Why ToonTown Online Died 

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2013: We're closing ToonTown to focus on Club Penguin 2017: Jk lol we're closing that too

When it said “your internet connection to the servers has been unexpectedly broken.” *i felt that*

He started with a membership lol he don't know the struggle

ToonTown: * gets destroyed because Disney wants money * Users: *you became the very thing you swore to destroy*

Disney has to shut the game down because they realized they were the evil Cogs lol

It's rather ironic that Disney made a game about corporate "cogs" taking over an artistic world

I remember being so scared of the first cog and being afraid to step out of the tutorial.

I played the free version and i remember just fishing lots

The BEST part of their payed membership was that if you got a month plan, you had 30 (logged in) days of a membership. This means that if you paid for a month, played that day then didn't play for a year you still had 29 days to use. This was some revolutionary shit. I wish more subscription-based MMOs used this amazing system. Kudos to you, ToonTown.

i have vivid memories of Toon Town because i was always poor and under leveled

Toon town was so much better than club penguin

Maybe I was just a single poor kid with poor friends but like... didn't the majority of people play Toon Town and Club Penguin with no membership? I did, for years, because parents would obviously think that's stupid to pay for. I feel like most people played these games 100% free lol only the lucky few got the memberships

I got trapped in a fountain in the main town area of ToonTown and started banging on the keyboard and ended up accidentally pressing keyboard shortcuts to turn the computer screen black & white and to flip the screen resolution upside down- completely locking up my grandparent’s desktop after a couple minutes of banging on the keys. I was banned from even touching the computer for almost 6 months. Legendary.

I remember the commercial of a kid waking up late for school and throwing down the black portal and appearing at school instantly. From that moment my top superpower choice was teleportation, and i got hooked to playing ToonTown.

Toontown was my whole life when I was 10/11, and now I finally started playing the Rewritten version and I'm so glad I did. My adult responsibilities can wait

I didn't even know Rewritten was a thing. I loved Toontown as a kid and I'm going to check it out after work today for sure.

The irony about an evil corporate conglomerate that monetizes creativity making a game about fighting an evil corporate conglomerate trying to monetize creativity that costs money to play (the full version) that goes to said evil corporate conglomerate and was closed down due it losing ability to be monetized for the evil corporate conglomerate to focus on another creative project to be monetized by the evil corporate conglomerate... With the story ending with the creative forces finally controlling the game and is now free to be experienced.

It died because Judge Doom tore it down and turned it into a freeway.

Before watching this video I gotta ask you fellow viewer... *"Are you Toon enough?"*

Do y’all remember Poptropica? Omg my childhood

I swear you could literally do NOTHING w/o that membership boy..

My mother hated ToonTown Online because when my brother and I were young we used to download the game constantly onto her computers, hence slowing them down, so the fact that ToonTown Online was closing down on her birthday made her so happy it was insanely hilarious. xD

Everyone: So, will you make more great games similar to ToonTown and Club Penguin? Disney: *Hello, I like money.*

You want to eat? *Membership* You want a jacket? *Membership* Basically all games of this genre XD

oh crap! i completely forgot about this lol. i never played it but i remember seeing the constant advertisements on the Disney channel. seems like yesterday lol

My favorite game when I was younger ;-;

I cried when they closed it, though I was 15, I never thought I'd get the chance to play it again. When I was 18 I found out about rewritten, and I still play it to this day as a 20yr old.

I'm honestly surprised Disney is generous enough to let them keep going with the game. Disney is pretty stingy about their IP's so the fact that all they demanded was for the Disney characters (Donald, mickey, etc) to be left out is pretty amazing to me.

Okay so turns out that Corporate Clash is made by entirely different people than the team who made Rewriten. Sorry about that!

