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October 6, 2025
Coming October 28; includes HD debut of Porky the Gob
With barely three weeks left before their street date, the rest of Warner Archive's October titles are finally available to pre-order. One of the last holdouts was the 1938 screwball comedy The Mad Miss Manton starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda (three years before their inarguably more famous pairing in The Lady Eve). Boasting a brand new 4K scan of the original nitrate negative, the Blu-ray is set for release on October 28 and is available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Like with many of the Archive's October releases, the special features on this disc are made up of the original theatrical trailer and a couple of vintage shorts. Here we get Tex Avery's The Penguin Parade (previousy released on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 2) and the HD debut of Porky the Gob. This is the same version of Gob that first appeared on the Porky Pig 101 DVD, so not fully remastered from the negative.
The Mad Miss Manton is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray on October 28 and will retail for $24.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
October 3, 2025
Coming October 28; includes HD debut of The Heckling Hare
As is the norm for any given month's Warner Archive releases, the October slate of titles are finally trickling online for pre-ordering. Among the month's eclectic mix of movies is the somewhat experimental 1941 noir crime thriller Out of the Fog. Starring Ida Lupino and John Garfield and directed by Anatole Litvak, the film's Blu-ray is set for release on October 28 and is available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Apart from the original theatrical trailer, the disc's sole extras are two classic Tex Avery cartoons, Hollywood Steps Out and the HD debut of The Heckling Hare. The Heckling Hare is currently the earliest Bugs Bunny short yet to debut on Blu-ray. so if you can't wait for it to maybe pop up on a future Collector's Vault volume, now's your chance!
Out of the Fog is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray on October 28 and will retail for $24.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
June 24, 2025
100 cartoons in HD plus a ton of bonuses
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Platinum Collection Volume One contains the following. Shorts that had previously been released on DVD are noted....
Disc One
Hare Tonic (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Baseball Bugs (1946) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Buccaneer Bunny (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Old Grey Hare (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Rabbit Hood (1949) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
8 Ball Bunny (1950) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
The Rabbit of Seville (1950) (Golden Collection Volume One)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Pest in the House (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Duck Amuck (1953) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Robin Hood Daffy (1958) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Baby Bottleneck (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Kitty Kornered (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Scaredy Cat (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Porky Chops (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Old Glory (1939) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Tweetie Pie (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Beep, Beep (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Lovelorn Leghorn (1951)
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Speedy Gonzales (1955) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Disc Two
One Froggy Evening (1955) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Three Little Bops (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
I Love to Singa (1936) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Katnip Kollege (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Dover Boys (1942) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Chow Hound (1951) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Haredevil Hare (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The Hasty Hare (1952)
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Hare-way to the Stars (1958)
Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
Devil May Hare (1954) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Bedevilled Rabbit (1957)
Ducking the Devil (1957)
Bill of Hare (1962)
Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964)
Bewitched Bunny (1954) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Broom-stick Bunny (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1966) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Feed the Kitty (1952) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Kiss Me Cat (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Feline Frame-up (1954)
From A to Z-z-z-z (1957) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
Boyhood Daze (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Disc Three (all previously released material is in standard definition and/or unremastered)
A Greeting from Chuck Jones (2003) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens (2000 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood (2009 documentary) (Tom and Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection)
Point Rationing of Foods (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Hell-Bent for Election (1944 UPA campaign cartoon)
So Much for So Little (1949) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Hitch in Time (1955)
90 Day Wondering (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Drafty, Isn't It? (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
The Dot and the Line (1965) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
The Bear That Wasn't (1967) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
The Door (1968)
Fright Before Christmas (1979) (with the 1992 title sequence)
Spaced Out Bunny (1980) (no title card or title sequence)
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century (1980, the official "short" version) (Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
Marvin the Martian in the 3rd Dimension (1996 theme park film)
Superior Duck (1996) (Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
From Hare to Eternity (1996) (The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie)
Father of the Bird (1997)
Museum Scream (2003)
As for Platinum Collection Volume Two, the contents are below. Again, shorts that had previously been released on DVD are noted. For the third disc some of the unremastered bonus cartoons have since been released in better quality on Blu-rays of their own (namely the Tex Avery and Private Snafu shorts), and those have been noted as well....
