How Long Have You....

[billyjoelfan]

Been Collection Classic cartoons (in this case looney tunes and MM)

[Glenn]

Ive been around long enough to have bought all the WB laserdiscs when they first came out in the early 90's.

Glenn

[Cartman]

I began collecting the classic Disney cartoons during my Jr. year of high school. About two or three years later, I began collecting cartoons from other studios as well.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I started with Warner Home Video's release of the Golden Jubilee videos way back in the olden days known as the early eighties.

[rodney]

This spurt of collecting has been going for about 2 years. When I was younger, I'd tape them all off of TV (we had a nice syndication package) but I don't have those tapes anymore.

My copy of the Beck/Friedwald book was bought when I was in 5th grade, and I'm 24 now.

[Pietro]

I've been collecting since 1998 when I was in the 3rd Grade when I started taping "The Bugs and Daffy Show" on Kids WB.

-Pietro:D

[Bugsmer]

Since late August, on Cartoon Network. I used to only tape at certain times or certain days, and I ended up missing a whole bunch. Now I tape the Acme Hour every weekday, three hours on Saturday, and an hour and a half on Sunday. As a note to those who want to begin taping them off the TV, tape them as often as possible and try not to miss a day. It's good to tape them all, rather than going by title so you can see the cartoon and decide whether or not you want to keep it. Keep in mind that many of the cartoons on TV are cut, and not quite like the original. Nevertheless, you can have a lot of fun doing this.

[StevenK]

Ever since the MGM/UA Bugs! and Daffy tapes came out in the late 1980s.

Unfortunately I lost most of the tapes I recorded off TV after moving twice and I've only been collecting seriously, trying to replace them, for about the last six months. If only I still had all those black-and-white, logo-free PorkyPig cartoons I recorded off Nickelodeon!


Steve

[lislebartman]

I've been collecting since the early days of video...my collection of "The Looneys Tunes Show" Volumes 1-3 are in the original clamshell casings from the early 1980s! I believe I was still in high school or just starting college when I got them as a gift...

[Daffyfan2003]

That's something I can't remember. I believe I was pretty young when I received my first Warner Bros. video. I went with 10-15.

[Larry T]

I've been collecting ever since the very first cartoon I ever got on video in 1982..... "Bad Luck Blackie" :D...

The very next entry on that tape was Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs!! From that point on, I basically took every opportunity to find videotape copies of great cartoons ;).

But if you want to get REALLY technical, when I was 6 I got a tape recorder for Christmas, and I used to tape record the airings of Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny cartoons :) .... that would make "collecting" since 1969!!

[Thad Komorowski]

I've been collecting since the 1st grade, which would be about 7 years ago. I got the Road Runner SCRAPES OF WRATH video as a birthday gift, and started collecting copies of any great cartoons I could find. :)


Thad

[cabe624]

I regained my interest in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies last year when I stumbled across June Bugs. I had forgoten how much I liked these cartoons, plus it was around the time I had gotten my family's satelight installed. Before then, I had no access to classic cartoons of any type, unless I used a cable box, which was in another part of the house. Thanks to this fourm, and many other great websites, I found out how rare some of the cartoons that were being aired on CN were, and started to tape endlessly over the summer. By October, I got a copy of TGAOLT vol 1 off Ebay, and now I have probably over 500 WB cartoons in my collection, and a couple of diffrent WB and MGM cartoon laserdiscs.

[Pilmedium]

I gained interest in a few classic WB characters in late 1996. Of course, I did not become a cartoon collector until much more recently, but I still go with that date.

[frogboxer]

I started seriously collecting classic cartoon about two years ago.

[Lee Glover]

I started collecting cartoons from 1989, when I bought a couple of Tom & Jerry videos that were reduced in price (they were new), and since then I have purchased nearly every Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes videos available in the UK (until DVD arrived). I can remember trying to find the rare MGM/UA Looney Tunes videos, as they were like gold.

Now, I have switched my attention to buying classic animation DVDs, mainly Region 1. My cartoon collection must have doubled, probably more. I am pleased that I now have B&W Mickey Mouse and Bosko cartoons in my collection. :bosko:

I also have all 5 volumes of THE GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES on laserdisc.

[Jason Furness]

I can trace the beginning of my collection to that Bugs Bunny "Golden Jubilee" video that I recieved as a gift in January 1987 at the ripe old age of eight. For the next few years after that, I recieved the occasional tape, mostly PD, as gifts.

My first experience with recording Looney Tunes off TV was in May of '87, with the Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special on CBS. After that, I recorded any old Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck special that happened to come on for a couple of years, getting treated to two new specials by Ford and Lennon in the process. :cool:

As for actively collecting the classic shorts themselves, that began in early 1989. I had my brother tape a fairly new show called "Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon" for me while I was away from the VCR eating dinner one night. And well, I just filled that tape with Nick's package till the tape was full. In the summer of 1992, I started recording again, this time recording from TBS and TNT in addition to Nick. By the fall of that yea I had learned how to use two VCRs to my advantage, and I got a "brilliant" idea:

"Record the cartoons in 'SP' mode."

I continued recording my cartoons in SP regularly until the end of 1995. By that time, Turner's channels had all acquired "bugs" and
Nick had run out of material that I didn't have/want. Since then, I've collected sporadically, my highest moments of activity involving the Columbia House set and whenever Late Night Black & White makes one of its comebacks.

[Nelson]

I first started collecting cartoons back in the late seventies, when my first collection of cartoons were 16mm and 8mm prints of the old Offical Films of Van Bueren and the Ub Iwerks cartoons and Castle Films of Terrytoons and Walter Lantz.

[Emmanuel Cruz]

I started collecting cartoons in June of 2001. A few days after the last day of 7th grade, I recorded "Baseball Bugs." And the rest is history.

-Emmanuel:bosko: