Looney Tunes Golden/Platinum Collections

[Ben]

Caught this yesterday and meant to post, so thank# for the catch!

Very good news. Looks like the age of megasets is over, so it’ll be smaller releases like these that hope to fill the gaps. At least we get twice as many ("twice as many!") shorts here than Disney dares to share on their Mickey &… volumes, and hopefully little to no repeats, unless they’re updated restos. But George knows what he’s doing and who these discs are for…!

[Daniel]

Supposedly it will also include shorts never released on DVD!

[Ben]

Oops…sorry, that’s what I meant above. The majority will be new to disc completely, and mostly at least all new to Blu, and "hopefully little to no repeats" meant that repeats should be very few and far between.

[EricJ]

Nice that they're moving it to the Archive:
Up till now, Warner was trying to sell Looney as a House Brand, meaning they would crumble when a release didn't sell in mass retail, or they couldn't link it in with Space Jam.

Now, Hanna-Barbera has taught them that their vintage-toon fan bread is buttered on the online Archive audience, so they don't have to wait for "Anniversaries"--or Funko Pops--like the Bugs 80th box that didn't thematically have room for other characters.

Beanstalk Bunny! Sounds promising so far.

Odds my bodkins!

And "A Tale of Two Mice", the first of the Babbitt & Mousetello cartoons (although "The Mouse-Merized Cat" will probably be held back for Past Objectionable Depictions, ie. a Rochester joke).

From the cover, looks like we get a Three Bears cartoon also, and since "A Bear For Punishment" has been done to death, could it be "The Bee-Deviled Bruin"?

[Daniel]

Possibly. My money is on "What's Brewin', Bruin?" since that's their first solo outing and it hasn't seen a release since the LaserDisc days.

[droosan]

There are still slightly over 100 LT & MM shorts which were released on Laserdisc, but are not yet available on DVD or Blu-ray.

[droosan]

This comes from a list I'd compiled almost ten years ago, of LT & MM cartoons on Laserdisc that remain unreleased on DVD or Blu-ray.

I had to prune out several that've seen release, since then! It's possible I might've missed a few; feel free to let me know, if that's the case.

Even so .. this list now stands at nearly 200 cartoons; twice as many as I'd thought!

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 1 Laserdisc boxed set
Hamateur Night
Dangerous Dan McFoo
Inki At The Circus
Bugs Bunny N*ps the N*ps
The Unruly Hare
Little Orphan Airedale

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 2 Laserdisc boxed set
Goopy Geer
Three's A Crowd
The Lady In Red
The Penguin Parade
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Fresh Hare
The Major Lied Until Dawn
Little Brother Brat
A Tale Of Two Mice
Behind The Meat-Ball
The Little Lion Hunter
Flop Goes The Weasel
Fair And Worm-er
What's Brewin', Bruin?
The Mouse-merized Cat
One Meat Brawl
Mexican Joyride
Mouse Menace
Catch As Cats Can
Beauty And The Beast
A-Lad-In Bagdad
Robin Hood Makes Good
The Hardship Of Miles Standish
Hop, Look And Listen
The Goofy Gophers
Scent-imental Over You
Of Fox And Hounds
Good Night Elmer
The Unbearable Bear

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 3 Laserdisc boxed set
Pagan Moon
A Great Big Bunch Of You
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
One Step Ahead Of My Shadow
The Squawkin' Hawk
Inki And The Minah Bird
From Hand To Mouse
Fin N 'Catty
The Eager Beaver
The Cat's Tale
Ding Dog Daddy
The Wacky Worm
Peck Up Your Troubles
I Wanna Be A Sailor
Circus Today
Aviation Vacation
Aloha Hooey
Holiday Highlights
The Cagey Canary
Freddy The Freshman
Boulevardier From The Bronx
Along Flirtation Walk
Sport Chumpions
Greetings Bait
Screwball Football
Egghead Rides Again
Count Me Out
Johnny Smith And Poker-Huntas
A Day At The Zoo
Believe It, Or Else
A Feud There Was
Confederate Honey
Slightly Daffy
Ain't That Ducky
Along Came Daffy
Nothing But The Tooth
Wake Up The Gypsy In Me
He Was Her Man
Sioux Me
Mighty Hunters
A Feather In His Hare
The Early Worm Gets The Bird
Inki And The Lion

[droosan]

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4 Laserdisc boxed set
Any Bonds Today
The Good Egg
Ghost Wanted
Snowtime For Comedy
The Bird Came C.O.D.
Dog Tired
Fox Pop
Double Chaser
The Sheepish Wolf
Hiss And Make Up
The Gay Anties
Of Thee I Sting
Tom Turk And Daffy
I Taw A Putty Tat
Two Gophers From Texas
Dog Gone Cats
Hobo Bobo
Crosby, Columbo And Vallee
Let It Be Me
Malibu Beach Party
Quentin Quail
Hop Skip And A Chump
A Hick, A Slick And A Chick
Meatless Flyday
The Foxy Duckling
Bone Sweet Bone
The Rattled Rooster
The Shell-Shocked Egg
Land Of The Midnight Fun
Wacky Wildlife
Ceiling Hero
Fresh Fish
Saddle Silly
Bug Parade
Love And Curses
Gold Rush Daze
Bars And Stripes Forever
Hobo Gadget Band
Fagin's Freshman
Busy Bakers
The Brave Little Bat
The Queen Was In The Parlor
The Organ Grinder
Billboard Frolics
Flowers For Madame
September In The Rain

