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Tech firm plans Looney Tunes smart toys

Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 4/17/2001 8:49:00 AM

LOS ANGELES — Interactive technologies firm United Internet Technologies Inc. has been licensed by Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a line of interactive toys featuring the Looney Tunes characters.

Using the company's proprietary I-C-IT technology, UIT will create animatronic "Chat Pals" of Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety and the Tasmanian Devil. The toys will be controllable through an online site so that two people at different computers can "chat" to each other and have their messages acted out and verbalized by the Looney Tunes toys.

A release date for the Looney Tunes toys was not announced.

UIT plans to offer toys with the ability to network in real-time through tech products such as personal computers, cable TV, wireless phones, personal digital assistants and pagers. The products will have the ability to become more sophisticated by downloading new features directly from the Internet, UIT promises.

"This agreement is a tremendously important milestone for UIT and we are very proud to be working with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create an entirely new interactive entertainment experience," said Brian Schuster, UIT chairman and president.

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