Disney's Toontown Online

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Product Features

• The first multiplayer online game designed for kids [requires a monthly subscription fee]
• A safe, non-violent and fun place for never-ending adventure
• Become the Toon you always wanted to be
• Earn and collect gags, pranks, jellybeans and new powers
• Defeat the Evil corporate Cogs and save Toontown

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B6N2P8
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 3, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,933 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Created especially for kids 8-12, but enjoyed by all who are young at heart. Players are Toons who join forces to save the world from Cog's, humorless business robots who are attempting to turn the colorful, happy world of Toontown into a dark metropolis of corporate monotony. Because Cogs can't take a joke, Toons use their favorite weapon-humor-to save their world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ToonTown: Great ONLINE game for Kids as well as Adults, March 30, 2006

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Marty R. Ward "Crazy Bunky Gigglesocks" (Forrest City, Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney's Toontown Online (CD-ROM)

I have been playing ToonTown Online for close to 2 years now. A co-worker got me hooked on it after her child got her hooked on it after seeing a commerical for it on The Disney Channel. Yes, it is an online game (hence the name ToonTown Online) and it very specifically indicates on the packaging that a recurring fee is necessary to play it after the initial 2 month game time has expired. The game is downloadable from the ToonTown website and the retail version is NOT a necessity to have. The game is a HUGE download and the CD is great to have if you have dial-up internet access like I do.

As for play value, it is great. I have 2 active toons (you can have 6) on my account that I play on a regular basis. Yes, it is geared towards kids but many of the players I encounter are adults that were hooked by their children. It is safe for kids as there are pre-made phrases that you use for your toon to communicate with other toons. There is the option for real-life players to "code" with each other so they can speak freely with each other. Even with the free speech being available, it is heavily filtered for bad language. I have tested many different "bad" words in various spellings and even inserted spaces and other characters to attempt to get it to let it come across but it won't. Kudos to Disney for being proactive in anticipating what lengths some people will go to spoil kid fun.
The concept of the game is not different than any other MMOG like EverQuest, Final Fantasy etc. You are given quests to complete for jellybeans (money), gags (weapons) and laff boosts (strength). The only difference is that this game is designed for children.

It is well worth the $10 a month and the game is always expanding. Since I have been playing there have been 2 major updates and a 3rd is scheduled for sometime in April or May, giving toons an additional neighborhood/Cog HQ to play in with new tasks and rewards.

Happy Tooning.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game for kids and family, March 11, 2006

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C. Hrozencik (PLANET X) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney's Toontown Online (CD-ROM)

This is defintilly a fun game who cares if you have to pay $10:00 a month it's worth it. Toontown is a great online game whare you create your owen toon and then go do toontask to upgrade you toons. The newset toon to toontown is Bear who got choosen by the toons to beacome the new toon species. I wanted Pig to win. But it's not all fun and games beacuse evil robots called cogs are attacking toontown and it's up to you to stop them. The only way to deafeat them is to use gags like pies,marbels,pianos,thunder clouds etc. It's also 100% safe and your toons can't chat with other toons but thare is a speed chat to say safe things. You can chat with toons you know in real life by giveing you friend a code and then entering it. But watch out for any toontown fan sites. On these site you uselly got to chat rooms and ask pepole that you don't know to beacome your secret friends or join a club and chat about things you like about toontown.These sites are not made by disney so they are not 100% safe makeing toontown a little unsafe. Anyway the newset place in toontown is Goffy Speedway whare you go and buy cars and then race agenist other toons just in december goffy speedway got updated and got 3 new corses and on mondays. You can go thare and go in special races. Toontown also always throws contest to win prizes but uselly the players that play all day win them but not always. Thare is also a top toons board whare it shows the top players of everyday. Toontown is a super fun game for you kids and family this is a number 1 game and even got the award for best game of 2003. I hope you buy toontown too.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toontown online is great!!!, October 13, 2005

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Robert J. Tomastik (Hurst, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney's Toontown Online (CD-ROM)

I let my 9 yr old try Toontown online for the 3 free days from their website. My son loved it so I bought it for him, now I have tried it and play more than him. Even my 3 yr old has his own character he can play. Our whole family plays this game. For each account you get up to six characters. Although only one can be logged in at a time. I know players that have muliple accounts for their family so they can play at the same time. Get this game you'll love it.