Tiny Toon Adventures

[drgon78]

Another 90's(well technically December 89) classic, who else agrees?

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I was all over this show in my early childhood days! Always watched it whenever it was on. My parents got me so many merchandise of this show. I had the bedsheets and pajamas. I had a tape of How I Spent My Summer Vacation and would watch it all the time whether on VHS or on TV, though I never appreciate why they couldn't just air it as a movie as opposed to splitting each part as a regular half-hour episode (I always viewed it as a movie).

I had so much fun with the video games like Buster Busts Loose and Wacky Sports Challenge. Me and my brother put hours into the latter.

I'll always love Tiny Toons and am looking forward to the new series.

[sdp]

I think I was way too young for Tiny Toons, because I remember loving it so much yet I don't remember anything about it. I only recognize the characters and the theme song but that's it.

[drgon78]

I really do love the movie, I think it deserved a theatrical release.

Most of the show is great with the exception of few environmental/save the whales/cute animals type episodes.

[Prowler]

I mostly remember it due to my older brother being a fna of it when he was a kid and recording some episodes on VHS and also owning the How I Spent My Vacation movie. I was a little too young to watch it when it aired on TV. I have more memories of playing the Acme ALL Stars Sports game for the Mega Drive, the NES Tiny Toons game and the SNES Buster Busts Loose game. Honestly, all of those games are pretty damn fun. Buster Busts Loose is a sentimental favourite. One of the best licensed games of all time.

The episodes I remember the most are those about smoking, the fancy restaurant they go to, Thirteen Something where Babs enters a soap opera, Promise Her Anything where Buster invites Babs to the prom and ofc the How I Spent My Vacation movie. I must have watched it 25 times or something.

[frank_one]

My parents regularly bought me an italian magazine with their stories in early 90s. I loved it.

[Prowler]

My parents regularly bought me an italian magazine with their stories in early 90s. I loved it.

There was a Tiny Toons magazine?

[Wesley]

I remember loving the tv series and movie as well as reading some comics when I was 7 or 8.

I got the mega drive game Buster’s Hidden Treasure and played it a lot in my pre-teens, though I never beat it. Couldn’t get through all the factory levels.

[Prowler]

I remember loving the tv series and movie as well as reading some comics when I was 7 or 8.

I got the mega drive game Buster’s Hidden Treasure and played it a lot in my pre-teens, though I never beat it. Couldn’t get through all the factory levels.

I didn't know there were comics.

[frank_one]

There was a Tiny Toons magazine?Yes! There was an italian magazine called Bunny Band published in 1992-1995 that contained comics, puzzles and other activity pages. The stories were mostly about Tiny Toon (as far as I can remember) but also about "older" Warner Bros. characters like Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck. I'm sure the comics pages came from some american publication and I think similar magazines existed all across the Europe as well.

[Prowler]

Yes! There was an italian magazine called Bunny Band published in 1992-1995 that contained comics, puzzles and other activity pages. The stories were mostly about Tiny Toon (as far as I can remember) but also about "older" Warner Bros. characters like Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck. I'm sure the comics pages came from some american publication and I think similar magazines existed all across the Europe as well.
I would have been a little too young at the time to remember that. I was born in 1990 after all.

That does sound like the Sesame Street magazine I used to read when I was a kid, though. It was kind of like that as well.

[drgon78]

Yeah, never saw the comics, but not surprised, anything with even some popularity would get a comic back then.

[ZariusTwo]

First look at the new series

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYUIz46VUAEW5vn?format=jpg&name=large

[LeotheLateBloomer]

First look at the new series

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYUIz46VUAEW5vn?format=jpg&name=large

Looks faithful. Shirley the Loon looks interesting, not sure how I feel about Sweetie's design. This looks to be a continuation rather than a reboot but I could be wrong. Elmyra's in the image but Cree Summer said that she's not involved in it. I imagine either Jeff Bergman or Eric Bauza will take over for Plucky or Hampton. Hopefully the animation and humor is on point.

In comparison to the new Animaniacs, it looks like they're bringing back most of the cast of characters but some previous VAs might not be returning.

[Coola Yagami]

I wonder how they'll do Fifi. Or if they'll leave her unchanged because 'it's ok when women do it'

[drgon78]

I could care less for the new one, just give me the original TV series(plus movie and specials) a blu ray release.

