Been meaning to ask about this...

[Jack]

I saw this on ebay a few weeks ago, it's a Christmas ornament from the 70s, but it's the wierdest looking ceramic version of Daffy I've ever seen, he looks very penguinish.
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/preview/su/superrabbit/daffyornament.jpg

...and to ring in 2002, I present two-toed Daffy Duck:
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/preview/su/superrabbit/twoktwotoes.jpg
Isn't he the cutest thing?



Jack :rolleyes:

[The Dork Knight]

Awwwwww... They all look cute...

- Foley Is Good

[Matthew Hunter]

Ypu know, that is rather interesting. It's the 1970's, Warner doesn't really own all of the cartoons in which Daffy appears in that form, and yet they still use that Chuck Jones late 40's version in their marketing. Funny, they wouldn't begin to use the self-centered or greedy modern Daffy in their merchandise or comics until the mid 1980's, by what I've seen.
-Matthew

[Jack]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Ypu know, that is rather interesting. It's the 1970's, Warner doesn't really own all of the cartoons in which Daffy appears in that form, and yet they still use that Chuck Jones late 40's version in their marketing. Funny, they wouldn't begin to use the self-centered or greedy modern Daffy in their merchandise or comics until the mid 1980's, by what I've seen.
-Matthew
There were some WB-Seven Arts lobby cards for sale which used 1940s publicity poses, and I once saw a "Looney Tunes-Merrie Melodies" movie poster from the 1950s that used all the same poses (just the heads, though, not the bodies).

Maybe the marketers just decided "None of those directors use the same character designs anyway, so we'll just stick with these, nobody's noticed a difference so far."

If I remember right, the seller said it was a Japanese ornament (which I thought was odd since all the packaging is in English).

They might have used the more 40s-ish version because such an ornament would be more compact and less breakable than one with the taller-more stretched out Daffy we have today. Even for 1940s Daffy, that is pretty compact (no legs at all).

Wish they'd make something like that today (but with the white ring about his neck, please). It is a very cute little ornament. Much more adorable than any curtains Bugs could ever give out in "Racketeer Rabbit."


Jack :D