Neat idea for the Porky disc! (Replace My Favorite Duck, which was a title I was just thinking about putting on the fourth volume's Daffy disc, with You Ought to Be in Pictures (inarguably one of the most popular B&W Porkys) and we'd be all set)

What bonus features could go on Disc 2?

Changed. :)

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What bonus features could go on Disc 2?

Currently thinking:

Commentaries:
Jerry Beck on "Porky's Duck Hunt", "Calling Dr. Porky", "You Ought to Be in Pictures", "The Lone Stranger and Porky", "Porky's Hero Agency", "Bye Bye Bluebeard", "Often an Orphan"
Michael Barrier on "I Haven't Got a Hat", "Porky in Wackyland", "Kitty Kornered", "Porky's Pooch", "Wholly Smoke", "Africa Squeaks"
Greg Ford on "Porky's Party", "Brother Brat", "Dime to Retire", "Boobs in the Woods", "Trap-Happy Porky"

Other:
"The Porky Pig Show" opening
"Ham on Wry" (I think that's the name of it), "Animal Quackers" featurettes
Lobby card gallery
Music and music/effects only tracks for certain cartoons

The actual name of the featurette you titled "Ham on Wry" is "Porky Pig Roast: A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham". Regardless, not a bad idea!

Here's my ideas for the bonus material:
*Audio commentaries (new)
-Porky's Duck Hunt (Michael Barrier; recorded for the sixth Golden Collection, but both the short and its commentary weren't on the final version)
-Porky's Hero Agency (Jerry Beck)
-The Lone Stranger and Porky (Jerry Beck)
-Africa Squeaks (Michael Barrier)
-Calling Dr. Porky (Jerry Beck)
-Porky's Pooch (Michael Barrier)
-Brother Brat (Greg Ford)
-Trap Happy Porky (Greg Ford)
-Often an Orphan (Jerry Beck)
-Boobs in the Woods (Greg Ford)
*Audio commentaries (ported over from previous sets)
-I Haven't Got a Hat (Jerry Beck)
-Porky's Party (John Kricfalusi)
-Wholly Smoke (Daniel Goldmark)
-Porky in Wackyland (Michael Barrier)
-You Ought to Be in Pictures (Jerry Beck)
-Kitty Kornered (Michael Barrier)
-The Wearing of the Grin (Michael Barrier)
*Galleries
-Lobby cards
-Posters
-Animation drawings
-Background paintings
-Storyboards
-Model sheets
-Publicity
*Porky's Party storyboard reel
*The Porky Pig Show opening and closing
*Breakdowns of 1939 animation reel
*Behind-the-Tunes
-"Porky Pig Roast: A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham"
-"Animal Quackers"
*Music-only and music-and-effects tracks for certain shorts

Again, not a lot of new stuff. What new bonuses could we add to the first and second discs?

A thought for a "new" bonus feature for the Porky disc would be the redrawn version of "Wholly Smoke", with an introduction similar the one for the Bugs Bunny cameo in "Two Guys" and "My Dream is Yours" talking about the 1968 redrawns.


By the way, my ideas for Discs 3 and 4:

Disc 3:
1. Tweetie Pie
2. I Taw a Putty Tat
3. Room and Bird
4. Canary Row
5. Catty Cornered
6. Snow Business
7. Tweety's Circus
8. Fowl Weather
9. Ain't She Tweet?
10. Home Tweet Home
11. A Street Cat Named Sylvester
12. Dog Pounded
13. Gift Wrapped
14. Red Riding Hoodwinked
15. Tree-Cornered Tweety
16. Birds Anonymous
17. The Last Hungry Cat
18. Tweet and Sour
19. The Trial of Mr. Wolf
20. Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
21. Holiday for Shoestrings
22. Pigs is Pigs
23. Ant Pasted
24. Greetings, Bait!
25. Each Dawn I Crow

