The Toontown Iceberg Explained

[@wingedbunny6211]

Just a note : Buildings in TTC were always flocked with toons because you had to pay to do buildings on other streets. So, all the non-membership toons would battle to be able to take the building. And there were a LOT of us.

[@kagevista3375]

@steven trollface same lmao

[@ethan2123]

I remember people would go in and go out when someone they didn't want to go with was trying to get in lmao. it was kinda cruel but you wanted to go with your group if you had one

[@milenaavila1603]

I remember that I did my first cog building that way. I stayed outside, throwing myself at the elevator door, that was shut bc there were other toons inside. Then suddenly the door opened, bc everyone died, and I was lucky enough to get inside. I think that it was a 2 floor building, and there was a big cheese on the last floor. We managed to beat the building, I don't know how, I had less than 20 laff at the time.When I finished the building I immediately ran to my dad and asked him to buy me the membership lol This happened in what, 2006 or 2008.

[@acquitz2208]

@@milenaavila1603 I had something similar happen with a back stabber

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

@@ethan2123 that was pretty chaotic, makes me feel better that it was shut down

[@Luketur]

I believe that Taxi Toon is referring to the toons that would sit idle in Nutty River so that people could teleport to them even when the district was full. AKA parkers

[@jjmf9]

this is correct

[@hurricanec2345]

Yea

[@ed1651]

actually, they were referring to a taxi toon system that was implemented by hackers towards the end of TTO. you would walk up to a certain area of a playground, say a phrase, and one would appear, which you could then add and control via speedchat phrases

[@P.I.P.E.L.I.N.E_Podcast]

IM A HUGE FANof the OG toon town I was born in 2000 and I have tons of nostalgia for this game and I’m so glad it’s being preserved

[@Kodiak73]

Yeah

[@Ayylex]

Cog buildings in toontown central were popular in tto because people without a membership could access them

[@actiniumanarchy9237]

They were also the hardest in the game

[@petersun6451]

@@actiniumanarchy9237 Only the 4-5 story ones really

[@caideneduardo8700]

i know I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream newly released tv shows online?

[@nothankyoudontwantalastnam847]

@@actiniumanarchy9237 tbh that was usually trolls summoning buildings bc they knew low levels would go in and die

[@gorbinbleu7588]

I want to add something to the iceberg. Basically, all the time when Toontown announces something for maintenance, everyone runs to chips and dales acres to glitch through the tunnel that's locked and basically stays there for shelter until everyone crashes.

[@iveyink]

I remember doing this on the day TTO shut down!!

[@cappucosmico]

i did this the day tto shut down too! i was in nutty summit until the moment it crashed me for good. i remember a lot of my friends in the clan i was in getting kicked off early randomly that day and not being able to log back on and missing the moment it shut down

[@snoopee110]

@@cappucosmico iirc, hackers managed to shut down the authentication servers for TTO the day it went down and started kicking people from the game.

[@cappucosmico]

@@snoopee110 oh shit, is that what happened? i thought there was just connection issues that day since it was the last day (??dont know how that correlates logically now that i think about it), that's awful. little middle schooler me would've been crushed if i got kicked and couldnt get back in that day, that sucks so much

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@snoopee110 They probably just wanted people to know that the game just went down. They were like "look pal, Disney doesn't care about the game anymore. Do something else, perhaps go on Club Penguin until Disney stops caring about that one as well." And that would eventually become true sometime later.

[@Luma-ht6sg]

Toontown was my childhood and was really sad when I found they were shutting it down but I still play rewritten to this day

[@masterseal0418]

So if it comes back, you wanna make an avatar based on Greg from Ratatoing?

[@kaijoswilman]

I just played it because I saw my sister play it

[@clayscup5091]

Just started playin g tonight I’m super excited

[@mogwaiz]

What about the glitch where you would face your wardrobe towards the wall and then you’d be able to clip through the game and run infinitely in the grey space

[@goopyhead]

i did that a while ago its so easy to clip items outside along with urself

[@ciennaquidd6486]

I was very surprised not to see this. I know there was a very brief mention of out of bounds glitches but they all were such a big part of the culture for a while. I think this is what "The Hills" might have referred to as well but he was sort of confused by it. At one point there was a way of getting out of bounds on just about every playground and there was big groups of people who played more to find these glitches than to progress in the game.

[@moonlightdreamer4957]

I used to do that all the time, or use my phone to do it. Idk why but it entertained 7 year old me way more than playing the game how it was meant to be played. xD

[@Marshtard]

my favorite out-of-bounds glitch was in the street buildings; you'd teleport to someone as they walk out the door and the game would send you to the grey area, then you could stand behind the counter where the NPC is. (i think this is still possible in Rewritten, but i haven't played in a long time so idk) i used to "claim" this building in TTC that had a T-shirt sign out front, where i recruited people into a lil club for helping each other with our toontasks. they'd walk in, see me behind the counter and say "are you a hacker?", but then i'd teach them the glitch and they thought it was so cool :P

[@Opalca]

there was also a fishing glitch in your estate that would allow you for some reason to walk endlessly upwards towards the sun! you basically went fishing, opened ur journal at the same time you satrted, then walked backwards n then forward up into the sky. it was so weird idr when it was patched out lol

[@goose-7896]

about the estate topic, i was terrified of my estate for the longest time because of raiders/hackers. One time i had briefly talked to this purple cat but didn't add her as a friend because she was kinda creepy. a little bit afterwards i went to my estate and while i was playing with my doodle the same cat ran up the hill and into my house. she didn't say a single word and i was so scared i immediately logged out and wouldn't touch the game for like a week afterwards. even then i was terrified to go to my estate because it felt like i was being watched.

[@cryptidx6088]

funny story, when i was a kid i was making a video introducing my toons and in the middle of recording, some random guy showed up flying around in my estate and i just. kept going anyways 😭

[@jeffreystone8974]

The throw book attack was removed because of Disney's policy on "imitatable violence" the idea being they didn't want to have anything where someone could get hurt but someone from the ages of five to eight could reasonably recreate.

[@KingSlimeProductions]

*queue dropping a bag of sand on a cog for 10 damage*

[@vabunajonsville4251]

fun fact: the warrior cat clans LOVED that secret castle in bbhq. it was a rite of passage to find it

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I remember clans sticking to chip n dales the most, obviously. Me and my friend would actually use BBHQ and the secret castle for roleplays all the time. I remember showing players how to find it too

[@gonzoswunks]

Nutty River was full 99% of the time because it was really the only district where invasions happened more often than the other districts. If you wanted double xp, you would have to go there. People would use afk programs to keep themselves in the district 24/7 and your best chance to get in was to be lucky or play very early in the morning.

[@sonikku956]

2:19 I love how TTR has essentially normalized cog buildings in TTC.

[@joshiffy]

I remember as a kid without a membership always wanting to get into a TTC building, just cos you could go in with no membership

[@MrSmartyPants]

25:54 this one was about how DDL had an animated sleeping fire hydrant before the animated street props came out. I think there were just a couple of these fire hydrants and they would move up and down with their head down, to indicate sleeping (like they do now) but they had a different model. It's definitely shown somewhere on the internet

[@gamingcentric8251]

Pluto talking was actually something that happened, but it was only in April toons week (Similar to doodles talking)

[@miah8163]

30:25 HEADPHONE WARNING PLEASE, that actually scared the hell out of me... please put a warning there it blew my ears out..

[@miah8163]

@@amity8940 Yeah I was wearing headphones and it blew my ears out.

[@moonishiri]

oh my gosh thank you for this, i read it before i got to that part and i appreciate it a lot~

[@a.k.aorangepenguin5032]

ok zoomer

[@sharrel704]

@@a.k.aorangepenguin5032 dude shut up

[@a.k.aorangepenguin5032]

@@sharrel704 Oks

[@SweetTop7s]

Hey, I'm the one who created the iceberg chart as you had mentioned! I want to thank you so much for making this, it's really cool to see one of these explanation videos being made for my iceberg! Especially one as well-made as this, I can tell a lot effort went into this, and I know the iceberg was pretttty long so this definitely had to take quite a lot of time to organize and put together. Overall, I think you did an amazing job with covering/explaining all the entries on the chart. Almost everything in this video was pretty much right, there were a few you were off on or accidentally missed, but again this was a long iceberg so not expecting someone to understand every single thing on it. I've seen others already commented earlier on much of the things that were missed so no need to go into them here, though I can answer if there are any more questions. . However, I do want to clarify/explain the "Bizarre Undocumented In-Game Events" thing at 45:11 in this comment since it is a very interesting topic and the wording on the chart for it may've not been the best but I had a hard time thinking of a name for it, so I don't think anyone would've fully understand what I meant by it unless I told them. Basically, it is a general statement that refers to any incredibly odd glitch, bug, or hacking-related event that happened briefly, only very few people witnessed it and it’s hard to fully understand how it happened. After I posted the original version of the iceberg, someone commented about a really weird experience they vaguely remembered in which they walked into a glitched building texture on a Daisy's Garden street and it took them to like a bugged SBHQ where cogs were getting on a dark colored trolley which took them away where the VP area would be. They got stuck in a glitched, unwinnable cog fight so they couldn't explore, and there was another toon there that just stared as they died. The glitched texture was gone when they went back. So yeah, really hard to say what was going on here and what was the cause of this, perhaps a serious glitch. Thinking about it though, Toontown was a pretty old, buggy, and easily-hacked game back in the day, so I do believe this happened and there have been other crazy glitches or other events completely undocumented (like unrecorded, no evidence for, etc.) on the Internet and only experienced by a handful of people. And the Bizarre Undocumented In-Game Events entry on the iceberg is like a way to cover these mysterious experiences. But yeah, I really enjoyed watching this explanation video and I'm glad you had fun making it! It was fun making the chart too, Toontown Online was basically my main childhood game, and with so many old memories plus seeing discussions about mysteries/rumors continuing to this day there was really a lot to work with. Heck, there are even a few notable things I still missed on the updated chart that I forgot or didn't know about until after I made it (like there was actually a planned PS2 port of Toontown that was cancelled). Haven't really played since the original Disney game was closed, but I'm thinking about getting back into it via one of the clones/reboots, Corporate Clash especially seems interesting to me. Again, thank you so much for making the video! I'm really hoping it goes viral, you definitely deserve it man with the amount of time & effort it took you to make it!

[@cyberqueen201]

Wow! I kinda wonder, if I may ask, can you explain the other things? Considering you made the iceberg you must know something about this stuff! It's okay if not though.

[@SweetTop7s]

@@cyberqueen201 Yes, is there anything particular you want me to explain?

[@cyberqueen201]

@@SweetTop7s Can't think of anything off the top of my head at the moment, but anything would be fine!

[@SweetTop7s]

@@cyberqueen201 Sorry for the late response, but I actually made an explanation Google document for everything on the iceberg at around the same time I made the iceberg itself. You can find a link to it in the comments of the Reddit post that's in the description of this video.

[@cyberqueen201]

@@SweetTop7s Thank you!! And you're not late at all, in fact I almost forgot I watched this video until I saw this notification lol.

[@TetraTheThief]

2:30 This was due to cog buildings being restricted to only people who were paying memberships for toontown online. You couldn’t go in cog buildings, enter buildings or talk to NPCs outside of TTC without a membership. Seeing a building in TTC was rare enough so people who were free to play wanted to go in to experience it

[@TetraTheThief]

@steven trollface actually iirc TTC Cog buildings were very rare. Comparing it to TTR doesn’t work for 2 reasons; 1. They’ve made changes to the game, so it’s not really a comparable thing in terms of programming and technical improvements. 2. It’s a LOT smaller playerbase compared to Disney’s TTO, which directly impacts the amount of people trying to find free to play cog buildings in TTC. The thing about it being free in TTR so no one cares as much I agree with though, that’s why I specified the reason in my original comment.

[@HolyMori-xd5hm]

2:19 Actually as a player from 2006, since a lot of players didn't subscribe to Toontown, they were only allowed to roam around Toontown Central, so finding a building was something real special for these kinds of players

[@MegaDude10]

I mean, Laff is supposed to be happiness, and watching someone die is depression inducing so technically losing laff after watching someone die is logical.

[@youcantbeatk7006]

I love how in the "Toontown Clones and Reboots" section he first said he didn't know what it meant but then he immediately explained what it meant with a bunch of details and examples.

[@AnthonyRanieri]

It could mean a few things. Like Disney’s attempt at rebooting the series? A company cloning the style of toontown or fan servers keeping it alive. I just didn’t know what they were asking for so I just took a shot in the dark with it.

[@youcantbeatk7006]

@@AnthonyRanieri You're still going into detail about what it means. lol

[@AnthonyRanieri]

Again I took a shot in the dark with that one because I wasn’t sure what it specifically meant so I gave my best description on it.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@AnthonyRanieri Yeah, I can see where you're going. Just taking a shot in the dark is something that you'd sometimes have to do with some entries.

[@bolin09]

Wow I remember playing Toon Tag on a trip to Disney World as a kid. I never knew it was so important to Toon Town fans.

[@AnthonyRanieri]

It’s pretty much what started it all for toontown online. It’s been something in the community that gets talked about a lot like footage of it, details about it, or if it will ever resurface. It’s really cool you got to try it out, I would’ve loved to at least play it once.

[@exterminator9676]

Would love to hear more information, if you have any!

[@bolin09]

@@exterminator9676 Ok bear in mind It was many years ago and I was a child so don't expect the most accurate info. From what I remember it was in one of the innovention buildings, they had four consoles for the players and a large screen so people could watch (Which can be seen in pictures I imagine), you'd get in line and then play a round. The one thing I do remember clearly is the trolley was part of the level, it would go around and players could hop on to get away from someone chasing them. Thats really about it for what I can say with any sort of confidence, so sorry I couldn't really give a lot of info about my experience with it.

[@exterminator9676]

@@bolin09 yeah that sounds pretty accurate with what we know so far! If only I was old enough to actually experience toon tag for myself

[@nordinreecendo512]

"For some reason, private servers have been trying to get rid of Donald Frump." Ah, you must not be from around these parts, partner.

[@flaflaflamingo]

I know nothing about Toontown but I am obsessed with iceberg videos and youtube is feeding my addiction

[@deliroushotstuff8425]

^^^^

[@Mehhhhhhhh]

Same, it's the best way to learn about something though.

[@ColdAsDianne]

Nutty river was always full because it is the district with the most frequent invasions, and back then invasions gave 2x more exp than normal. So a lot of people went there for faster toon development. Also that was where the DDL beanfests usually were.

[@ColdAsDianne]

Bots and hackers filling up nutty River were more of a symptom of the district already being full in the first place; bot accounts (Parker’s) stayed there so people’s alt toons can teleport to nutty river easily, and hackers went there because that’s where they can get the most attention.

[@eliaskardous5603]

Taxi toons were the ones that allowed you back in the TTO days to TP to Nutty River, or Nutty Summit. Those districts were almost always full, so the only way to reach them was to had a friend there or wait a long time until the district turns green. The taxis were 24/24h standing toons in those places. U just had to friend them and TP to them when needed

[@Starkler76]

I haven't started watching yet, but seeing the comments, I know this is gonna be a good one. Good job Anthony!

[@toontowngamer2016]

25:54 I can tell you more about the DDL animated fire hydrants! Before the Silly Meter came out on TTO and started animating everything, the fire hydrants in DDL already had a sleeping animation before the mailboxes, trash cans, and other fire hydrants became animated after It's release. So in simpler words, the DDL fire hydrants were already animated before the silly meter released and started animating everything else.

[@vabunajonsville4251]

its crazy how in my head the silly meter update is still recent

[@Jetxx]

One interesting thing that probably deserves a mention is the cows in the rural racetracks. There are what seems to be "normal" cows in the fields, which has some ramifications about the world.

[@P.I.P.E.L.I.N.E_Podcast]

IM A HUGE FAN of the OG toon town I was born in 2000 and I have tons of nostalgia for this game and I’m so glad it’s being preserved

[@unsie]

well to be fair, toons are cartoons. not normal animals.

[@princesspixel3151]

It’s even weirder when you think about Goofy and Pluto

[@skreechnskreem]

when it gets to the lower layers the content is like: ooh look at this beta content for toontown! pretty cool, right? the music: *pick a god and start praying, for nobody else will be able to hear your cries for help.*

[@danielaliyev2150]

you know theres a damn good reason why they removed donald frump anthony

[@Knux5577]

because obviously he'd be a cog. cashbot or a bossbot

[@SrobinDrag]

For VP Lobby Room, I can recall waiting in there for groups instead of waiting outside like other boss battles. I think they're talking about boarding groups being inside rather than outside.

[@limemyth]

The Backstage Column is referring to an old news feature on the Toontown Online that ran briefly in 2003, with only 5 issues posted.

[@mateushenrique583]

Could have added the 'glue' theory. Dunno if it was a thing back in TTO but its basically when you are about to use a lure gag and someone says 'glue' on the chat and it supposedly increases the odds of the lure hitting.

[@wingeddiscordant1398]

Oh yeah or how like if you used multiple lures then they would all cancel out

[@ellamak3313]

I REMEMBER THUS

[@Niduus]

Don't forget the removal of Nuttyboro (district, for unknown reason, I noticed it was removed when that was my home district as it was a good alternative to find active players if summit and river were full) The reason in TTO for people to flock to buildings in TTC is mainly because you never saw buildings ever in TTC and people would want to go in them to train (also because you didn't need membership to access them) I remember the old lowercase names, I had 3 toons with lower case and was always asked how I got them

[@aquafighter10]

and kookyboro!!

