When are more going to come out? I know they can't restore anymore, but come on! At least release cheap double-dips to get some restoration funds.

Restoration funds are not the issue. The problem is that WB doesn't want to restore any more cartoons.

WB pooled their money into these sets with the idea that they would make them *more* money. Unfortunately, the suits in power don't think there's enough of an audience for Looney Tunes on home video, as evidenced by the poor sales of the second Platinum Collection. Hence no double-dips, even if those can make a quick buck, much less Platinum Collections that mostly recycle cartoons from the Golden Collections and Super Stars DVDs in any event (even if they are 1080p transfers).

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Then why does Disney constantly re-restore their old Movies and have three/four different comic restorations going on?

It kinda seems like Disney is more in touch and less corporate minded than WB, which is quite sad, as it used to be more the opposite.

Because Disney actually has a large enough audience that is willing to spend money on new restorations of their features (however botched those are) and republished and/or imported-translated comics.

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Even if (and I'm saying IF because I don't think LT DVDs in retail is dead, it's just taking a break) WHV decided to stop releasing classic LT on DVD, they could always try the Archive (and up they ante and exclusively make them as factory-pressed releases).

I just really wish they'd re-release the Laser disc LTMMs. Plus have a set of LTMMs that are special features for various WB films.

The reason is because not only they have no remastered budget due to the poor sales of the Looney Tunes DVD/Blu Ray releases from 2012, but also the general public isn't interested into the Looney Tunes anymore. Since they are more into both Scooby Doo, and Tom & Jerry. WB's has lost their hopes on the Looney Tunes.

Sure, Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production has gotten high ratings, but that still isn't enough.

I find SD kinda bland and predictable and the new TJ cartoon is annoying, because there's always a character who won't even shut up!

I find SD kinda bland and predictable and the new TJ cartoon is annoying, because there's always a character who won't even shut up!

Both franchises are getting old in my opinion. Scooby Doo is nothing but the same boring mystery solving they do in every movie, TV show, or special. While Tom & Jerry of today are not as good as the original Hanna and Barbera cartoons.

I mentioned something like this in this thread:
http://www.intanibase.co...-in-the-Looney-Tunes-now 

And it's not just the classic stuff, either. The complete "The Looney Tunes Show" has not been released on DVD; just the first half of the first season has so far. Yet its sister show, "Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated," DID have the complete series released. (Though the complete "The Looney Tunes Show" actually IS available on iTunes, but this is different from the classic shorts.)
And they've already announced a Vol. 1 DVD release for "Be Cool, Scooby-Doo," but nothing for "Wabbit" so far, and at this rate, it's doubtful "Wabbit" will get ANY DVD release.

Reason is two folded:
-Paranoia over copyright
-Paranoia over Political correctness

Even if (and I'm saying IF because I don't think LT DVDs in retail is dead, it's just taking a break) WHV decided to stop releasing classic LT on DVD, they could always try the Archive (and up they ante and exclusively make them as factory-pressed releases).

If you people want the Warner Archive to create the new "Looney Tunes" blu-rays & dvds
(or if you people want the Warner Archive to create the new volumes (vol. 4 & vol. 5 & etc) of the "Looney Tunes Platinum Collection" blu-rays & dvds),

You people can sign this petition.

care2.com:
"Release More Looney Tunes on Warner Archive" petition
http://www.thepetitionsi...tunes-on-warner-archive/ 

Even if (and I'm saying IF because I don't think LT DVDs in retail is dead, it's just taking a break) WHV decided to stop releasing classic LT on DVD, they could always try the Archive (and up they ante and exclusively make them as factory-pressed releases).

If you people want the Warner Archive to create the new "Looney Tunes" blu-rays & dvds
(or if you people want the Warner Archive to create the new volumes (vol. 4 & vol. 5 & etc) of the "Looney Tunes Platinum Collection" blu-rays & dvds),

You people can sign this petition.

care2.com:
"Release More Looney Tunes on Warner Archive" petition
http://www.thepetitionsi...tunes-on-warner-archive/ 

Yep, that's the petition I made back then.

The petition had like 13 people sign for it. I think we just need someone who likes classic cartoons other than TJ and Scooby to be in charge of WB.

Another reason why everyone was getting sick of LTMMs, is that the same 50-100 LTMMs kept on playing! They have over 1000 at their disposal, yet JUST play SOME Bugs and Daffy cartoons. Most of the time not even the good ones!

