ToonTown Online Was Weird (Disney's Dead MMORPG) | Billiam
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Disney's ToonTown Online was a popular MMORPG game from the early 2000's. Initially released in 2003, ToonTown was a pretty moderate success, marketing itself as a family friendly alternative to things like World of Warcraft. In this video, I talk about its history as well as its downfall.
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Honestly it is crazy how dedicated the Toontown Rewritten community is. When I made my video talking about Toontown, I had over 15 people from that community reach out to me and talk about their community and passion for the game. It just goes to show the impact that games like this have had on people's lives. Love the video as always!
Glad you feel the community is doing well toward new comers or returnees. Hope you have a Toontastic day!
Also, TTR will let you keybind
Yup Literally right after Toontown Shutdown, Rewritten went into development to release a couple years later. Probably the most successful server even though there’s a few others though.
After 12 years of when I used to play Toontown as a kid, I'm glad TTR is around because it is a really great community with really committed mods !!!
im still playing ttr to this day it lets me experience the game fully as a kid i was restricted by disneys membership
I think the coolest memory I have, is when ToonTown was shutting down, I had to say goodbye to my best friend Princess Sadie Purpletwist. I had known her for quite a long time since I played ToonTown for years.
It was so depressing, but fast forward years later to ToonTown Rewritten..... and after playing for some time, I was walking along one of the streets right behind someone with her same name. Turned out it was her and I don’t think I could have been more excited.
(we tried to stay in contact but that didn’t work and so I haven’t heard from her in almost 2 years) I’m sure she’ll show up one day
(Toon name was Noon, but is Shadow Noon on TTR)
I had that very same experience. A friend of mine named Nibbles in TTO, saw them walking around in TTR and was like: " ... nibbles? " -- They were very happy to see me and we played a lot for a while but then I haven't seen em in a few years either. I will never delete them on my list since we were so close.
@@MesozoicHaven Same here, I could never remove them... I wish to see them again someday, I would love to see them even if I was near the end of life.
When I was in 2nd grade, I wanted a Toontown membership so badly and would constantly redo the 3 day trials over and over again until my parents finally bought me a year's membership for my birthday. It was one of the happiest moments of my childhood. Then the computer broke.
That was sad to read ahah
That's a huge bummer
JiP the Chip there’s toontown rewritten! It’s exactly the same as the original, but it’s free. I’m in my 20’s and I play sometimes, such a stress reliever. It’s so cute and fun.
I guess you weren't toon enough
Haha I know the feel. I did the same in regards to the membership, loved toontown as a kid.
As someone who has continued to avidly play Toontown, it’s amazing to see so many videos like this cover its unique history. The community is not nearly as big as it was, and it still prevails as a strong, unique community at the same time.
Thanks for making this video!
Thank you for watching!
Yeah the game is at a point where not many new people play and everyone who does play is super open about being an adult after that next nostalgia hit😂
I was WAY too into this as a kid.
You can get back into it with Toontown Rewritten! It's about time you let your childhood take over once again.
I love when great youtubers watch each other
It sounds really cheesy to say but Toontown really does hold a special place in my heart. I remember playing it all the time in elementary school with two of my friends and humming the battle music a lot. I couldn't afford a full-time subscription but my local target carried game cards and I remember running as fast as I could just to get a card and play it full time. I continued playing the OG toontown until it closed (I was just entering high school if i recall correctly.) I made *so many* friends online thanks to this game and it broke my heart when it closed.
When TTR came out, I was ecstatic. I remember when I got a beta key for like a day, and it co-aligned with my time on a train. The entire train ride even with the crappy wifi and how buggy TTR was, I still played it. Now I'm in college, and I still regularly play TTR. It's something that I love. The game, the community, everything. It's the only online game from my childhood I look really fondly on to this day.
Just because you liked it as a kid, doesn't mean it was actully good
@@koolkidkameronsir6088 Begone, Negative Nancy!
@@MysteryToonGamer I'm not trying to be negative, I'm just saying that its something to keep in mind
Kool Kid Kameron sir
honestly, it IS a good game. its highly strategy and teamwork based, which adds a lot to the fun. the teamwork base makes it easy to make genuinely nice friends. the task-based leveling system is fun and rewarding. there are a plethora of minigames that can give you hp boosts. there are events, and a weekly schedule of minigame events, which give regular minigames a new twist. even after you complete all the mainline tasks, there are plenty of things left over to make your character stronger.
anyway, ultimately, its really up to the individual, but its still not fair to rag on someone just fondly reminiscing on a game they love. :/
In toon town you use Disney to fight Disney.
We should just drop Toontown and come together and make an inspired game of it. So we can actually pay for it or donate to help the development.
I Love toontown but it’s gonna be gone later on. If we can however Buy assets like the cogs or even Gags. we can totally make a game to remember. Toontown is old it needs someone to make a 2019-2020 update.
Toontown rewritten’s community is half and half about loving it and hating how slow development is. No money flow is the big reason. Yes it’s fun not paying, maybe a inspired game will be Free to Play and have micro transactions for clothes, gag(weapons) reskins and doodle accessories.
I’d love for people to do this, I’d join in because I’m a Software Development Student. Coding is less of a chore for me.
That’s just my opinion though, Toontown can fully disappear out of existence if everyone wants or live on in a different way where Disney doesn’t attack us for money.
It’s Coming But it ain’t God, Sure man lol I don’t know how to fully keep in touch but here’s the link for that friendslist thing on RUclips:
youtu.be/addme/sJpItJgnKq7ZSyXuw9MUdYbAt-OFfw
It's a foreshadowing of what's to come
I used the stones to destroy the stones
Toontown was going to have a sequel based off of unity. It was very far into development, but was off because of club penguin
I played Toontown with my Grandpa (who has passed a few years ago) and it was my favorite game as a kid. We would sit on Skype for hours and play, fight cogs, etc :) I still play Toontown Rewritten as a way to keep that memory alive, and i plan to have my first tattoo be loosely related to his main toon! Great video
That's an awesome idea for a tattoo, hope you end up going through with it. No doubt you would love it and prolly smile everytime you or someone else sees it
Justin Epp your grandpa sounds great
ur grandpa played toontown? lol haha thats so cool
Thats awesome
tattoon
The game's frame rate is killing my brain dude
If you dont have a bad frame rate and computer the game is 60fps
Which is weird cause it didn't look this bad.
My PC can load at maximum only 50 frames but that's ok since my PC is making their 10th anniversary soon :)
I think it was a recording issue. It didn't look this bad while I played
@@billiam no worries dude the video was awesome any way keep at it love your stuff 💪
Toontown to this day is still one of my favorite mmo experiences ever. There's something about the way the grind always made you feel like you were always progressing. Getting new gags was so satisfying. Personally, I think the variation is simple but great. Fishing was especially great due to the unique fish you could get, the mini games are fun despite your age, and the raids were high stakes, mini game/ combat mashups. I love Toon Town.
Agreed!!
You should do Wizard101 next. I still play it, but maaaaan that game is a serious product of it's time
OWO
Would definitely enjoy a video on Wizard101. I've been playing it almost daily since 2009, so it's still very much part of my life.
It is indeed, absolute rubbish, but fun somehow.
I definitely enjoyed Wizard101, but due to how limited the gameplay area is, which was acceptable back then, not so much now (complete in like, 1-3 hours), I lost interest in it, since I would also have to shove my money down a hole just to be able to get past the tiny bit left of Wizard City to actually get to the next world. It seems unlikely that we'll get an extended F2P area where we are now, but we just have to hope it gets noticed. I really want up to the end of Krokotopia.
@@PunkinMike For real. I'm almost caught up on my Fire, but the same money sink issues it had in 09 it still has today. Pvp is lowkey still unmanaged, some schools obviously get more thought put into new spells, zoning prices, card packs, etc
R we just gunna ignore the fact that he used a squirt gun on a level 2 bottom feeder. Smh casuals am I right
or the fact that he randomly picked his gags instead of focusing them towards his higher level ones?
InvisibleTacoMan no he’s a casual
LMAOO i dont play but this is really funny
No XP smh my head
Me and my siblings were home-schooled for 3 odd years when ToonTown was the big thing and our parents used ToonTown subscriptions as a reward for completing all our schoolwork. For 3rd grade me it was quite the motivation, and I'm fairly certain it's the reason I am smart enough to be going to graduate school this fall.
To the other 2000-2500 daily ttr players... Toons of the world UNITE!
Try 500 - 1000 these days bud
The battle theme haunting me again. My toon became an unhappy boy so often.
Saaaammee
I still play toontown rewritten. It’s so much fun! I’ve maxed out 6 toons on there before making a new one. Also how dare you talk like that about match Minnie, that’s the game I’m best at. Lil Oldman is a sadist! 20 4+ story buildings no thank you sir!
dude honestly same xD it can be so fun if you find the right people to play with
@@silentstorm5439 toontown clash
It’s not totally dead though.
You could say...
That it was...
REWRITTEN!!!
too bad that the staff on the game are brain dead and bans people for their off game doings.
@@DallasWB almost no one gets banned, are you crazy?
YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
@@DallasWB they only ban you if you're a toxic person that greens, curses, and bully people
@@nagtrimers1250 It's impossible to get greened-- let me further explain, you can end the program to dc from the game before dying, keeping your 7s. I can understand the cursing part, but I don't curse. I may have been toxic at times, but it's because they bring it out of me when all I do is try to help others, TTO as a high laff toon, the lowers would listen to your strategy, and respect you. In TTR, they ignore you, and then make fun of you for being an "elitist." There is no right side here, people don't appreciate high toons who are trying to help people with their knowledge on strats.
Been playing toontown for 13 years now. It has a place in my heart. Love your coverage of it.
been playing it for 13 years as well with my daughter , we still love it!
ToonTown wouldn't of been dead if disney gave it more new things instead of relying on club penguin
......oh wait!
Or if they didn't shut it down in 2013, but whatever.
Meh they would've closed it down eventually. Probably sometime between 2014-2015 even if it had active devs. MMOs are going out of style.
@@VenomSnakeMGS > MMOs are going out of style
Is not it the other way around? It seems to me like 50% of recent AAA games have elements that require internet connection.
Steriorgon and then club penguin died
Toontown got the Tron treatment.
Too soon?
The title made me a lip worried this was gonna be a “haha look at this cringe old game” type of thing but I really enjoyed watching this. I’m glad you had a good time in toontown!
I’m still salty that they shut down an mmo for the sake of what was essentially an interactive chat client tbh :/
*salutes to the fallen toons taking out a kazoo and blowing into it*
Honestly I miss my og toon captain Oscar mczapper the purple mixe matched bunny
Through the entire video, I was sitting here thinking "why does no one remember Pixie Hollow? I'd like a retrospective on Pixie Hollow"
And then you brought up Pixie Hollow! Yes please
pixie hollow was a DRUG for me
Ugh when VMK shut down they tried to shove Pixie Hollow down our throats as a replacement. Which was awful since the games had nothing in common and left a bad impression for Pixie Hollow on almost the entire VMK community.
Pixie hollow was the shit back in my daaay!!!
My childhood, it has a special place in my heart
I wasn’t allowed to have a membership to anything, but I played that demo so much, it was an art. Going back to it in TTR and being able to progress past the first town was such a dream!
I remember the time I was actually able to get a membership in the original ToonTown and a month later they shut down
I was the best at Slave Owner Minnie Mouse, I bet ppl thought I had a script going.
I did not know this existed and I am glad I did not know this existed.
Y’all remember Pixie Hollow? That was my shit! I loved that game and community so so much. I was so sad and upset when Disney shut it down! You should do a video on that!
Always saw ads for toontown, but never played it myself
NoobSlayerAdvanced same
All over Toon Disney
I played the free trials all the time
Same
Same here
I played Toontown as a child and hardly progressed in it. When I found out rewritten came out I actually played it as an adult and it was actually pretty fun 😂
I saw the commercials but I never played ToonTown. Thanks for the info on it
Me: *sees this in recommended*
Also me: Not again...
I wish it was possible to leave the TT community. You always come back.
I lived as a toon once...
It was pain
This was my first MMO. I remember that having a subscription meant that you got a newsletter with like a trading card and a faux newspaper bulletin about toontown in it.
I think I was like 10 or 11 so I didn't get much of the levelling up or fighting but I loved to run around and explore and play the games.
A fond memory I have is that there was a glitch where, in your home, you could jump on the back of a sofa and out the window and run around out of bounds in the void. That was a fun and popular way to hang out with other players.
Then my mom didn't want to pay for it anymore, but she didn't understand how a subscription service worked, so she thought that by moving the desktop shortcut to the recycle bin, it would cancel my account. Surprise surprise when a year later we got a massive bill for toontown. (which was luckily refunded since I hadn't been active, but still.)
Now you are obligated to make a video about Wizard 101
I LOVE the Lil Oldman callout LMAO
Martha H He was legit my favorite lol
I was lucky enough to have the membership to toontown throughout my whole childhood until it was shut down. It was such a huge part of my life as a kid, I remember that my brother woke me up in the middle of the night when he heard that it was going to be shut down and it was probably one of the saddest moments of my childhood. My friends and I still talk about our times playing toontown together as kids and how much we miss it. Objectively, the game is nothing special but it means so much to me, as I'm sure it does to many others :')
Have you heard of toontown rewritten? It's just the same thing but for free
those old toontown ads make me feel so fuzzy and nostalgic. I remember wanting to try it out so badly but internet time was a rare treat for me back in the day
ToonTown was a pretty cool game
It still is!
ToonTown Club Penguin Cartoon Network Fusion Fall Wizards and Pirates 101 and SWTOR
Just..... *Right in the veins man*
fusion fall was the shit in elementary school
Toontown was my shitttt. Made some legit friends where we finally met each other in person after years (before Toontown was shutdown) We still keep in contact today.
Btw this jogged my memory of some old games-like Dragon Fable. I’d like to see you do that. That was... interesting, especially the dialogue.
this game sparked my love of video games as a kid. my dad loved it too, and so we had premium membership. i sank hours of family computer time into this game, sitting across the room from my dad, gaming through early childhood. i still play toontown rewritten from time to time. the fan base is incredibly wholesome and dedicated and i met several really cool people on there. even caught up with my (now estranged) dad once through there. life’s weird. these little online communities keep people going in weird and wonderful ways.
"... awards only Wikipedia has heard of."
I enjoyed that very much.
When I was a wee little lad, I played toontown every now and then. I never really followed the quests, because I would go around defeating cogs, do mini games, or race. But I remember seeing my sister in one of the cog hqs and seeing my sister fighting the ceo
You should do a video on Adventure Quest 3D or on the original Adventure Quest
OMG YES
Nah, AQW or Adventure Quest classic. Or even DragonFable. Honestly DragonFable needs more attention, it's such a good game.
i used to be in top 100 with like level 78 or or something on aq
i used to have items nobody chose to buy in aqw and herosmash and i felt special for having them
i didnt care about aq 3d at all cus it looked like horse shit to me even when i was like 14 or something
"You buy the gags at Goofy's gag shop with jellybeans"
There is no way I could've guessed I would hear that collection of words today.
I was all about Pixie Hollow!
I miss playing it so much T-T
www.toontownrewritten.com
This is a link to a free toontown server and it's free :D enjoy and have fun :)
Is uhh, is that frame rate normal? Because it's making my eyes bleed
No. Its normally 60fps. I don't know what he was doing to make it so bad.
The area could be highly populated too!
It IS the Rewritten version, it could be that speed natively...
My FPS stays above 100 lol
My best friend lives really far away so we rarely get to see each other in person. In the past year, she introduced me to ToonTown Rewritten and we've been playing together ever since. Even though I didn't grow up with the game, I still really enjoy it and I think that's a testament to the quality of the game
Toontown rewritten is literally the only mmorpg I play in 2019 lmao
that's great!
I had my first "boyfriend" on toontown then "cheated" on him and I did the same thing on club penguin
Lol me too
But why?
You're part of the reason why kids were depressed
i had 2 internet gf's on toontown at the same time and i managed to keep them a secret until one day one of them asked me to tp to them and when i did both of them were there and were like "how come you didnt tell me about this" and i left
"MMOs like World of Warcraft, Phantasy Star Online, Everquest…"
HOLD UP! A big RUclipsr (aside from Eruption) is mentioning my favorite game of all time, Phantasy Star Online?! FINALLY, THIS GAME GETS MORE RECOGNITION!
