Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6

Its very sad that Corporate greed won out and has resulted in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection being canceled. I could see it coming three sets back. When they started trying to stretch the sets out by adding obscure characters like Bosko that nobody grew up watching of the forty something generation. Incredible misdirection has caused the executives at Warner Brothers to shoot themselves in the foot big time! My generation couldn't care less about characters like that, we wanted to see Bugs bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosmite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, Sylvester and Tweety and Elmer Fudd. If Bosko is such a great character then why not give him his own box set? And WHO is buddie? They wouldn't because it wouldn't and DIDN'T sell, so they used it as a cheap filler which cost them. Looking at the last set, Volume six Warner executives still didn't get it. Lots of cheap fillers produce unhappy people which won't buy your product. If Warner had stayed faithful to the proven formula the sets would've resulted in huge revenues for them. Sad. And whats with all the World War two propaganda films in volume six? I am sure these old Black and White films are of some historic value, but they are not really that funny or interesting. These shorts prove that Warner lost site of what people really wanted to see. These sets were supposed to be the cream of the crop of characters we all know and love, in chronological order would've been preferable, with hand picked gems representing each beloved one. Instead we get someone trying to paint an early history of Warner Brothers cartoons, folding in uninspired, forgettable Junk characters. The dream of having the very best of the Looney tune characters we grew up with is dead. With set six we have forgettable characters with old B/W WW2 propaganda films.

It's hard to believe that Warner Bros. was once one of The Great Studios. The Looney Tunes Collection is potentially outstanding -- one could even say of historical note, given the role of cartoons from the 40s through the mid-60s. But with two great releases in Volume 1 and Volume 2, the collection has steadily declined to this sad excuse in Volume 6.

Warner Bros. has taken the same approach that the music industry has taken with CDs -- with the same result, namely a decline in public interest and a public turn to online downloading.

That approach consists in putting one or two great tracks on a disc to attract buyers and ramming garbage down our throats with the remainder.

What made Looney Tunes great was outstanding animators -- Chuck Jones, Bill McKimson, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam. Some of their work has become iconographic in American culture, as much as any great movie (like Wizard of Oz or Gone With the Wind). Warner drops any attempt to capture this. Certainly by Volume 4, Warner has established it's plan to ram less interesting material down our throats.

This wouldn't matter IF Warner included more of the gems. But entire characters are almost unrepresented in the series. Most notably to my mind is Claude the Cat -- hilarious and absent but for two cartoons (if I remember correctly). Better known and almost as unrecognized is Pepe le Pew.

Warner destroyed what could have been a consistently great collection just as they destroyed the Batman series.

Again, a triumph of moronic marketing over substance and quality.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: I have a huge personal collection of these cartoons on tape. Since Warner has effectively abandoned these treasures, practically putting them out with the trash, I will now treat my collection as in the public domain. Look for Looney Tunes online.

The last few releases sure had a lot of ancient, unfunny, (but, I'm sure historically important) Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts.

I didn't care for how they put these boxes together anyway. Our favorite 1940's and 1950's classics mixed in with alot of 1930's "undesirables".

What I'd like to see is a big 10 DVD box release of Looney Tunes from the 1940's and 1950's released in chonological order. I want every cartoon to seem to belong to it's genre without going astray into some dumb 1930's "less than desirable" dinosaur cartoon. They knew back in the late 1970's and the 1980's what cartoons we enjoyed on Saturday mornings (remember "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour"?) We don't want to see WWII history, we want Bugs, and Daffy, and all their pals with their "over-the-top" comic lunacy.

I hope the ending of this current format means that something better is yet to come to re-introduce our favorite Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts in a new formatted box set. Let's all hope.

These past years, Warner Brothers have showed their classics from the Looney Tunes vault on DVD. Sadly, there was a huge announcement made, that Warner Brothers decided to stop making the Looney Tunes Golden Collections after this one. Which to me is an absolute dissapointment. After the last one, Golden Collection Volume 5, there were a few shocks from fewer Bugs Bunny Cartoons, to a seperate DVD collection from the Warner Brothers vault releasing a seperate series featuring Oscar-winning and nominated cartoons that showed well, but could've offered a bit more in variety. Now, what becomes of the final Looney Tunes Golden Collection. Just simply put, That's All Folks!

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 is the final edition of the long-running series, and brings here a lot less of your favorites from Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. Instead, the DVD set instead focuses in mainly on the lesser-known shorts, and that shown widely from their Merrie Melodies beginnings from their early 30's days from M.G.M. days. The first disc is widely relevant of the fewer classics from the all-stars, which includes classics like Hare Trigger, which features the debut of Yosemite Sam, to Satan's Waitin', where Sylvester winds up in the Devil's world, where he slowly, loses his 9 lives in a grappling battle to capture Tweety. There are other shorts with lesser-known favorites like A Ham In A Role with The Goofy Gophers, the polite duo named Mac & Tosh which became Warner Brothers answer to Disney's Chip & Dale, and Dog Gone South with with Charlie Dog, who was always seeking a master of his own, and winds up in Southern Country after being kicked off a train.

The second disc is where the collection though gets pretty interesting, as it mainly highlights the classic cartoons from the World War II era. Most of these cartoons have been overlooked and not shown on television in over 20 years. The main highlights include cartoons like Heir Meets Hare, where Bugs Bunny winds up in Germany by mistake, and is wrangling with a German hunter. This cartoon also shows Bugs and the hunter ending up in a dance scene, that is the prelude into what later became the more famous dance scene from the Chuck Jones' classic What's Opera Doc? There are also other classics from Wacky Blackout and Rookie Revue here.

The third disc mainly shows the beginnings from some of the classic greats from Warner's days back in the 1930's, before Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd made their way into the mainstream. Then it was all mainly about charcters like the simple black & white cartoons, or widely known as two-tones like Bosko. While these gems will not appeal to new fans, but it mainly works as a rare delight for the hard core Looney Tunes fans. While the last disc, also shows some recognition to the favorite assorted nuts classics. These include some of the longtime favorites like the favorite Horton Hatches The Egg, which was loosely based on the Dr. Seuss children's book. On this disc, there are also other greats like Rocket-Bye Baby, where two different babies are delivered from two intergalatic worlds, and the Wilbur family has to deal with the misadventures of taking care of the Martian baby from Earth, and The Oily American, where a wealthy Indian owns a mansion and a pool, and goes on a moose hunt, but actually tries to capture a moose who is short in height. There also are a few extras here that are worth buying in the collection, including the very rare documentary about the legendary late Mel Blanc: A Man Of A Thousand Voices, and some of the classic Warner Brothers specials from the 70's and 80's including Bugs Bunny In King Arthur's Court, a spoof on the classic Mark Twain novel, A Conneticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court.

All in all, it is honestly such a sad shame that Warner Brothers still could've had a whole lot more into the long-running Golden Collection cartoon DVD sets. Volume 6 isn't a bad buy for die hard fans, and it is well shown right here. I just wish that there could've been more highlights and cartoons from favorite characters like Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew and Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog throughout the series. Nevertheless, Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 ends what made Warner Brothers cartoons so remarkable over the years, and what animation fans have constantly forgotten about the greats for so long. I just hope though that Warner Brothers tries to do something else with these classic gems soon. Well, in the meantime, That's All Folks!, really.

Price: B

Extras: B+

Shorts: C+

Remastering: B+

Overall: B 1/2-

Is this's true WB? I am mad of WB. They shuld and only shuld keep going with a another golden collection box next year if it was me. 5 star for the Looney Tunes, but nearly loose one star because they said that they will NOT continued this series of great boxes. I have all and I wait for this One. I am a fan of Looney Tunes. A BIG one. I will be sad if they not continued this series. All Boxes earn 5 star. I am nearly give this box 4 star. I am a 27 year old man from NORWAY!!!!!