Disc One
A Wild Hare (1940) (The Essential Bugs Bunny and elsewhere)
Buckaroo Bugs (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Long-Haired Hare (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Ali Baba Bunny (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Show Biz Bugs (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Wise Quacking Duck (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
What Makes Daffy Duck (1948)
Book Revue (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Deduce, You Say (1956) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Porky in Wackyland (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Porky in Egypt (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Back Alley Oproar (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Canned Feud (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Gift Wrapped (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Birdy and the Beast (1944)
Home, Tweet Home (1950)
Going! Going! Gosh! (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Zipping Along (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (Pepe le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best)
The Foghorn Leghorn (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The High and the Flighty (1956)
Tabasco Road (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Mexicali Shmoes (1959) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Disc Two
Wabbit Twouble (1941) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Fire (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Drip-along Daffy (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
My Little Duckaroo (1954) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Barbary Coast Bunny (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Tortoise Beats Hare (1941) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Transit (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)
Hare-um Scare-um (1939) (ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION)
Prest-o Change-o (1939)
Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The Bashful Buzzard (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Lion's Busy (1950)
Strife with Father (1950)
An Itch in Time (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
A Horsefly Fleas (1947)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Page Miss Glory (1936) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Rocket-bye Baby (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Russian Rhapsody (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Dough Ray Me-ow (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Disc Three (all previously released material is in standard definition and/or unremastered)
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution (2012 documentary)
Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons (1988 documentary)
Friz on Friz (2006 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons (2000 TV special) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private Snafu (2007 special feature) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The World of Leon Schlesinger (2008 compilation) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
It's Got Me Again (1932) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Poultry Pirates (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
A Day at the Beach (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
The Captain's Christmas (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Seal Skinners (1939 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Mama's New Hat (1939 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Blitz Wolf (1942 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Screwball Squirrel (1944 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
King-Size Canary (1947 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Bad Luck Blackie (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Senor Droopy (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Wags to Riches (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Symphony in Slang (1951 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Magical Maestro (1952 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2)
Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Coming!! Snafu (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Gripes (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Spies (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Goldbrick (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Home Front (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Rumors (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Snafuperman (1944) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Censored (1944) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Good Egg (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Return of Mr. Hook (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Tokyo Woes (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
No doubt a number of fans are breathing a sigh of relief this month, especially newer Blu-ray collectors who didn't feel like spending a few hundred on the secondhand market.
The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One Blu-ray is now in stores and retails for $29.98. Order it now on Amazon.
Meanwhile, the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume Two Blu-ray is also now in stores and also retails for $29.98. Order it now on Amazon.
June 17, 2025
16 disc debuts! 3 home video debuts!
It's been three very long months since it was first announced, but today's the day! Warner Archive has taken its Looney Tunes releases to the next level with the launch of an all-new series. Compiling fifty cartoons across two discs, Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 is now available through the Archive's official shop at Amazon and other online retailers.
Disc one contains twenty-five cartoons (almost) entirely new to disc in a remastered form, while disc two contains remastered shorts that had only previously been released on DVD. So regardless, (almost) fifty cartoons completely new to Blu-ray on one release is pretty amazing. That's essentially what each volume of the original Platinum Collection series delivered!
(Speaking of which, those are coming back in print next week, for those who missed out on them.)
The two-disc Blu-ray contains the following....
Disc One
Bars and Stripes Forever (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Beauty and the Beast (1934) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Day at the Zoo (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Dixie Fryer (1960) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Double or Mutton (1955)
Each Dawn I Crow (1949) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Easy Peckin's (1953) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Feather Dusted (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Fox in a Fix (1951) (NEW TO DISC!)
Good Night Elmer (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Goofy Gophers (1947) (NEW TO DISC!)
I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Kiddies Kitty (1955) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Let It Be Me (1936)
Of Fox and Hounds (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
Quackodile Tears (1962) (NEW TO DISC!)
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960) (NEW TO DISC!)
Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Terrier-Stricken (1952) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Tweet and Lovely (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Tweety's Circus (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
Two's a Crowd (1950) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Wild About Hurry (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Zip 'n Snort (1961) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Disc Two
Ain't She Tweet (1952)
Banty Raids (1963)
Birth of a Notion (1947)
Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)
Cat-Tails for Two (1953)
Daffy Dilly (1948)
Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
Hare Conditioned (1945)
Hare Trigger (1945)
Hare Trimmed (1953)
Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)
Little Boy Boo (1954)
Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
Odor-able Kitty (1945)
Past Perfumance (1955)
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Rabbit Punch (1948)
Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Snow Business (1953)
Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
Zoom and Bored (1957)
Obviously, most Looney Tunes completists have pre-ordered their copies to obtain the deeper and deeper cuts, but we hope there are enough mainstream classics on here as well to attract the more-casual fan. This seems like such an ideal format for the series to continue in; one can only hope it does well enough to justify additional volumes.
The Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 Blu-ray is now available online and retails for $24.99. Order it now on Amazon.
June 9, 2025
Both coming June 24
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Platinum Collection Volume One contains the following. Shorts that had previously been released on DVD are noted. And obviously, the first two discs below were ported over to the DVD edition that has remained in print....
Disc One
Hare Tonic (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Baseball Bugs (1946) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Buccaneer Bunny (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Old Grey Hare (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Rabbit Hood (1949) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
8 Ball Bunny (1950) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
The Rabbit of Seville (1950) (Golden Collection Volume One)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Pest in the House (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Duck Amuck (1953) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Robin Hood Daffy (1958) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Baby Bottleneck (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Kitty Kornered (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Scaredy Cat (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Porky Chops (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Old Glory (1939) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Tweetie Pie (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Beep, Beep (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Lovelorn Leghorn (1951)
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Speedy Gonzales (1955) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Disc Two
One Froggy Evening (1955) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Three Little Bops (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
I Love to Singa (1936) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Katnip Kollege (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Dover Boys (1942) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Chow Hound (1951) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Haredevil Hare (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The Hasty Hare (1952)
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Hare-way to the Stars (1958)
Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
Devil May Hare (1954) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Bedevilled Rabbit (1957)
Ducking the Devil (1957)
Bill of Hare (1962)
Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964)
Bewitched Bunny (1954) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Broom-stick Bunny (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1966) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Feed the Kitty (1952) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Kiss Me Cat (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Feline Frame-up (1954)
From A to Z-z-z-z (1957) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
Boyhood Daze (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Disc Three (all previously released material is in standard definition and/or unremastered)
A Greeting from Chuck Jones (2003) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens (2000 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood (2009 documentary) (Tom and Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection)
Point Rationing of Foods (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Hell-Bent for Election (1944 UPA campaign cartoon)
So Much for So Little (1949) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
A Hitch in Time (1955)
90 Day Wondering (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Drafty, Isn't It? (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
The Dot and the Line (1965) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners/26 Nominees)
The Bear That Wasn't (1967) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
The Door (1968)
Fright Before Christmas (1979) (with the 1992 title sequence)
Spaced Out Bunny (1980) (no title card or title sequence)
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century (1980, the official "short" version) (Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
Marvin the Martian in the 3rd Dimension (1996 theme park film)
Superior Duck (1996) (Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
From Hare to Eternity (1996) (The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie)
Father of the Bird (1997)
Museum Scream (2003)
As for Platinum Collection Volume Two, the contents are below. Again, shorts that had previously been released on DVD are noted. For the third disc some of the unremastered bonus cartoons have since been released in better quality on Blu-rays of their own (namely the Tex Avery and Private Snafu shorts), and those have been noted as well....
Disc One
A Wild Hare (1940) (The Essential Bugs Bunny and elsewhere)
Buckaroo Bugs (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Long-Haired Hare (1949) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Ali Baba Bunny (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Show Biz Bugs (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
The Wise Quacking Duck (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
What Makes Daffy Duck (1948)
Book Revue (1946) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Deduce, You Say (1956) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Porky in Wackyland (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Porky in Egypt (1938) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Back Alley Oproar (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Canned Feud (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Gift Wrapped (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Birdy and the Beast (1944)
Home, Tweet Home (1950)
Going! Going! Gosh! (1952) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Zipping Along (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (Pepe le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best)
The Foghorn Leghorn (1948) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The High and the Flighty (1956)
Tabasco Road (1957) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Mexicali Shmoes (1959) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Disc Two
Wabbit Twouble (1941) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Fire (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Drip-along Daffy (1951) (Golden Collection Volume One)
My Little Duckaroo (1954) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Barbary Coast Bunny (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Tortoise Beats Hare (1941) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Rabbit Transit (1947) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)
Hare-um Scare-um (1939) (ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION)
Prest-o Change-o (1939)
Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942) (Golden Collection Volume One)
The Bashful Buzzard (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Lion's Busy (1950)
Strife with Father (1950)
An Itch in Time (1943) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
A Horsefly Fleas (1947)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941) (Golden Collection Volume Two)
