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Looney Tunes Super Stars
Looney Tunes Super Stars is a series of nine Looney Tunes DVDs consisting of two Bugs Bunny DVDs and other characters who got their own collections. It started on August 10, 2010, and ran until April 23, 2013. The series consists of: Although Super Stars is the semi-successor to the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, the true successor of the Golden Collection is the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection. However, unlike the Platinum Collection, there are no special features in the Super Stars series. While other volumes were planned, no further releases were made after 2013. The Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best and the Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem DVDs are now the only home media releases from Warner Bros. to have a major Looney Tunes character's (and two minor Looney Tunes characters') entire filmography featured.
Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth was released on November 30, 2010. Unlike previous Super Stars discs, the disc not only contains the matted-widescreen versions of the cartoons, but the original fullscreen versions as well. (*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set
Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy was released on November 30, 2010. All cartoons on this disc star Sylvester and Tweety, were directed by Friz Freleng, and were previously released on the Golden Collection DVDs.
Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit was released on May 4, 2011 (in Region 2 and 4). All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny and were previously released on the Golden Collection DVDs.
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks was released on October 4, 2011. It was released earlier in the Czech Republic on September 8, 2011 and on October 3, 2011, it was available early in the U.S. at Walmart stores. All cartoons on this disc feature Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best was released on December 27, 2011. The pre-53 shorts are presented in full screen while the post-53 shorts have both widescreen and full screen options (except for 1956's "Heaven Scent" which is only available in full screen). This was also the last Looney Tunes Super Stars series to feature a matted 1:85 widescreen format option for the post-1953 shorts and one of the few Warner Bros. home media release to feature the entire filmography of a major Looney Tunes character. All cartoons on this disc feature Pepé Le Pew. (*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set
Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham was released on November 6, 2012. This was the first DVD in the Super Stars series to present the post-1953 cartoons in original fullscreen format only, with no matted 1:85 widescreen format option. (*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set
Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem is a DVD featuring 18 newly remastered cartoons. It is the final release in the Super Star series, due to poor sales of Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 and the depletion of the remastering budget for new-to-DVD Looney Tunes shorts. This release features all 18 of Sylvester's pairings with Hippety Hopper and/or his son, Sylvester Jr., The DVD was released on April 23, 2013. All cartoons in this collection star Sylvester, and co-star either Hippety Hopper and/or Sylvester Jr.. All are directed by Robert McKimson, except for Goldimouse and the Three Cats, which was directed by Friz Freleng. (*) Have been released on the Golden Collection DVD set
Controversies
The first two Looney Tunes Super Stars sets (Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire and Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl) had released the majority the cartoons from the post-1953 era in a 1:85 widescreen format. Warner Bros. has stated the reason for this was because that is how the post-1953 cartoons were shown in theaters, though the cartoons were filmed in Academy ratio, not widescreen at that time. On December 1, 2010, animation expert Jerry Beck explained on the Shokus Internet Radio call-in talk program, Stu's Show that Warner aimed this series, not at collectors, but at the mass market who expect it to fit on their widescreen TVs. He speculated that at some point down the road there will probably be a douple-dip release of those shorts in a collector's DVD version with the video in full-frame format. However, the Foghorn Leghorn DVD includes both the widescreen and the Academy ratio of the cartoons on the same disc and further releases provide only fullscreen viewing. On the Tweety and Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy and Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit DVDs, all of the cartoons have been released previously on the Golden Collection series, much to the disappointment of fans. With the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks DVD, some collectors were disappointed that the set focused on the less well-received DFE-era Coyote/Road Runner cartoons (particularly the Rudy Larriva-directed ones) and lacked Chuck Jones' Coyote/Road Runner cartoons from the Pre-1964 "classic" era.
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