Museum of Looney: Exhibits on Loan
This page features some interesting items from other reader's collections that they have been kind enough to share. Want an item shown here? scan me an image of it with a brief description and send it to hunter21@flash.net (or my private message box on the Toon Zone forums if you're a member) and I will post it.
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From Thad Komorowski, some vintage Porky Pig items from the 1930's:
Porky Pig coloring book ( 1930's)
A coloring book from the 1930s showing a very early Porky Pig. It
is believed that someone from the Frank Tashlin unit drew this picture.
"Porky Pig's Duck Hunt" (1938)
Children's storybook based on the very first Daffy Duck cartoon, Tex Avery's "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937). Note that producer Leon Schlesinger is credited as the author, which could not have been the case...Schlesinger was hardly the creative force behind his cartoons...let's call the author "Fred Avery", shall we?
From Jon Cooke:
Looney Tunes Pez store display box (1984)
An image from the Looney Tunes PEZ dispensers store display box used throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. Somebody was DEFINITELY not familiar with the characters...Bugs Bunny is shown wearing a shirt, Sylvester is dressed like Dennis the Menace, and there's a big rainbow behind them. Sad, isn't it?
Looney Tunes Lay's chips (1995)
During the summer of 1995, to tie-in with the new short "Carrotblanca", the LT characters appeared on bags of Lays potato chips. Jon scanned the the complete set for us, (the back of each bag included a description of "Carrotblanca" and saying to "look for it at a theater near you"). Notice that the Speedy Gonzales one is not labeled a 'limited edition.' perhaps there was a more permanent idea to use Speedy as the mascot for this new flavor...neither the flavor nor the Speedy mascot lasted very long.
Kid's WB launch preview (1995)
A small hand-out that advertised the launch of "Kids' WB" (also back in 1995). They were given out at the Warner Bros. Studio Stores. Note that neither Sylvester and Tweety nor the great "Animaniacs" show air on the WB anymore. Once again, sad isn't it?