[ranger_scout]

I’m honestly surprised that they didn’t invite Tess MacNeillie back because she is still voicing Dot Warner on the new Animaniacs. Charlie Adler left the show on bad terms because he was bitter about not being hired to voice a lead on the original Animaniacs.

[drgon78]

That is not the only reason, Him and the voice actor for Plucky found out that MacNeillie was making more then both of them combined. They didn't handle it correctly and he(unlike plucky voice actor) didn't apologize for it, so Spielberg wouldn't let him come back.

[oldmanwinters]

That is not the only reason, Him and the voice actor for Plucky found out that MacNeillie was making more then both of them combined. They didn't handle it correctly and he(unlike plucky voice actor) didn't apologize for it, so Spielberg wouldn't let him come back.

Meh, she totally deserved it!

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Yup, sadly Babs has been recasted.

https://gizmodo.com/tiny-toons-bugs-bunny-builders-looney-tunes-hbo-max-1849329661/amp

She and Buster will also be fraternal twins.

[drgon78]

Fraternal twins?!! Did they not watch the original show, It's Buster and Babs Bunny, no relation!

Also there is a another section for the remake, this is for the original show.

[Leo656]

Fraternal twins?!! Did they not watch the original show, It's Buster and Babs Bunny, no relation!


That's ass. This is why I f*cking hate remakes and reboots.

[Coola Yagami]

I mean, that won't stop the rule 34, if that was their goal. Hell, it might even increase it.

[Wildcat]

There’s really nothing wrong changing that up and making them brother and sister. It can give them a different dynamic. Plus there will probably be a multiverse episode where they meet the originals and poke fun at each other.

If you’re gonna keep every single thing the same because of backlash then there’s no point. I mean if you’re gonna remake something do some stuff differently. Don’t just “copy and paste”.

I know certain things are considered untouchable and deciding what could or shouldn’t be changed is a balance but this is a perfectly fine difference imo.

[Coola Yagami]

There’s really nothing wrong changing that up and making them brother and sister. It can give them a different dynamic. Plus there will probably be a multiverse episode where they meet the originals and poke fun at each other.



I..... kinda don't think 'poke fun' is something you would you if you met an alternate version of yourself and your sister and they're lovers.

[Wildcat]

I..... kinda don't think 'poke fun' is something you would you if you met an alternate version of yourself and your sister and they're lovers.I should have worded it better. I meant the show itself would make a fun of it. I’m sure Buster and Babs would be grossed out but other characters would probably make fun of them. Definitely Monty.

[Jester]

I dunna, one of the main recurring jokes was:
"I'm Buster Bunny!"
"And I'm Babs Bunny!"
"NO RELATION!"
Seems like missing the point to make them twin siblings.

[Leo656]

If you’re gonna keep every single thing the same because of backlash then there’s no point. I mean if you’re gonna remake something do some stuff differently. Don’t just “copy and paste”.

Or hey, here's an even better idea. Ready?

Stop doing "remakes" and leave stuff well enough alone.

Ta-f*cking-da, problem solved.

[Leofan26]

Eh either way fans will ship them, we’re just getting into the creepy kind of shipping like Gwen x Ben or Dipper x Mabel.

With internet being a thing now I can only imagine the new pairings that will be a thing and become popular ??

[Autbot_Benz]

Babs and Buster siblings no thanks

None of the OG Voice cast is back IE Charlie Adler and Tress MacNeille as Buster and Babs no thanks.

Will continue watching the OG Tiny Toons on Hulu one of these days

[Wildcat]

Or hey, here's an even better idea. Ready?

Stop doing "remakes" and leave stuff well enough alone.

Ta-f*cking-da, problem solved.Well I definitely prefer sequels/continuations but I’ve always found remakes interesting. Seeing another interpretation of something is fun imo.

Not sure this new Tiny Toons should be a called a “remake”. When is something a remake and just another version? All the TMNT stuff are different versions not FW or 1990 remakes.

I understand it’s being called this because it’s only the second TT cartoon and it’s been on hiatus for so long but there’s nothing wrong with it existing either way.

People just like using the same complaints on purpose to sound smart or whatever. It happens to everything (remake or not).

[drgon78]

99% of the time I prefer the original to any remake.