Disc 4:
1. Walky Talky Hawky
2. The Foghorn Leghorn
3. The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
4. A Fractured Leghorn
5. Of Rice and Hen
6. Sock A Doodle Do
7. Leghorn Swoggled
8. The Egg-Cited Rooster
9. Little Boy Boo
10. The High and the Flighty
11. All Fowled Up
12. Fox Terror
13. Raw! Raw! Rooster
14. Weasel While You Work
15. Strangled Eggs
16. Banty Raids
16. Crockett Doodle-Doo
18. Weasel Stop
19. A Ham in a Role
20. There Auto Be a Law
21. Wild Wife
22. Cheese It- The Cat!
23. The Shell-Shocked Egg
24. Gopher Broke
25. Easy Peckin's

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A thought for a "new" bonus feature for the Porky disc would be the redrawn version of "Wholly Smoke", with an introduction similar the one for the Bugs Bunny cameo in "Two Guys" and "My Dream is Yours" talking about the 1968 redrawns.


By the way, my ideas for Discs 3 and 4:

Disc 3:
1. Tweetie Pie
2. I Taw a Putty Tat
3. Room and Bird
4. Canary Row
5. Catty Cornered
6. Snow Business
7. Tweety's Circus
8. Fowl Weather
9. Ain't She Tweet?
10. Home Tweet Home
11. A Street Cat Named Sylvester
12. Dog Pounded
13. Gift Wrapped
14. Red Riding Hoodwinked
15. Tree-Cornered Tweety
16. Birds Anonymous
17. The Last Hungry Cat
18. Tweet and Sour
19. The Trial of Mr. Wolf
20. Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
21. Holiday for Shoestrings
22. Pigs is Pigs
23. Ant Pasted
24. Greetings, Bait!
25. Each Dawn I Crow

Disc 4:
1. Walky Talky Hawky
2. The Foghorn Leghorn
3. The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
4. A Fractured Leghorn
5. Of Rice and Hen
6. Sock A Doodle Do
7. Leghorn Swoggled
8. The Egg-Cited Rooster
9. Little Boy Boo
10. The High and the Flighty
11. All Fowled Up
12. Fox Terror
13. Raw! Raw! Rooster
14. Weasel While You Work
15. Strangled Eggs
16. Banty Raids
16. Crockett Doodle-Doo
18. Weasel Stop
19. A Ham in a Role
20. There Auto Be a Law
21. Wild Wife
22. Cheese It- The Cat!
23. The Shell-Shocked Egg
24. Gopher Broke
25. Easy Peckin's

Your bonus feature idea and the shorts for the third disc sound fine, but I decided to move the "Chuck Amuck" disc from the second volume to the first volume and vice versa for the Foghorn disc (Jones' the most well-known and famous LT director, so why wouldn't an introductory volume contain some more of his more recognizable cartoons?). I'll put up the contents of my idea at a later time (your idea for the fourth disc can remain untouched, but I decided to move it to the next volume).

You see, this is why I came up with the crazy idea of letting people make their own collection with all the material WB has available. That would be the only way to justify the inclusion of politically incorrect shorts as well.

There are people not satisfied with the restorations (especially in the Porky set) and people who are looking at rare versions (such as the one of Wholly Smoke you mentioned). I ended up having to schedule a visit to my public broadcaster’s past airings in order to see extremely rare shorts, while it would be much easier to have them on DVD.

By the way, @OutofOdor that would have been the Foghorn compilation WB should have given to us. I only don’t agree in not putting Rhapsody in Rivets or Three Little Bops in the Tweety/Friz Freleng disc, those are the “Freleng essentials” to me pretty much.

Here's my idea for disc 4 of volume one:

Chuck Amuck
1. The Night Watchman
2. Old Glory
3. The Little Lion Hunter
4. Mighty Hunters
5. Elmer's Candid Camera
6. Elmer's Pet Rabbit
7. The Dover Boys at Pimento University
8. Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
9. Odor-able Kitty
10. Haredevil Hare
11. Fast and Furry-ous
12. For Scent-imental Reasons
13. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
14. A Bear for Punishment
15. Feed the Kitty
16. Beep, Beep
17. Going! Going! Gosh!
18. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
19. Zipping Along
20. Stop, Look and Hasten
21. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
22. Ready, Set, Zoom!
23. Guided Muscle
24. One Froggy Evening
25. What's Opera, Doc?

What does anyone think?