I only properly played PSO a couple years ago and much like the OG Phantasy Star series despite owning a Genesis, I never got its more offline-friendly counterparts.
To both of those aspects of Phantasy Star, I went "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE TEASING ME IN SONIC ADVENTURE 2!?"
I really enjoyed this video! I used to play Toontown SO MUCH as a kid, just to see how far I could get before my subscription expired for every month. I also made my first online friends through Toontown. It would be the first thing I did when I would get home from school every day, with my purple duck, Sheriff Fireball Funnymouth (who was so close to being maxed out). I actually applied to work for the Disney Company back in August of 2018, and the day I applied I was just so nervous/excited, that I played Toontown Rewritten for 24 hours straight, because I was just feeling nostalgic. Long story short, I currently work for Disney, and about once a week I go back and check Toontown Rewritten out just to make sure it is as fun as I remember it being. So, thank you for making this video and shining some light on a Disney Classic, it really brought me some joy.
I loved toon town as a kid. and the aesthetic of the buildings being taken over by cogs and then getting it back really made it feel like you were making a difference lol. would totally play again
When i was little,i still remember i will just stand infront of the cog building and rush into the elevator and try to get in,but since it need us to buy tto card to play.I still remember the cunning toons waving to me inside the elevator…
THANK GOD THEY MADE TTR MAN
Bruh my mom still plays toon town rewritten
I was one of the TTO beta testing kids, so I’ve been playing the game since about early 2002 when I was 4. As soon as my brother and I saw that fan servers were popping up after TTO shut down, we joined them all and continue to play to this day. I really appreciate the TTR mods because they upkeep the game completely out of loyalty to the game (aka they’re not making any money at all, which is the reason why Disney has held off on a cease and desist). Even original TTO Disney creators like Jesse Schell play TTR and talk to the mods. I particularly appreciate that the TTR mods continue to add new features that weren’t in the original game, such as the new silly meter and current “crash cashbot hq” event going on through the end of May. Heck, I’m even in a Facebook group called ATTA who host daily runs to do tons of different battles and events throughout the day. The community is strong, and we love welcoming new members into a place we hold so dear to our hearts. Thanks for taking the time to test it out!! 😊
I played toontown online and later played toontown rewritten and I really enjoy it. Toontown has an irresistible charm to it and still does. It does get pretty grindy when you're maxing out your cog suits but I really liked it
This game has such a big place in my heart. I played this game with my grandma when I was 3 or 4 in 2003, I'd sit on her lap while she played for me, there on I played with her until it's shut down in 2013. We soon found out about the different private servers in 2014 and we still play ToonTown together when we can. I truly wish i knew how many hours I put into this game, cuz it has to be literally years. I plan in the next two months to get the original eye and cog gear logo tattooed to show my love and appreciation for this childrens game :) A lot of my friends and family find it silly i still sport a ToonTown Online tee-shirt or that I plan to get a tattoo for this game, but considering it's taken about 15 of my 18 years of living, I think it just shows how much memories and love I've got for this game :)
#Toontownrewritten. (FOR FREE!)its new version of this game and its super fun :)
He mentioned that in the video briefly.
Strongly recommend checking out Toontown Rewritten nowadays. It has been overhauled with new content, while still maintaining the feel of the original. I always come and go from it, and have always found the game to have a certain liminal feel. It has anywhere from 400 (usually nighttime) to 2,000 players at any time. Whenever a major update comes out, there's usually 3,000 to 4,000 people on during the day.
Guys you can still play Toontown! It's called Toontown Rewritten now and was taken over by fans of the game! :) I finally got to live out my dream and max out since it's free lol
Same
I remember always wanting the throwable black dot used in the commercials to transport kids to the game more than the actual game
You're doing a great job man! I really enjoyed the video, made me laugh a few times. Can you review wild thorn berries?
Before I saw the thumbnail, I totally forgot about "Toon Town online." That green duck reminds me of Bean the Dynamite.
"I enjoyed it." That's all I needed to hear. I've rolling around the town since I was like 5; still remember those nights dad would stay up and play my toon.
(Why does WASD whining irk me?)
I loved this game as a kid and I'm currently playing toontown rewritten. There is so many of us on here and I adore that people still love this game as much as I do. It holds a special place in my heart.
