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Clearly designed for those more elastic of skin, Toontown Online - as its name intimates - is a MMOG set in a day-glo world populated by upstanding creatures who are, save for the more recognisable Disney faces and stock NPCs, controlled by living, breathing people. Albeit, living, breathing people who are most probably still at the bed-wetting stage of life and doped up to the eyeballs on Sunny D.

Disney's Toontown Online is the console port to Disney's online game of the same name that was published by Sierra Entertainment through Buena Vista Games (Disney Interactive Studios themselves published the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (under the Buena Vista Games brand name), and Wii versions. Disney's ToonTown Online Game News Blast! A free trial, tons of peeps to chat with, fun games, battling Cogs, custom house decorations and more - Disney's ToonTown Online is a blast!

Rather than spend precious hours slaughtering wolves and spiders, as is required by fantasy MMOG law, the aim here is to defeat roving bands of corporate-minded automatons called Cogs, whose collective aim is to take over the bubble gum streets by turning them into bleak rows of office buildings. And so, to keep the nefarious bots at bay, you and your fellow Toon citizens must engage their ranks in turn-based combat, your arsenal stuffed, not with swords and spells, but Gags' in the guise of water pistols, fruit-filled pies and weights that fall from the sky to squish those beneath.

Toontown pretty much covers the same ground as your common-or-garden MMORPG - only here, everything is less pressured and much simpler to get to grips with.

Beans Means Good

There are missions aplenty which reward you with jellybeans (Toontown's currency), Laff points (health) or animation clips (skills). The missions are hardly taxing, involving lots of fetching and carrying. Variety comes with the Cog-killing tasks and these add a direction to the game and, more importantly, can be completed in as little as ten minutes.Perfect for the wandering attention spans of most children.

Other Toon pastimes worth dipping in and out of are the Trolley Games, where you climb aboard the local tram and aretaken to a random mini-game. Swimming through hoops, catching apples, tug of war and a fairly decent Pac-Man clone are just a few of the gems on offer that earn you a small stack of jellybeans to spend later.

Better still, you can play each of the eight games with up to four people, which apart from lending the proceedings a more Competitive edge, may earn even more sweet financialbenefits. With games ranging from Toon Tag (Disney's take on (perennial playground favourite British Bulldog) and Match Minnie (where you must copy the dance moves of Mickey's lady mouse friend), the spread is certainly diverse and entertaining. And if you fancy something a little more relaxed, you can go fishing at the central pond and earn yourself even more beans.

The combat itself isn't nearly as mtertaining as it might be. Much as have liked to have been able to construct an elaborate trap from pulleys, counterweights and birdseed, or don an Acme rocket pack in emulation of my onetime hero Wile E. Coyote, the combat is simply a case of selecting a gag (Cogs have an aversion to practical jokes) and hoping it hits home, then watching your opponent unleash paper clips and business jargon at you. If he explodes before you run out of Laff points, you receive the usual dribble of experience points. And the more XP you collect, the more gags become available later on.

Cheer Up You!

Combat is marginally more interesting when other players join the fray, but even with Toon-up' gags that heal other players and Sound gags that can be employed to defeat a line of Cogs, the combat really is about as basic as it gets. Seeing as Toons don't die, player death is not something you have to worry about - if you are defeated in battle, you're simply sent to the nearest playground until you cheer up.

Toontown is unique among its online RPG peers, but certainly isn't for everyone. If you tend to make it your aim in online games to become a high-level killing machine, then you will definitely tire of Toontown in just a few hours. Similarly, without any Guild options or proper chat facilities, if you like to role-play you're sure to despise the game for its lack of real player interaction.

However, away from the target market, the game has much to offer the older online gamer; its simplicity and diversity are definite plus points, but most of all it's just a lot of fun - certainly if you prefer to play in fits and bursts.

Along with the option to furnish your crazy Toon house, dress your character up in evermore garish apparel and even expend your wealth of jellybeans on extra moves and emotes, there's plenty to aim for and accomplish. Even on the technical side the game is not left wanting, since you can switch servers effortlessly to join your mates. Basically, all those things that dog most online RPGs don't exist here because it's hard for people to exploit the system. As a consequence, Toontown is about the most relaxed and stress-free online game there is.

Disney's Toontown Online was an MMORPG developed by Disney Interactive and Schnell games. It was targeted towards kids and families, which focused on taking the role of a Toon that fought evil business robots with the use of silly gags. Even though the servers were shut down on September 19, 2013, it still manages to have a following as the developers are surprisingly open to talking about some scrapped concepts and unused content contained within its files.