Page Miss Glory (1936) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Rocket-bye Baby (1956) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Russian Rhapsody (1944) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Dough Ray Me-ow (1948) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Disc Three (all previously released material is in standard definition and/or unremastered)
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution (2012 documentary)
Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons (1988 documentary)
Friz on Friz (2006 documentary) (Golden Collection Volume Four)
Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons (2000 TV special) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private Snafu (2007 special feature) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The World of Leon Schlesinger (2008 compilation) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929) (Golden Collection Volume One)
Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
It's Got Me Again (1932) (Golden Collection Volume Three)
Poultry Pirates (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
A Day at the Beach (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
The Captain's Christmas (1938 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Seal Skinners (1939 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Mama's New Hat (1939 MGM Captain and the Kids cartoon) (Golden Collection Volume Six)
Blitz Wolf (1942 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Screwball Squirrel (1944 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
King-Size Canary (1947 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Bad Luck Blackie (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Senor Droopy (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Wags to Riches (1949 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Symphony in Slang (1951 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1)
Magical Maestro (1952 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2)
Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952 MGM Tex Avery cartoon; unremastered) (Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3)
Coming!! Snafu (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Gripes (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Spies (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Goldbrick (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Home Front (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Rumors (1943) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Snafuperman (1944) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
Censored (1944) (Private Snafu Golden Classics)
The Good Egg (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
The Return of Mr. Hook (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Tokyo Woes (1945) (Golden Collection Volume Five)
Obviously, if you had missed out on either of these two titles the first time they were in print, we are recommending you grab these as soon as possible. With Warner Bros. Discovery in a constant and seemingly daily state of flux who knows how long these be available this time around. Hopefully now some more recent fans and collectors can feel they're able to catch up now, just in time for the start of the Collector's Vault series from Warner Archive!
The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One Blu-ray is scheduled to be released on June 24 and will retail for $29.98. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
Meanwhile, the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume Two Blu-ray is also scheduled to be released on June 24 and will also retail for $29.98. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
June 9, 2025
Coming June 24; includes HD debut of The Daffy Doc
Also now available to pre-order everywhere is Warner Archive's slate of June Blu-ray releases (including, of course, a certain vault for collectors). Among the month's classic-film offerings is King Vidor's 1938 medical drama The Citadel starring
Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell, based on the eye-opening novel that eventually led to the creation of the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Boasting a brand new 4K scan of preservation elements, the Blu-ray is set for release on June 24 and is available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Among the disc's extras is the appropriately medical-themed cartoon The Daffy Doc. Originally remastered for the Golden Collection Volume Five back in 2007, this excellent early Clampett short will be making its debut in HD here.
The Citadel is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray on June 24 and will retail for $23.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
May 27, 2025
And coming in 2026: Coyote vs. Acme!
Today's the day everyone except David Zaslav has been waiting for, as Ketchup Entertainment has released the once-shelved The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie onto home video! Being the first full-length, all-original, fully animated Looney Tunes theatrical feature ever, Ketchup has released the movie on both DVD and Blu-ray, and both are now available at online retailers and at whatever physical stores may still carry new media.
(At press time, there has been a delay at Amazon in shipping out pre-orders for this title. Whether there was a production delay or a fulfillment delay from Ketchup is unclear. As of right now, Ketchup has maintained that today is still the street date.)
And we would of course be remiss if we didn't mention the news about that other shelved Looney Tunes movie. Amazingly, pre-order response for The Day... had been so positive that Ketchup was able to use that as ammunition to go back to the negotiating table with Warner Bros. As a result, Ketchup secured the worldwide distribution rights to Coyote vs. Acme, with a theatrical release penciled in for sometime in 2026 (and likely a home video release to follow soon after).
Remember that The Day the Earth Blew Up is a Ketchup Entertainment release, and they only have the rights to the film itself. So there are no special features such as bonus Looney Tunes or anything of that sort.
It's a funny, nonsensical movie that really spotlights the classic Daffy and Porky dynamic that everybody loves. If you enjoyed the Looney Tunes Cartoons series on Max, then this is definitely right up your alley.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is now in stores. Order the Blu-ray for $26.98 or the DVD for $24.98 on Amazon.
April 29, 2025
Back cover art also revealed
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The Blu-ray is scheduled to include the following. Disc one has shorts (almost) all making their debuts remastered on any format, while disc two contains previously remastered shorts making their debuts specifically on Blu-ray....
Disc One
Bars and Stripes Forever (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Beauty and the Beast (1934) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Day at the Zoo (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Dixie Fryer (1960) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Double or Mutton (1955)
Each Dawn I Crow (1949) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Easy Peckin's (1953) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Feather Dusted (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Fox in a Fix (1951) (NEW TO DISC!)
Good Night Elmer (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Goofy Gophers (1947) (NEW TO DISC!)
I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Kiddies Kitty (1955) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Let It Be Me (1936)
Of Fox and Hounds (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
Quackodile Tears (1962) (NEW TO DISC!)
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960) (NEW TO DISC!)
Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Terrier-Stricken (1952) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Tweet and Lovely (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Tweety's Circus (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
Two's a Crowd (1950) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Wild About Hurry (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Zip 'n Snort (1961) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Disc Two
Ain't She Tweet (1952)
Banty Raids (1963)
Birth of a Notion (1947)
Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)
Cat-Tails for Two (1953)
Daffy Dilly (1948)
Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
Hare Conditioned (1945)
Hare Trigger (1945)
Hare Trimmed (1953)
Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)
Little Boy Boo (1954)
Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
Odor-able Kitty (1945)
Past Perfumance (1955)
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Rabbit Punch (1948)
Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Snow Business (1953)
Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
Zoom and Bored (1957)
Also revealed today is the set's back cover art. During last week's Extras podcast, George Feltenstein mentioned some frustration about online stores refusing to list contents for previous Warner Archive collections, so perhaps with the cartoon list printed right there on the back, more casual consumers can see what they're in for.
(Of course, you should already be telling more casual friends and acquaintances to check out our web site, right???)
The text on the back cover reads as follows....
Here they are - MORE Looney Tunes, MORE Merrie Melodies, MORE laughs, now restored and on Blu-ray disc at long last. By popular demand, these are the rarest titles, the biggest stars, the most requested cartoons, direct from the Looney Tunes vault. Disc 1 presents 25 choice toons never before released on DVD or Blu-ray, including deep cuts directed by Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton. Disc 2 contains select fan favorites, making their HD debut as part of a Looney Tunes collection, featuring the all-star team: Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, and the first appearances of Speedy Gonzales (1953), Pepé Le Pew (1945) and Daffy Duck (1937). The Vault is now open, and the characters are on the loose! Best of all, they are yours to keep, to watch whenever you wish.
And yes, we're very sure that last line is a direct response to a certain streaming service and what they've removed recently.
We are of course fully recommending this title, as you're essentially getting Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 5 plus another twenty-five cartoons new to Blu-ray for just a few bucks more. We're getting tantalizingly close to more and more risqué cartoons appearing on disc for the first time ever, and we cannot wait to see what George and Jerry Beck have in store for the next volume!
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 is scheduled to be released on June 17 on Blu-ray only and will retail for $24.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
April 24, 2025
Retail release due in June
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Surprisingly, the reissues will not be coming from the Warner Archive but rather plain old vanilla Warner Home Entertainment/Studio Distribution Services, slightly increasing their chances of being available through regular retail. George said it had taken him "many years" to convince the studio to consider bringing them back out, alluding to the fact that since the Discovery merger there have been an increased number of people to have to go through between divisions.
Famously, these were among the very first dedicated Looney Tunes Blu-ray releases, and as such they each contain tons of only the utmost A-list material. We're of course talking the likes of One Froggy Evening, Porky in Wackyland, A Wild Hare, Duck Amuck, and many others, not to mention the complete filmographies of such characters as the Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian, Beaky Buzzard, Witch Hazel, Marc Antony and Pussyfoot, and more. Each volume contains fifty cartoons across two discs, plus a third disc of all supplemental material and bonus cartoons, some of which were not made available anywhere else.
The lack of these two volumes being out of print for so long frustrated collectors and fans for a number of reasons, such as the fact that the series's third volume has remained in print on Blu-ray for the past decade. Meanwhile, the DVD versions of each volume have also been readily available in a number of configurations, but sadly without those crucial bonus discs. Surely there are a number of folks out there who can now breathe a sigh of relief.
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume Two are both scheduled to be reissued on Blu-ray in June, and prices and links to pre-order them will be posted here as soon as they become available.
April 22, 2025
16 disc debuts! 3 home video debuts!
It's the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 news everyone has been waiting for, as Warner Archive has at last revealed the fifty cartoons that will appear on the upcoming two-disc Blu-ray set. Featuring shorts almost all entirely new to the format, the two-disc set is still set for release on June 17.
The Blu-ray is scheduled to include the following. Disc one has shorts (almost) all making their debuts remastered on any format, while disc two contains previously remastered shorts making their debuts specifically on Blu-ray....