[@BenandBrit]

Kookyboro gang

[@TheMolder]

There should be an iceberg about the Toontown iceberg.

[@honghoang1801]

why make an iceberg of an iceberg tho

[@emilyspearman4519]

the ddl hydrants were animated long before they did the dancing street decors with the other hydrants in playgrounds and the recycle bins - the ones in ddl were "sleeping".

[@chuckleberry2142]

Ah man, Toontown was my life back in the day. This was a nice trip down memory lane.

[@thetwistedsamurai]

Seeing footage of Random Toon Show almost made me cry, man.

[@wingeddiscordant1398]

Maaann tell me about it. he was a great one.

[@thetwistedsamurai]

@@wingeddiscordant1398 I miss him a lot.

[@ClownieFace]

I love this game a lot! I'm excited to see it covered! Nowadays Toontown Rewritten has no aspect of business! I play it almost every day, and it's brought me a lot of serotonin. It's a great way to burn some hours. With the lack of the "pay to play" Aspect, its message about fighting big business and stuff. Also Skelecogs are terrifying

[@graysongdl]

The 2.0 double death thing, if I had to guess, was actually referring how you could do so much damage to a 2.0 cog that it wouldn't leave behind a skelecog. I think I remember them even doing the exploding animation again but invisible. With Toontown 2, I thought the actual reason for its cancellation was Disney not trusting the Unity engine, or something...? Am I right about that?

[@wingeddiscordant1398]

Disney is Disney its probably a lot less likely that they didn't trust Unity, as Unity really is an amazing game creating engine, but that Toontown was entirely built on an old software called Panda3D, which by the time of Toontown closing was already way past its prime and the amount of time it would take for Disney to have their game makers sit down and redesign the game in a brand new engine to withstand the test of time likely wasn't going to be cost efficient. i hope that makes sense?

[@MusicalMeloetta]

As someone who was in modern day clan toontown: it was nice. no roleplaying tho, clans were just groups of ppl belonging to a group

[@alexa-fx2fb]

So a cult

[@MusicalMeloetta]

@@alexa-fx2fb yes. Very much a cult. There was a lot of overthrowing though or well a lot of drama

[@alexa-fx2fb]

@@MusicalMeloetta I hated the chip n dales clans because I found chip n dales very relaxing so I would go there but then get ran over by clans

[@MusicalMeloetta]

@@alexa-fx2fb Oh those were warrior clans. Those don't really exist anymore

[@nataleealdrich5789]

You and I know about the clans wayyyy too well lol

[@dantesdiscoinfernolol]

*Video starts* *Oswald's theme starts playing* _Ah, I see you are a person of culture as well._

[@luisdiegohernandez2326]

Do you know the other music he used in this video?

[@thunderzizi]

the "negative emotional aura" was a reference to the original mario 64 iceberg surprised they didn't throw in a "DO NOT RESEARCH" or something apparition, those are iceberg classics. i guess op just wanted to use something with a little truth to it (in that the lack of music can feel kinda. off)

[@abonne3154]

Toontown player since 2004 here. Loonyville was the OG Nutty River for a while back in the day. Districts were represented by their actual player count instead of lights, and had no restrictions for entry as far as I remember. Loonyville would frequently have the most players, usually over 1000 toons at a time! Sometime after CBHQ came out, that popular district changed a few times, and eventually settled into Nutty River around 2005. Also, it wasn't uncommon to stumble upon toons bugged in the T-pose stance pretty much anywhere. Back then, we called it The Scarecrow, and the game was so buggy you could stroll down Sleet Street and find some cream mouse asserting her dominance over the whole block!

[@PlatinumWoW]

Great video. It’s awesome to see there is still passion for this game even to this day!

[@polar-star64]

The way you say "Estate" as "E-State" like eSports brothers me to no end

[@Alyrulz421]

I remember my least favorite part of Toontown was running into Greeners. Basically toons whose whole drive behind playing anything was to troll others and make them lose all their laff and gags (health and ammo). They'd join buildings, random street fights, hell even the biggest boss battles you could get into, all just to wait until the perfect moment to simply walk away from their computer and go afk until everyone but them lost. They wouldn't attack, they'd take up space, they'd only heal themselves or whatever buddy they had (they usually traveled in duos). Just the most toxic thing I've ever encountered in an online game. Most if not all of them would only respond to your pleads for them to stop their sabotage by taunting you and making fun of you for trusting them :( the most common one was 135 toons who would trick smaller ones into large buildings just to let them die alone on the final floor.

[@NotSoEpick]

25:54 this actually refers to how when the game first released, the old beta ddl fire hydrant was animated, which at the time was unique

[@AnthonyRanieri]

Ah okay. I was a little confused on what they meant.

[@sadplatinum7552]

i remember back when my friend and i were like 6 or 7, my friend ended up in a coach zucchini video because he tried to tackle the lawbot dungeons (dont remember the name). somehow he ended up in the same elevator as coach z, and naturally due to his young age, sucked. unfortunately he ended up in a "how not to" video and i remember him being upset that coach z was just ripping him a new one the whole time. wouldve been 13-14 years ago now, crazy how time flies.

[@ooooo000ooooo]

I was pretty young when I only played TTO as a non-member so I didn’t know most of these... That said, a possible location that would’ve been called “Funny Farms” sounds sinister to me tbh

[@jcast1749]

The Hills is probably referring to the hills above Goofy Speedway on the Toontown Online map. It's now covered by that stupid cloud.

[@flamingho233]

I remember being on the original and wanting to type to strangers so we would spell out the true friend codes with posters and furniture at the states haha. Also, Nutty River was always great for finding cog invasions.