[ZariusTwo]

Eh either way fans will ship them, we’re just getting into the creepy kind of shipping like Gwen x Ben or Dipper x Mabel.

Hopefully they can retcon it as them being adopted siblings:D

[drgon78]

Just give me the original series(along with the movie and specials) on blu ray

[ssjup81]

Welp, Buster and Babs as sibs...that's wrong on so many levels. Did they not even watch the original series? They were romantically linked on that one. Remember the prom ep? lol

Oh well...another series reboot that'll probably have me turning away or not even wanting to touch it...like Animaniacs.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

This reboot got delayed like what...two times now?

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Sometimes dead is better.

[drgon78]

Considering the track record for remakes....especially now a days....dead isn't good enough.

[drgon78]

Though personally I would prefer to talk about the original series since that is what I created this one for.

[Coola Yagami]

I barely remember the original series at this point.

I do remember seeing the supposed 'banned episode' on TV, the drinking PSA. I never saw the big deal. The characters were assholes but they acknowledged that they were acting out of character for the sake of the PSA, and even after they 'died' at the end, we see it was a staged set and they're taking off their angel costumes and heading home.

Maybe just because beer itself was mentioned? But I mean, how else will you get the message across if you don't flat out name the thing you want kids to avoid? Imagine a no-drug special where drugs themselves are never ever mentioned?

[The Deadman]

Welp, Buster and Babs as sibs...that's wrong on so many levels. Did they not even watch the original series? They were romantically linked on that one. Remember the prom ep? lol

Oh well...another series reboot that'll probably have me turning away or not even wanting to touch it...like Animaniacs.

The Animaniacs reboot is actually good. Same voice actors and what have you.

[Coola Yagami]

The Animaniacs reboot is actually good. Same voice actors and what have you.

It's just missing all the other segments. Literally just the Warners and Pinky and the Brain.

[ssjup81]

I barely remember the original series at this point.

I do remember seeing the supposed 'banned episode' on TV, the drinking PSA. I never saw the big deal. The characters were assholes but they acknowledged that they were acting out of character for the sake of the PSA, and even after they 'died' at the end, we see it was a staged set and they're taking off their angel costumes and heading home.

Maybe just because beer itself was mentioned? But I mean, how else will you get the message across if you don't flat out name the thing you want kids to avoid? Imagine a no-drug special where drugs themselves are never ever mentioned?I didn’t know that was banned. I remember watching it back then. Geez, they ban the most ridiculous stuff.The Animaniacs reboot is actually good. Same voice actors and what have you.But none of the original writers or the creative team. They didn’t even bring Reuger back. Also, hate the fact they didn’t bring back other characters. Used to love Slappy and the Goodfeathers.

[drgon78]

I have always thought it was stupid they banned the anti-drinking episode though I remember an anti-drug episode from Jem and Holograms that was stranger, darker, more disturbing, etc....not that I think that one should have been banned.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

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[drgon78]

Looks Meh.

Just give us the original series, movie, and specials on blu ray.

[oldmanwinters]

I wouldn't say I hate it...

[Cowabung-Gal]

Why do I already feel disappointed…? :ohwell:

[Wildcat]

Cool. It’s actually set in the school with the original characters teaching them. Even Lola Bunny :D

[oldmanwinters]

Cool. It’s actually set in the school with the original characters teaching them. Even Lola Bunny :D

Not sure Lola is qualified to teach the art of “looney” …

[Wildcat]

Not sure Lola is qualified to teach the art of “looney” …Well she is a Looney Tune character. I haven’t seen Space Jam 2 yet but she can have a comedic side too.

[Autbot_Benz]

Buster and Plucky's voices are ****ing terrible

Like that terrible Animaniacs reboot stick with the OG shows.

[drgon78]

Yeah Buster and Plucky voices sounds terrible.

[cammy85]

I can understand the hate, especially after what we got for Animaniacs.

IIRC, in the original show, not much time was spent in the Looniversity, and it held its own most of the time without having Bugs, Daffy and co, carrying it. I can see what they're doing, but they're definitely trying too hard. Also, I don't think we're the target audience this time.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

On one hand, unlike Animaniacs, this looks to have the entire cast of characters from Adventures including their teachers. On the other hand, was it too hard to get a lot of the original voice actors (aside from the ones that died like Joe Alaskey and Don Messick) back to reprise their roles? I mean, Tress MacNeille came back to voice Dot. Why not Babs? She and Buster both sound awful. Plucky sounds fine, if a bit too much like Daffy.

