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Last March we reported on a heads-up from Warner Bros. that The Looney Toons - Golden Collection Volume 2 would be out later in 2004. Now we've gotten a lot more info for you!

In the not-too-distant future, Warner Home Video will announce a release date in late October or early November, for another 4-DVD box set. This time around it will contain 60 cartoon shorts ranging from 1936 to 1958. Included is another disc of just Bugs Bunny 'toons, plus a LOT of favorites from The Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote, AND a large group just from Sylvester & Tweety! It sounds like Warner listened to the fans who missed seeing more of those particular match-ups on the first release. Also on-board are the first ("Tortoise Beats Hare") and last ("Rabbit Transit") stories in the Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle (a.k.a. Cecil Tortoise) trilogy, the middle one of which ("Tortoise Wins By a Hare") was on the first DVD set.

The bad news? No Tasmanian Devil. No Pepe Le Pew. No Marvin the Martian. No Foghorn Leghorn. No Speedy Gonzales. It looks like we'll have to wait until Volume 3 to see more of these great characters. But let's face it: the Looney Tunes vaults are very deep, and mining all these gems is going to take quite some time. Be patient! Your favorites will arrive sooner or later, have no fear! For now, we are getting some terrific entertainment to enjoy while we wait for the next box set, including some highly-desirable classics!

Among the great shorts included on this compilation are "Porky in Wackyland," "Old Glory," "The Dover Boys," Little Red Riding Rabbit," "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," the Oscar-winning first appearance of Tweety & Sylvester in "Tweety-Pie," "French Rarebit," "Hyde and Hare," "One Froggy Evening," and the long-awaited "What's Opera Doc?"

Here is the complete list of all sixty shorts that are expected to appear in this set:

"Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1942)
"Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1944)
"Stage Door Cartoon" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1944)
"Hare Conditioned" (Bugs Bunny - 1945)
"Rhapsody Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1946)
"The Big Snooze" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1946)
"Slick Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1947)
"Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam - 1948)
"Gorilla My Dreams" (Bugs Bunny/Gruesome Gorilla - 1948)
"Bunny Hugged" (Bugs Bunny - 1951)
"French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny/Louis and Francois - 1951)
"Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Baby-Faced Finster - 1954)
"Hyde And Hare" (Bugs Bunny - 1955)
"Broom-Stick Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Witch Hazel - 1956)
"What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1957)
"Beep Beep" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1952)
"Going! Going! Gosh!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1952)
"Zipping Along" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1953)
"Stop! Look! and Hasten!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1954)
"Guided Muscle" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1955)
"Ready.. Set.. Zoom!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1955)
"Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1956)
"There They Go-Go-Go!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1956)
"Scrambled Aches" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1957)
"Zoom And Bored" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1957)
"Whoa, Be-Gone!" (Road Runner/Coyote - 1958)
"Porky In Wackyland" (Porky Pig - 1938)
"Old Glory" (Porky Pig - 1939)
"Book Revue" (Daffy Duck - 1946)
"Show Biz Bugs" (Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck - 1957)
"Kitty Kornered" (Porky/Sylvester - 1946)
"Tweety Pie" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1947)
"Back Alley Op-Roar" (Elmer Fudd/Sylvester - 1948)
"Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1949)
"All a Bir-r-r-rd" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1950)
"Room And Bird" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1951)
"Tweet Tweet Tweety" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1951)
"A Bird In A Guilty Cage" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Ain't She Tweet" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Gift Wrapped" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1952)
"Snow Business" (Sylvester/Tweety - 1953)
"You Ought to Be in Pictures" (Daffy/Porky - 1940)
"Duck Soup To Nuts" (Daffy/Porky - 1944)
"Baby Bottleneck" (Daffy/Porky - 1946)
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (Daffy Duck as "Duck Twacy" - 1946)
"I Love To Singa" ("Owl" Jolson - 1936)
"Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938)
"Katnip Kollege" (Johnny Cat - 1938),
"Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)
"The Heckling Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Willoughby - 1941)
"Tortoise Beats Hare" (Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle - 1941)
"The Dover Boys at Pimento University or 'The Rivals of Roquefort Hall'" (1942)
"The Hep Cat" (Hep Cat - 1942)
"Corny Concerto" (Doc and Champ - 1943)
"Rabbit Transit" (Bugs Bunny/Cecil Turtle - 1947)
"Mouse Wreckers" (Hubie and Bertie/Claude Cat - 1948)
"Bear For Punishment" (Henry, Ma, & Junyer Bear - 1951)
"Cheese Chasers" (Hubie and Bertie - 1951)
"One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog - 1955)
"Three Little Bops" (1957)

One item that was rumored to be included in this set, the Dr. Seuss classic "Horton Hatches the Egg", wasn't included on the list we received. Perhaps it's being included as a bonus item, separate from the main list of shorts? We don't know. Lots of extras WILL be present, we're told, but no breakdown of them has been given to us just yet. We're hoping for a Jerry Beck featurette exploring the making of "What's Opera, Doc?", similar to the chapter in his wonderful book, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide. Stay tuned, and we'll have more information for you about The Looney Toons - Golden Collection Volume 2, just as soon as we can. But for the moment, that's all, folks!