[@nordinreecendo512]

I remember when I was a kid I went to Disney World and asked one of the people in costume in the ToonTown area if they had met Master Oscar Electromonkey, who was my ToonTown character. I thought it was the real ToonTown as a kid. Good times...

[@mineturte]

I believe the hills was rumored to hold all the toons estates or something of the like. Both areas have very similar atmospheric elements so something like this doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.

[@donutkidpastry7895]

The way you gradually descended and the choice of music genuinely makes this feel like a documentary on a horror topic by the second half of the video and I love it

[@theturtlearchives]

You can still play this game, pretty busy too! It’s called Corporate Clash and it has all the original features and many more have been added! It’s great 👍🏻

[@AyStar]

Glitched entrances to Cog Buildings were still present in TTR when I revisited the game in 2018; I was perplexed by it when I encountered a couple on stream and opted to try venturing out into the void, which was kinda dumb because it only kept going and you could easily get lost if you didn't remember where you came from once the map was out of view. Great video btw, incredibly informative and helpful to those wanting to get the tl;dr on the lore behind the game. Always a blast to revisit my childhood MMO and learn more about what I grew up playing. Thanks for making this! :)

[@randomchicken01]

The T posing glitch wasn't as in-depth as you're describing, it was just sometimes when you were on the trolley you would enter the grey void for a brief window and T pose, then be sent into the trolley game as normal.

[@Calzaroque]

As someone who played from 2004?-2009, Nutty River was popular because in Donald's Dreamland people in the center of the bed would just spam gift Unite! powers to everyone. (Toon-up, Gag Refills, Jellybeans, etc.)

[@hugeharv]

I hope this video gains traction, you put a lot of effort into your videos and it shows. Keep up the good work man!

[@AnthonyRanieri]

It’s a 18k views now. It definitely did get that haha.

[@spacejay89]

Love the video. I had been playing toontown on and off since 2005 and you just taught me so much stuff I would’ve loved to known back then. I still play rewritten but TTO will always be remembered!

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

ToonTown Online was my second home, I would play it everyday for hours after school and homework were done. My family knew how much I loved it, and it’s where I made my first best friend ever, her name was Dialga (Dial for short), and we made friends just because of her name. Soon we started to create stories and roleplay with our toons, my Toon’s name was shortened to Scooter (full name was Silly Scooter Electrospeed) and to this day I still remember the stories and I still draw Scooter. I haven’t seen Dial for many, many years. Since before TT shut down, and it’s hard for me to play TTR or any other servers because it honestly pains me to dive into such deep nostalgia without any close friend to share it with. I’m really glad TT is still alive with its community, I just wish that soon I’ll be able to fully play and enjoy it

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

Man, everyone talking about glitches and hackers makes me so happy. Those were a huge part of my TT experience, glitches especially. I would always be walking in the air in every playground just because it was hella fun

[@Moonlitwatersofaqua]

I can explain the toon valley stuff since I used to hang out there all the time when I was a teenager. Toon Valley was where people went to do game shows, fashion shows, get rides to nutty river, form clans, and do the infamous dating shows. I once got 5 boyfriends in one day from those. It was a place where everyone could socialize. It was full of kids so It could be kind of a toxic place. I assume thats why Toontown rewritten removed its successor Vibrant Valley. I was a warrior cat fan so I participated in many clans. Clans are a concept from the Warrior Cats book series about large groups of cats that live in clans. Toontown had cat characters so people would use Toontown to roleplay warrior cats in chip and dale acres. Emerging from that was stuff like Lizard clan and Leaf clan where every toon had the same look. Lizard clan was where everyone was a pink dog with a lizard name and leafclan was where everyone was a green cat with a leaf name. there were more but those were the most well known. The clans could get controversial since not everyone knew what Warrior Cats was and people who didn't have cat toons got upset when they weren't included. funfact about that is that chip and dale acres was really easy to glitch into the background of. you just needed a friend to face the fence, you teleport to them and you were out. I spent a ton of time in the waterfall. Anti clan was just a bunch of toons who were against hackers like freckleslam. I joined in the early days.

[@wingeddiscordant1398]

I know full well you did not just list a whole paragraph and end it with you casually shrugging and saying you were part of anti clan i cant LLLMMAAOOO you were really out here just living your best life.

[@Moonlitwatersofaqua]

​@@wingeddiscordant1398 There is too much toontown knowledge that lives rent free in my head lmao. This was my life in middle school.

[@BenandBrit]

Mouse gang

[@parallelogram508]

the cabins were changed due to the name length of toons making the roof clip the names, the houses we have today werent supposed to be final but they never got around to changing it interesting, eh?

[@jubjubbly9793]

I believe the backstage column is in reference to a part of the Toon Times or other newsletters where they would show early assets of Toontown Online. This is where we saw the cog limb factories and other features. The negative emotional aura is likely a reference to the popular Mario 64 iceberg, specifically Wet Dry World, which was cited with creating unease in players. Though I always felt odd in the estates...

[@happycakess]

Everyone wanted to do bldgs in toontown central because non members couldnt leave TTC so it was their only opportunity to do a bldg

[@Crackproof]

2:19 The ttc buildings were popular cuz its the only buildings non members could do so they all tried to see what their like

[@iloilee]

Things to note: Taxi toons I believe were parked toons in nutty river that let you teleport to them. Because of Freckleslam, Disney eventually stopped letting you name toons that. You had to settle with Freckles. In around April 2011 (I think) hackers parked t posing toons by the hundred in playgrounds. Some were placed in the shapes of stars and stuff. They eventually made every single district full, and Disney had to reset them. Ttc buildings were so popular because people who didn’t have memberships could do them. The 2009 or 2010 toon named [F You] (except no brackets and the entire words). This was really fun to experience because people were mass teleporting to him so their toons could say “Hi, F You” looooool Things weren’t listed: Coach Z’s Evil Twin! He wasn’t on there? The moon at the bottom of the world More of the glitches and bugs would’ve been fun to discuss. On the day of toontown closing, the servers went down several hours earlier than they were supposed to. Only toons who were already login in were able to play for the last few hours :( Pushing sleeping toons into cog fights and buildings