What I really liked about CN back in the day, is they'd play one-off MMs, which is something you never see now. If kids knew that there were more than just post-48 LTMMs, it would probably get more popular.
This is why the new Bugs Bunny cartoon is getting views, because it's new content; things which haven't aired to death yet and has yet to be "chopped down" to its "finer moments", much like how classic Scooby, LTMMs and Tom and Jerry have been.

It also helps that Scooby has many, many shows and movies, so even though each episode is technically the same thing, some do it a bit differently like A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Mystery Incorporated.

Tom and Jerry on the other hand doesn't have as many shows or movies as Scooby-Doo, but there are more "popular" ones, when compared to The Bugs Bunny Show and its like.

Great, more needless whining on how various Looney Tunes are overplayed, overrated, "not even the good ones", etc. Not to mention the stigma against post-48 cartoons. Frankly, the divide doesn't matter anymore. (They're all part of the same studio from the same Golden Age!)

A lot of pre-1948 cartoons have already been served to the public on a platter through the Golden Collections, Platinum Collections, etc. anyways. If general audiences these days really cared about the variety of classic Looney Tunes available to them, they would have eaten those up...but guess what? Poor sales have taken them down.

Kids eat up new (as in "newly-made-and-released") content these days. At this point, unless they really, REALLY hyped it up, I doubt that classic Looney Tunes of any kind would gain new viewers and high ratings even if the whole block consisted of rare, pre-1948 cartoons (and black-and-whites, too!) that haven't been released on DVD yet.

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Great, more needless whining on how various Looney Tunes are overplayed, overrated, "not even the good ones", etc. Not to mention the stigma against post-48 cartoons. Frankly, the divide doesn't matter anymore. (They're all part of the same studio from the same Golden Age!)

A lot of pre-1948 cartoons have already been served to the public on a platter through the Golden Collections, Platinum Collections, etc. anyways. If general audiences these days really cared about the variety of classic Looney Tunes available to them, they would have eaten those up...but guess what? Poor sales have taken them down.

Kids eat up new (as in "newly-made-and-released") content these days. At this point, unless they really, REALLY hyped it up, I doubt that classic Looney Tunes of any kind would gain new viewers and high ratings even if the whole block consisted of rare, pre-1948 cartoons (and black-and-whites, too!) that haven't been released on DVD yet.

I think you misunderstood. I'm talking about what's on TV, not what's available. Besides, at the back of each GC volume it says it's for adults only, so of course parents won't buy them for their kids.

I'm just saying that kids get sick of seeing the same LTMMs on TV the whole time, so it can get boring only seeing what the networks deem "the best", without showing something a bit more "mediocre" in between. After all, it's hard to appreciate the best of something (like Duck Amuck), without seeing something else that doesn't quite stand up to it (Rabbit Rampage) and think of it the same way as historians do. The only reason why historians praise Duck Amuck so much, is because of what came before/after it and how it affected the animation industry. The short on its own over and over again to fresh-minded kids will just think of it as another MM. You really need the history behind it to appreciate it.

It's like how those awful big foot segments in the new Bugs Bunny cartoon make the rest of the show seem better.

To limit myself to what's on TV, here's what Cartoon Network aired last month:
http://www.intanibase.co...unes-Daily-Airings/page6 

There's plenty of decent, mediocre, good, or even awful shorts in between all the best ones. I myself thought CN was doing the same thing with the Looney Tunes that Boomerang kept (and, I suspect, keeps) doing with Tom and Jerry (repeating the same shorts over and over again to the point where the cycle starts over weekly) until I took a closer look at these schedules. (And it looks like there were some shorts that aired earlier in the year that did not play last month, and vice versa.) Overall, there's a reasonable amount of variety.

Granted, the situation might have been different in the UK where you're from.

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To limit myself to what's on TV, here's what Cartoon Network aired last month:
http://www.intanibase.co...unes-Daily-Airings/page6 

There's plenty of decent, mediocre, good, or even awful shorts in between all the best ones. I myself thought CN was doing the same thing with the Looney Tunes that Boomerang kept (and, I suspect, keeps) doing with Tom and Jerry (repeating the same shorts over and over again to the point where the cycle starts over weekly) until I took a closer look at these schedules. (And it looks like there were some shorts that aired earlier in the year that did not play last month, and vice versa.) Overall, there's a reasonable amount of variety.

Granted, the situation might have been different in the UK where you're from.

I checked what was on for the whole of today (yesterday for me) and from 6AM, there wasn't a single Looney Tunes short.

They should release every short not on DVD on the Warner Archive in the unrestored prints IMO. These days ir's literally impossible to see classics like Picador Porky, Jeepers Creepers or the pre Porky Looney Tunes.

At least a print of every short exists.

Checked today too and there's still no LTMMs on.