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 5 Laserdisc boxed set
Sweet Sioux
The Merry Old Soul
Mr. And Mrs. Is The Name
Bingo Crosbyana
The Fella With A Fiddle
The Cat Came Back
Country Boy
Dog Daze
Doggone Modern
Curious Puppy
Stage Fright
Snowman's Land
Those Beautiful Dames
Little Dutch Plate
I'd Love To Take Orders From You
Toy Town Hall
My Green Fedora
Streamlined Greta Green
Pop Goes Your Heart
I Wanna Play House
I'm A Big Shot Now
When I Yoo Hoo
At Your Service, Madame
A Star Is Hatched
Plenty Of Money And You

[droosan]

Guffaw And Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime Laserdisc
Catty Cornered
Boston Quackie
Riff Raffy Daffy

Looney Tunes After Dark: Ghost, Ghoul And Goblin Cartoon Classics Laserdisc
The Night Of The Living Duck
Hyde And Go Tweet

Looney Tunes Curtain Calls: Classic Music & Show Business Cartoons Laserdisc
Curtain Razor
Tweety's Circus

Looney Tunes Assorted Nuts: Memorable Supporting Players And Cult Classics From The Looney Tunes Vault Laserdisc
Pests For Guests
A Sheep In The Deep
Gone Batty
A Hound For Trouble

Longitude And Looney-tude: Globe-trotting Looney Tunes Favorites Laserdisc
A Pizza Tweety Pie
Trip For Tat
Little Beau Pepe
A Scent Of The Matterhorn
The Cat's Bah

Duck Victory: Daffy Duck's Screen Classics Laserdisc
Muscle Tussle
Don't Axe Me
Stork Naked
Cracked Quack

Winner By A Hare: 14 Of Bugs Bunny's Best Laserdisc
Box Office Bunny

Hare Beyond Compare: 14 More Bugs Bunny Classics Laserdisc
Beanstalk Bunny

Ham On Wry: The Porky Pig Laser Collection Laserdisc
Dog Collared
Thumb Fun

Sylvester And Tweety's Bad Ol' Putty Tat Blues Laserdisc
Greedy For Tweety
Pop 'Im Pop!
A Mouse Divided
Stooge For A Mouse

The Road Runner vs Coyote: If At First You Don't Succeed... Laserdisc
Hopalong Casualty

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In order to (hopefully!) make this list somewhat useful, I've edited these posts to remove titles which were pointed-out by other members of the forum ..

* released, per Randall's notes, below:
Lost & Foundling, Roughly Squeaking, Bedtime For Sniffles, Trap Happy Porky, House-Hunting Mice, Little Blabbermouse, Hush My Mouse, Naughty But Mice, Little Brother Rat, Sniffles And The Bookworm, The Egg Collector, Sniffles Bells The Cat, Toy Trouble, The Lyin' Mouse, Country Mouse, Shop Look & Listen, The Duxorcist, Mouse Mazurka, The Pest That Came To Dinner

** released, per Daniel's notes, below:
Cinderella Meets Fella, Cross Country Detours, Daffy Doodles, Honeymoon Hotel

[Randall]

That is awesome. I started a project years ago to create a database of classic cartoon shorts, with all of their home video releases. I got as far as getting done Disney, Fleischer, Van Beuren, Ub Iwerks, and just under half the WB cartoons before life got in the way. Sadly, the database program I used was part of Microsoft Works, which used a database file format no longer supported, though I can still convert the files I have into spreadsheets; but I liked the database better. I may yet complete my project, though of course there are now online resources that are pretty good, like the amazing Looney Tunes Wiki.
https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Your list is still a little out of date, though. At a glance, the Sniffles cartoons are on the Mouse Chronicles set; The Pest That Came to Dinner is on Porky's LT Super Stars DVD; and Duxorcist is on the Space Jam 2-disc DVD, the Parodies DVD, The Essential Daffy Duck, and of course in truncated form in Quackbusters. I checked just a few others, and there are still many surprising omissions, like Beanstalk Bunny and Boston Quackie. Naturally, very few black and white cartoons have appeared on DVD or Blu-ray, while there are lots on the LD box sets.

So, there are still tons of cartoons not yet on 5" discs. The Stars of Space Jam series did get a disc release in the UK, so that covers a few more titles. But this all makes me very glad that I still have ALL the Looney Tunes laserdiscs you mentioned, plus a Japanese box set that has a bunch more. https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Jap ... LaserDiscs I got many of the single discs from Columbia House Laserdisc club as my initial sign-up, for, I think, $1.99 each!

Ah, those were the days!

[Ben]

I still love my Golden Age LD boxes. That was “real” collecting!

[Daniel]

"Cinderella Meets Fella" is on Gold Diggers in Paris DVD, "Cross-Country Detours" on Virginia City DVD, "Daffy Doodles" on My Reputation DVD and "Honeymoon Hotel" on Footlight Parade DVD/Blu-ray. I'll stop before I get carried away!

[droosan]

WBHV did have a maddening tendency to place somewhat random cartoons as 'bonus features' on various movies! These were often not 'restored' nor 'remastered' in any way .. but it still 'counts' as being on DVD.

.. and I had totally blanked/forgotten about the Mouse Chronicles set .. which gives me a great excuse to go buy it now.

[EricJ]

Despite it getting the blame for singlehandedly "killing" LT DVD sets at Warner, Mouse Chronicles has enough to recommend it:
Yes, we get more Sniffles than Chuck Jones should have ever made, but it does include his satirical "talkative" deconstructions in What's Brewin' Bruin? and Hush My Mouse.

As if the set already wasn't worth buying alone for the Complete Hubie & Bertie, and "The Mouse That Jack Built".

[Ben]

"Whell…!"