WB overusing DongWoo and Lotto Animation?

Well, like anyone, Warner Brothers is going to play favorites, just as you and I have favorite restaurants, or preferred clothing stores. It happens that Dong Woo Studios produces animation that's On-Budget / On-Time / On-Model, in that order. Dong Woo has earned their favored status with Warner Brothers, and their reward is repeat business with WB.

In the case of Lotto Animation, I'd speculate that they were under contract to Hanna-Barbera Studios at one point, since that was H-B's preferred method of outsourcing. Once Hanna-Barbera's operations were absorbed by Cartoon Network, Lotto Animation became an adopted "house" studio of Warner Brothers. They remain so for the same reasons as Dong Woo: On-Budget / On-Time / On-Model.

As to Baby Looney Tunes, please remember that the show was meant for toddlers, and was modeled upon their rival's Disney Babies and Muppet Babies. The Walt Disney Company was already known for child-safe, mother-friendly output; these series were meant to solidify Disney's hold on the American psyche. Right from infancy, Americans are "programmed" to recognize the Disney brand as Clean / Wholesome / Desirable. Warner Brothers did well to field a counterpart series.

As for Loonatics Unleashed, it was admittedly a mistake, like Coke II. At the time, the Walt Disney Company had purchased ABC Television outright, and soon bulldozed The Bugs Bunny Show off the airwaves. Bugs Bunny and company, bereft of a public stage, began fading badly from the public consciousness. The Loonatics were a desperate attempt to put the Looney Tunes back on the public radar. As it happened, the superhero genre was working very well for Warner Brothers at the time, so the genre blending of Looney Tunes + superhero squad, in theory, could have worked.

Now, the recent The Looney Tunes Show is another attempt to put Warner Brothers premiere animated characters back on the map, so to speak. Really, when Bugs Bunny and company fail to appear in the top fifteen of Forbes magazine's fictional character cash cows, alarms were going off at WB. All previous efforts to put Bugs Bunny back on stage had generated sizable fan backlash. I believe that Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone chose Jess Borutski's designs and non-canon milieu as a mechanism of Plausible Deniability. If the show clicks with audiences, it can be embraced by the WB studio; otherwise; it can be swept under the rug much like Loonatics.

So ... Warner Brothers, by not taking their Looney Tunes to Dong Woo or Lotto, could be interpreted as a sign of No Confidence in the Looney Tunes brand. An unpleasable fan base will do that.