Disc One
Bars and Stripes Forever (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Beauty and the Beast (1934) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Day at the Zoo (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Dixie Fryer (1960) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Double or Mutton (1955)
Each Dawn I Crow (1949) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Easy Peckin's (1953) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Feather Dusted (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Fox in a Fix (1951) (NEW TO DISC!)
Good Night Elmer (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
The Goofy Gophers (1947) (NEW TO DISC!)
I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1939) (NEW TO DISC!)
A Kiddies Kitty (1955) (BRAND NEW TO HOME VIDEO!)
Let It Be Me (1936)
Of Fox and Hounds (1940) (NEW TO DISC!)
Quackodile Tears (1962) (NEW TO DISC!)
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960) (NEW TO DISC!)
Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Terrier-Stricken (1952) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Tweet and Lovely (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Tweety's Circus (1955) (NEW TO DISC!)
Two's a Crowd (1950) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Wild About Hurry (1959) (NEW TO DISC!)
Zip 'n Snort (1961) (NEWLY REMASTERED!)
Disc Two
Ain't She Tweet (1952)
Banty Raids (1963)
Birth of a Notion (1947)
Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)
Cat-Tails for Two (1953)
Daffy Dilly (1948)
Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
Hare Conditioned (1945)
Hare Trigger (1945)
Hare Trimmed (1953)
Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)
Little Boy Boo (1954)
Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
Odor-able Kitty (1945)
Past Perfumance (1955)
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Rabbit Punch (1948)
Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Snow Business (1953)
Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
Zoom and Bored (1957)
Obviously, the elephant in the room is the appearance of Double or Mutton, which had just been released on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 4. Facebook friend and reader Brian Martin was able to reach out to Jerry Beck to inquire about the double-dip. According to Jerry via Brian, Double or Mutton was included in error and it was too late to correct the lineup before the discs were sent for mastering. BUT, to make up for the goof there will be an extra cartoon included on volume two.
Did someone say "volume two"?
AHEM!
Apart from Mutton, the two other quasi-repeats are Let It Be Me and Rhapsody Rabbit, which last year were used as extras on the Warner Archive Blu-rays for The Walking Dead and Humoresque, respectively. George Feltenstein has repeatedly said in interviews that he does not count cartoons used as extras as having been "released" for the purposes of the main Looney Tunes home video line, so the appearance of those two titles on this set simply reaffirms that stance.
Regardless, this appears to be a great lineup of cartoons, both the new stuff and the old stuff. Sixteen cartoons will be making their debuts on a modern disc format, three of which (Sylvester in A Kiddies Kitty, Foghorn in The Dixie Fryer, and the quirky McKimson one-shot Easy Peckin's) are entirely brand new to home video. The remainder are cartoons that had only previously been released on DVD unremastered (either as bonus features or, in the case of the much-requested Zip 'n Snort, on the Stars of Space Jam DVD). Most are going to be masters originally done for HBO Max, but it appears as if A Day at the Zoo, Each Dawn I Crow, and Of Fox and Hounds have been specifically remastered just for this Blu-ray!
With the inclusion of The Goofy Gophers, Warner Archive has finally, totally, 100 percent exhausted any and all remaining "safe" new-to-disc cartoons with Bugs Bunny. Anything further with the wabbit (apart from disc two fodder) will have to come from the politically incorrect realm, so buckle up!
Feather Dusted; Ready, Woolen and Able; Tweet and Lovely; and Zip 'n Snort being here also means that folks can finally pack away some more of their Golden Jubilee VHS cassettes, while Wild About Hurry is the final cartoon from the Looney Tunes the Collector's Edition: All-Stars Columbia House video to make it to disc.
Disc two's contents are also filling up a lot of essential holes in one's Blu-ray collection. Porky's Duck Hunt? Rabbit Punch? Horton Hatches the Egg? This isn't a disc of mere filler to appease the casual fans.
All in all, it's a fun mix. Some essential Tex Avery, a couple of Bugs and Daffy classics, a good chunk of Road Runner, some new-to-disc Foghorn Leghorn, and of course the one cartoon everyone has been waiting for, Good Night Elmer!
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 is scheduled to be released on June 17 on Blu-ray only, and a price and link to pre-order it will be posted here as soon as they become available.
