New Looney Tunes "To Catch a Fairy" (partially found unaired Toon City version of Warner Bros animated series episode; 2014)

Promotional artwork of the series.

Status: Partially Found

New Looney Tunes (formerly known as Wabbit during its first season) is an animated Looney Tunes television series from Warner Bros. Animation developed by Erik Kuska. The series aired on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Boomerang's SVOD service from 2015 to 2020. It is now proceeded by HBO Max's Looney Tunes Cartoons.

Sometime after the series was first announced in March 2014 under the title Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production, a pilot version of the episode "To Catch a Fairy" was made and animated by Toon City. The pilot version of the episode showed a slightly different character design for Bugs Bunny, along with different backgrounds. Squeaks' design from the pilot was retained in the series, though he did have a different design that was seen in earlier promotional stills.

While it was initially thought to be a pilot for the series, Sean Petrilak, director of Wabbit/New Looney Tunes, confirmed via email that their was no pilot for the series, due to the high cost of producing animation. He went on to explain that the episode was used to "try out to different studios", and that they did not end up going with Toon City.

Availability

In early 2015, clips from Toon City's version of the episode appeared on Boomerang UK's 2015 preview promo, this would go on to be uploaded to YouTube around the same time, but was removed due to a copyright claim from Cartoon Network. For a while, this promo would be lost until it was re-uploaded by YouTuber OrangeToad Too, who obtained it from another user named zpc. The pilot itself has not yet surfaced online in its entirety, and the only other material that has resurfaced are some additional stills.

Footage

Boomerang UK's 2015 preview promo, which contains some snippets from Toon City's version of the episode (00:18).

Gallery

• 
• 
• 

Emails

• 

  Email by Sean Petrilak explaining how there wasn't a pilot.

• 

  Email by Sean Petrilak discussing "To Catch a Fairy".

See Also

• Looney Tunes: By A Hare (lost build of cancelled arcade racing game; 1993)
• Looney Tunes: Laff Riot (found unreleased pitch pilot of "The Looney Tunes Show" animated sitcom; 2009)
• Looney Tunes: Space Race (lost build of cancelled original Nintendo 64 version of Dreamcast/PlayStation 2 racing game; 1998-1999)
• Hare Ribbin' (found original ending of Warner Bros. cartoon; 1944)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (partially found original title cards for animated shorts; 1930s-1940s)
• Looney Tunes ClickN Read Phonics (partially found Flash animated internet shorts; 2011)
• Fish Tales (found redrawn colorized version of Looney Tunes short; 1968)
• The Heckling Hare (lost original ending of Looney Tunes short; 1941)
• Porky's Hare Hunt (partially found redrawn colorized version of Looney Tunes short; 1968)
• The Bugs Bunny Show (partially lost animated TV series; 1960-2000)
• Noël chez Bugs Bunny & Opération Bugs Bunny (found French live-action/animated Christmas TV special; 1997)
• The New Daffy Duck Show (lost pilot script for unproduced animated series; 1997-1998)
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (partially found original title cards for animated shorts; 1930s-1940s)