*”Was awarded MMORPG of the year in 2003.”* I was about to freak out until I realized that World of Warcraft released in 2004 xD

I was the person that would be glitching, running through the train tunnel , doing the stair glitch to fly . I miss it :(

Being a 2000's kid myself, each point you mentioned, I remember all of it. I remember when TT was at it's peak, and then slowly began to decline. They took the Silly Meter from Toon Hall, the parties declined, the community was slowly dying... I still held hope that TT would come back to its former glory, but that day they mentioned the closing of TT, I swear I cried for almost a week straight. The withdrawal I felt from not being able to play had hit very hard and I eventually went about my days in a haze, playing every game I could, and when I saw TTR was reviving my childhood game, i was more than ecstatic! Playing the game again feels so good and I'm so glad that these volunteers are reviving old nostalgic childhood memories that could have been left to die with history. ❤❤❤

soooo.... club penguin killed Toontown, and club penguin just straight up died.

Aw man I remember this well. Along with Pirates of the Caribbean Online it was definitely part of my childhood and man just looking at the gameplay and listening to the music just gave me a nostalgia rush. Oh and those ads got me in there as well.

ToonTown is one of those games that immediately come to mind for me when I think about favorite childhood games. Hearing that ToonTown soundtrack just floods my brain with nostalgia. I was around 10 when ToonTown released and a best friend of mine at the time was playing it and he turned me on to it one day and I fell in love with the game. It was my first real experience in a multiplayer MMO like environment and it was new and exciting and I just couldn’t wait to play it. A RU-vidr I was just watching was playing old childhood favorites which had me thinking about mine which lead me to think about ToonTown and that’s why I’m here. I had no idea ToonTown shut down and already over 5 years ago at that. In sad that the original is gone but in my opinion it’s just and old game that ran its course, it was bound to happen sooner or later. That being said I’m glad to hear about ToonTown rewritten and am thankful for those volunteers who are keeping a part of my childhood alive. I think I’m gonna give it a try for old time sake and take a stroll down memory lane.

ToonTown was so much better than Club Penguin

Honest to god I would of never knew about ToonTown Rewritten if it wasn't for this video, and now me and my friends wanna hop on it just to mess around again. We're all in highschool

RIP Pixie Hollow, that was my favorite

Toontown, Club Penguin, Wizards 101, Poptropica, Webkinz, Pirates Online, ahhh the innocent childhood games I miss them

Rip Toontown! I remember when my dad taught me how to make secrete friends with pictures on the wall and jumping.. I thought i met my first love on toontown and we talked for years and have only stopped in the last couple actually. im 24. This game was in my family and mines life for YEARS. When people pick on me for buying fortnite skins on a free game , well my mother spent a few hundred on this game over the years lol.

I used to love this game and one day when I tried to open it and it said that it didn’t work I literally broke down. I was 7 and had a mid-life crisis because the game about colorful animals.

Why did ToonTown die? *Takes 3 steps* YOUR SERVER WAS UNEXPECTEDLY BROKEN

I loved this game. Could never pay for it so I did like 12 free trials

I was so upset when pixie hollow died that was my shit as a little kid.

Does anyone remember Wizard 101

I forgot this game existed

I know I wasn't the only one that would run on the sidewalk to avoid getting attacked by the goons right? Because those things terrified me lmao

If you haven’t noticed, when you walk into Disney world in Florida. All the building around Disney world when you walk in are exactly the ones you see in toontown. The shops look just like the ones in the same toontown.

Toontown Wizard 101 Star wars online Pirates 101 Edit: forgot about Poptropica!

I️ never played toon town, but I️ did play Pixie Hollow. I️ was obsessed with it but my computer glitches often so I️ stopped. I️ never knew that it closed and am now sad :(.

I remember being sad as hell when toontown closed bc it was shortly after free realms shut down and free realms was my favorite game ever, toon town running v close in second place. I JUST recently found out about rewritten im obsessed with it. Maybe it's because I haven't played in years but I didn't even notice a difference between rewritten and the original and I never had a membership. Either way, it's amazing.