April 5, 2025
Coming April 29; includes HD debut of Rabbit's Kin
With less than a month to go, and with everyone waiting patiently for details on Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1, Warner Archive's April Blu-ray releases of classic films are now finally showing up online for pre-order. Among the April titles is the Gary Cooper western-spy-thriller Springfield Rifle. Released the same year as Cooper's infinitely more iconic western role in High Noon, the Blu-ray is set for release on April 29 and is available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Among the disc's extras are two cartoon uberclassics, Feed the Kitty and Rabbit's Kin. We've reached out to Warner Archive and were able to confirm that both titles will be in HD. Though Feed the Kitty is a Blu-ray double-dip (having first appeared on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One and then again as an extra on the Archive's Room for One More), this would mark Rabbit's Kin's debut in HD and on Blu-ray.
(Warner Archive also told us that another special feature on the Blu-ray, the Joe McDoakes comedy short So You Want to Enjoy Life, will simply be upscaled.)
Now, since we're talking about an HD Rabbit's Kin, we know which question is on everyone's mind, and unfortunately we don't know if the cartoon has been fixed or if it will credit "R8BERT McKIMSON" as on the initial HBO Max remastering. Considering how relatively quickly it was corrected for HBO Max might suggest that the go-to HD version is the corrected one, but we don't know. It could go either way, so be warned.
Springfield Rifle is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray on April 29 and will retail for $21.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
March 17, 2025
Coming May 27
It's the movie Warner Bros. Discovery didn't want, and it's coming your way! After a solid opening-weekend debut at #5, Ketchup Entertainment has announced that The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is coming to home video. Originally planned for Max before being shelved by Warner for a tax break and then held in limbo for a while before being picked up by Ketchup, the full-length animated movie starring Daffy and Porky is set for release on both DVD and Blu-ray on May 27, and both are now available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Since this is not a Warner release, do not expect any special features in the way of bonus cartoons, etc. In fact, the back covers of both editions that Ketchup offered online are very bare bones; just a summary and movie stills (in all fairness, it might just be temp art).
The disc's official synopsis, as posted on Amazon, reads as follows....
A brand new buddy comedy starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck! This richly-crafted, hand-drawn 2D animated adventure marks the first fully-animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history, told on a scope and scale that’s truly out of this world.
Historically, this is pretty amazing. For perhaps the first time since the Turner merger (and definitely for the first time since the advent of DVD), you have an authorized Looney Tunes home video release not being produced or distributed by Warner Bros. It would be interesting to see how well this sells, since already the film's modest box office success is proving that the studio has missed out on revenue.
Having said that, keep your expectations in check about pre-ordering this title. Order it because you enjoyed the movie and want to support the movie. Please, do not think that if this specific movie sells well then we'll magically get some other Looney Tunes movie that's been buried away.
It's a pretty funny movie, and if you're able to and it's playing near you, try to go see it in the theater while you still have a chance. If not, this would still make a nice addition to one's Looney Tunes collection...and it doesn't involve basketball.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie will be released on May 27 and is currently available to pre-order now on Amazon. The DVD will retail for $24.98 and the Blu-ray will retail for $26.98.
March 13, 2025
Two-disc set! Release date of June 17
Hold onto your hats, folks, because here we go again! It's perhaps the biggest Looney Tunes news of the year (and yeah, that's including tomorrow's theatrical release of The Day the Earth Blew Up!), the start of a brand new series of Blu-ray compilations from Warner Archive! Picking up where the four Looney Tunes Collector's Choice volumes left off, Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 has been announced today as a two-disc set scheduled for release on June 17.
At press time, there is no content list available, but Warner Archive promised on their Facebook page that details will come in "the near future." What has been revealed is that disc one will feature twenty-five cartoons "never before remastered on DVD or Blu-ray," while the second disc will be an additional twenty-five shorts that had been previously released on DVD but are making their Blu-ray debuts here.
This has been a model that a number of fans had suggested would be the best way for the Archive to move the Looney Tunes series forward. With so very few new-to-disc shorts left starring the likes of such heavy hitters as, say, Bugs or Porky or (good) Speedy, offering a mix of all-new titles and DVD-only titles (many of which were among the cream of the crop of the library) can make these releases attractive to more than just the diehard, gotta-catch-em-all completists.
So yes, while we will get twenty-five shorts that had been previously released on Golden Collection or Super Stars DVDs, they will nevertheless be making their first appearance in HD on this set.
As for the "never before remastered on DVD or Blu-ray" part for the other twenty-five titles, again, we don't know which shorts will be included, but just as a caveat keep in mind that George Feltenstein and Jerry Beck sometimes include in that sentiment cartoons that had previously been used as special features on other titles. But in regard to the main Looney Tunes home media line, these will all be debuts.
