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This page details prerelease information and/or media for Disney's Toontown Online.

This page covers the pre-beta/alpha version of Disney's Toontown Online, not the beta Version.
You can find the Beta coverage in the prototype section.

Toontown online jugar. Toontown Rewritten is in the same Dimension as the Toontown Online timeline because Doctor Surlee had been remaking the Toontown Online timeline. However, it still exists in history. The timelines and Dimensions all have similarities and differences. The main timeline that has some questioning around is the Toontown Apex.
Toontown Online, commonly abbreviated as TTO, was an MMORPG created by The Walt Disney Company that was released on June 2, 2003 and lasted until its closure on September 19, 2013. Ever since the closure, many players of the Toontown community began working on bringing back the game in the form of 'private servers'.

To do:
So much stuff.

There's a lot more concept art lurking around. [Check here: https://toontown.online/]
- Probably move all of the concept art to the design document subpage.
EVERYTHING from the June 2020 source code leak.
- High-res graphics with readable text, shrunk down in the final
- Beta music, such as one planned for the Estate. Context by Jesse Schnell [here https://old.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/gaejax/i_decided_to_ask_jesse_schell_about_the_unused/]
- Earlier gag graphics, like a beta Toon-up magic wand Gag.

Disney's Toontown Online was the Walt Disney company's first take on a MMORPG, as well as one of the first to be targeted at a younger audience which became one of the core gameplay concepts. It also had a rather enigmatic development phase which would be revealed by former staff that worked on this game, going through many different ambitious concepts before they were settled on.

It had become one of the most famous MMORPGs of the 2000s in its breakout era, allowing for many updates to be released for the game's decade-long lifespan before it would abruptly close. Despite that, it still manages to have a following and some private servers to this very day.

3Initial Concepts
- 3.3Concept Art
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- 6.1February-April
- 6.3Summer
- 6.4August
- 6.5September
- 6.6October
- 6.7November
- 6.8Winter
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- 7.1Spring?
- 7.2Summer
8Later Scrapped Concepts

Development Timeline

1997/1999

Unknown Point - Toon Tag is playable at Epcot, Innoventions East.

1998

Unknown - Development of Toontown Online begins.

2001

Aug. - Testing begins on Beta 1. The game then was very unstable at the time and a lot of differences could be found.

2002

Jan. 16 - Testing for Beta 1 ended.
Sep. 10 - Beta 2 Testing begins on this date. Unlike Beta 1, the game was much more stable and only lasted for one month. Also, a lot more Gameplay elements were implemented during the time.
Oct. 21 - Beta 3 begins.

2003

Jun. 2 - The game is finally released to the public.

Internal Material

Design Documents
Design Documents tailing loads of ideas that wounded up being scrapped, changed or altered for the final game.

Spotify
Toontown Textures at their highest resolution! Featuring some assets that was cut from development and at their source quality too.

Anesidora
Contains some of the source code of Toontown Online and has code that went unused in the game.

Initial Concepts

Initial Concept

When designing the setting for their rendition of Toontown, they took inspiration from how it was depicted in the book Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the Toontown attraction in Disneyland, California and Duckburg from the Ducktales series.

Toon Tag

Disney's Toontown Online was originally developed off a Tech Demo known called Toon Tag. It was also playable at the Internet Zone in Disney Innovations East, Epcot for nearly ten years before the attraction was shut down. It involved a game of tag where four different players could either play as Mickey, Minnie, Donald or Goofy looking for others around the map.Very few images of the Tech Demo survive on the internet, and a lot of the elements and graphical style seen in the pictures were repurposed for what would be Toontown Online.

Concept Art

Early Concepts

Toons

The earliest artwork of Flippy using a Throw Gag. Interestingly the blue color would
be brought back in his finalized design in the game's release.

The designs for Toon species were drawn from the 'rich history and traditions of Walt Disney animation', where each of them had to be unique so they can be easily identified. The goal in mind was to make the player feel at home with Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.

(Source: Developer Spotlight, November/December 2008 Toontown Newsletter)

A variety of different options were drawn out.

Toon Emotions

Concept art of Flippy acting out different Emotions.

Same art, except applied towards other Toon species.

Several different ideas for Emotions were drawn out, with Flippy being used as a mascot. It was officially posted to the Toontown Online website in 2003, albelt in a lower resolution and was featured in a Newsletter. Many of the Emotions on the concept art didn't make it to the final or was added in later on;

Laugh was originally called 'Laff'.
The infamous Taunt Emotion matches up with the unused animations and sound from the files.
The Wink and Idea Emotions were scrapped.
The Surprize emotion was originally different; it would have been based off what was seen in the 2003 commercial rather than reusing the attacked animation.
Shrug was called 'Don't Know', and Surprised was called 'The Giant Smile' or 'Big Smile'.
Really Sad originally had tears coming out of the eyes.

Suits

During development, Cogs were originally called Suits and were businessmen rather than just robots. From the beginning, they were designed in four different types; Social, Money, Legal and Corporate. A rough sketch of the enemies and the types belonging to them were first drawn up in many different shapes and body sizes;

Many of the ideas made it to the final, though there are some changes:

Suits had an unequal number of types rather than each of them having eight.
There was originally a Corporate Suit called a Blowhard, which is someone that would go on to dominate politics.
The Mover and Shaker was originally in the Corporate type, as opposed to a Social (Sellbot).
A Head Honcho Suit was scrapped likely due to it being too similar to The Big Cheese in terms of theming.
The Kissup Suit was scrapped for being too similar to The Mingler.
The Two-Face was originally called '2-Faced'.

Rough sketches of Suit Heads, with a general idea of the designs.

Later, the

Toontown Online Timeline