Not bad! Just replace "Zipping Along" with "A Bear for Punishment" (another of Chuck's most well-known cartoons, and inarguably the most famous of his Three Bears cartoons), and we'd be all set.

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Not bad! Just replace "Zipping Along" with "A Bear for Punishment" (another of Chuck's most well-known cartoons, and inarguably the most famous of his Three Bears cartoons), and we'd be all set.

There, all "fixed". (I was originally thinking of holding back A Bear for Punishment a volume or two for a "complete Three Bears" lineup on one disc)

While the majority of the disc would have mostly double-dips from previous collections (and said shorts will retain their respective audio commentaries from said sets), there are three new-to-disc cartoons on Disc 4: The Little Lion Hunter, Mighty Hunters, and Elmer's Pet Rabbit. Which one(s) could have an audio commentary?

Also, I was thinking of including some background painting/animation drawing and lobby card reproductions (and maybe an animation cel replica) in each set, much like the Walt Disney Treasures lithographs. What such things could be in each volume?

While the majority of the disc would have mostly double-dips from previous collections (and said shorts will retain their respective audio commentaries from said sets), there are three new-to-disc cartoons on Disc 4: The Little Lion Hunter, Mighty Hunters, and Elmer's Pet Rabbit. Which one(s) could have an audio commentary?

Also, I was thinking of including some background painting/animation drawing and lobby card reproductions (and maybe an animation cel replica) in each set, much like the Walt Disney Treasures lithographs. What such things could be in each volume?

As for commentaries, I'd suggest "The Little Lion Hunter", with a commentary by Mike Barrier discussing the Inki series, and "Elmer's Pet Rabbit", also by Barrier.

For the extra stuff you mention, I'd personally suggest four lobby card replicas for each volume, representing each disc. Here's what I'm thinking for vol. 1:
A Wild Hare, Porky in Wackyland, The Dover Boys, Tweetie Pie

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While the majority of the disc would have mostly double-dips from previous collections (and said shorts will retain their respective audio commentaries from said sets), there are three new-to-disc cartoons on Disc 4: The Little Lion Hunter, Mighty Hunters, and Elmer's Pet Rabbit. Which one(s) could have an audio commentary?

Also, I was thinking of including some background painting/animation drawing and lobby card reproductions (and maybe an animation cel replica) in each set, much like the Walt Disney Treasures lithographs. What such things could be in each volume?

As for commentaries, I'd suggest "The Little Lion Hunter", with a commentary by Mike Barrier discussing the Inki series, and "Elmer's Pet Rabbit", also by Barrier.

For the extra stuff you mention, I'd personally suggest four lobby card replicas for each volume, representing each disc. Here's what I'm thinking for vol. 1:
A Wild Hare, Porky in Wackyland, The Dover Boys, Tweetie Pie

Great ideas!

However, I was also thinking about including reproductions of animation drawings and background paintings with each set alongside the lobby cards, plus a replica animation cel. What such things could be included?

I’m 100% supportive of any plans you have for this project, even if it double-dips, so long as it contains all of the previously unreleased LT/MM, so that for once, we will finally have a complete collection, for better or for worse (1960’s+). Even I purchased the recent release of The Dogfather and Misterjaw sets, Lol. I will buy anything if it means supporting future releases of the good stuff buried in the archives. This includes any MGM sets that I hope you intend to work on eventually, because you have really great ideas when it comes to product design.

I’m 100% supportive of any plans you have for this project, even if it double-dips, so long as it contains all of the previously unreleased LT/MM, so that for once, we will finally have a complete collection, for better or for worse (1960’s+). Even I purchased the recent release of The Dogfather and Misterjaw sets, Lol. I will buy anything if it means supporting future releases of the good stuff buried in the archives. This includes any MGM sets that I hope you intend to work on eventually, because you have really great ideas when it comes to product design.

Thanks a lot for the compliment. If someone at Warner were to do something like this, you could say I would be the one reliable enough for the job, wouldn't I?

You see, this is why I came up with the crazy idea of letting people make their own collection with all the material WB has available. That would be the only way to justify the inclusion of politically incorrect shorts as well.

