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Quick reference for "NEW TO DVD" titles, all but "Porky's Hare Hunt" and "The Lion's Busy" have been previously released on Laserdisc and VHS.

Disc 1 "What Makes Daffy Duck", "Birdy and the Beast", "Home Tweet Home" (edited version previously on Saturday Morning Cartoons DVD), "The High and the Flighty".

Disc 2 "Porky's Hare Hunt", "Hare-um Scare-um", "Presto-Chango", "The Lion's Busy", "Strife With Father", "A Horsefly Fleas".

Disc 3 TEX AVERY MGM CARTOONS COME TO BLU-RAY (although in STANDARD DEFINITION)!!!! But sorry DVD fans, they will not be in the DVD version.

Since Hi-Defenition transfers were created when restoring the Looney Tunes cartoons for the Golden Collection DVDs it is easy for WBHV to re-issue these on Blu-ray. This doesn't mean that no further restoration work was done, it only means that most are the same film transfers. It will not be like comparing the old Laserdisc & VHS tapes to the Golden collection DVDs. However they will have better resolution than the DVDs so an improvement will be seen.

The "New to DVD" titles will show the most improvement.

AUDIO:

Disc #1 = 1) English, 2) Espanol, 3) Deutsch, (Not all cartoons have all audio options)

Disc #2 = 1) English, 2) Espanol

Disc #3 = English only

SUBTITLES:

Disc #1 = 1) English, 2) Francais, 3) Deutsch (Bonus Features also have Espanol subtitles)

Disc #2 = 1) English, 2) Francais (Bonus Features also have Deutch and Espanol subtitles)

Disc #3 = 1) English, 2) Deutsch, 3) EspanolCastellano, 4) EspanolLatino

NOTE: The booklet has some errors about what bonus material is on which disc. Here is the correct contents of each disc:

DISC 1 = about 200 minutes of cartoons (3.3 hours) + Blu-ray has 52 minutes of bonus material.

A WILD HARE (1940) Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd (the first cartoon to have Bugs' personality associated with the rabbit).

BUCKAROO BUGS (1944) Bugs Bunny

LONG-HAIRED HARE (1949) Bugs Bunny

ALI BABA BUNNY (1957) Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck

SHOW BIZ BUGS (1957) Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck

THE WISE QUACKING DUCK (1943) Daffy Duck

WHAT MAKES DAFFY DUCK? (1948) Daffy Duck

BOOK REVUE (1946) Daffy Duck

DEDUCE, YOU SAY (1956) Daffy Duck as Dorlock Homes & Porky Pig as Watkins

PORKY IN WACKYLAND (1938) (B&W) Porky Pig

YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (1940) (B&W) Daffy Duck & Porky Pig

PORKY IN EGYPT (1938) (B&W) Porky Pig

BACK ALLEY OPROAR (1948) Sylvester

LITTLE RED RODENT HOOD (1952) Sylvester

CANNED FEUD (1951) Sylvester

GIFT WRAPPED (1952) Tweety & Sylvester

BIRDY AND THE BEAST (1944) Tweety & Sylvester

HOME, TWEET HOME (1950) Tweety & Sylvester

GOING! GOING! GOSH! (1952) Roadrunner & Coyote

ZIPPING ALONG (1953) Roadrunner & Coyote

SCENT-IMENTAL ROMEO (1951) Pepe Le Pew

THE FOGHORN LEGHORN (1948) Foghorn Leghorn

THE HIGH AND THE FLIGHTY (1956) Foghorn Leghorn & Daffy Duck

TABASCO ROAD (1957) Speedy Gonzalas

MEXICALI SHMOES (1959) Speedy Gonzalas

The Blu-ray disc #1 has bonus featurettes from past DVD sets, commentaries by animation experts and alternative audio tracks.