It almost doesn't matter which shorts will be included, there'll be a space reserved for this on my shelf right next to the first edition.
Of the ones I remember offhand, I'm glad they're including:


"Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Bugs Bunny - 1944)
"French Rarebit" (Bugs Bunny/Louis and Francois - 1951)
"Baby Buggy Bunny" (Bugs Bunny/Baby-Faced Finster - 1954)
"What's Opera, Doc?" (Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - 1957)
"I Love To Singa" ("Owl" Jolson - 1936)
"One Froggy Evening" (Michigan J. Frog - 1955)

Still waiting for "Bowery Bugs". Maybe Volume 3?

If you are a big Looney Tunes fan, say goodbye to those cheesy Public Domain videotapes and say hello to the Golden Collection. On this DVD, they showed the same cartoons that it was featured in numerous PD tapes.

this is awesome news!

:D

Release date is November 2.

does anyone know who the singer is in three little bops he sounds alot like jack jones i love that cartoon

I found this video at a yard sale a few months back. It has a collection of Looney Tunes favorites called "Cartoon Favorites - Vol. 1". As I was watching this video, the film prints on that tape needs to be restored, the sound quality was bad. I hope the DVD would help. It has 7 of the cartoons starring the Looney Tunes. Here they are in no particular order.

1. "Falling Hare" (Bugs Bunny)
2. "To Duck or Not to Duck" (Daffy Duck & Elmer Fudd)
3. "The Case of the Missing Hare" (Bugs Bunny)
4. "A Day At the Zoo"
5. "Get Rich Quick Porky" (Porky Pig) Redrawn
6. "Ali Baba Bound" (Porky Pig) Redrawn
7. "Porky's Railroad" (Porky Pig) Redrawn

The last three cartoons in that collection has badly redrawn prints. The original 1930's Porky Pig cartoons were released in black & white but in the early 70's, the Porky cartoons were shown and remade it in a horrible color redrawn print. They were not very good until now. Thanks to colorization in 1992 by replacing the poor redrawn cartoons. And by the way, the video tape I have had removed the openings and closings with the "That's all folks!" ending. And at the end of the tape, it reads "The End". What a disgrace. I hope the redrawn prints that they were back in the early 70's would not be on this DVD release. I hope so.

I have The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 1, 2,4 and 5 on Laserdisc box sets. I think all 4 laserdisc box sets, together, have about 50 hours of Warner Brothers cartoons. :)

I don't have Vol 3 LD box set yet. :(

Originally posted by Jenya
I have The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 1, 2,4 and 5 on Laserdisc box sets. I think all 4 laserdisc box sets, together, have about 50 hours of Warner Brothers cartoons. :)

I don't have Vol 3 LD box set yet. :(

I don't have a laserdisc player,:( but the "Golden Age of Looney Tunes" collection will always be a collector's item. I think that one of the volumes has a mysterious opening to "A Wild Hare" the one that was not even shown until the "Blue Ribbon" re-release used in the first "Looney Tunes" compilation film "Bugs Bunny Superstar".

Originally posted by barwars
Ohh and, TERRIBLE cover art.

True, they give the 2 disc release better cover art (http://dvdanswers.com/images/screenshots/looneytunesspotr12pic1.jpg) than the four disc release.

Below, the two disc Spotlight collection cover, but I'll be getting the Golden collection one week from today. Wished they used this as the cover for the Golden collection. Last year's release was one of the titles I was most excited about and it's that way for volume 2 now. I can't wait.

On one of those volumes of "Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection", the cartoons are also featured in six "Looney Tunes" animated films:

1. "Bugs Bunny Superstar"
2. "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"
3. "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
4. "Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales"
5. "Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island"
6. "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"

These are the films wrap around with the cartoons before it was used in later volumes of a 4-DVD compilation sets.:)

It's Stan Freberg who's singing in the "Three Little Bops" cartoon. Also in the upcoming collection is a new cartoon short, "Daffy for President." So it's coincidental that "The Golden Collection - Volume 2" will be released on November 2nd, which is Election Day!

"Gorilla My Dreams" is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons.

Bugs pretending to be the baby gorilla since the stork screwed up and then dad taking him for a walk, tossing him in the air and dropping him.

Bugs:
'Shall we try it again, Doc? My Way?"

Pulls a shovel out of nowhere and smashes the gorilla on the head.

