Looney Tunes Toys - Nostalgic Retrospective and My Collection!
16Lets look at the past and present of Looney Tunes figures as we explore the different toylines from the 90s to present day, as well as as look at my Looney Tunes toy collection in this nostalgic video.
This video is part mini retrospective since we look at the history and legacy of Looney Toys Action Figures, but its also a personal video since I show you all what remains of my childhood Looney Tunes figures as well as some more recent toy acquisitions and I discuss my future plans in terms of collecting WB toys and figures. Tyco was one of the first companies to make Looney figures in the 90s. I owned the Tazmania figure for a few years. Then Playmates came and did the Space Jam figures in 1996. This line included many characters like Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Tasmanian Devil, the Monstars and more. Sadly no Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, or Granny. One of my favorite toys was Marvin's Countdown Rock-O-Tron (his rocket spaceship). They also made a line of toys based on classic shorts like Baseball Bugs, Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare, Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z, and Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 th Century. McDonalds did a tie-in campaign for Space Jam since they did Happy Meal Toys and Plushes that they sold outside the happy meals. I had all the plushies and a few of the toys. Only the Bugs figure remains, but it's the repack from the Happy Meals 40th Anniversary Line. And two of my plushes remain, the Bugs and the Taz. I also have a Marvin the Martian plush that my brother got at the Warner Bros Store. And I used to own a Tweety Bird figure I got at the Warner Bros Studio Store in Miami.
Later on Mattel did toys based on the Brendan Fraser led movie Back in Action and they also did figures based on the Cartoon Network Duck Dodgers Animated show. I didn't have any from these two lines. DC Direct also did Looney Tunes figures in the 2000s. I remember seeing them at Babbages store in Plaza. They were based on specific shorts like Baseball Bugs, Water Water Every Hare, Big House Bunny, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, and What's Opera Doc? And for the Looney Tunes Show from the 2010s that aired on Cartoon Network we got figurines from the JB Bridge. I didn't have any of these. I did however collect the Space Jam New Legacy figures from Moose Toys. I have Bugs and Lola Bunny Taz-Mania and Marvin. More recently mostly we have gotten Funko POPs and some blind bags and plushes here and there but no proper action figure lines. I think JADA Toys should make Looney figures. They have the Hanna-Barbera license since they are making Barney and Fred figures as part of their cereal mascots line, and they are doing a dedicated Scooby-Doo line which included Shaggy and Scoob himself. Jada Toys should go deeper into Warner Bros Animation and get the rights to the classic Merry Melodies shorts and characters.
I hope we get more toys in the future, and videogames toy. We got a lot of Looney products when I was growing up. Back in the 90s and the 2000s the Looney Tunes were big parts of Pop Culture. Many of us 90s and 2000s kids grew up loving Bugs Bunny and the rest of the gang. We got the original animated shorts as reruns on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Boomerang channel and syndicated throughout the networks. We also got new animated shows like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Taz-Mania, Sylvester and tweety Mysteries, Duck Dodgers, Baby Looney Tunes, The Looney Tunes show and more. We got many videogames for both consoles like NES, SNES, N64, PS1, PS2 and more, and for handhelds like Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GBA ETC. I know it will never be like that again, but things can and should get better. Hopefully the current CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav retires or is fired and things get better for the Toons!!
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