The Looney Tunes (via Warner Bros.)Warner Archive is releasing more classic Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes shorts — some never before remastered on DVD or Blu-ray — from the Warner Bros. vault.
The Warner Archive Collection has brought nearly 100 remastered and restored cartoons to Blu-ray across four volumes of the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice collections since 2023, and now another 50 shorts are headed to disc on the all-new Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Volume 1. The two-disc set, on sale June 17, contains 25 newly-remastered shorts and 25 shorts making their Blu-ray debut. That’s not all, folks.
Pepé Le Pew, who has been largely absent from Looney Tune Land since op-eds about the controversial cartoon skunk’s problematic behavior went viral in 2021, will be included in Collector’s Vault Vol. 1. (A list of shorts has not been announced.
)Also featured in the collection: Speedy Gonzales. The fastest mouse in all of Mexico has long outrun his own controversies about ethnic stereotyping, and Speedy didn’t appear on the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice sets until the 1964 Sylvester & Speedy cartoon “Road to Andalay” was included in the final volume, Collector’s Choice Vol. 4, in 2024.
RELATED: The New Looney Tunes Movie Is Blowing Up on Blu-ray“There will be a diversification of the characters, more characters that you didn’t see [in Collector’s Choice],” Warner’s Library Historian George Feltenstein told The Extras TV. “People were really.