From the AP - NEW YORK Feb 17, 2005 — Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future way in the future. The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children's series, "Loonatics," that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters' descendants Buzz Bunny and the like will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

The network's animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.

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Oh man, here we go again ... reaching back into the archives for an "update." I know in my Bio I complained that were no "new" Looney Toons when I was a kid, but this is not quite what I had in mind. I like dark animation as much as the next guy, but to take a classic such has this and to twist it to this end ... I've got a bad feeling about this. Superhero actions figures? It's like seeing Looney Toons in Bizarro world. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

You may not want to see more, but look at this. Aint It Cool news has a preview of the new toon.

The WB has done some really good updates in the past, and most of them were superhero related. Batman, Batman Beyond, Superman, Justice League, and Teen Titans were all good updates of some older cartoons. But unlike this, most of those updates made the cartoons more true to the original source material, the comics they came from ... this is a real deviation from the source. The Loonatics look like "new" pro-sports mascots.

And the biggest question, can this be funny? I certainly don't see any "What's up doc?" happening here.

Darkness clouds everything.

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