with Freakazoid (we never got Hysteria! here) also in the mix, those seemed like the funnier, zippier and smarter shows.
Good news though...and Vacation was the best special, the only episode I retained from a VHS collection (and I also have the LD).
Since then, other shows have been bigger and better, and TinyToons really feels faded in humor and pacing now. If we were able to get a review copy, I'd be welcome to revisiting the show and seeing if it makes me laugh now, but with Freakazoid (we never got Hysteria! here) also in the mix, those seemed like the funnier, zippier and smarter shows.
Good news though...and Vacation was the best special, the only episode I retained from a VHS collection (and I also have the LD).
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I used to watch tiny toons all the time. I would love to see them again to judge if it was really all that great. I don't remember liking it that much back then so I'm not sure if I would like it more now. I never liked Animaniacs but I saw an episode a few months ago and I thought it was kind of witty. ^.^
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IMO, Tiny Toons was pretty consistently good but their other comedy shows after that were hit and miss (especially Animaniacs. The Warners were great and so were Pinky and The Brain but everything else on that show had about 1 good episode in every 3. And what was that candle thing?). I'm seriously looking forward to revisiting it next year.
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Tiny Toon Adventures is no longer (rumor) .. it's in stores today!
I've had it playing on my desk most of the evening. My 'taped-off-the-air' cassettes from 15+ years ago (at least, the ones containing the first 35 episodes) can finally be retired!
Major, major thanks to Warner Bros for finally 'ditching' their frustrating 'disc-on-disc' package arrangement (the cause of many a scratched disc) in favor of a two-'page' standard-width keepcase that isolates each disc from the others; it's very similar to the keepcases I use for my 'custom-made' hobbyist packaging.
The cover artwork is still hideously garish (though, not nearly so bad as the overly-airbrushed Looney Tunes Golden Collection or Animaniacs package art) .. but as I often say, it's having the cartoons that's important.
I've had it playing on my desk most of the evening. My 'taped-off-the-air' cassettes from 15+ years ago (at least, the ones containing the first 35 episodes) can finally be retired!
Major, major thanks to Warner Bros for finally 'ditching' their frustrating 'disc-on-disc' package arrangement (the cause of many a scratched disc) in favor of a two-'page' standard-width keepcase that isolates each disc from the others; it's very similar to the keepcases I use for my 'custom-made' hobbyist packaging.
The cover artwork is still hideously garish (though, not nearly so bad as the overly-airbrushed Looney Tunes Golden Collection or Animaniacs package art) .. but as I often say, it's having the cartoons that's important.
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Can't wait to get this. Saw it today, but I can't afford it this week. Ah well, at least Amazon has it for a better price than walmart so I'll probably get it from there when I can spare the cash for it. Is anyone doing a review for the site?
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The shows look pretty nice! Not super-'pristine', or anything .. but at least, I haven't seen any of the DVNR or 'artifacting' that has plagued a few of the H-B DVD sets ..Daniel wrote:Can you comment on the quality, Droo?
And it's great fun to watch 'em again.
I was in college when this show began airing .. and I was a fan from the very start! Art Leonardi (one of the directors) paid a visit to my animation history class, and showed us a 'sneak peek' of his segments for How I Spent My Vacation (basically the whole Buster & Babs watergun fight/river trip) .. which was one of those pivotal moments in my young life that made me seriously say to myself, "I really want to work on animated cartoons for a living!" (though, looking back on it .. I had already been heading that direction for awhile).
The early-1990's were a very optimistic period for 'fun' TV cartoons .. shows like Tiny Toon Adventures, Ren & Stimpy, and 2 Stupid Dogs were 'throwbacks' to earlier short-form toons, while simultaneously feeling 'fresh' & inventive when compared to the stale 30-minute 'toy commercials' which TV animation had devolved into before that time.
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