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Fiesta de Comiquitas Translated as Cartoon Festival, these are the earliest known Warner Bros. cartoon compilations to be dubbed into Spanish. Most if not all of these versions of the cartoons would be utitlized for every subsequent Spanish-language release throughout the world, even eventually leading to the dreaded sped-up "time compressed" masters of the shorts seen on Cartoon Network. In 1986, meanwhile, these specific collections would be ported over into the United States also under the Fiesta de Comiquitas banner to serve as a Spanish alternative to the Looney Tunes Video Show releases. They would remain in print there until the end of the century. More information on the U.S. versions can be found on our Mexico page. Opening titles were cut in various ways on each of the cartoons, sometimes starting right after WB shield zoom, sometimes at the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies title screen, sometimes at the "Bugs Bunny in" card, or sometimes simply at the short's title card. Inversely, in most cases the final "That's all Folks" end tag was also missing, usually appearing just after the final short (along with an overdub from Bugs wishing us farewell).
Fiesta de Comiquitas Mel Blanc's voice can still be heard as the puppy's barking and during some of Foghorn's "Camptown Races" scat-singing in Feather Bluster, while in My Little Duckaroo Porky's opening song and Daffy's "Whoa, Tinfoil!" line are both still in English. Perhaps most interestingly, though, is that apart from the missing WB shield zoom, Caveman Inki runs completely intact and undubbed--not even an off-camera Spanish speaker reading over the title card.
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1983
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Festival de Dibujos Animados Warner Bros. Although the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Speedy were also featured on the back covers in their Golden Jubilee era tuxedos, the series only consisted of four volumes. Bugs of course was volume one.
Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues...
Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies
Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers The image at the right is from an undated reissue released by a firm called Toby Video. It is very likely an unauthorized edition due to some creative interpretations of Argentina's copyright and public domain laws. |
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MGM Cartoon Festivals At the time, MGM Home Video releases in Argentina were distributed by Videoman Internacional.
Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain't That Ducky" Though the back cover only lists the same five cartoons found on the U.S. edition of the Ain't That Ducky video (see the above program list), the front cover, however, claims to feature three additional shorts. El Gran Robo is The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, while El Pato Lucas y el Dinosaurio is of course The Stupid Cupid--err, that is, Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur. The final additional title on the front cover is Un Pato Listo, the Spanish title for The Wise Quacking Duck--which in turn is mislabeled on the back cover as El Cazador Cazado. If both Un Pato Listo and El Cazador Cazado are featured on this tape then it would truly be bizarre, because the latter is in actuality the Spanish title for Two Gophers from Texas!
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Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival Featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat" |
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
1989?
Happy Birthday Bugs: 50 Looney Years
1990
In addition to a dubbed version of the cheesy Happy Birthday Bugs TV special, the video also includes as a bonus the complete Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales, mentioned on the back with a blurb not unlike how eventual DVD cases would advertise their special features.
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
1990?
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Quasarkids Quasar Video Home seemed to be a legitimate distributor based out of Buenos Aires that was able to strike deals with a number of major studios. Similar to MGM's old Viddy-Oh! children's line, the label launched a cassette series called Quasarkids that presented family-friendly releases including a few Disney titles (such as Bambi and a Donald Duck compilation) and some of the MGM releases. Despite their at-times bootleggy-looking covers, these appear to be authentic releases.
Porky Pig and Company
Starring Bugs Bunny!
Sniffles
Kit-bashed from the Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng sides of the first Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdisc set.
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Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars
1992? (right image is from a 1996 reissue)
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Taz-Mania
Taz-Maniac
Taz-tronaut
Fan-Taz-Tic
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Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
1996
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
1996
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
1996
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
What's New Puddy Tat?
Double Jeopardy
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Chariots of Fur
1996?
Space Jam
1997
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Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures
Bugs Bunny's Elephant Parade
Bugs Bunny's Funky Monkeys
Bugs Bunny's Silly Seals
The World of Bears with Bugs Bunny
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Stars of Space Jam
Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny
Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck
Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety The other two character videos were also released in Argentina. However, the occasional sixth video in the Stars of Space Jam series, Space Tunes, was not. |
Scaredy Cat
1998
Canned Feud - A Mouse Divided - Scaredy Cat
Mouse Mazuka - Stooge for a Mouse - Little Red Rodent Hood
The Prize Pest
1998
Dime to Retire - The Wearing of the Grin - The Ducksters
Dough for the Do-Do - Deduce, You Say - The Prize Pest
The appearance of the word "molesto" makes the cover ten times more unsettling than probably intended.
From Hare to Eternity
1999
Superior Duck
1999
Gorilla My Dreams
1999?
VEA
Falling Hare - Hare Ribbin' - The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
Hurdy-Gurdy Hare - Rabbit Rampage - Gorilla My Dreams
Hair-Raising Hare - Baseball Bugs
A totally weird bootleg trying to pass itself off as a common public-domain collection, combining cartoons from both the pre-1948 and post-1948 libraries.
Pepe le Pew's
1999?
VEA
Scent-imental Romeo - Past Perfumance - Really Scent
The Cats Bah - For Scent-imental Reasons - Much Ado About Nutting
Odor of the Day - The Little Goldfish
VEA strikes again with another bizarre bootleg, right down to an unintelligible "title" (Pepe le Pew's what exactly?). It almost makes one wonder if VEA thought these cartoons were all in the public domain, but even then Argentina usually adheres to an "authors-life-plus-50" copyright rule for cinematic works, so at the time of this release there was absolutely nothing of Pepe's that was free and clear.
Most of the video is obviously just lifted from Pepe le Pew's Skunk Tales, but then for a weird left turn it slaps on the 1939 Rudolf Ising cartoon The Little Goldfish. To the label's "credit," the back cover does at least note that it's an MGM production.
Tweety: Home Tweet Home
2000
Tweety: Tweet & Lovely
2000
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure
2000
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
2000
Taz's Jungle Jams
2000
Best of Bugs Bunny
2003?
Best of Daffy & Porky
2003?
Looney Tunes Double Collection
2003?
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All Stars Volume 1
(VHS version)
2003?
All Stars Volume 1
(DVD version)
2003?
All Stars Volume 2
(VHS version)
2003?
All Stars Volume 2
(DVD version)
2003?
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(VHS version)
2004?
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(full frame DVD version)
2004?
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Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 2
2004?
Best of Road Runner
2004?
Best of Tweety & Sylvester
2004?
All Stars Volume 3
2004?
The fourth, On Stage and Screen disc from the Golden Collection Volume Two.
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
2005?
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
2005?
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