1) The Man From Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett 21 minutes (SD)

2) Bosko, Buddy and the best of Black and White historians examine the vintage B&W WB cartoons 10 minutes (SD)

3) Leon Schlessinger: The Merrie Cartoon Mogul 21 minutes (SD_

DISC 2 (This disc presents collections of 'mini-series' as well as a special favorite selected by cartoon fans in an online poll) about 212 minutes of cartoons (3.5 hours) + Blu-ray has 40 minutes of Bonus Material.

WABBIT TWOUBLE (1941) Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd (voted on-line as a fan favorite)

RABBIT FIRE (1951) Bugs & Daffy in the first of the "pronoun trouble" trilogy.

RABBIT SEASONING (1952) Bugs & Daffy in the second of the "pronoun trouble" trilogy.

DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (1953) Bugs & Daffy in the third of the "pronoun trouble" trilogy.

DRIP-ALONG DAFFY (1951) Daffy Duck & Porky Pig western parody.

MY LITTLE DUCKAROO (1954) Daffy Duck & Porky Pig western parody.

BARBARY-COAST BUNNY (1956) Bugs Bunny & Nasty Canasta

TORTOISE BEATS HARE (1941) Bugs Bunny & Cecil Turtle, first in hare & turtle trilogy

TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE (1943) Bugs Bunny & Cecil Turtle, second in hare & turtle trilogy

RABBIT TRANSIT (1947) Bugs Bunny & Cecil Turtle, third in hare & turtle trilogy

PORKY'S HARE HUNT (1938) (B&W) Porky Pig and a white rabbit (forerunner to Bugs Bunny).

HARE-UM SCARE-UM (1939) A hunter & rabbit, forerunners to Elmer Fudd & Bugs Bunny.

PREST-O CHANGE-O (1939) two dogs are heckled by a magic white rabbit (forerunner to Bugs Bunny).

ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA (1940) Elmer Fudd hunts a gray rabbit that is not quite yet Bugs Bunny.

BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID (1942) Bugs Bunny & Beaky Buzzard

THE BASHFUL BUZZARD (1945) Beaky Buzzard

THE LION'S BUSY (1950) Beaky Buzzard

STRIFE WITH FATHER (1950) Beaky Buzzard

AN ITCH IN TIME (1943) Elmer Fudd

A HORSEFLY FLEAS (1948) the flea from An Itch In Time

HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941) Hollywood characters

PAGE MISS GLORY (1936) an art deco one-shot cartoon.

ROCKET-BYE BABY (1956) a sci-fi one-shot.

RUSSIAN RHAPSODY (1944) wartime themed musical.

DOUGH RAY ME-OW (1948) Louie the Parrot & Heathcliff the housecat

The Blu-ray disc #2 has bonus featurettes from past DVD sets, commentaries by animation experts and alternative audio tracks.

1) Forever Befuddled a look at the 'career' of Elmer Fudd 4 minutes (booklet indicates this is on disc #1, but it is on #2). (SD)

2) A Hunting We Will Go Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy 10 minutes. (SD)

3) Looney Tunes Go Hollywood a look at the Hollywood star caricatures that appear in the WB cartoons 10 minutes. (SD)

4) A Conversation With Tex Avery a rare filmed interview with Tex Avery at the WB cartoon studio 7 minutes. (SD)

5) Looney Tunes Go To War a look at the patriotic roll that the WB cartoon characters took during the war 10 minutes. (SD)

DISC 3 Bonus Content totaling 432 minutes, or 7 hours and 12 minutes on one disc!(Included in the Blu-ray version ONLY, although almost all are in Standard Definition.) Most are re-issues from past DVD sets.

King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution a new 42 minute documentary focusing on Tex at Warner Brothers, with some MGM cartoons. (Some interviews are in HD, most clips are SD.)

Includes interviews with Chuck Jones, Friz Freling, Bill Plimpton, Will Friedwald, and historians Leonard Maltin, Jerry Beck, Mark Kausler, & Eric Goldberg.

NOTE: the booklet claims this is on disc #1, but it is really located on disc #3.

Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons a 1988 vintage 50 minute documentary from Turner Broadcasting giving a more thorough overview of the life and career of Tex Avery, balancing the WB & MGM years more evenly. **There is quite a bit of duplication between the two documentaries. ** If you want to watch just one of these documentaries, this is the better one to watch. (SD)

Includes interviews with Chuck Jones, June Foray, & Preston Blair.

Friz on Film a 55 minute 2006 documentary for Warner Home Video. Friz tells the story of the origins of Bugs, Speedy, Tweety & Sylvester. (SD).

Includes interviews with June Foray, LT animator Art Leonardi, Leonard Maltin

ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons A 54 minute Cartoon Network special from 2008 that includes some early cartoons rarely seen today like the "Spooney Melodies" series and gag reels. (SD).

Includes almost complete versions of these cartoons, some of which appear elsewhere on disc #3:

1) Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid

2) Crying for the Carolines Spooney Melodies

3) Lady Play Your Mandolin

4) Any Bonds Today Bugs, Elmer & Porky (Black-faced segment has been censored out!).

5) Spies Private Snafu

6) The Return of Mr. Hook

7) Animation sequence from "Two Guys From Texas" Bugs Bunny.

8) Animation sequence from "My Dream Is Yours" Bugs Bunny.

9) So Much For So Little (Educational Cartoon)

10) Orange Blossoms For Violet (Live Action Animal Comedy) clips only

11) Drafty, Isn't It? Ralph Philips

12) A collection of rare TV Commercials promoted by Bugs and the gang. Tang,

13) Philbert TV pilot clips.

14) Adventures of the Roadrunner TV pilot clips.

Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private Snafu a 9 minute 2007 "Behind The Toones" documentary for Warner Home Video (SD).

Includes interviews with LT Ink & Painter Martha Sigall and historians Jerry Beck, Mark Kausler, & Eric Goldberg.

The World of Leon Schlesinger 2008 49 minutes with Introduction by Jerry Beck & Martha Sigall (SD)

1) Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid (B&W)

2) Sinkin' In The Bathtub Bosko Looney Tune (B&W)

3) Crying For The Carolines rare surviving Spooney Melodies (B&W)

4) Its Got Me Again Merrie Melodies (B&W)

5) Haunted Gold title sequence (B&W)

6) Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party (with optional commentary by LT Ink & Painter Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck) (B&W)

Friz at MGM The Captain and the Kids Cartoons 44 minutes (STANDARD DEFINITION and UN-RESTORED)

1) Poultry Pirates (B&W)

2) A Day At The Beach (B&W)

3) The Captain's Christmas

4) Seal Skinners (B&W)

5) Mama's New Hat (B&W)

The Best of the Rest of Tex (MGM Tex Avery Cartoons!) 84 minutes NOTE: although on Blu-ray only, these are STANDARD DEFINITION and UN-RESTORED (you will notice the difference).

1) Blitz Wolf (1942)

2) Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

3) Screwball Squirrel (1944)

4) Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)

5) King-Size Canary (1947)

6) Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

7) Senor Droopy (1949)

8) Wags to Riches (1949)

9) Symphony in Slang (1951)

10) Magical Maestro (1952)

11) Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)

Private Snafu 34 minutes (B&W) (SD)

1) Coming!!SNAFU

2) Gripes

3) Spies

4) The Goldbrick

5) The Home Front

6) Rumors

7) Snafuperman

8) Censored

Mr. Hook 11 minutes (B&W) (SD)

1) The Good Egg

2) The Return of Mr. Hook

3) Tokyo Woes

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Who's in charge of these ? Is it you, Jerry Beck, as we were lead to believe? And if so, how about fulfilling your promises and opening the vault? And treating them in a manner that befits their classic status?

I love "Looney Tunes" and I love my Blu-ray and I DON'T MIND paying again for these classics to be remastered so I can see them in 1080p. It's awesome! But to take one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) cartoons of all time, "Red Hot Riding Hood" and slap out on the bonus disc in a standard VHS copy is insulting to me and all the other fans out there. Actually NONE of the content on disc three is in HD so it's NOT a Blu-ray! It's a DVD!