Fishing is actually one of the best way to earn jellybeans. XD
I used to play the game all the time when I was younger, and was super sad when it closed, and a couple years ago I started to play toontown rewritten and I still love the game, it’s so fun to play, and brings back really nice memories
Well since you asked so nicely *likes*
:3
I love playing Toontown. When I was kid, they used to send trading cards and newsletters in the real life mail.Still play to this day on TT Rewritten
see I played Pirates of the Caribbean online, lol. that was fun.
I want to say I tried it for a bit
There is a project that has returned it
I tried all of the mmo’s Disney made all made pretty well but being in such a old engine it was all the same just reskinned.
If Disney actually tried to make a game now maybe with UE4 it could have a chance of surviving. If they keep trying to use dead franchises it’ll flop like the Club Penguin reboot.
this game was my childhood.
my childhood wasn't club penguin... it was THIS.
i loved this.
I completely recognize the logo, but I've never heard about this game. How weird is that
as a kid, i played toontown and i remember only certain things, like cog buildings, factories and vp’s, and the ability to create more than one toon were membership only. i play toontown rewritten today and they do events like crash cashbot hq, trolly tracks, and fishing bingo. there are thousands of people that still play it all the time! today, you have free access to everything, and most people will grind one toon, finish it, then make a new one and work on that one. i have more fun playing toontown today than when i was a kid, even though i had the membership as a kid!
it’s also fun to see how many college kids, young adults, and parents play toontown still to this day too! some have said even some grandparents play and i think that’s precious!
and as a side note, they have an options button now that allows you to change the keys to your choice, so i have a map of the street on shift, my gag chart on command, and my tasks on option!
1:51 I have to know what game was in your Gamecube if there was one?
Ah Wild Thornberrys is a classic :D
Great vid! I never played Toontown my PS1 and Gameboy Color were ny babies back in those days. My first MMO was Roblox when I joined on 9/9/09 (I played as a guest for a bit before that) heck I'm still an active group leader to this day. I also played Webkinz for a while Orange Cat, Racoon, and Kangaroo FTW :3
I have played Toontown since I was around 7 and still play it to this day. I stayed home from school and played it the day, and hour, it was shut down in 2013 (I was 13 at the time), and cried so much, saying goodbye to many, many friends I had made over years of playing - there was no way to communicate emails or numbers, so I never spoke to any of them again after that day. I have so many amazing memories playing it as a kid, and find myself always coming back to it. Toontown definitely changed my life for the better!
I love the moment when you beat lil old man
I played ToonTown when I was, like 5-8 (I was born in 2003 so ToonTown was just about as old as I was), but I never remember my parents paying for it...I remember being able to play it for free any time I wanted...
The VP from ToonTown is the BEST BOI!!!!!!!!
I only played ToonTown once, and I for some reason have a visceral memory of it. I was laying on our futon in the basement playing the free trial on my dad’s laptop which was laying on a tub of Christmas decorations while Cory in the House played in the background. It would be nice to remember important things.
Do you plan on doing a "MY thoughts on Sonic trailer" sometime soon?
Maybe he's waiting for the redesign?
He doesn’t do my thought videos though
Toontown was the first time I ever heard the term "email address". I tried signing up but I was so confused and didn't know what it was so my mom had to help me set one up... But then I found out Toontown was subscription based and my mom was like no way. :'( Never getting to play Toontown is one of my biggest regrets in life. Those commercials made it look so fun. I had forgotten about it until now. Thanks so much for this video! ❤
I have an unpopular opinion: the Toontown fan remakes are bad. Look, I'm not hating; I just really care about Toontown, and I want to see it in a new modern fashion. I get that people wanna bring the original experience back, but the fact is we have too many remakes of the same tired old game. It's 2019, at least try to be more creative with Toontown. Sure, some new features have been introduced by fan developers, but all of the remakes are still basically the same story wise, gameplay wise, and visually.
It's a shame that no one usually talks about these kinds of things since I think seeing and playing a modernized and totally revamped version of Toontown would be just amazing.
ItsNotSerial I tried Corporate Clash, but it had a ton of connection problems. Maybe that’s why there’s little players.