Not liking the animation either. It looks like the lazy slop we're seeing in modern cartoons. I have a feeling this is going to be something hardly anyone will watch.

[drgon78]

I really wish the original show(and movie and specials) would get a blu ray release.

[Coola Yagami]

Also, I don't think we're the target audience this time.

Which is always a dumb plan seeing as people our age would be the only ones to care about this **** lol.

I think the only series that crossed generations was TTG. Sure fans of the originals hate it but kids love it.

[CyberCubed]

I think Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were a product of their time, the 90's. You really can't replicate it in the 2020's. This is those times where I say not every show needs to be revived. People just let their nostalgia trick them into wanting more but it's never the same.

[sdp]

Exactly, some stuff is just a product of its time. Tiny Toons and ANimaniacs existed because Bugs Bunny just couldn't make it in the 90s. The reason all those tom and jerry reboots failed. Those are cartoons of another era. Mickey Mouse is the mascot of Disney but he rarely ever gets a cartoon and if he does no one really cares about it, it can sell merchandise but that's it. Kids today just arent interested in cartoons of boomers.
That's the reason Loonatics were created in the 2000s
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.66317183a209d57ab93d9a50c8d48fc2?rik=IofMePE6oQo Upg&riu=http%3a%2f%2ffc06.deviantart.net%2ffs40%2ff%2f 2009%2f006%2f4%2f7%2fWhat_it_could_be____by_AzumiC oyote.jpg&ehk=5oNqFijyx4%2bdSiNuOS0ErN4mzeb2EjbQ85wB1RnUya8% 3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

Clearly something new for a new era of the 2000s but Boomers complained that they changed Bugs Bunny to Ace Bunny (just like Tiny Toons did with Buster Bunny). If boomers hadn't complained and Loonatics had come out in its original vision perhaps it could've been more popular and even then it's apparently not a horrible show.

People wonder why kids don't buy toys anymore and while video games and smart phones are to blame look at toy aisles, they're full of toys for boomers even the packaging of the toys are those old looking retro inspired ones, the target audience is adults for those toys. I also think TMNT hasn't been popular because it was a product of its time, it worked in the 90s, in the 2000s/2010s? not so much, which is why those other revivals lost popularity really quickly.

[ZariusTwo]

Exactly, some stuff is just a product of its time. Tiny Toons and ANimaniacs existed because Bugs Bunny just couldn't make it in the 90s

And the one time he did, Space Jam, led to a whole generation being so hung up on seeing a sequel to it and we all know how that ended up.

[CyberCubed]

Also remember all those "baby" versions of shows they made? A Pup Named Scooby Doo (which is actually really good), Muppet Babies, Flintstones Kids, that's basically what Tiny Toons was before Baby Looney Tunes became a thing.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

The Looney Tunes Show in the 2010s was the exception to the rule. It was different but enjoyable.

[Allio]

Personally I liked Loonatics (I did enjoy it better than Tasmania and Sylvester and tweety mystery) I think the show needed a middle ground in regard to tone between season 1 and season 2

[Cowabung-Gal]

Personally I liked Loonatics

My boomer Dad (no he really *was* a boomer baby) warned me not to watch Loonatics when I was a kid because he felt that it was perverting the Looney Tunes franchise or something like that. Years later I watch it and think to myself, “Yup, he definitely overreacted.”

[drgon78]

Never liked Loonatics.

[ZariusTwo]

My boomer Dad (no he really *was* a boomer baby) warned me not to watch Loonatics when I was a kid because he felt that it was perverting the Looney Tunes franchise or something like that. Years later I watch it and think to myself, “Yup, he definitely overreacted.”

Well, they did have to change it from the original concept.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Here's the intro to Looniversity. I don't think I like it.

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[ssjup81]

Also remember all those "baby" versions of shows they made? A Pup Named Scooby Doo (which is actually really good), Muppet Babies, Flintstones Kids, that's basically what Tiny Toons was before Baby Looney Tunes became a thing.Tiny Toons....I don't feel really falls into that category so much. The Tiny Toons characters were an actual new generation. They weren't the OG Looney Tunes characters reimagined young like the other examples you gave. It felt more like a passing-the-torch type of thing.