Look, I understand the realities of marketing and customer demand; You can't put all Bugs or Daffy on one set because no one (or very few) would buy Porky or Sylvester. You can't put them in chronological order because the average consumer wouldn't buy the black and whites. I don't expect you to remaster all the documentaries or featurettes BUT the cartoons themselves? There's no excuse except a money grab.

The packaging that Volume two comes in doesn't even match the first one! It's completely different.

I honestly don't understand the WB's complete indifference to the Looney Tunes collections and the Looney Tunes collector. It's a rabid fan base. And as proven time and again there is quite a market for deluxe sets. Why not issue deluxe collector's versions? the Complete Tex Avery!! The Complete Chuck Jones!! The Complete One Shots and Minis! Hell, Just do The Warner Bros and the complete MGM! To big? break 'em down! Complete Looney Tunes 1930-1942, Complete Merrie Melodies 1931-1942.....

All cartoons ReMastered??In 1080p? You'd make a fortune and the fans would be happy.

Unlike how they feel now.

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I ordered this item because of the Tex Avery MGM cartoons included in it. Wow! "Red Hot Riding Hood," "Swingshift Cinderella" et al on Blu-ray! Sharp, brilliant high definition! Imagine my disappointment when the product arrived, I loaded up the disc containing said MGM Avery treasures, and it looked like I was watching them on VHS. Thanks for making it clear, Product Information, that these Avery cartoons are in "standard definition" (though they look even worse, with those intermittent comb-like parallel black lines that appear occasionally in the image in certain digital videos). My excitement face-planted to disappointment just like that.

Caveat emptor... suckers!

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Not only this will be the first time the post-1935 black and white Looney Tunes will be on Blu Ray but also 10 shorts will be new-to-DVD all remastard on this release:

with its original opening titles restored **

with its original opening ringss restored ***

*What Makes Daffy Duck? (1948, Art Davis) Hilarious

*Birdy and the Beast (1944, Bob Clampett)

*Home, Tweet Home (1950, Friz Freleng)** Funny

*The High and the Flighty (1955, Robert McKimson)

*Porky's Hare Hunt (1938, Ben Hardaway) My favorite

*Hare-um Scare-um (1939, Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton) This version will have its original ending remastard back to the cartoon.

*Prest-O Change-O (1939, Chuck Jones) My personal favorite

*The Lion's Busy (1950, Friz Freleng)** Hilarious

*Strife with Father (1950, Robert McKimson)** Funny

*A Horsefly Fleas (1947, Robert McKimson)

Note: the previous released cartoon "Canned Feud" is remastard with its original opening ringss unlike LTGC Vol. 1 which had the Blue Ribbon reissue version.

And 11 Tex Avery directed MGM shorts will also be on this release, but only on Blu Ray and they're not remastard unfortunately:

*Blitz Wolf (1942)

*Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

*Screwball Squirrel (1944)

*Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)

*King-Size Canary (1947) Funny

*Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

*Señor Droopy (1949)

*Wags to Riches (1949)

*Symphony in Slang (1951) Hilarious

*Magical Maestro (1952) Hilarious

*Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952) My favorite

I only recommend this for those new-to-DVD and Blu Ray cartoona. And it's only for those who want to have the previous release shorts from the Golden Collections and Super Stars on Blu Ray in HD instead.

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Warner Home Video insists on packing these blurays like sausages... Full of recycled supplement filler from previous DVD sets. But with this one, they hit a new low. A large chunk of the cartoons on this set (everything labelled as "bonus material") isn't in 1080p. It's standard def. All those great MGM Tex Avery cartoons? Yep. They just shoved a DVD on a bluray disk and tried to slip it by you.

Here is a clue for Warner Home Video... Why would a cartoon fan buy this set? Odds are, he already has all the DVD sets... He's buying it for HI DEF CARTOONS. We don't need hour upon hour of repurposed mumbling commentary and rah rah cheerleader animation historians telling us how GREAT! everything is. We want HI DEF CARTOONS. We ESPECIALLY don't want cartoons in DVD quality as some sort of booby prize "bonus".