Shoulda sold ToonTown Online to someone else.

my childhood games i played on the computer were pirates of the caribbean, wizard101, roblox, toontown, and fusion fall.

I won't lie, I loved Toontown back then but I did ultimately did switch to Club Penguin and played it much more than TTO. I planned on playing both games at once but i ended up putting all my time in CP. I remember getting my mom to cover my CP memberships while I bought my TTO memberships but I started using my money on music so I stopped playing around 2011. I took TTO for granted and never in my mind did I think it would shut down. I was so sad about losing my 98 laff toon and never got to reach 100. However i'm now way past 100 on TTR and im happy about that. Amazing memories with both games. (Oh and I'll be playing Corporate Clash too.)

Pirates of the Caribbean online anyone??

They were running 5 MMOs, you forgot VMK(Virtual Magic Kingdom)

You were considered cool if you owned a party cannon and threw a party

I actually cried watching this (I know stupid reason to cry over something) but like those 4 games were literally my life. I’m glad Toontown Rewritten is open but sometimes I feel extremely sad about the old one. I’m also really upset no one made a Pixi Hollow or Pirates Of The Caribbean rewritten game! THOSE WERE LITERALLY THE BEST GAMES I PLAYED. I hate Disney for ruining my childhood 😔

There are 5 members in our family, all of them now adults. Every single one of us played Toontown when the kids were young. This was a great bonding experience with online gaming and our kids. It was fun to have us all sitting around talking strategy or watching each other play (or helping the youngest).

My mom, brothers and I had a big Toontown phase when we were younger and now it's our quarantine hobby!

Club Penguin is a freaking MMO killer. It even killed itself to become a mobile game.

God, this makes me feel so old

"Cartoon world under the threat of being taken over by corporate cogs" Hmmm.

I remember playing Toontown online on the last day it closed I was so very sad I was cry to tears. Couple days later i see a new Toontown sever called Toontown rewritten and I was so excited that they are remaking the game.

say what you want but pixie hollow was the bomb

I'm 15 now and Toontown was actually one of the first online games I played as a kid along with Club Penguin and Pixie Hollow lol

I loved Donald's Dream Land.

Where my adventure quest players at?

Pixie Hollow, Animal Jam, Webkinz, and Poptropica were my jam.

I love buying doodles, or the pets, on this game. I also remember struggling to defeat the cogs in those buildings you went in with groups with the sole purpose of fighting cogs. I was too little to really understand that I needed to become stronger before effectively having a chance with the cogs..

I loved toontown. It was so nostalgic to re-create my character when I discovered Rewritten

Toon town rewritten became dead to me when my all 4 friends stop coming on, almost 2 years ago im still a sad friendless person

I remember this game and I loved it, even though I couldn't pay for membership, so I skirted the edges of the free zone stuff. This is the first time I've heard about 'Rewritten' so now I'm gonna go check that out.

Toontown was my childhood! Playing with friends online and the mini games were challenging but fun. I feel like the lag I got was frustrating but it new stopped me from playing. On that note I’m getting toontown rewritten haha

I got banned because I cursed out Mickey 😂

I used to play the original Toontown as a kid and now I play Toontown Rewritten with my own kids. We just started and it’s still just as fun.

I was more of a poptropica and moshi monsters kid, but it is cool to see what came of this site. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

So many fucking MMOs follow the same boring Fantasy or Sci-Fi aesthetic. I personally don't care if this was made for kids, I love the toon aesthetic because it's different. The idea to base combat in a MMO around ACME esque toon gags is fucking brilliant. I fondly remember playing this game and doing cog buildings, the best part was when you all left and watched the building explode and reform. It felt like you had been through a battle together with total strangers, and created this cool natural bond. Too bad the social aspect that WOULD have followed was ruined by heavy Disney chat censorship. Even the trolley minigames were really great, one of my friends told me that she spent most of her time in this game doing the trolley minigames and I am not really surprised. ToonTown had a lot of potential and could have been a MMO to stand out amongst the rest, but alas. Anyone felt it was kind of strange how the enemies are literally corporate robots when that is kind of what Disney is? Not trying to be edgy here, but there must have been some awkward meetings with suits in the company.