I'm definitely getting this one, I miss seeing Looney Tunes, the DVD is a great deal:D

Originally posted by dlemond
"Gorilla My Dreams" is one of my favorite Bugs cartoons.

Yep! That was also featured in the movie "Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales".:)

By the way, the cartoons are not included in the following Looney Tunes films:

1. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
2. "Space Jam"
3. "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

All three films with live actors and does not included a cartoon. The film "Tweety's High Flying Adventure" does not have included cartoons either. Only the six Looney Tunes feature films with cartoons wrapped around new animation. Just like the Disney movies "Make Mine Music", "Fun & Fancy Free" and "Melody Time" with segments later released as animated shorts did at the time.:)

I bought this DVD at Cosco today. It was $40.00. A great cartoon for every fan. Here is a lists of Cartoons appears on this 4-DVD set:

DISC #1 - BUGS BUNNY MASTERPIECES

1. "The Big Snooze" (1946)
2. "Broomstick Bunny" (1956) (Featured in "Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales")
3. "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (1948)
4. "Bunny Hugged" (1951)
5. "French Rarebit" (1951)
6. "Gorilla My Dreams" (1948)
7. "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (1942)
8. "Hare Conditioned" (1945)
9. "The Heckling Hare" (1941)
10. "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1944)
11. "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941)
12. "Rabbit Transit" (1947)
13. "Slick Hare" (1947)
14. "Baby Buggy Bunny" (1954)
15. "Hyde and Hare" (1955)

DISC #2 - ROAD RUNNER AND FRIENDS

1. "Beep Beep" (1952) (featured in "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie")
2. "Going, Going, Gosh" (1952)
3. "Zipping Along" (1953)
4. "Stop, Look and Hasten" (1954) (featured in "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie")
5. "Ready, Set Zoom" (1955)
6. "Guided Muscle" (1955) (featured in "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie")
7. "Gee Whiz-z-z" (1956)
8. "There They Go-Go-Go" (1956)
9. "Scrambled Aches" (1957)
10. "Zoom and Bored" (1957)
11. "Whoa Be-Gone!" (1958)
12. "Cheese Chasers" (1951)
13. "The Dover Boys" (1942)
14. "Mouse Wrechers" (1948)
15. "A Bear for Punishment" (1951)

DISC #3 - TWEETY & SYLVESTER AND FRIENDS

1. "Bad Ol' Puddy Tat" (1949)
2. "All Abir-r-r-d" (1950)
3. "Room and Bird" (1951)
4. "Tweet Tweet Tweety" (1951)
5. "Gift Wrapped" (1952)
6. "Ain't She Tweet" (1952)
7. "A Bird In a Guilty Cage" (1952)
8. "Snow Business" (1953)
9. "Tweetie Pie" (1947)
10. "Kitty Kornered" (1946)
11. "Baby Bottleneck" (1946)
12. "Old Glory" (1939)
13. "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (1946)
14. "Duck Soup to Nuts" (1944)
15. "Porky in Wackyland" (1938)

DISC #4 - LOONEY TUNES ALL-STARS: ON STAGE AND SCREEN

1. "Back Alley Oproar" (1948)
2. "Book Revue" (1946)
3. "A Corny Concerto" (1943) (featured in "Bugs Bunny Superstar")
4. "Have You Got Any Castles?" (1938)
5. "Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)
6. "I Love to Singa" (1936)
7. "Katnip Kollage" (1938)
8. "The Hep Cat" (1942)
9. "The Three Little Bops" (1957) (featured in "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie")
10. "One Froggy Evening" (1955) (featured in "Bugs Bunny's 1001 Rabbit Tales")
11. "Rhapsody Rabbit" (1946) (featured in "Bugs Bunny Superstar")
12. "Show Biz Bugs" (1957) (featured in "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie")
13. "Stage Door Cartoon" (1944)
14. "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957) (featured in "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie")
15. "You Oughta Be in Pictures" (1940)

Originally posted by Full House
I don't have a laserdisc player,:( but the "Golden Age of Looney Tunes" collection will always be a collector's item. I think that one of the volumes has a mysterious opening to "A Wild Hare" the one that was not even shown until the "Blue Ribbon" re-release used in the first "Looney Tunes" compilation film "Bugs Bunny Superstar".

I have about three cartoons on Laserdisc of Bugs Bunny impersonating Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. They are from the 1930's, and I believe they are not availabe on any other video format. After the Laserdisc release, I think Warner Bros. decided not to release them again.

I still need to buy this set. Maybe for Christmas.

Originally posted by slackermonkey
I still need to buy this set. Maybe for Christmas.

Yes, you need to buy this set, and the first one, if you don't have it already.

No, I have the first one. I just need Volume 2.

