There’s misguided. There’s very misguided. There’s ‘let’s liberate Iraq’ misguided. And then there’s this. Anyone with cherished childhood memories might want to look away now, for Bugs Bunny has had a makeover, and it ain’t pretty…
You see, Warner Brothers has decided that Bugs Bunny and his animated pals – Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and so forth – just aren’t hip enough for the ipod twiddling youth of today. So they’ve decided to re-imagine them as ‘sleek new figures for a modern age’.
New Saturday morning show Loonatics – and Sweet Baby Jesus, hecklerspray is not making this up – will apparently transform the deeply, deeply uncool collective into a group of spaceship-based superheroes from the year 2772.
Head WB honcho David Janollari claimed that, upon hearing the idea: "We all flipped for it. We just said, `Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.’"
We say: horseshit. We say: the thought of selling a shitload of action figures to easily-influenced children and their weary parents makes a lot of sense. Enjoy using that soul while it’s still yours, David…
Coming soon: Noddy and Big Ears eliminate crack-dealing scum in The ToyTown Vigilante Adventure.