While Corporate Clash is really quite an improvement in many areas, I take monumental issue with the new task system, and the music, where every single track trying to change an old one is trying waaay too hard (the original music is actually real good tho). I would totally play it more if it wasn't so empty.
I regards to a "new and improved" Toontown, I think that would be amazing. The original game feels a bit incomplete, honestly, and I can only imagine a modern title with proper funding and time put into it. However, that ends up being a huge issue for these new servers. While effort is given to revamp the game by multiple teams, they simply lack any funding whatsoever to pump something truly great out (remember, Disney still owns this property). The most popular server, Toontown Rewritten, seems to have no intentions of adding anything truly big to the game (or anything that would take little effort like rebalancing gags- Corporate Clash did this beautifully), and only really want to keep that nostalgia intact. That's probably a big reason people still play, after all, though Toontown is still real solid. Just don't expect anything awe inspiring unless Disney magically wants to reboot the game- in which case they'll likely shut down all fan servers! Yay!
Toontown was THE game of my childhood. I play Toontown Rewritten now and it's the best niche community. All of us either remember the game fondly from our childhood or new people have joined to play with their friends. I have so many good memories of the game. I recently even sent in an application to be a concept artist for the game! I'm really hoping that'll work out haha. I wish I had more time to play it. I wish I could indoctrinate more of my friends to play it.
I loved ToonTown SO MUCH! But for some reason, I was super scared of the Cogs, and stopped playing it (@_@)
Toontown introduced me to the absolute satisfaction of grinding in games as a kid. Getting a new throw or squirt gag was an incredible feeling.
The staff sucks on TTR. They keep pedophiles on the game. Even their staff, Epic Buddy, was messing around with underage kids. Better to play something else.
Ashley V D: ive never heard this! most people love the staff :( what are your sources?
I’ve played Toontown since I was in about third grade (I’m 21 currently) and would get membership cards from the store as my allowance. This game was a huge part of my childhood and now I still play it on Toontown Rewritten, which they have been keeping the game moderately alive with new updates and events. Yes the game does get repetitive but I love the social aspect of it, it’s now the thing I go to during my downtime. This was an awesome video about its legacy, and glad you were finally able to try it out!
I was a pirate and wizard101 boy myself. What was your first MMO.
I sunk so many hours into runescape to finaly realize i hated it
Poptropica and Toontown were my favorite games as a kid. Makes me wish I could play them again. Great videos.
Umm what with all the lag
I dunno yo
His recording software.
One of my favorite things about your videos is usually its looking at something I usually never got the chance to experience on my own but always wanted from all the commercials or whatever bullshit. Thanks for digging up all these things!
i've been playing toontown since i was 5 and i am now 22 years old, when i was a child melting down at school every day i would go home and play toontown for hours and everything felt fine in the world. i was signed up to the magazine, had the trading cards, and i can still tell anyone every inch of this game. given the chance i will talk about toontown for hours, it really shaped me as a person that i am today. toontown rewritten is such an incredible remake with a team so passionate, at the end of toontown online it was just sad, it's weird playing an mmo where you know that the company really doesn't care anymore. i made so many friends on toontown who i still know to this day. so much of my weird childhood was spent on toontown.
i think it's really funny how you mention that the fishing minigame is a waste of jellybeans because its my favorite minigame! and when i've shown my friends they shared your same sentiment, i think it might be because i've been playing for so long that i'm blind sighted by the amount of time i have put into this game. shout out to my og toon i made at 5 years old jc pinkertoon. a legend
also, on the last day i remember a huge group of people huddled together in a very specific place, glitched there on the map all together, so sad and saying goodbye to everyone.
someone actually recognized me recently from a post i made about toontown and i got a dm from an old friend saying i probably didn't remember her and then told me about her toon, and i immediately remembered her and was so excited that we had found each other again.
