One of the weirdest vintage Looney Tunes items I've ever seen...

[Matthew Hunter]

Check this out: a 1940's placemat featuring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Sniffles?! It has a cutesy rhyme and song, but the image of Bugs milking a cow is too funny to pass up a look at!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067466332
-Matthew

[Jon Cooke]

That's great! I love how Sniffles is as big as Elmer! :eek:


-Jon

[Jack]

I like that, though what I'd really like to eventually get is a ceramic figure, or one of the metal biggybanks, planters, or sets of bookends.

Sniffles was very much considered a major character of Merrie Melodies (like Bugs was, but not quite), and was heavily merchandised in the same ways. Making him as big as Bugs and Elmer was a little odd, though...


Jack :D

[Pietro]

The Bugs looked like a combination between Clampett's Bugs and Ben Hardway's Bugs and you're right it's odd that Sniffles was made so big.:p

-Pietro:D

[Thad Komorowski]

It's a proven fact that studios make their smaller characters look too big on merchandise. I saw a "Casper & Friends" lunchbox from the 60s (I only saw two images of it), and Buzzy the crow was almost as big as Little Audrey! :eek: There's also a picture on the official Harvey site that has Herman half as tall as Katnip!


I liked that item too.



-Thad

[Pilmedium]

That is really weird and silly. It would take a fool to buy that, or a wacky collector.

[J Lee]

Well, at least we now know Hippety Hopper was not Warner Bros' first giant mouse. ;)

[Jon Cooke]

Wait, there's more of these placemats (one for every day of the week)! All feature king-sized Sniffles!

Sunday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067464145)

Saturday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067464672)

Friday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067465284)

Wednesday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067467529)

Tuesday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067469240) (That is one scary looking Bugs!)

Monday (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1067469812)


These are great! :p :)


-Jon

[Joe Tully]

Wow, those are interesting. Pretty weird though. My theory is they are from an alternate dimension where Disney made the Looney Tunes. :eek: :p

[Do-Do]

Strange....
On the "Friday" placemat, there is a tiny mouse near Porky, and then on the other side is super-size Sniffles :p !
Also, why is Pentunia on these things when she wasn't even in cartoons anymore :rolleyes: ?

[Thad Komorowski]

Petunia was very big in the Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies and Porky Pig comics. Her many appearances in them almost gave her the same star power as Bugs or Porky.



-Thad

[Pietro]

It looks like Bugs is saying something in every picture. I'll bet I know what Bugs is trying to say in the one where they're doing garden work, "Eh, Sniffles have you been drinking da 'Quick Grow' lately?":p

-Pietro:D

[Joe Tully]

Originally posted by Pietro Shakarian
I'll bet I know what Bugs is trying to say in the one where they're doing garden work, "Eh, Sniffles have you been drinking da 'Quick Grow' lately?":p

Maybe he found the bottle from King Size Canary? ;)

[Sogturtle]

Welllllll that gigantic "mother of all rodents" Sniffles would be the most likely explanation for what was chewing on the box of a Columbia Barney Google cartoon I bought... :) :bosko: :cool: :D