What happened to the Tiny Toons reboot?

[Leofan26]

Is it still in the works? Haven't heard about it for a while since first announced. Last I heard Elmyra was cut from the series, my guess do to animal abuse the new generation feels it shows. Also, how many want to bet Lola will be in it and a mentor to Babs?

[drgon78]

Also heard they didn't even ask the original voice actors to return so I have no interest in it.

[Zachatello00]

Originally Posted by Leofan26

Also, how many want to bet Lola will be in it and a mentor to Babs?

I think it would make sense to make this move. Space Jam established her as a legit Looney Tunes character, and I'm okay with that. Of course, it eliminates the possibility of an episode like the one where Babs discovers Honey as a mentor. Not that that went anywhere... would have been cool, though.

[Coola Yagami]

Kinda interesting though. Every characters acts either kinda similar or has traits that can be tied to their mentor character. Does this mean that they'll make Babs act more like Lola, whatever Lola's shtick will be. It's been a long time but wasn't Babs' deal disguises and voice impressions?

[IMJ]

I still remember one of the original Tiny Toons episodes. They were in a theater and the "THX-style" tone came on the screen and accompanying sound blew all of the animals out of their seats. And then instead of changing to the words "THX" it slowly changed the words "The Audience Is Now Deaf".

It was one of the only times in my life where I actually laughed out loud at a cartoon. It was hysterical.... I have no idea why it tickled me so much.

[Prowler]

I've always felt Tiny Toon Adventures were a product of their own time. That's one cartoon series that just screams "the nineties" to me.

Just seems weird that they're thinking of making a reboot. It seemed like a dead property after it was over. It even took them ages to release the show on DVD.

I used to really like the Tiny Toons when I was a kid. I've watched the How I've Spent My Vacation film countless times back in the day since I used to own it on VHS.

Tiny Toons also seemed to have much better videogame adaptations than the Looney Tunes in general. All of the Tiny Toons games I grew up with were pretty fun. ACME All Stars for the Mega Drive and Buster Busts Loose for the SNES in particular were a blast. I think Buster Busts Loose is a hidden gem in particular. It's one of the best licensed games out there. Konami handled the Tiny Toons license pretty well.

As for the reboot, I'm not looking forward to it. A lot of remakes and reboots have been made in the last several years and most of them either underwhelmed or were flat-out disappointing. Best just to let the Tiny Toons rest in peace.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I've always felt Tiny Toon Adventures were a product of their own time. That's one cartoon series that just screams "the nineties" to me.

I think it's because it falls into that weird 90's category of 'let's make classic characters into kids/teens with 90's clothes and malls and whatnot', like they did with Flintstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby Doo and Yo Yogi. Like it wasn't quite the same because in this case it wasn't the Looney Tunes themselves but well.... younger knock-offs, but it still followed the trend.

Animaniacs were different enough because even though they followed a lot of Looney Tunes tropes and gags, they were all fresh original characters.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I think it's because it falls into that weird 90's category of 'let's make classic characters into kids/teens with 90's clothes and malls and whatnot', like they did with Flintstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby Doo and Yo Yogi. Like it wasn't quite the same because in this case it wasn't the Looney Tunes themselves but well.... younger knock-offs, but it still followed the trend.

Animaniacs were different enough because even though they followed a lot of Looney Tunes tropes and gags, they were all fresh original characters.

Yes, that's probably it. Warner Bros. were smart by doing that with Tiny Toons. Instead of making Bugs Bunny and Co. younger, they created original characters that were counterparts of the classic characters. Because Buster and Plucky really aren't that similar to Bugs and Daffy. And Babs Bunny is a pretty original character. She was the female bunny before Lola Bunny.


Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig, etc. in the same role as Buster, Babs, Plucky and Hampton just wouldn't work out. They made a modern day Looney Tunes show several years ago with the original characters where they held normal lives and normal jobs and it just didn't work out.

Btw, another thing that makes Tiny Toons very 90s to me is the fact one of the very first episodes I saw was about the 90s themselves and the slang used in what was the current decade at the time.

Animaniacs was late 90s and early 2000s iirc. Pinky and Brain and Freakazoid eventually got their own shows with 20 minute long episodes too.

[Leofan26]

Man can you imagine Buster and the rest with gadgets of today? I would imagine cell phones would have helped them in a lot of situations they we're in LOL. I can only see Lola a mentor to Babs if she kept her Looney Toons show personality mixed with a bit of Space jam type. Her Looney Toons show personality was crazy and boy would she give the wrong kind of tips on her relationship with Buster.

[Coola Yagami]

I mean one of Bab's first, if not THEE first line of dialogue was 'welcome to the 90's' when Buster was surprised he was getting a female co-star rather than a male co-star.

[drgon78]

Which is funny since the first episode aired at the end of 89.

The theater sound system joke was actually from the movie, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation".

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by drgon78

Which is funny since the first episode aired at the end of 89.

The theater sound system joke was actually from the movie, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation".

Thanks man! HAHA I'll have to find a way to see that again.... It probably won't be as funny but it really did crack me up back then, completely out of nowhere.

[drgon78]

Personally I think the movie is one of the funniest things the series has done.

[Coola Yagami]

I'll always remember that one episode of Plucky counting down the clock to when school would end, and the ****er would actually go back a few minutes just to torment him. Could totally relate to that.

[oldmanwinters]

Apparently, today (April 6, 2021) is the day that Plucky Duck estimated that Hampton Pig's family would arrive in Happy World Land.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/...py-world-land/

Thanks to dejablue for the heads up.