Anyway, the house my folks rented had a fun addition to the room I stayed in. It was clearly designed as a kids' room by the owners, and had a bedspread featuring a certain gang of cartoon characters...
The bedspread was, apparently, from 1996, and used old drawings and model sheets rather than the standard publicity poses of the era...one of the only Looney Tunes items I've ever seen that did that.
To see more of the bedspread, check this out:
More bedspread picts
Another interesting LT-related fact...Avalon, NJ is home to a wonderful fish market called "Sylvester's", (the founders' last name was "Sylvester") which, sadly, was not open at this time of year. But there's an infamous story about a Warner Bros. executive who vacationed there in the late 1980s, who threatened to sue if they didn't remove their wonderful sign featuring the iconic Looney Tunes "puddy tat". the Sylvester family obliged, and by the early 90's, the sign (and great drawings on the take-out menu I remember coloring as a kid) were gone. I last visited Sylvester's about 3 years ago, and they still had a stuffed Sylvester doll perched on the rafter inside...in "quiet defiance", as an employee pointed out.
Here's a photo, from the Sylvester's website, of the old sign, circa 1986:
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Nice bed - I think I can identify all the model sheets and animation drawings that those poses came from (just about all of them were reprinted in "That's All, Folks!" by Steve Schneider). Although I note that in the Daffy "Rabbit Fire" walk cycle ("No more buwwets? Here, lemme see that thing..."), Elmer's gun seems to have been replaced with a baseball bat.
Hi Matt: it seems that you had a wonderful time with your parents...and it had been much more funny with all these Looney Tunes Stuff, which a good fanatic ( like us!) would sure photograph!
cool pics! I love that bedspread!
This looks like something that probably came from the WB Studio Store originally.
I had those when I was kid! I loved them! It was a sad day when my mom said I was too "old" for those bedsheets...but it was and still is awesome in my eyes.
I had actually had those until I was 17 (more out of laziness than anything). I had to get rid of them when I realized I couldn't get laid with Bugs Bunny bedsheets.
Ups...I forgot! I fell sorry for that poor Sylvester and his family...That sing was a original piece!
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