There are people not satisfied with the restorations (especially in the Porky set) and people who are looking at rare versions (such as the one of Wholly Smoke you mentioned). I ended up having to schedule a visit to my public broadcaster’s past airings in order to see extremely rare shorts, while it would be much easier to have them on DVD.

By the way, @OutofOdor that would have been the Foghorn compilation WB should have given to us. I only don’t agree in not putting Rhapsody in Rivets or Three Little Bops in the Tweety/Friz Freleng disc, those are the “Freleng essentials” to me pretty much.

That's exactly what I had in mind when I typed up these contents. Sure, the redrawns have so much wrong with them, but there are people out there who watch them (mainly for how bad they are). Plus, a mainstream video release of at least some of the Censored 11 (and I don't refer to "All This and Rabbit Stew" being released on countless public domain-based tapes and DVD's over the years in such terms, since as we all know, those aren't official releases) would be more convenient than having to download a torrent with often-lousy prints of those cartoons. I mean, what cartoon nut wouldn't want to have restored copies of "Coal Black" or "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" in their possession? [coal]

By the way, I was actually thinking of putting "Rivets" and "Bops" on Disc 5's Friz-themed disc. And I'd take an LTSS Foghorn volume with "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" and "A Ham in a Role" rather than the one WHV ended up giving us (Not that I'm against the content of that volume, but at least it wasn't the Road Runner volume.).

Thanks for the compliment, Cool Cat, assuming that's what it was. I 'preciate it. [dodo]

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Great ideas!

However, I was also thinking about including reproductions of animation drawings and background paintings with each set alongside the lobby cards, plus a replica animation cel. What such things could be included?

Here's what I was thinking of:
-cel of Daffy in Danny Kaye getup from "Book Revue"
-reproduction animation drawing of Bugs and Gruesome from "Gorilla My Dreams"

Not much, but that's all I can come up with ATM.

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Okay, here's what I have planned for volume two:
-Disc 1: Foghorn Leghorn
-Disc 2: All-Stars
-Disc 3: Mice is Nice
-Disc 4: Best of the 30's

The contents of disc one have mostly been worked out (my idea was to present some characters' filmographies, like Foghorn, the Road Runner, Pepe, etc., chronologically or in some cases, completely), so we only have to figure out the contents of discs 2-4. What would the main shorts on those three remaining discs be?

Okay, here's what I have planned for volume two:
-Disc 1: Foghorn Leghorn
-Disc 2: All-Stars
-Disc 3: Mice is Nice
-Disc 4: Best of the 30's

The contents of disc one have mostly been worked out (my idea was to present some characters' filmographies, like Foghorn, the Road Runner, Pepe, etc., chronologically or in some cases, completely), so we only have to figure out the contents of discs 2-4. What would the main shorts on those three remaining discs be?

How's this for Disc 2:

Disc 2:
1. Kit for Cat
2. Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
3. Show Biz Bugs
4. Nasty Quacks
5. Hot Cross Bunny
6. Plop Goes the Weasel
7. Ali Baba Bound
8. Rabbit's Kin
9. The Pest Who Came to Dinner
10. Muscle Tussle
12. Windblown Hare
13. Bad Ol' Putty Tat
14. Mouse and Garden
15. Gee Whiz-z-z-z
16. Little Orphan Airedale
17. Duck Soup to Nuts
18. An Itch in Time
19. The Grey-Hounded Hare
20. A Pizza Tweety Pie
21. Steal Wool
22. Bell Hoppy
23. Mexicali Shmoes
24. The Super Snooper
25. Robin Hood Daffy

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Okay, here's what I have planned for volume two:
-Disc 1: Foghorn Leghorn
-Disc 2: All-Stars
-Disc 3: Mice is Nice
-Disc 4: Best of the 30's

The contents of disc one have mostly been worked out (my idea was to present some characters' filmographies, like Foghorn, the Road Runner, Pepe, etc., chronologically or in some cases, completely), so we only have to figure out the contents of discs 2-4. What would the main shorts on those three remaining discs be?

