An 11 year old kid from Tulsa started saveourlooneytunes.com to protest the new Warner Brothers cartoon "loonatics" which is a sad rework of the classic looney tunes cartoon characters where they battle evil in the year 2772. Nope I am not making this up. ( I ranted about these dark looking anime-styled versions of Bugs and friends in an earlier post when I first heard about it. )

This 11 year old kid from Tulsa, OK, whos name is Thomas, started his petition Feb. 28th 2005 after the new look was unveiled.

AP Article - Within days (of Thomas starting the online petition), the response had overwhelmed the family’s home computer. By late March, more than 25,000 people from around the world had signed the petition. After a CNN story on Thomas aired in mid-April, the site had tallied 80,000 signatures and 95,000 hits, the family said.

Amazing reponse in a matter of a couple months $80,000 saying to Warner Brothers to leave the classic characters alone.

Now, nearly two months after starting an Internet petition drive against the TV series' fall debut, Thomas has gotten their attention.

Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott Rowe said his company wants the thousands of fans upset by the made-over characters unveiled in February to know "that’s NOT all, folks."

Those "early drawings" have been revised into characters that are softer and less menacing, he said.

"We heard the outcry from fans, including Thomas," Rowe said.

But this is sad...

Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott Rowe said, "We just wanted to create something that would be accessible and fun to a new generation of kids,"

Why does the "new" generation of kids version of accessible and fun mean dark and violent, devoid of humor or clever wit? The entertainment industry seems to be all about dumbing things down, making it dark, violent, and menaching with lots of action and that is what they feed to the kids.