If Warner gave us what we want, and lots of it, they would get five stars. But the filler on this set that they charged me for and I don't want cuts that in half2 1/2 stars, rounded down for the stupidity of whoever decided that bluray customers want blurays filled with DVDs.

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***** the films

***** the discs

This review may seem contradictory, this is a five-star set of cartoons presented in a five-star Blu-ray release, and I have to rate this set on those merits. But there are some things not five-star for those of us who have been collecting the Golden Collections on DVD.

O.K, , you are probably saying "These Looney Tunes Blu-ray titles seem familiar", that is because just about all of them have been released on the DVD Golden, Oscar, & Superstars Collections. Why? Because when they were restored for those Collections they were restored in Hi-Definition 1080p, so Warner had an easy Blu-ray release here with out spending much money for new film transfers.

This means that unlike the "Wow" effect we got when we first saw the Golden Collection DVDs after watching washed out Laserdiscs & VHS tapes, this time we will see the same film transfers with improved restoration in 1080p resolution. I have seen the Blu-ray presentations of "Rabbit Hood" and "I Love to Singa" and they look nice, but you will need a rather large HD-TV to notice any kind of improvement over the Golden Collection DVDs. "I Love to Singa" still looks grainy & has negative dust just like the Golden Collection DVDs.

One BIG improvement is with BABY BOTTLENECK, the original film transfer has undergone further restoration work to reduce the grain seen in the older DVD. There is still grain, but it is a big improvement.

Warner did spend some money to make a few new Hi-Def transfers for titles not previously on DVD:

Disc #1

Lovelorn Leghorn Foghorn Leghorn only available previously on VHS

Disc #2

Hasty Hare Bugs Bunny & Marvin Martian previously available on the Laserdisc "Looney Tunes After Dark"

Hare-way To The Stars Bugs Bunny & Marvin Martian previously available on the Laserdisc "Looney Tunes After Dark"

Bill of Hare Bugs Bunny & Tasmanian Devil previously available on the Laserdisc "Stars of Space Jam"

A Witches Tangled Hare Bugs Bunny & Witch Hazel only available previously on VHS.

Feline Frame-up previously available on the Laserdisc "Assorted Nuts"

Disc #3 (Presented in STANDARD DEFINITION unless noted)

Marvin Martian in the 3rd Dimension (1996) non-anamorphic letterboxed small screen presentation.

Father of the Bird Foghorn Leghorn (1997)

Museum Scream Tweety & Sylvester (2003) High Defenition, anamorphic widescreen

And some Chuck Jones productions:

Hell Bent for Election (1944)

Hitch In time (1955) High defenition

The Door (with Bill Cosby 1968)

It is puzzling, and disappointing that disc #3 is mostly in STANDARD DEFINITION Blu-ray, with noticeable scan lines. It is obviously hobbled together quickly to give this set a third disc. I saw only three Hi-Definition cartoons on disc #3: "A Hitch In Time" (1955), "90 Day Wondering" (1955) and in anamorphic widescreen "Museum Scream" (2003). "Superior Duck" also looks good like it might be in Hi-Definition but it clocks in with the other standard definition cartoons. "Marvin Martian in the 3rd Dimension" (1996) is a real disappointment in standard definition, it is letterboxed and not anamorphic, the picture is really shrunk down. I was also looking forward to seeing "The Dot and The Line" as well as "The Bear That Wasn't" in Hi-definition, but that was not to be here. Maybe if a Chuck Jones MGM Cartoon set comes out in Blu-ray we may see true Di-Definition presentations of those cartoons then.

So if you have all of the DVD Golden Collections, The Oscar Winners & Nominees collection, and the Superstars Collections, you will likely only be buying this for the 6 newly restored cartoons on discs 1 & 2.

I guess a direct re-release of the Golden Collections on Blu-ray would have sold less than a Blu-ray collection featuring 6 new titles not previously on DVD.

