He’s going to have an awful headache in the morning.
While not the original “Termite Terrace” (that was taken down in 1940), the studio which later housed the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies creators is now scheduled to be torn down. Not because it was condemned like the original (it earned that name for a reason) but to make room for more HBO studio space. As the linked-to article notes, it hasn’t been used as an animation studio for years. Warner Brothers Animation operates elsewhere. Still, many Bugs and Daffy fans are upset because of its place in history. I suspect all of the other odd decisions David Zaslav has made regarding their animation library and new creations (I remind you that Warner Brothers Discovery has arguably the largest animation library on the planet) has them riled up.
I don’t see them making it into a Looney Tunes museum or something, and it hasn’t been a historic anything in years. It’s not even the original building the cartoons started in. I’m more bothered with how they treat the stuff that came from the studio rather than an unused building that is only famous for what it used to put out. It’s a shame to see it go for historic significance but only die-hard “toon heads” would want to see a building that isn’t even set-up as a studio.
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