I always played the free version of ToonTown as a kid, because my parents thought spending money on online games was stupid. But nonetheless I had a ton of fun on it and finding out that they made a "rewritten" version has made my day. Even though I'm an adult now I can see myself playing it (along with the new pirates online game) for quite awhile.

I used to love to play Toontown Online. I used to play as Nubianman Mouse, I was at level 109 and I loved helping new players along. I will definitely look into Rewritten. Me and my family had great times with the original. Thank you for the video.

It is always so amazing to see passionate fan community get to together to keep a game they love running own their own.

Are you toon enough?

I played ToonTown off and on from 2008-2013. I remember logging on a few hours before the closure of the servers and we were all saying goodbye to each other. It was a sad day. I'm 20 now and I love playing ToonTown Rewritten. It's so fun because I never had a membership when the original was online, so in Rewritten I can go to all the realms that were restricted before.

I remember I used to have a doodle on this game😭

Then disney had the audacity to close down club penguin too like wow

damn.... I really used to love playing Pixie Hollow. i remember during the time i got an iPod 4g and wanted to download the pixie hollow boutique app, but unfortunately the app was removed before i got the mobile device, which sucked.

ToonTown was also my childhood and it was probably the first game I played on a laptop. I didn’t grow up with Fortnite Or Minecraft, just ToonTown! And when they shut it down I cried 😕.

that music threw me all the way back to playing on my family computer. You unlocked some of the most deepest memories I didn’t even know I had. Toontown was my first game ever. I cannot explain the nostalgia with it I didn’t even remember it until a year ago.

"why toontown online died" because by the time it had gotten to a decent age it was only middle aged women playing it, one of them being my mother, then Disney just shut it down, to everyone's dismay.

if someone had to ask what my childhood was like, this game will cover nearly most of it. as a kid the concept was just amazing to me and there was never a single day i wouldnt login. on the weekends, i would wake up early to play the game and i remember having a purple cat best friend called Periwinkle. my parents also rarely bought me memberships, so i never got to enjoy the full experience but it was fun to come online and hang out with my friends. however, i eventually began to drift from it as i grew older. but the day i heard that toontown was shutting down, i cried. it's amazing what a silly game like this can make you feel sometimes. Rest in piece Cool Dizzennerd, my 56 laff toon.

Being 26...this makes me feel old. I only ever played a trial version because my early childhood as consumed by runescape..

I remember being so sad as a kid, I started playing it at 5 years old, and to this day I still have videos and screenshots of me playing it. The release of Toontown Rewritten woke up whe kid in me. I remember being at school, on my phone during class, attempting to get "in line" to enter the game, as it wasn't released to its full extent and you had to wait up to 3 hours to get online by signing up on their website every time you wanted to play. I cherish those memories and every once in a while I will play it to get that nostalgia that so many of us love ❤

Let's all just take a moment to remember bigfatawesomehouseparty May you be resting in peace, old friend

Reminds me of Wizard 101

Seeing toontown again brought back so many memories I didn't know I had

This game was my childhood, all my friends in school were playing it so I joined too, I still love this game to this day even as a 22 year old lol.

Thank you for spreading the word of Toontown a widespread of people, it was a really sad and hopeless time around the end of Toontown Online. With events like ToonFest hosted by Toontown Rewritten along with the maintained and growing community, it makes me think at least for a second that maybe there's hope for a revival.

Disney must really hate good games huh

I loved playing Toontown online. The last time I played it was in 2010 when I was in 10th grade. I'm so happy that the volunteers brought this game back to life! I am very thankful of them ❤