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Toontown Fact Sheet

Overview: Disney's Toontown Online, the first multiplayer online role playing game designed specifically for kids and families, is an award-winning, endlessly evolving, and immersive 3-D online world where players live as Toons.

Create your own Toon character, furnish your estate, customize a race kart, train a pet Doodle, and team up with friends to defeat the invading robot Cogs. Because Cogs can't take a joke, use your giant arsenal of gags to crack them up. Get out your seltzer bottles, drop a few safes and let the cream pies fly!

Reach: coming online in October 2002, Toontown has been home to over 17.5 million unique Toons.

Story: Players are Toons who join forces to save the world from the Cogs, humorless business robots who are attempting to turn the colorful, happy world of Toontown into a dark metropolis of corporate monotony.

Key Game Features:

The first multiplayer online game designed for kids and families.
A safe environment for kids on the Internet with patented "SpeedChat" and Secret Friends Parental Control technologies.
Six Toons to create, name and personalize
A Toon house for each of your Toons
Six themed neighborhoods packed with hundreds of quests
Over 40 cartoon gags to use on robot Cogs
Racing karts, mini golf, pet Doodles, fishing rods and jars of jellybeans (in-game)

New to Toontown:

Enhanced Estates: Toons can master gardening techniques to further decorate their personal estate with gag trees and plants, statues, and their very own cannon pinball game.
New Gags: New, more powerful Gags are frequently added to the game, giving Toons of all species even more funs ways to battle the invading robot Cogs. New Gags include an Ocean Liner Drop Gag, an Opera Singer Sound Gag, and the Wedding Cake Throw Gag!
New Trolley Games: In 2007, a variety of new Trolley Games were added. Toons can now earn jellybeans by playing mini golf with Chip and Dale, finding undersea treasure, swinging on jungle vines, testing their memory, and launching themselves via slingshot onto targets.

Awards:

2007 iParenting Media Awards; Greatest Products Award Winner, Video Games category
2007 Web Marketing Association's Web Award, Outstanding Website
2005 WiredKids Safe Gaming Award
2005 Webby Awards "Webby Worthy Selection"
2004 Web Marketing Association's Web Award, Outstanding Game Website
2004 Game Industry News Family Game of the Year
2003 MMORPG Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World
2003 Webby Awards People's Voice Award, Kid's Category
2003 Parent's Choice Silver Honor
2003 Children's Software Review All Star Award
Nominated for Academy of Interactive Arts Society 2003 PC Massively Multiplayer / Persistent World Game of the Year Award

Screen Shots:


Protecting Toontown: Cream pies, fire hoses, or banana peels - Toons use numerous gags to battle the Cogs.	Doodles: While loveable and cute, Toontown's pets can be quite a handful.	Cog HQ: Toons unite to battle a menacing VP, a powerful CFO, and an injust Chief Justice on their own turf.

Access: To try Toontown, users can play a limited free portion of the game available on the Web site at Toontown.com. The free portion of the game provides the following experience:

Two Toons to create and personalize
Access to one themed neighborhood with limited quests
A Toon house for each of your Toons
A limited assortment of cartoon gags to use on robot Cogs
Limited access to racing karts, pet Doodles, fishing, and clothes to customize your Toon
Play when you want, for as long as you want.

At any time, players have the option of purchasing access to the game on monthly (30 days for $9.95), semi-annual (6 months for $49.95) or annual (12 months for $79.95) subscription plans. Members enjoy the following:

Six Toons to create, name, and personalize
Six themed neighborhoods packed with hundreds of quests
A Toon house for each of your Toons
Over 40 cartoon gags to use on robot Cogs
Clothes and items to collect and customize your Toons
Cool wallpapers, furniture, and other items to customize your Toon houses
Unlimited access to racing karts, pet Doodles, fishing rods, and jars of jellybeans (in-game)

In addition to great game play, current subscribers also receive these exclusive member benefits:

A welcome kit with stickers, a Cog poster, Guest passes and more
Bi-monthly newsletters and limited-edition trading cards
Special events and holiday activities
Contests with awesome prizes

Player Profile: Toontown was designed primarily for children ages 8 to 12, but is enjoyed by kids of all ages. Player feedback reveals that many families are playing the game together, with parents enjoying the game as much as their kids. Many hardcore gamers and game developers have remained loyal Toontown players since its Beta launched in 2002. In an interesting statistic for the game industry, players are evenly split between boys and girls.

System Minimum Requirements:

PC: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Pentium II 300MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 8 MB 3D graphics card, 126 MB free hard disk space, 56K modem (Broadband connection recommended), Internet Explorer 5.1 or newer, DirectX 7.0 or newer.
Macintosh: Mac OS X v10.4.6, 1.66 GHz Intel Core Solo or G4 400 MHz Power PC, 256 MB RAM, 32 MB Video Card, Safari v2.0.