How's this for Disc 2:

Disc 2:
1. Kit for Cat
2. Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk*
3. Wild Over You
4. Nasty Quacks
5. Hot Cross Bunny*
6. Plop Goes the Weasel*
7. Ali Baba Bound
8. Rabbit's Kin
9. The Pest Who Came to Dinner
10. Muscle Tussle*
12. Windblown Hare
13. Bad Ol' Putty Tat
14. Mouse and Garden
15. Hip Hip Hurry
16. Little Orphan Airedale
17. Duck Soup to Nuts
18. An Itch in Time
19. The Grey-Hounded Hare
20. A Pizza Tweety Pie*
21. Steal Wool
22. Bell Hoppy
23. Mexicali Shmoes
24. The Super Snooper
25. Mouse Wreckers

Interesting lineup there. Here's what I'd do for that disc (I would have posted something along the lines of my ideas for discs 1 and 4 of volume one, but I surprisingly don't feel like it now):
-Substitute shorts 3 (Wild Over You) and 15 (Hip, Hip - Hurry!) with Show Biz Bugs and Gee Whiz-z-z (the former is one of the most well-known LTs of all time, and I had said in my last comment that some of my intentions for this series was to present some characters' filmographies in chronological order)
-Move Mouse Wreckers over to the third disc and replace it with Robin Hood Daffy (the theme of the third disc is shorts with mice in them, so why not?)

Also, the name of the sixth short you listed is Plop Goes the Weasel, not Poop (that's the name of a Famous Studios cartoon, not a Warner Bros. cartoon). Just wanted to point that out.

Because I said before that I wasn't in the mood to completely list my contents for the second disc, the shorts that I do approve of being on this disc, but haven't been released restored yet, are marked with an asterisk.

-Substitute shorts 3 (Wild Over You) and 15 (Hip, Hip - Hurry!) with Show Biz Bugs and Gee Whiz-z-z (the former is one of the most well-known LTs of all time, and I had said in my last comment that some of my intentions for this series was to present some characters' filmographies in chronological order)
-Move Mouse Wreckers over to the third disc and replace it with Robin Hood Daffy (the theme of the third disc is shorts with mice in them, so why not?)

Also, the name of the sixth short you listed is Plop Goes the Weasel, not Poop (that's the name of a Famous Studios cartoon, not a Warner Bros. cartoon). Just wanted to point that out.

Fixed and changed!

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My crazy idea became reality to me last Tuesday when I viewed all the past airings of a certain TV network.

I typed “Prehistoric Porky” and found 4 different versions aired just in the past two decades. And yes, even Africa Squeaks was aired here in Italy.

I couldn’t have a copy of the airings without permission from the copyright holder, but at least I experienced how it feels being able to view all these classic cartoons in the way I want.

Whoa, it's been only a day or so since I decided to list my ideas for discs one and two and yet again there's some things I've been thinking of changing.

Firstly, here's my lineup for disc 1 (for those of you who want to know what shorts haven't yet been released restored on Blu-ray or DVD, I've marked those particular shorts with an asterisk):
-Walky Talky Hawky
-Crowing Pains
-The Foghorn Leghorn
-Henhouse Henery*
-The Leghorn Blows at Midnight*
-A Fractured Leghorn*
-Leghorn Swoggled*
-Lovelorn Leghorn
-Sock-A-Doodle Doo*
-The Egg-Cited Rooster*
-Plop Goes the Weasel*
-Of Rice and Hen*
-Little Boy Boo
-Feather Dusted*
-All Fowled Up
-The High and the Flighty
-Weasel Stop
-Raw! Raw! Rooster!
-Fox Terror
-Feather Bluster*
-Weasel While You Work
-A Broken Leghorn
-The Shell-Shocked Egg*
-There Auto Be a Law*
-Easy Peckins'*
(Yes, I did say my intention for this disc was to present the first 22 Foghorn cartoons in chronological order. However, "OutOfOdor" has one short, Plop Goes the Weasel, listed in his plan for the all-star disc, and we don't need that cartoon to be double-dipped on the same set. Maybe we could move it here and replace its spot on the second disc with another short, like Bully for Bugs?)

Also, I decided to move Mouse and Garden to disc three (for obvious reasons) and replace it with A Ham in a Role (I was thinking of keeping one of the shorts I bumped off disc one for a later disc). What does anyone here think of my plan?