Notice that there are only 50 classic cartoons here, the old Golden Collection DVDs had 60 cartoons per set. So it will take more Blu-ray sets to cover the same quantity of cartoons as the old DVD sets.

** If you are trying to decide between the expensive "Ultimate Collector's Edition" and the regular edition, there is really nothing "Ultimate" about the "Ultimate Edition". The Ultimate edition adds a Bugs Bunny shot glass (yes you heard me Bugs Bunny is promoting alcoholic drinking) and a certificate of authenticity (like we are worried about bootleg Blu-rays), a tin with a picture on it and a matted lithograph. I think reproductions of the cartoon lobby cards that appear shrunken in the booklet would have been a better deal.

Save your money & get the basic version, the discs are the same.**

At least something is being released for the animation fans again by Warner Home Video. If you can afford it, lets support this Hi-Def project and keep some new titles coming out.

***UPDATE ABOUT THE DVDS***

The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 1 release was originally a Blu-ray ONLY release, and this review pertains to the Blu-Ray discs only.

Due to popular request, Warner Home Video later released a standard DVD 2-disc version which did not include the bonus disc #3.

Since each cartoon runs roughly 7 to 8 minutes, that means one disc with 25 cartoons on it runs about 3 hours and 8 minutes which is a maximum for a dual layer DVD before increasing compression artifacting. While I do not have the standard DVDs to tell you if they include the bonus material on the Blu-ray discs #1 & 2, consider that there may not have been room on the discs to include them.

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You wouldn't buy or download a CD without knowing what was on it, would you? So why would you buy this DVD collection without knowing its contents?

So first off, its contents. Why Amazon doesn't list this info is beyond me. This is a collection of 50 vintage Warner Brothers cartoons, many of which are classics.

Disc 1

Hare Tonic

Baseball Bugs

Buccaneer Bunny

The Old Grey Hare

Rabbit Hood

8 Ball Bunny

Rabbit of Seville

What's Opera Doc?

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

A Pest in the House

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

Duck Amuck

Robin Hood Daffy

Baby Bottleneck

Kitty Kornered

Scaredy Cat

Porky Chops

Old Glory

A Tale of Two Kitties

Tweetie Pie

Fast and Furry-ous

Beep, Beep

Lovelorn Leghorn

For Scent-imental Reasons

Speedy Gonzales

Disc 2

One Froggy Evening

Three Little Bops

I Love to Singa

Katnip Kollege

The Dover Boys at Pimento University

Chow Hound

Haredevil Hare

The Hasty Hare

Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century

Hare-Way to the Stars

Mad as a Mars Hare

Devil May Hare

Bedevilled Rabbit

Ducking the Devil

Bill of Hare

Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

Bewitched Bunny

Broom-Stick Bunny

A Witch's Tangled Hare

A-Haunting We Will Go

Feed the Kitty

Kiss Me Kat

Feline Frame-up

From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

Boyhood Daze

All of your favorite characters are here (Bugs, Marvin, Foghorn, Taz, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy, and so on), and some of the greatest American cartoons ever (Duck Amuck, What's Opera Doc) are here. Of course, when a studio has a library as extensive as Warner Brothers', it seems likely that no single collection is likely to contain all of the classics. Missing from this collection are some unforgettable cartoons like Rabbit Seasoning, Duck! Rabbit, Duck! and A Sheep in the Deep, but all-in all this is an amazing collection of great old cartoons. They're remastered beautifully and are a sight to behold.

If you want your kids to grow up with an appreciation of Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc (that's why I bought this), then you can't do better than this amazing collection.

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The main draw for me to purchase this set was that it included the complete collection of Marvin the Martian and Taz cartoons, as I already have the 6 Golden Collections and all the Superstars discs. Well after getting it and watching some of the cartoons my mind was blown as to how well the cartoons look on a 1080p set. The colors pop as if they were produced just yesterday. Although in some of the cartoons scratches and dust are more noticeable (one has to remember that these cartoons were made around 60-70 years ago), but it does not detract from the overall experience.

