>>108207775Looney Tunes have very gag driven stories who's characters are rarely ever in serious/story driven situations (except for TLTS). Not in a bad way, but it's very hard to take any of the characters seriously considering the nature of the Looneyverse.
However, mickey and the gang are purely character and story-driven. When Daffy Duck gets sad, you know something funny is about to happen, but when Donald Duck gets sad, you feel sad too. The disney characters are extremely flexible with what kind of stories you can tell with them, while looney tunes are always expected to be hilarious joke machines or else no one cares (which is why TLTS was overlooked), this makes it hard for Looney Tunes to be used in anything other than comedy shorts, and since WB have been struggling to create anything fresh with the characters in years, they come across as irrelevant outside of nostalgia. Hopefully the new shorts will be good enough to put them back on the map. They're still popular, but mostly from nostalgia rather than current content.
Man, I really wish Duck Dodgers was more popular.