Originally posted by slackermonkey
No, I have the first one. I just need Volume 2.

Aside from my favorite (Bugs Bunny), the greatest thing on the first set was the "Lumber Jerks" toon on the fourth disc. The Goofy Gophers absolutely cracked me up. My favorite part was when the wood shavings from the tree ended up looking like a wig on one of their heads and he started singing "there was a little girl, who had a little curl...etc." I nearly fell out of my seat the first time I saw that, it was so funny. I thought to myself that those writers and animators are truly crazy to come up with stuff like that. The Goofy Gophers. SO obvious. :lol:

The Dover Boys? I love that one!

Great list. I may have to pick that one up.

As for the "Looney Tunes" DVD's most of the AAP TV prints were removed from this set, but you can't see it anywhere else. It was remastered and restored to its beauty. Many of these cartoons are AAP-less. Back in the 50's AAP (Associated Artists Productions) usually bought the TV rights to "Looney Tunes" from the 30's right up until mid-1948 as well as the TV rights to Paramount's "Popeye" cartoons. The AAP prints are hard to find on any 16mm movie format on Ebay. On this part of a DVD collection, the AAP prints are gone from this collection.

Originally posted by vashti1999
Aside from my favorite (Bugs Bunny), the greatest thing on the first set was the "Lumber Jerks" toon on the fourth disc. The Goofy Gophers absolutely cracked me up. My favorite part was when the wood shavings from the tree ended up looking like a wig on one of their heads and he started singing "there was a little girl, who had a little curl...etc." I nearly fell out of my seat the first time I saw that, it was so funny. I thought to myself that those writers and animators are truly crazy to come up with stuff like that. The Goofy Gophers. SO obvious. :lol:

I love the Goofy Gophers!

I went to Barnes & Noble today and I bought the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol. 1. For those of you have the Golden Collection - Vol. 1, It has 28 more cartoons, only a couple of pre-48 cartoons are remastered without any of these AAP prints. If you have both Looney Tunes DVD collections, here is a brief history of how AAP started the pre-48 Looney Tunes.

Looney Tunes and AAP (http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/tvtitles/tvtitles2.html)

Here is the picture of the AAP opening that is not even included on both DVD's of this collection.

I went to Barnes & Noble today and I bought the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol. 1. For those of you have the Golden Collection - Vol. 1, It has 28 more cartoons, only a couple of pre-48 cartoons are remastered with any of these AAP prints. If you have both Looney Tunes DVD collections, here is a brief history of how AAP started the pre-48 Looney Tunes.

Looney Tunes and AAP (http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/tvtitles/tvtitles2.html)

Here is the picture of the AAP opening that is not even included on both DVD's of this collection.

They use that opening on Boomerang :)

I like Bunny Hugged. I wish there was more Taz like Ducking The Devil on the DVD set. I am glad to see the begings of The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Shows, The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show, and The Porky Pig Show. I think The Porky one was on in syndication. :wave:

They use that opening on Boomerang :)

They did that sometimes on TCM ocassionally. Thank heavens for the Looney Tunes DVD's. Here are the following cartoons that they were removed from TV prints that were produced by AAP on both volumes:

1. "Elmer's Candid Camera"
2. "Hare-Raising Hare" (featured in "Bugs Bunny Superstar")
3. "Haredevil Hare"
4. "Frigid Hare"
5. "Bugs Bunny Get the Boid"
6. "Tortoise Wins By a Hare"
7. "Kit for Kat"
8. "The Foghorn Leghorn"
9. "Daffy Duck Hunt"
10. "The Big Snooze"
11. "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist"
12. "Hare Conditioned"
13. "The Heckling Hare"
14. "Little Red Riding Rabbit"
15. "Tortoise Beats Hare"
16. "Rabbit Transit"
17. "Slick Hare"
18. "The Dover Boys"
19. "Tweetie Pie"
20. "Kitty Kornered"
21. "Old Glory"
22. "Baby Bottleneck"
23. "Duck Soup to Nuts"
24. "Book Revue"
25. "A Corny Concerto"
26. "Have You Got Any Castles?"
27. "Hollywood Steps Out"
28. "I Love to Singa"
29. "Katnip Kollage"
30. "The Hep Cat"
31. "Rhapsody Rabbit"
32. "Stage Door Cartoon"

By the way, I edit "with AAP prints" to "without". Sorry for my correction. Those sets has none of the AAP opening stuff on 32 of the pre-48 cartoons.:D

I like Bunny Hugged. I wish there was more Taz like Ducking The Devil on the DVD set. I am glad to see the begings of The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Shows, The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show, and The Porky Pig Show. I think The Porky one was on in syndication. :wave:

That too! I remember watching the "Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" back when I was a youngster at the time as well as the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show", the one that I used to watch as a kid. That brings back memories.