[@The-God-Hands]

I used to play this game 24/7 and completely forgot about it, Imma download it rn

[@Synthanx]

I remember playing Toon Tag in Epcot when i was like 4, so it is refreshing to see it in this video

[@chompinator]

This was such an awesome video and such a nostalgic look back at the past.... as someone who was pretty involved in a toontown clan heres somemore details on them: - Clans would usually advertise in toon valley ttc, you would just message the person with what you wanted ur name to be and then you would make that toon and friend whoever was advertising. Your toon had to be the same color/species as everyone else, most clans were dogs or cats bc those were like. the most appealing to kids i guess - we basically just like, trained and did various Toontown Stuff together and also made some youtube videos and did these awards ceremonies sometimes. Sometimes we did roleplays but majority of the stuff the clan I was in did was just like, regular friend activities. but we all had the same color/species - Once toontown closed we moved on to other games like minecraft n stuff bc at that point we were just an online friend group? - People usually just called each other whatever their "unique" name is (e.g. whatevers in their name that isnt just the clan suffix/prefix). - a lotof the time clans would use skype or Xat Chat to communicate (literally nobody ive ever talked to has remembered xat chat. it was an online messaging service a little bit like antiquated discord but no voice chat. there were some special features like games and drawing together and if you spent money you could make your name GLOW and put little gifs in ur name and use a special icon.) - Sometimes different clans would come together for events, i remember there was a big like "prom/dance/ball" event at the end of the game with a bunch of diff clans. -- people would sometimes be a part of multiple but i literally could not be dedicated to more than one. - sometimes clans would go to war (pretend). - And of course there were also warrior cat roleplay clans. they would usually hang out in acorn acresbc it was the most like a warrior cats location with lots of trees and water and stuff. Misc info: - if you went to donald's dreamland in nutty river (i think? it was nutty river?) A lotof people would sit there and give out free jellybeans (Reward for beating the CEO let you do this sometimes) - There were lots and lots of stereotypes about which gag you didnt choose. i remember people very specifically didnt like toon-upless or soundless

[@theevilvoices4296]

Finally someone makes a toontown ice berg explained video

[@cryptidx6088]

the "negative vibes at estate" point is probably just a nod to the original SM64 iceberg. it lowkey is kinda sad and empty there though, so quiet

[@billyfromflorida]

The bomb threats for maverick were actually Coach Z’s Evil Twin and thats why he disappeared from the community for a bit in 2015-2017ish

[@mastermindgaming5803]

Now with Toontown Rewritten having "time traveled" so to speak to fix the tooniverse, I like to believe that the very first picture in the Toontown Alpha was canonically the last three toons holding out in the center of Toontown as all cogs and cog buildings surround their final stand. (Perhaps a what happened to the Toontown Online universe when it shut down in the real world, saying the toons failed? Idk I think it's a cool idea).

[@dumbodog458]

I remember playing Toon Tag way back when. I have a picture of myself on the blue console somewhere.

[@toonterraminegamer1234]

I saw the layers for this video and I gotta say I am beyond impressed. I would never be able to handle so many pieces of such a project and would just lose my mind trying to keep everything organized, especially the length of the video. It would make me more stressed than anything to try to do something like this. You have done a great job and this is a very amusing video, one of the best. This video deserves a lot of recognition.

[@o-tuathail]

omg this is just, seeing all the old stuff is just pure nostalgia, I actually shed a tear

[@totallyvp]

This guy deserves more subscribers. He puts so much work into these long videos.

[@Electroburger]

Easily your best video to date! Much enjoyed

[@universaviee]

LOOVEEEE TT content. Avid toontown rewritten player. I have such fond memories as a kid in the mid-2000s playing toontown. I remember for my 8th or 9th birthday, my mom bought me a year subscription and i was sooooo happy and in love. Got the monthly letters with trading cards, and it was just so much fun. Im 25 now and its still so much fun. I honestly love it even more now as an adult, with it not being Disney owned anymore since everything is free, no subscriptions required. I hated that aspect that they basically forced you to get a membership because you could only do so much and get so far without one :(

[@daniexists6]

So..... I can explain parts of this... and mostly the parks I've genuinely experienced and I don't think have been covered elsewhere. The Melodyland carousel is pretty easily explained off. It originally had usages other than what it has in beta, with the earliest release of Online having Melodyland's Toon HQ in the center before being ripped out entirely when Fishing was first implemented in the form we know and agonize catching a Devil Ray in today. Lowercase names became an issue due to people spelling copyrighted names using lowercase letters to get around it. Think about out SiIvagunner is actually spelled with two is and not IL. While you had mentioned Mickey's Toontown and Roger Rabbit as basis for the world, they also gave a lot of credit to Carl Barks' Scrooge McDuck comics (hence the flash opening) and the Looney Tunes as basis, which the former is why Ducktales 2017 referenced Toontown. The animated fire hydrants in Dreamland predated the Silly Meter bringing sentience to.... well, everything, even going as far back as the original release in 2003. Normal Taxi toons (as opposed to the meet here ones) were users taking people from one server to the next, usually because Nutty River/Summit were always full. The VP tasks were awful, and hard to do. Yep. Flippy really DID look like that. And he only got an expanded office when they needed a place for the silly meter. Toon Tag was pretty much how you described it, but there were some differences. Apart from what you said, it was also a four player experience, with each player picking Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy. Buildings were there, but the Jolly Trolley (reused in Toontown Online and based on Mickey's Toontown) was used as a way to go in a circle to briefly get away from the person who was it. The caller would be a cast member who would start up a randomizer to pick who would be it first. Everything else was pretty much the Maze game in Toontown proper. While I cannot specifically say if Toon the tabletop RPG was a basis, I can say that one of its co-creators, Warren Spector, ended up making Epic Mickey. In terms of unexplained events, while I cannot say it was in game specifically, some of the first member mailers had purposeful typos (allegedly) because the Name Droppers got into the Toontown Post Office, which first sent you a letter from Flippy thanking you for joining the game and some posters and stickers, including a chart of the cog species before you started getting the rest of the mailers.

