Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2
2012 American cartoon anthology
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 is a Blu-ray and DVD box set by Warner Home Video released on October 16, 2012. It contains 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.[1] Disc 3 is exclusive to the Blu-ray version of the set. Unlike Volume 1, which was released in a digibook, Volume 2 was released in a standard one-movie case. This release was followed by Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3.
- Norman Spencer
- Carl Stalling
- Milt Franklyn
- Scott Bradley (in Disc 3, Special features)
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Arthur Davis, Ben Hardaway, Cal Dalton |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, Fred Quimby (Disc 3 only) |
| Starring | voice of Mel Blanc |
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| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Of the 50 cartoons included, forty were previously restored as part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, or a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD. The other ten cartoons — What Makes Daffy Duck, Birdy and the Beast, Home, Tweet Home, The High and the Flighty, Porky's Hare Hunt, Hare-um Scare-um, Prest-O Change-O, The Lion's Busy, Strife with Father, and A Horse Fly Fleas — are new to Blu-ray and DVD.
In June 2025, after being out of print for several years, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment put the Blu-Ray version of Platinum Collection: Volume 2 back into print without the booklet, but containing all three discs.[2]
Disc 1
Special features
Behind the Tunes
Alternate audio tracks
- Audio commentaries
- Michael Barrier on Buckaroo Bugs, Long-Haired Hare, Book Revue, Porky in Wackyland and The Foghorn Leghorn
- Eddie Fitzgerald, John Kricfalusi, and Kali Fontecchio on Buckaroo Bugs
- Greg Ford on A Wild Hare, Ali Baba Bunny, Show Biz Bugs (with pre-score music), Back Alley Oproar, Scent-imental Romeo and The High and the Flighty
- Jerry Beck on You Ought to Be in Pictures, Canned Feud, Tabasco Road and Mexicali Shmoes
- Mark Kausler on Porky in Egypt and Birdy and the Beast
- Constantine Nasr on Deduce, You Say!
- Music-only tracks include: Ali Baba Bunny, The High and the Flighty, Tabasco Road and Mexicali Shmoes
- Music-and-effects tracks include: Scent-imental Romeo
Disc 2
Special features
Behind the Tunes
- Forever Befuddled
- A-Hunting We Will Go: Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy
- Looney Tunes Go Hollywood
- A Conversation with Tex Avery
- Looney Tunes Go to War!
Alternate audio tracks
- Audio commentaries
- Michael Barrier on Wabbit Twouble, Rabbit Seasoning, Drip-Along Daffy, Tortoise Beats Hare and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
- Greg Ford on Rabbit Fire and Hollywood Steps Out
- Eric Goldberg on Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
- Chuck Jones on Tortoise Beats Hare[4]
- Mark Kausler on Tortoise Wins by a Hare and Russian Rhapsody
- Jerry Beck on Porky's Hare Hunt, Elmer's Candid Camera and Dough Ray Me-Ow
- Paul Dini on The Bashful Buzzard
- John Kricfalusi and Bill Melendez on An Itch in Time
- Will Friedwald on Page Miss Glory
- Constantine Nasr on Rocket-bye Baby
- Music-only tracks include: Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, Drip-Along Daffy, Barbary Coast Bunny
- Music-and-effects tracks include: Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
Disc 3: Bonus Materials
- King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
- Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons
- Friz on Film
- ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons
- Real American Zero: The Adventures of Private Snafu
- The World of Leon Schlesinger[3]
- Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)
- Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)
- Crying for the Carolines (1930)
- It's Got Me Again! (1932)
- Haunted Gold title sequence
- Schlesinger Productions Christmas Party with optional commentary by Martha Sigall and Jerry Beck
- Friz at MGM - Captain and the Kids cartoons[3]
- Poultry Pirates (1938)
- A Day at the Beach (1938)
- The Captain’s Christmas (1938)
- Seal Skinners (1939)
- Mama's New Hat (1939)
- The Best of the Rest of Tex - a selection of Tex Avery's best cartoons from MGM[3]
- Blitz Wolf (1942)
- Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
- Screwball Squirrel (1944)
- Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
- King-Size Canary (1947)
- Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
- Señor Droopy (1949)
- Wags to Riches (1949)
- Symphony in Slang (1951)
- Magical Maestro (1952)
- Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
- Private Snafu cartoons[3]
- Coming!! Snafu (1943)
- Gripes (1943)
- Spies (1943)
- The Goldbrick (1943)
- The Home Front (1943)
- Rumors (1943)
- Snafuperman (1944)
- Censored (1944)
- Mr. Hook cartoons[3]
- The Good Egg (1945)
- The Return of Mr. Hook (1945)
- Tokyo Woes (1945)
See also
Notes
- New to Blu-ray and DVD.