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Fiesta de ComiquitasAnd let's start our journey into Mexico with...some U.S. releases. Originally dubbed and produced in 1982 for release in Argentina, the Fiesta de Comiquitas series was brought into North America in the late 1980s to serve as a Spanish alternative to the Looney Tunes Video Show collections. When the first three volumes were reissued in 1992, Warner Home Video merely used the same packaging from its concurrent Looney Tunes Video Show reissues but with a corresponding Fiesta de Comiquitas hype sticker slapped onto the front. The back covers still listed the same seven cartoons as found on the English Looney Tunes Video Show releases, with the only other indication that the compilations may in fact be different being a small square label on the side panels showing a different runtime. 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). Some of the cartoons appear to have a distinct discolored look to them, which may or may not have been a result of reprocessing the PAL-formatted Argentinian compilations into the North American NTSC color system. For what it's worth, despite switching from PAL to NTSC, at least the cartoons play at their correct speed.
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. Which means that for about a decade, Warner Home Video had an otherwise verboten cartoon in print on cassette.
Fiesta de Comiquitas 2
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Fiesta de Comiquitas 3
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Festival de Caricaturas Translated as Cartoon Festival, this series seems to be some sort of equivalent to the Looney Tunes Video Show collections. Unfortunately, very little is known about these compilations, compounded by the frustrating fact that the covers make no indication of which cartoons are featured. The back cover texts are usually just standard "Join Bugs, the Road Runner, and more for fun and comedy" style of blurbs. No actual programming is noted anywhere. At various points certain volumes were reissued. It is currently unknown if these were one-off occurrences or line-wide re-releases
Festival de Caricaturas 3
Festival de Caricaturas 7
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1985?
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Bugs Bunny Cartoon Festival
1988?
Hold the Lion, Please - Buckaroo Bugs - Racketeer Rabbit
Super-Rabbit - Acrobatty Bunny - Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Rhapsody Rabbit
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Tweety & Sylvester
1989
Happy Birthday Bugs: 50 Looney Years
1990?
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Bugs Bunny's Christmas
1990?
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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
1991?
Taz-Manimals
1993?
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Videotoons Released by Videovisa, this series served as a sort of stand-in for the Golden Jubilee series. Some of the volumes opened with an edited version of the Golden Jubilee animated intro (removing the close-up of the featured character's name), while the spines of some volumes outright stated that they were merely translated versions of their respective Golden Jubilee videos. As you will read, that was not the case. The videos seemingly utilized European PAL video masters of the Spanish dubs that had been around since the early 1980s, either acquired from Europe or (likely) South America. Due to PAL's higher (quicker) frame rate, once these masters were transferred to NTSC the cartoons ended up playing about 4 percent faster. Back in the United States, when Turner Broadcasting started acquiring the broadcast rights to the post-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons in 1996, Cartoon Network and its various international outlets needed dubbed copies for their Spanish audio feeds--so Warner Bros. supplied them with these same versions, resulting in even the English versions being sped up when broadcast. Unfortunately, these time-compressed transfers would become many of these shorts' go-to versions to show up on television until they were eventually remastered for DVD. It is possible that the Bugs, Daffy, Porky, and Tweety volumes here are actually ported over from an even earlier series released in Chile in 1988, which would completely rewrite the history of the Spanish time-compressed cartoons. But until complete and more accurate information can be discovered about the Chilean series, then we'll err on the side of caution for now and say that the versions in question originated here.
Bugs Bunny
In Rabbit of Seville all of the singing is dubbed in Spanish, which isn't usually the case for songs featured in English films or cartoons. Also, to incorporate One Froggy Evening, Bugs narrates the entire cartoon in Spanish in a manner similar to 1001 Rabbit Tales--yet Michigan's singing remains in English.
Daffy Duck This video is where the odd Cartoon Network edit of Drip-along Daffy originated, with the cartoon abruptly ending with Daffy pushing the sanitation cart. Porky's final line was removed because there was likely no satisfactory way to translate the joke into Spanish. The reason this version ended up on Cartoon Network for many years was, again, because it had a Spanish audio track ready to go.