[@cookiegal7340]

I never got the pleasure of playing Toon Town as a kid, mostly because I never new of it or recall any commercials of it, so I missed out. But this over all was a really interesting video and makes me wish I did get to play it

[@thisismyprivateaccount6546]

Toontown Rewritten is a free to play clone of the game that’s still online today ❤

[@vabunajonsville4251]

try toontown rewritten!

[@mybeaniebooz9601]

Same 💔 im playing it now as an adult because it seems like somwthing i would like when i was younger

[@irishfusion423]

this was a great, well put-together video that kept me interested the whole way through. never watched any of your videos and stumbled upon this, well done.

[@ToontownAndCpenguin]

Loved this video, I have a lot to say so long comment incoming BUT I can fill in some gaps. I started playing Toontown in 2003 so I do have a little bit of useful knowledge that you weren't able to go too in depth on given I lived it. Part of why I love this video so much is it was like hearing something I was apart of being talked about in a sense one would talk about urban legends or stuff lost to time, kinda a shame some of it has been forgotten but I'm always happy to talk about the history of the first MMO I played & still play today. It might seem a little over the place since I had to watch the video slowly & forgot parts, I apologize for that. When I started playing Toontown back in 2003, playing for free wasn't much of a thing, that's when the free three day trials were in. You had three days to play & then you'd have to pay to go forward. I'm unsure exactly how it was within the time I started due to using my parents' email address but whenever the three days were up, I'd just make a new account & if I recall correctly, I was able to use the same email so I assume maybe previous account information was erased by doing that? I don't entirely know but it came to a point when I'd press the play now button, all it did was refresh the page, my friend who did the same thing as me got the exact same problem so I don't know if we were blocked from playing or what was going on there. When I finally was able to get on again, it was clicking on a link to Toontown through Toon Disney's website & I was only able to do the free three day trial once before they made me sign up for a membership which my parents got me as a present for Valentine's Day in 2004. With a free three day trial, you could do everything a member could do, correct, just that was pretty early in Toontown's life. As for VP toontasks, I actually think this was before my time in the game. See, since I became a member in early 2004 & didn't even finish DDL until like around a year later, I think they were taken out by that point. The VP was extremely difficult in the earlier days like it was so unlikely to defeat him, I think I was in the 80's or 90's in laff my first time defeating him. Whenever you lost against the VP, you'd lose disguise parts so you were forced to do factories again to re-obtain them & factories were also hard back then. I can imagine people struggled so hard with VP tasks. The first uber, I don't recall seeing them in the early days given the one boss ubers can fight is the VP & that was a struggle back in the day. First time I remember running into an uber is when I was in TTC fishing, this toon with maxed throw, squirt, sound, & lure came by & I admired her gags, commented on them & that it's remarkable she has them at 34 laff. She talked about how she accomplished her goal & so on then trained with me to help this toon I was on get fruit pie. I would make new toons often, I actually had 4 memberships. This must of been around 2008-ish so kind of going into the later years of the game. I made my first uber in 2009 I think it was, I could be off but I documented her journey so I can figure out the exact year if I wanted to. The cog buildings you can't enter, it's a weird glitch but they're not actually cog buildings. I mentioned I had 4 accounts, I often times would play TT on both the desktop & a laptop on two different accounts at the same time. Sometimes I'd see the cog building that gave me access out of bounds on one but it'd be a normal toon building on the other. Don't know why the glitch happens but I know that much about it. Nutty River, I remember the times before that was the crowded district. It use to jump around but it was consistently River around the time when TT made the switch to not show how many toons exactly were in districts & would block off the crowded ones. You use to be able to go into full districts since there was no limit but it caused severe lag & constant issues with getting stuck in cog buildings & since chat didn't exist at the time, people would spam the "I'm stuck" phrase under stinky for some reason, TTR moved it to a place it makes more sense. You couldn't tell them to alt F4 so I felt bad about leaving them but hey, it's the price of being in the crowded district. It was Toon Valley in 2004 when I started playing but it ended up being in Kookyboro at one point & Toon Valley was dead for a long time. I think speedchat plus really helped liven the Toon Valley scene since people could advertise their games, clans, & taxi services there. Speaking of taxis, this is something I know about given I took a few taxis into River. Taxis are often times friends with parker toons which was super easy to have one using Keep Alive which was a program that prevented your toon from falling asleep so in my case, I did have Keep Alive on my laptop & yeah, I'd park a parker in River, I had one named N.R. Bunny for a while but deleted her. If you needed a ride, just add a taxi toon to your friends list, they teleport to a parker in River, then they delete you from their list & go back to Toon Valley to look for more people to give rides to. When I stopped using a parker, this was a valid way for me to get in. Freckleslam, ooooh boy, the day that mouse hacked, UGH! So there is an infamous hack this guy did that sparked so many rumors & stuff. One day in Toontown, the servers were wonky, constantly having to close down which sucked because I had some VP/factory marathons planned to do with my Toontown gaming group. We went onto Club Penguin for a bit & I was helping a friend in the group earn their black belt. Four people in the group who needed merits decided to do a factory once the game opened back up & we were going to join them for a VP once they finished. Thing is, there was a moment when I heard them screaming. The majority of them were tweens with a few teens, I was probably 18-ish at the time, potentially a year younger. So yeah, I was irritated with the screaming & asked them what was going on, game out in rapid gibberish but eventually one of them informed us that a mouse appeared on their screens stating "this is my world & you're not welcome." Then they all got booted at the same time. Still don't know the purpose behind the hack or the role Jeepermash played into all this since they were struggling to relay the information but apparently a blue monkey named Jeepermash was also a hacker, he was chilling in TTC with a huge crowd around him after the servers came back up. I joined the crowd to get some answers but I couldn't. They did send a screenshot of when Freckleslam hacked, I no longer have it saved but I do wonder if I sign into my old Skype account & scroll deep into chat for the group if I'd find it. On the topic of hacking, oh boy, Anti Clan, hits a sore spot with me given I accidentally helped give them some power but ultimately, they had none. I was dumb & naive, was scared by the words spread by the gospel cat Graffiti who was a nobody when it comes to the Anti Clan, he just wanted attention. I posted a video on it forever ago, please do not check it out, only reason I keep it up is for preservation of Toontown history, Fireball Thundernugget who was one of the leaders found the video & we threw witty banter at each other in the comments section. I think comments on my videos are turned off now so that sucks but he said something along the lines of "I'm coming from Hell in order to shut down clans!" I then asked him if he remembered to pick up milk & his response was, "yeah BUT IT'S SPOILED!" From then on, whenever I ran into him in game, I whispered "spoiled milk" to him & he knew who I was right away so we'd just sling banter at each other in game, keeping within the limits of course & there'd always be a crowd around, gawking at us. Anti Clan were all bark & no bite, the true power they held was the fear people had of them hacking their accounts since they had a clan toon on them so many people I knew deleted their clan toons which did give them a win. Whole thing sucked, I saw clans topple over due to it. There's so much more I want to say but will stop here since it's probably too long. I have so many years of Toontown experience & still have access to some old screenshots. If you want access to some, let me know & I can send them your way. I was 11 when I started playing, I'm 29 now so I was old enough to where I can retain a lot of memories of the game. I even remember that old reeling system the game had making catching fish a pain in the neck. Which actually, I remember entering in Billy Bud's Fishing Tournament, don't think I ever won anything from it but when they held a toontask contest within the later years of the game, I won a cool shirt in game. Just ask any questions you might have, I might have answers but it does vary, there's things I did miss unfortunately such as Sellbot HQ first opening, it was closed during the 3 day free trial days I did in 2003 but open when I got my membership in February 2004. I also have limited memory on the toontasks available in the Brrrgh & DDL before LBHQ & CBHQ opened but I know there were some different tasks & it got changed after the cog HQs opened like you use to go to PJ's Taxi Service to get TP access to DDL.

