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That's Not All, Folks!; The Looney Toons Golden Collection Volume 2 and the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 2 Available for the First Time on DVD November 2.


BURBANK, Calif. -- Suffering succotash! The Looney Tunes are back! Fans of all ages can experience Warner Bros BROS Brothers
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.' golden era of animation when Bugs Bunny, Road Runner road runner: see cuckoo.

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thrives on outwitting Wile E. Coyote. [Comics: “Beep Beep the Road Runner” in Horn, 105]

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Road Runner
, Tweety & Sylvester and all their friends return in another exciting installment of The Looney Tunes Golden Collection The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros.' home video unit Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts.  Volume Two, a 4-disc set, and The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Two, a 2-disc set. The highly anticipated follow-ups to the Volume One collections released last year will be available in stores November 2.

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two will be available for $64.92 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
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Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ) and The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Two will be available for $26.99 DVD (SRP). Both titles will include an enormous collection of dazzling, classic cartoon shorts as well as a wealth of fascinating special features.

"We are extremely pleased with consumer response to last year's Volume One editions and we are delighted to release another installment of our most famous animated classics," commented Christine Martinez, WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy)
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 Vice President Non-theatrical Franchise Marketing. She added, "We think both The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two and The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Two will be a hit with everyone, from experienced animation buffs to young kids who are seeing these cartoons for the first time. These are quintessential cartoons that millions of people around the world have grown up with and loved and we think they will jump at the chance to possess all their favorites to share with generations to come."

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two will be available in a four-disc set, and contains 60 cartoon shorts, 4 more than Volume One, that have been beautifully restored and re-mastered to their original, uncut presentation. Each disc in the collection features 15 animated classics and is dedicated to a different Looney Tunes star and their celebrated pals. Disc one, entitled Bugs Bunny Masterpieces, is devoted to the charismatic, carrot-crunching hare and features classics such as The Big Snooze, Broomstick Bunny, Bugs Bunny, Bugs

for whom no trap is too tricky. [Comics: Horn, 140]

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Bunny, Bugs

cartoon character who is impertinent toward everyone. [Comics: Horn, 140]

See : Impertinence
 Bunny Rides Again and many others. On disc two, Road Runner and Friends features the fast-paced adventures of the quick-witted Road Runner and his unrelenting nemesis Wyle E. Coyote in such favorites as Beep beep - bell  Beep, Going Going Gosh and Zipping Along. Disc three is dedicated to another famous pair of animated adversaries, Tweety & Sylvester and Friends, and features the dueling duo in such popular shorts as Bad Ol' Puddy Tat, All Abird-r-r-d, Room and Bird as well as many others. The last disc in the series, All Stars: On Stage & Screen, is jam packed with an assortment of popular cartoon favorites such as Back Alley Uproar, Book Revue, Corny corn·y  
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 Concerto and many others.

Exclusive bonus DVD features include:

--Commentaries

--Behind-the-scenes featurettes

--1985 documentary "Bugs Bunny's All Star 50th Anniversary" (Part 1 and 2)

--1962 pilot "The Adventures of The Road Runner"

--2004 short "Daffy Duck for President"

--1949 short "So Much for Little"

--1952 short "Orange Blossoms for Violet"

--Music only tracks

The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Two will be available in a two-disc set containing 30 re-mastered and restored cartoon shorts featuring a variety of Looney Tunes stars in such celebrated classics as Kitty Kornered, Duck Soup to Nuts Duck Soup To Nuts is a 1944 Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Porky is a hunter looking to shoot Daffy, but Daffy keeps outwitting Porky. , Porky pork·y 1  
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1. Of or like pork: a porky flavor.

2. Slang Fat or corpulent.
 in Wackyland, I Love to Singa, Rhapsody Rabbit and many more. Each disc includes a fascinating How to Draw special feature, which will bring out the artist in any viewer. The 30 cartoons on The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Two are also included on The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two.

The Looney Tunes have featured more than 200 characters in over 1,300 episodes and have won five Academy Awards for Best Animated Shorts. TV Guide ranked Bugs Bunny as the number one cartoon character of all time. In addition, Bugs Bunny was voted "America's Favorite Animated Character" in People Magazine's poll of the century and was the first animated character honored on a US Postal Service stamp. Entertainment Weekly hails The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two the much-anticipated follow-up to Volume One and named Volume One "2003's number one DVD release." Looney Tunes is Cartoon Network's dominant programming brand, attracting nearly 20 million viewers per week. The official Looney Tunes website, www.looneytunes.com, logs more than 1.2 million page views daily.

For more information on this and other titles distributed by Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. , visit www.whvdirect.com.
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