Looney Tunes Presents was the last collection of Looney Tunes videos, released 21 July 1998 on the VHS format by Warner Home Video. It was the first from Warner Bros. to feature the pre-1948 Warner cartoon library on the same tapes as post-48 cartoons (since Turner and Time Warner merged in 1996).
Due to the fact that Warner planned to promote this series the "next generation" of Looney Tunes videos, nearly every previous Warner Home Video and every MGM/UA Home Video release was discontinued in 1999.
This was also the first Looney Tunes video compilation to use the new Warner Home Video logo introduced in 1996, which would continue to be used until 2016.
(*)-Dubbed 1995 version (for pre-1948 shorts)
(#)-Dubbed 1997 version (for post-1948 shorts, but no dubbed disclaimer seen on original end card)
(##)-Dubbed 1998 version (for post-1948 shorts, but no dubbed disclaimer seen on original end card)
(@)-1986 Golden Jubilee tape version
July 1998 releases[]
Cover | Title | Featured cartoons |
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Marvin the Martian & K-9: 50 Years on Earth! | ||
Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes (original version) |
June 1999 releases[]
Cover | Title | Featured cartoons |
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Tweety: Home Tweet Home |
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Tweety: Tweet and Lovely |
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October 1999 releases[]
Cover | Title | Featured cartoons |
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Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes (reissued version) | ||
Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny |
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Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie |
April 2000 release[]
Cover | Title | Featured cartoons |
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Taz's Jungle Jams |
Notes[]
- The video Taz's Jungle Jams was originally scheduled to include "Bushy Hare", "The Lion's Busy", and "Nelly's Folly", but the contents were changed shortly before release.[1]
- The pre-1948 shorts used in each tape are Turner "dubbed versions", which were used again for Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition VHS tapes by Columbia House.
- Post-1948 shorts that have WB 1997/1998 dubbed version prints (a.k.a. THIS VERSION 1997/1998) prints are presented as dubbed versions as seen on the European VHS tapes, albeit without the dubbed disclaimer on the preserved original ending cards. These "dubbed" prints without the dubbed disclaimer were used again for Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition VHS tapes by Columbia House.
- Unlike most unrestored post-1948 shorts without THIS VERSION 1997/1998 dubbed versions, which tend to use 1988 Warner Home Video remasters (a.k.a. LaserDisc prints), "Tweet and Lovely" is presented on the Tweety: Tweet and Lovely as the very faded Golden Jubilee tape transfer from 1986.
- Much like the Stars of Space Jam: Tweety and Sylvester VHS release and then-current TV airings, "Snow Business" is presented with the altered 1959-1960 MM ending card on the Tweety: Home Tweet Home VHS release.
- The pre-1948 shorts appear less than the post-1948 shorts in tapes having a mixture of cartoons from the pre-1948 and post-1948 eras.
- The Bugs Bunny and Tweety tapes include picture frames on the back of the cover. Inside each case is a little savings booklet for Warner Bros. Century 2000.
USA/European release differences[]
- European releases of Looney Tunes Presents have different shorts compared to their North American releases;
- On Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny, "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" was replaced by "Bully for Bugs".
- On Tweety: Tweet and Lovely, "Tugboat Granny" was replaced by "Muzzle Tough".
- In addition, the European VHS release of Tweety: Tweet and Lovely had different transfers used for the shorts "Tweet and Lovely" and "Hawaiian Aye Aye"; On the European VHS release "Tweet and Lovely" uses The Looney Tunes Video Show VHS transfer instead of the Golden Jubilee VHS transfer, and while both "Fowl Weather" and "Hawaiian Aye Aye" on the same VHS release use the late-1980s VHS/LaserDisc transfer with black borders in the opening titles on the USA VHS release, however their European counterparts instead use the French version of The Looney Tunes Video Show VHS transfer and the Italian Cartoon Show VHS transfers respectively for each short.
- On Tweety: Home Tweet Home, "Home, Tweet Home" was replaced by "A Street Cat Named Sylvester".
- In Europe, Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes (original version) was released as part of the Stars of Space Jam VHS collection and referred to as Stars of Space Jam: Space Tunes, with all the shorts having the DUBBED VERSION (C) 1997 WARNER BROS. disclaimer over the original ending cards.[2]
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