Toontown Online
| Developer | Disney's Virtual Reality Studio Schell Games Frogchildren Studios |
|---|---|
| Type | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
| Launch date | August 2001 – January 16, 2002 (Beta 1) September 10, 2002 – October 21, 2002 (Beta 2) October 21, 2002 – June 2, 2003 (sneak preview) June 2, 2003 (official launch) November 28, 2006 (Mac OS X) |
| Discontinued | September 19, 2013 |
| Platform(s) | Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft Windows |
| Website | toontown.go.com (archived on August 24, 2013) |
Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on a cartoon animal world, developed by Disney's Virtual Reality Studio and Schell Games, and published by The Walt Disney Company.
Players played as anthropomorphized animals, known as Toons, to explore a cartoon world, complete quests ("ToonTasks"), and engage in combat against the Cogs, robot businessmen who served as the game's antagonists. Players used weapons known as "Gags"—typically slapstick comedy items, such as a thrown cream pie—in combat.
Various servers hosting Toontown Online were shut down throughout the game's tenure; the primary U.S. servers and the game itself were ultimately closed in September 2013. Various fan servers have since been created using most of the game's original assets; the most popular of these, Toontown Rewritten, was created less than a week after Toontown Online's closure.