Less offensive but equally bizarre is an edit occurring at the end of Don't Axe Me, with the short removing its final "That's all Folks" tag.
Porky Pig In Boobs in the Woods Daffy's song is dubbed in Spanish, while in My Little Duckaroo Porky's opening song and Daffy's "Whoa, Tinfoil!" line are both still in English.
Curtain Razor, though, has the most anomalies. Both the grasshopper's opening operatta and his "I slayed 'em in Scranton!" comments are in English, while the entire sequence with the three crooner birds has been removed completely. The Mel Blanc Turtle's scene is also unique in that the impression medley remains undubbed, yet the punchline is rewritten to have Porky now object to his act because all of his voices are in English!
Sylvester and Tweety
In Tree for Two, both Sylvester singing "The Charleston" and his subsequent "scared" version of the song are undubbed.
Speedy Gonzales
No Golden Jubilee intro--just a black title card with Speedy's name in colored letters, and then again in white subtitles, for some reason.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
No Golden Jubilee intro--just a black title card.
Foghorn Leghorn No Golden Jubilee intro--just a black title card.
Mel Blanc's voice can still be heard as the puppy's barking and on some of Foghorn's "Camptown Races" scat-singing in Feather Bluster and as Henery's dad's sinister laughter in The Foghorn Leghorn. Foggy's scat-singing in Henhouse Henery also remains in English, too.
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Automotaz
1995
Driving Mr. Taz - Mean Bear - Ticket Taker Taz
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Stars of Space Jam In 2003 the series was reissued. Those editions are pictured at the right.
Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny
Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck Stars of Space Jam: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
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Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety
Stars of Space Jam: Tasmanian Devil
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Space Jam
1997
The version on the right might be a rental edition.
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Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures Bugs Bunny's Elephant Parade
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Bugs Bunny's Funky Monkeys
Bugs Bunny's Silly Seals
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The World of Bears with Bugs Bunny
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Space Jam
1997?
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The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Double Jeopardy
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Tuna Catch a Thief
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Bugs & Friends
A boxed set of five different compilations. As of yet, there is no record of any of the cassettes being offered individually in Mexico.
Bugs & Tweety: Watch the Birdie
Bugs & Daffy: What's Up, Duck?
Bugs & Road Runner: Runaway Rabbit
Bugs & Speedy: Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
1998
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Paquete Looney Tunes
A boxed set of five different compilations. As of yet, there is no record of any of the cassettes being offered individually in Mexico.
From Hare to Eternity
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Superior Duck
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Cheese Chasers
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Greedy for Tweety
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The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1999?
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure
2000?
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
2001
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Tus Amigos Favoritos Similiarly packaged to a series released in Spain in 2002, this series is seemingly part of a Warner line of repackaged family titles like the later "and friends" DVDs. Unlike the series in Spain, though, the back covers of these editions make no indication of the contents inside.
Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny
Porky Pig
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Road Runner
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Marvin the Martian
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Foghorn Leghorn
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Best of Daffy & Porky
2003?
All Stars Volume One
2003?
All Stars Volume Two
2003?
Looney Tunes Back in Action
(VHS version)
2004
Looney Tunes Back in Action
(DVD version)
2004
Best of Bugs Bunny Volume Two
2004?
Best of Road Runner
2004?
All Stars Volume Three
2004?
The fourth, On Stage and Screen disc from the Golden Collection Volume Two.
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Looney Tunes Super Stars
Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit
A dual Region 1 and Region 4 disc, marking the only Region 1 release of this title.
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Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
2010
Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
2010?
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
2010?
Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
2010?
The Essential Daffy Duck
2011?
Platinum Collection Volume Two
2012?
Looney Tunes Back in Action
2014
Platinum Collection Volume Three
2014?
Looney Tunes Parodies Collection
2020?
Space Jam: A New Legacy
(DVD Version)
2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy
(Blu-ray Version)
2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy/Space Jam
(Blu-ray)
2021
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