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 |
| Status | Defunct |
| Website | toontown.go.com (archived on August 24, 2013) |
Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game 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.