Bugs and Mickey meet again YAY or NAY ?

I don't know about that, considering that Warner Bros. has been releasing its classic shorts on DVD, and still continues to do that. When was the last time Disney released any of its classic cartoon shorts on DVD? I don't believe they have in recent memory. Let's face it- Disney is still way behind Warner Bros. in terms of releasing classic animation on DVD, but then again, Warner Bros. library of classic animation is now greater than Disney's. How long will it be before Disney starts releasing classic animation out of its own vaults on to DVD on a regular basis? DVD releases would have to be Disney's best chance to compete with archrival Warner Bros. Disney has no excuses to make for not releasing its classic animation on DVD- they recently acquired Marvel Films programming, which makes their classic animation library larger than prior to the Marvel acquisition, and with Warner Bros. turning out release after release of classic animation on DVD, someone needs to tell Disney to get with it, right away.
 
Last fall, actually. Aside from having bonus shorts on things such as that Epic Mickey video game, Disney released two DVDs called Have a Laugh that featured both original and shortened versions of some of it's classic shorts(btw, the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Clock Cleaners" was released uncensored and with original title cards this way, something that even the Walt Disney Treasures didn't do). Disney Channel has also been showing these shorts sporadically, once again in full as well as sometimes in a shortened version.
 
Okay. I'm a little behind on this. You mean that Mickey hasn't had a voice actor since Allwine passed away? I thought he had spoken in recent projects. In fact, I've even seen an ad for a new Disney movie coming up. This might be something to research.
 
It would be nice if both Warner Bros. and Disney could put their long-standing rivalry aside and come to an agreement on that. BTW, if there's a Roger Rabbit sequel in the works, why can't Disney agree to co-produce the movie with Warner Bros.? I guess it will be a while before we know the answer to that.
 
It would be fun to see the Disney villains clobbered with anvils, runaway trucks, falling safes and dynamite. Maleficient: THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW,
Henchman : But innocent people will be hurt BOOOOOOOOOOOOM
 
Whoa, back up, put it in part, hold on, STOP...

Aside from one or two titles, all of Disney shorts catalog was made available in the Walt Disney Treasures line. This includes every Mickey Mouse cartoon, every Donald Duck cartoon, every Goofy cartoon, every Pluto cartoon, every Silly Symphony, as many vintage pre-Mickey shorts as they were able to release, all the wartime stuff and enough misc sets to cover the other odds and ends. If you have all the Treasure sets there's very little more you could ask for. At the same time they were releasing kid friendly compilation sets. Disney's shorts library has been more visible in the past decade than it's been since the cartoons were actually playing in theaters.

Have you even heard of the Walt Disney Treasures sets?

While the Golden Collections were great, Warner's cartoon library is far from complete on DVD. Now the sets have been canceled and the DVDs we have been getting lately have been less than stellar. Have you seen the contents on the upcoming Roadrunner DVD? I know Warners' shorts catalog is much larger than Disney's, but to say that Disney hasn't tried or is way behind is false. Completely false.

This doesn't even make sense. What does Marvel have to do with Disney's classic animation library?
 
Wrong!!! First of all, no, if I ever heard of Walt Disney Treasures, where are the DVD releases? Movies don't count, only the shorts, and I've seen none of them. BTW, I'm talking about Warner Bros. total library, which includes TV animation from property that the studio now owns, especially from Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, some Filmation programs, a portion of DePatie-Freleng programs, most Rankin-Bass programs in the 80's, so my comment still stands. What has Disney done interms oreleasing classic animation from TV, and movies don't count? Very little- Warner Bros,. has been turning them out, one release at a time and continues to do so. What you say is your perogative, but it's not the truth.
 
Right here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Treasures

The shorts are the only thing I'm talking about. And just about all of Disney's theatrical shorts were released on DVD between 2001 and 2008. The sets were limited, but they were ALL released.

I'm only talking about how Disney handled DVD releases of classic material featuring their most important characters. And as far as that goes, Disney has handled that very well in the past decade. Seriously, why bring up Hanna-Barbara, Ruby-Spears, Filmation and Rankin Bass? This thread is about Mickey and Bugs and the characters surrounding them. Everything else you're talking about, including Disney/Marvel, is off topic and pointless regarding the topic of this thread.

But again, I'm talking about how the companies have handled their classic shorts output. You keep broadening your argument in order to keep this going and paint Disney as lazy and wB as the clear winner. Stop.

The truth is Disney has been dedicated enough to have released almost it's entire shorts library on DVD over a period of a decade, while Warners canceled their Golden Collections and has been putting out sub par best-of collections that I know a lot of collectors have had a problem with. This is fact. The issue here is that you didn't even know about the Treasures sets and are now just broadening your stance to include every animated property the WB corporation has the license to. I'm breaking this down to just the Looney Tunes and the classic Disney shorts.
 
One question regarding the dialogue syllable count in WFRR. I counted the syllables myself and it seems that (in both the skydiving scene and the finale) Bugs has more syllables than Mickey. Did anyone notice?
 
I think both Disney and Warner made the deal that Mickey and Bugs can be shown onscreen at the same time as long as they have the exact number of sentences and screentime of one another, right down to the millisecond. I don't think how long the sentences in question were mattered, just that Mickey and Bugs have the same amount (ex: if Mickey's dialogue only has 2 sentences, so does Bugs' by default. However, Bugs' sentence is still longer than Mickey's, but as long at it's in 2 sentences, it's fine.)

As for another team-up between the two, I really can't see it happening outside of the proposed Roger Rabbit sequel. I will say that I was always surprised that Mickey and Bugs were shown as pretty good pals to one another in the skydiving scene.
 
If the Roger Rabbit sequal is released, and does well, we may see more crossovers. But, that's for another time.

I would love to see crossovers of the two camps. Disney and Looney Tune characters were meant to be together.
 
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