[oldmanwinters]

I like extended theme songs but the changes to the original lyrics just feels like trying to be “different for different’s sake.” Inferior to rebooted Ducktales theme.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Eric Bauza will voice Buster. Buster sounds different here than he did in the first trailer.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Here's the first episode of Looniversity. Hampton sounds like Butters from South Park.

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[Coola Yagami]

I tried but couldn't finish the episode.

As for Loonatics, I kinda feel the biggest complaint back then was, it was marketed or at least at the time it felt as if this was gonna be the Looney Toons going forward. Like it wasn't just one version among countless versions, but like, this is how it's going to be from now on.

[Wildcat]

They’ve aired 2 episodes on TV and one (well a few days ago) on their site about Hampton going to medical school. There’s another scheduled for next Saturday. I wonder if they’ll air the whole season cause I thought it’d be Streaming exclusive for awhile.

It’s good. I like how it’s about them going to college. The voices sound different but they’re fine. I read Elmyra will be coming back. I wonder if Montana Max will show up too. A girl based on Marvin the Martian is seen around. That’s something they never did in the original so I hope she gets some episodes.

Edit: Nevermind I completely forgot about Marcia the Martian. Just looked it up but only appeared once apparently. Been a long time since I’ve seen the original series.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

They’ve aired 2 episodes on TV and one (well a few days ago) on their site about Hampton going to medical school. There’s another scheduled for next Saturday. I wonder if they’ll air the whole season cause I thought it’d be Streaming exclusive for awhile.

It’s good. I like how it’s about them going to college. The voices sound different but they’re fine. I read Elmyra will be coming back. I wonder if Montana Max will show up too. A girl based on Marvin the Martian is seen around. That’s something they never did in the original so I hope she gets some episodes.

Edit: Nevermind I completely forgot about Marcia the Martian. Just looked it up but only appeared once apparently. Been a long time since I’ve seen the original series.

Based on what I watched, I'm not seeing much that makes this show entertaining. Like what is this show trying to be and what is the purpose of making Buster and Babs siblings. It doesn't really add to anything.

[Wildcat]

Based on what I watched, I'm not seeing much that makes this show entertaining. Like what is this show trying to be and what is the purpose of making Buster and Babs siblings. It doesn't really add to anything.

Well it’s about them going to college and what that’s like but in a Looney Toons way of course. I think this is a good explanation. You can definitely see this with what’s been shown and I assume the whole season on Streaming.

https://popgeeks.com/first-look-at-tiny-toons-looniversity/

Executive producer Erin Gibson still hasn’t explained WHY they made such a drastic change for the reboot. But she did lay out her motive in an interview from last year: “I wanted to dive into a brother/sister relationship that looked really symbiotic and collaborative and supportive, not antagonistic. Seeing two people who are really on the same page, and then how do people who are so close make make new friends? You know, find out who they are by these new relationships — these new college experiences while still having fun and doing the dumbest stuff you’ll ever see on TV, but having story and plot points and character development.”

Since it’s not meant to be in continuity with the original I think making Buster and Babs siblings makes perfect sense. It’s doing something different with them. I get why people criticize this but it seems like people just want to be against it. If it was reversed...as in this was the original show and the 90s version was the reboot...this is how we would have known Tiny Toons. Then people would probably criticize them NOT being siblings.

Oh Montana Max was on Plucky’s magazine in the last episode so I guess he will appear at some point.

[Coola Yagami]

I guess the age of episodic wacky cartoons has long passed. Sounds like they want to make Tiny Toons (somehow) more story driven and character building... just with exploding ACME products and falling anvils.

[drgon78]

I made this thread to talk about the original series. I have no interest in a ****** remake that can't even get one the most important things right "Buster and Babs Bunny...NO RELATION!"

[drgon78]

I am surprised this, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid! hasn't gotten a blu ray release. It must be a copyright issue or something.

[oldmanwinters]

I am surprised this, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid! hasn't gotten a blu ray release. It must be a copyright issue or something.

More likely a financial issue that Warner Bros doesn't feel justifies pressing and distributing physical discs on a dying-to-dead format.

[drgon78]

They have no problem releasing all those Hanna-Barbara series on blu ray.