• 3Revisional Changes
  • 3.3Changed Sounds
• 4Removed Minigames
• 5Unused Sounds
• 7Unused Text
• 8Regional Differences
  • 8.2Gameplay changes
• 9Game Oddities

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Original Storyline Video

The original Flash launcher displayed a video while the game being downloaded. It involved Scrooge McDuck trying to repair the robot found in Gyro Gearloose's lab in order to make money, but after accidentally crossing the two wires, the robot turns evil and goes on to create the Cogs using another machine found in the laboratory. The video was later removed with newer versions of the launcher, but it still could be watched from the UK website for a while.

Sadly, a usable version of flash launcher as we know it is no longer on the internet, or so we thought. The 3 .swf files for this flash launcher have been found but can't be displayed here due to compatibility issues.

Revisional Changes

Toontown Online has went under some changes throughout the years, whether it be minor aesthetic changes or differences in gameplay.

Loading Screen

On August 26, 2003, Toon Tips were introduced on the loading screen. Before that, it was just artwork of the Sensational Six riding a Trolley.

Donald's Dock Toon Headquarters

The mast of the Donald's Dock Toon Headquarters was changed from an unfitting gold to a more suitable wooded-green color.

Changed Sounds

Cog Question Sound Effect

Before 2010, the Cogs used a different sound effect when asking a question. It is very similar to the Skelecog's question sound effect, and was changed likely to make it sound more distinct.

Removed Minigames

On the Toontown test servers, the assets for three new board games were added to the Chip 'n Dale's Acorn Acres neighborhood.

Originally, players could walk up to one of the picnic tables scattered around the area and play a minigame with another. Chinese Checkers was the only playable game on the test server. None of these games were ever fully implemented into the public build of the game, although the models and graphics can still be found in the phase_6.mf archive of the original game's files.

Chinese Checkers

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Regular Checkers

Unused Sounds

Emotions

Different Cry Sound

A longer version of the cry emotion sound.

Taunt sound

A file called avatar_emotion_taunt.mp3 in the same archive.

Photo Fun Leftovers

These are leftover sound effects from the removed minigame in the phase_4 archive.

Camera Zoom

Camera Shutter

Camera Instamatic

Unused Music

Trolley Song

This was originally intended for the Trolley, but ended up being unused.

The Big Boss

This never appeared in the game, except in Parties.

Cog Boss Victory

Originally used after beating a boss. It was replaced with the newer Victory Music (Hall of Fame) when Bossbot HQ came out on March 6, 2008.

encnter.string.announce

An unused jingle.

Alternative Summer Fireworks Song

An alternative version of the fireworks music. It was never used in game.

Unused Text

news_index.txt

This text is found in the phase_3.5/models/news/ directory and doesn't have any real in-game purpose. Supposedly, it was to help the developers to find the news folder.

Missing Key Check

This code checks for keys, and is meant to be ignored. This is located in the TTLocalizerEnglish.py file.

Regional Differences

Japanese voices

The Japanese version had voice acting for the NPCs in the tutorial. All Disney characters in the playground also have voice lines, but only when the player isn't mentioned.

Gameplay changes

Battles

The Japanese version bumped up the round time in battles from 20 to 50 seconds.

Game Oddities

Manholes in Cog HQs

After Bossbot HQ was released, some curious manholes could be spotted in in all of the Cog Headquarters. Though, there has been no official information about the manholes and their use and ended up being decorations.

• Manhole in the Sellbot HQ.

• Manhole in the Cashbot HQ.

• Manhole in the Lawbot HQ.

• Manhole in the Bossbot HQ.

Unused Tunnel in Acorn Acres

This tunnel in Chip 'n Dale's Acorn Acres was always under construction, and was never entered at all during normal gameplay. At a Q&A during the fan-organized 2016 ToonFest Event, Jesse Schell, Toontown Online's director, Stated that the tunnel had no purpose, and was there if the development team wanted to create a new area they hadn't thought of yet.
Some time after the tunnel was released, an article was published to Toontown Brazil's website stating that behind the tunnel 'were no Cogs'.

Hidden Moon under Estates

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Ever since Estates were released on the Test Server, an upside-down moon could be seen if the Toon tried to swim inside the river tunnel. Since the sun has it's own separate texture, it was assumed that a day-night feature for the Estate was considered.

Switched Music

The music for the Toon Slingshot and Treasure Dive trolley games were switched at one point, as evidenced by Treasure Dive's music internally referred to as MG_Target and Toon Slingshot's music referred to as MG_Diving in phase_4.

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