So let the speculation begin!
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 is scheduled to be released on June 17 on Blu-ray only, and a price and link to pre-order it will be posted here as soon as they become available.
March 7, 2025
Coming March 25; includes remastered debuts of Pop Goes Your Heart, Shake Your Powder Puff, and home video debut of Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
The March wave of Warner Archive Blu-ray releases is now appearing online for pre-order, while ongoing production delays have forced a street date change for at least one of the month's announced titles. One March release, however, that is still scheduled to come out as planned is 1934's Sadie McKee, a pre-Code romantic drama starring Joan Crawford and Gene Raymond. Perhaps best known for debuting the song "All I Do Is Dream of You" (itself later featured in such arguably better known films as A Night at the Opera and Singin' in the Rain), the Blu-ray is set for release on March 25 and is available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
Among the disc's extras are three Merrie Melodies from the movie's release year of 1934: Pop Goes Your Heart, Shake Your Powder Puff, and Why Do I Dream Those Dreams. All three are making their HD debuts and their remastered debuts on this disc (Powder Puff had only previously been used as an unremastered extra on DVD), but the big news in all this is that Why Do I Dream Those Dreams is making its first home video appearance ever on the Blu-ray. For fans of early Friz Freleng, fans of the black and white era of the studio, or just fans who may remember catching this one during those first couple of years of the shorts being on Nickelodeon, this may be an enticing buy.
All three shorts were remastered for HBO Max, and there are faint traces of "Photoshopped" clone-stamping at least during the opening "Warner Bros. Pictures Inc." card of the title sequences, but they seem to be otherwise unscathed. But still, giving a heads up to those who may wince at that.
Sadie McKee is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray on March 25 and will retail for $21.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
January 28, 2025
Includes 7 modern shorts in HD
Here we go, folks! The first Looney Tunes home video of the year. Hopefully as a good sign of things to come, today marks the Blu-ray release of the 1988 feature Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, courtesy of Warner Archive. Being the first hi-def release of any of the 1970s-1980s compilation movies, the Blu-ray is now available through the Archive's official shop at Amazon and other online retailers.
(Please note, it is very possible that the continued wildfires in the Los Angeles area have affected the supply chain or order fulfillment, so please be patient if your pre-order has yet to arrive. Warner Archive has recently announced that the release of a number of other January 28 titles have been delayed, but at press time no such announcement has been made regarding Quackbusters.)
In addition to the movie itself, the disc includes as bonuses the following 1980s-1990s revival shorts, all in HD....
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century (1980)
The Duxorcist (1987)
Little Go Beep (2000)
The Night of the Living Duck (1988)
Superior Duck (1996)
(blooper) Bunny! (1991)
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1992)
As a whole, the 1980s and 1990s material is very hit and miss, but Quackbusters is one of the brighter spots of the era, and hopefully this will lead to the other movies (and perhaps even the TV specials) to start seeing HD releases. If nothing else, the film served as the final theatrical Looney Tunes production starring Mel Blanc, so just for history's sake it's a must-own.
The Daffy Duck's Quackbusters Blu-ray is now available online and retails for $21.99. Order it now on Amazon.
January 15, 2025
Coming January 28; includes 7 modern shorts in HD
With the Los Angeles area still battling raging wildfires that are affecting millions of people's lives, homes, and jobs, it would have been understandable if Warner Archive needed to delay this month's slate of Blu-ray releases. But alas, pre-orders are now appearing for its January titles, including the Blu-ray debut of the 1988 feature Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. Marking the first hi-def release of any of the 1970s-1980s compilation movies, the Blu-ray is now available to pre-order at all of the usual online stores such as Amazon.
In addition to the movie itself, the disc will include as bonuses the following 1980s-1990s revival shorts, all in HD....
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century (1980)
The Duxorcist (1987)
Little Go Beep (2000)
The Night of the Living Duck (1988)
Superior Duck (1996)
(blooper) Bunny! (1991)
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1992)
With Warner Archive hinting at another big year for its animation releases, starting things off with one of the more popular modern Looney Tunes productions might prove to be a nice appetizer for things to come (well, "modern" as in the last three-and-a-half decades, already...yikes!). And with the added bonus of a good chunk of the "newer" shorts, this Blu-ray serves as an essential purchase for the completist wanting things in HD.
The Daffy Duck's Quackbusters Blu-ray is scheduled to be released on January 28 and will retail for $21.99. Pre-order it now on Amazon.
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