Also included in the collector's set is a certificate of authenticity,a framed lithograph titled "The Looney Tunes March," a tin sign that features Bugs and Daffy, and of all things a Bugs Bunny shot glass. According to the box, only 36,000 of these sets were produced, so for die-hard Looney Tunes collectors this might be right up your alley!

Disc 1 contains a random assortment of goodies from Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and other Looney Tunes stars.

Disc 2 contains the complete Marvin the Martian, the complete Taz the Tasmanian Devil, and the complete Witch Hazel, as well as complete collections for other stars. This disc also features one-hit wonders such as I Love to Singa, The Three Little Bops, and One Froggy Evening.

Disc 3 contains films revolving around one of the greatest animation directors of all time Chuck Jones, and features some of his greatest non-Looney Tunes shorts such as: The Dot and the Line and other rare Chuck Jones oddities. Also included on this disc is 9 bonus cartoons such as: Spaced-Out Bunny, Superior Duck, and From Hare to Eternity.

If you are on the fence about purchasing this, pick this set up now! You will not regret it.

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I own, and treasure, The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, as imperfect as it is, and I was extremely disappointed to see THAT series so abruptly and unceremoniously terminated after only 6 volumes as if it were being managed by a child who suddenly and capriciously became bored with it.

In my opinion, that was a slap in the face to those of us who had invested in volumes 1 through 6.

So, you'll understand if I have to look askance at the PLATINUM collection because so many of these titles were previously released in The Golden Collection.

For those who may be wondering (and I apologize if someone has already done this exercise) here, in alphabetical order, are the 6 cartoons on this Platinum Volume that I did NOT see among the cartoons on the 6 Volumes of The Looney Tunes Golden Collection:

BEDEVILED RABBIT

BILL OF HARE

DUCKING THE DEVIL

DR. DEVIL AND MR. HARE

FROM A TO Z-Z-Z-Z

A WITCHES TANGLED HARE

I would love to add the above 6 to my collection, but not at the cost of adding 19 duplicate cartoons.

It's bad enough that excellent offerings such as CAPTAIN HAREBLOWER and

RACKETEER RABBIT (a personal favorite) were given short shrift and wound up tucked away as extras on other disks (CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER and PUBLIC ENEMIES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE GANGSTER FILM, respectively).

I am VERY disappointed to see what I contend is the continued MIS-handling of this franchise and I won't be rushing out to add the PLATINUMS to my animation library anytime soon.

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This set is a revelation! People who think the DVD is "good enough" are nuts.

I just watched all the Clampetts and the early Jones cartoons on my ten foot screen and every single one had my jaw on the floor. They're beautiful. The overall saturation level is too high and the volume of the cartoons is a bit low, but I turned down the color and turned up the sound and they were perfect... No, beyond perfect. I've seen these cartoons projected theatrically quite a few times, but the colors weren't anywhere as well balanced in theatrical prints as they are here. It isn't like the Disney films where everything is goosed up and shifted to primary colors. These transfers have very sophisticated color schemes with muted colors AND vivid ones. Great Piggy Bank Robbery and especially Kitty Cornered had some of the most amazing color I've ever seen. The lines were sharp, you can see textures and brushstrokes on the backgrounds and every frame is crystal clear with no compression or DVNR artifacting. I've been quite critical of the transfer quality of the Looney Tunes on DVD, but this time, WB got it right.

Don't believe me? Check out this photo I shot off my screen using my iphone...If you think your DVDs look good, pop in One Froggy Evening and skip to the scene where the crowd of people is exiting crossing the scene about 3/4 of the way through the cartoon. Still frame on that crowd. On DVD, it's a macroblocked mess of colored boxes. On bluray, it's pristine. The color balances, digital noise reduction and frame sharpness are MUCH worse on the DVDs. This set is a thousand times better. When I put in the third disk with the standard def documentaries with the old prints, it was like going back to the stone age. They could have totally eliminated the supplements and just given me more cartoons in HD. I want more of these sets.