Players were able to customize their Toons in various shapes, colors, clothes, and sizes, as well as their species, with choices consisting of cats, dogs, ducks, mice, pigs, rabbits, bears, horses, and monkeys. Players could create characters called 'Toons'. The mention of Club Penguin was eventually removed from the statement via Toontown's website likely due to backlash by fans. A month before the closure, Disney released a statement that the company would be 'shifting its focus to other online and mobile play experiences, such as Club Penguin and a growing selection of mobile apps'. Various Toontown Online servers were shut down over the years long before the US servers closed on September 19, 2013.
The game made its official launch on June 2, 2003. Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 3D 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. Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft Windows Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameĪugust 2001 – Janu( Beta 1)