Billiam is extremely cute, it really makes me realize I like nerdy guys and the concept of dating a guy I can talk about digimon with is super desirable
There are a couple of games I used to play. One was Everquest, and it's sister game Mech Quest, which were pretty basic flash MMORPG. One was fantasy themed while the other was sci-fi, but both were free to play up to a certain point where you would need either a credit card or one of the specific game related subscription cards that you could never find in stores. The other was some MMORPG about wizards and witches where you had fight monster of darkness using summoning spells that came in the forms of cards with specific magic elements like fire and lightening tied to them. You were classified into one element by a quiz at the start of the game and you could learn other elements and level up by studying in special classes in the game. I forget what it was called, but it was also free to play until you reached a certain level that allowed you to take on a certain mission that you would need to pay a fee to get into the required area for the mission. All three were fun and I don't know if they are still available to play or if anyone has relaunched them on special servers if they did close down, but I would love to see videos on these games if possible.
Your pronunciation of lure hurts my soul... I still love you
What about Toontown Corporate Clash? It's stylized more towards a more modern style of MMORPG with leveling up actually increasing your laff, gag pouch, jellybean jar, etc. with more actual quests, gain experience and jellybeans instead of tasks to get laff increases and such in the first place. It doesn't get as much attention as it should, although it had a crazy launch, at almost 2 thousand players, rivaling TTR's playerbase with content more like the original shutdown TTO. I just hope the major update to TTCC will bring back more players, as it's genuinely a great new change to the original formula of "do this, get this small boost" to the much more enjoyable "Do a wide range of tasks specifically tailored to that specific area/theme to gain experience that overall increases how powerful you are".
I wanna thank you for talking about this game as it had been a part of my childhood as well, even though I had only gotten up to Donald's Dock with my one time purchase of a membership, knowing very little what to do.
Also, yes, my profile icon is based around Toontown. I made my own original character (ACTUAL ORIGINAL CHARACTER NOT LIKE A MAINSTREAM CAT) as a horse. Guess I'll see ya in town!
Toons of the world, unite!
To be honest, TTR is better for a more "authentic" Toontown experience. To me atleast, Clash just seems too different.
I vaguely remember this game. Played once or twice. I don't remember a subscription though.
Destroyer of Worlds yeah, I’m German and I played it, there definitely was no subscription fee here
@@Panzerspatzi Ah, American capitalism.
@@Panzerspatzi
The last time there was ever a subscription fee for any version of this game is in 2013.
@@PancakeDoesGaming I played it back when I was still in school - and I graduated in 2010... I didn't even know until I watched this video that this game seemingly even had a subscription fee.
But I think I found the explanation:
"Originally, free accounts were only allowed three days of unrestricted gameplay before being forced to pay for a membership. This was changed in 2007 to allow free players to play for an unlimited time with certain restrictions on the game. These restrictions originally meant that Toons were bound to the starting neighborhood (Toontown Central) and its buildings and streets, as well as Goofy Speedway where the racing events took place. Toons were also only allowed to complete Toontasks up until the final one that would allow them access to their third gag track. This was changed to allow free players to roam in the streets of all the neighborhoods, and to complete the final Toontask for the third gag track. However, free players could still only enter buildings in Toontown Central and were not allowed to enter the Cogs HQs or Cog buildings outside of Toontown Central."
I'm now certain that I played on a free account during that last phase, I definitely didn't know what Cogs HQs looked like until I played Toontown Rewritten.
Toontown in its current state (Rewritten) is at its best when you're with friends. It's much easier to accomplish Toontasks while in a group, and it feels rewarding to overcome obstacles you could never do solo. Something a lot of the other Toontown servers suffer from is a lack of population, meaning certain feats that require several people to accomplish become impossible to complete and the experience is nullified as a result. Thankfully, Rewritten still has a steady population of at least several thousands of people a day, so you're never quite short of players to work with
I always saw commercials for toowtown and thought they looked weirdly fun 😁👌
Disney's MMORPG's shut down due to lack of upkeep. At least this was the case for POTCO and TTO. As a loyal player of POTCO I can say that a great deal of people stopped wanting to pay for a game that wasn't maintained. And rather than try to get money by fixing this problem Disney Interactive took a gamble by shutting all of these games down and throwing the money at Disney Infinity. I remember the free play in that last month the games were running. It was beyond bittersweet. Especially TTO since I had not played in a while because it was too much to pay for both POTCO and TTO. I played TTR as soon as it came out and kept playing until The Legend of Pirates Online appeared to fill the empty void. I am still bitter about the fact that Disney Interactive shut down Pirates of the Caribbean Online, as well as all the others, on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Way to stab your players in the gut.