[@VenomSnakeMGS]

Great comment. Thanks for sharing :)

[@amberisrad]

ty for sharing i read the whole thing!!

[@SweetTop7s]

This was fun to read, thank you for sharing this!

[@pizzatime3752]

That's awesome! I think I started playing Toontown in 2009/2010 all the way to 2013 when it closed down. I was only 9ish at the time of it closing though, so I can't really remember much. The memories that I do have though are incredibly vivid! I remember being a 110 laff toon named Juliet who was a cream-colored rabbit. I had a purple doodle named Juliet and had a friend named Nutty who I would always play with. They would help me with my toontasks and we would fight the VP, whatever the Cashbot boss is (haven't reached it yet on my new TTR toon), and we would always do Field Offices! I never survived the field offices though because I was a dumb kid who didn't know how to organoze and level up gags correctly, haha! Plus, the bossfights were mega-hard and it was normally just Nutty and me. I really miss that account and the og TTO... I cried my eyes out and was so depressed after it closed, haha! I joined Rewritten in 2019 and have been playing the mess out of it since, albeit a lot of my time is spent paying forward the kindness that Nutty showed me and hanging out and helping lower-laff toons, most of which aren't able to have chat. I absolutely love the game's concept and community. I really believe it shaped me into who I am today and helped me so much with my past trauma. That being said, Sellbot Field Offices were released recently. I haven't played them yet since I'm at 90 laff and only have a sellbot suit, but something about them seems different as far as where they're placed and how they start. Can someone refresh my mind on how they used to work in the original game and how boarding groups/finding a F.O worked?

[@ToontownAndCpenguin]

@@pizzatime3752 The way the original field offices worked were that they could be taken over at buildings on the street like cog buildings & the only floors were the first one with the Mover & Shaker puzzle where you needed to take out the Mover & Shakers to unlock the elevator on the other side as well as the little cogs & collect jokes. You'd then go up to fight the cogs & free the shopkeeper who then granted you a mini SOS card which was small beans but since my main was soundless, I loved collecting the mini sound SOS cards. Today, they're wildly different. I'm sure you can find some videos taken of original field offices so you can compare them to the new ones. There are similarities but they're so much more different & difficult too. I went in on a toon with like 126 laff & went sad.

[@CloverLovesTT]

dammit dude. i refused to play any of the post-shutdown clones for fear it “wouldn’t be the same” but this really makes me wanna play rewritten now.

[@kittilivia2869]

There used to be Toons in Toontown Online which had all lowercase names, never knew how they got them!

[@yena337]

this was really good! i havent played any toontown fanservers in a year but this made me want to go back! subscribed!

[@OfficialFroge]

I used to work for Cogs and Gags, haven't heard much and same with sugar rush. It's kinda just been really quiet. Edit: I believe taxi toons were from TTO those bots that teleported you places. Edit 2: that's the other thing you mentioned about teleporting to bots. I guess taxi toons you'd use keep alive and have toons sit places idk.

[@I5II]

I'm sure some people remember this one too - one of my favorite things to do on TTO was the wardrobe glitch. I (a male toon) would go into my friends wardrobe (a female toon) and put on her clothes and got to keep them on for the session - so I could run around as a male toon with a skirt. I loved glitches back in TTO! I also always found it fun going behind the clerks in the gag shop and going out of bounds for that. In houses, behind cog buildings, inside toon hq, behind cog hq too (to name a few, there were soooo many) - oob spots were almost always interesting / fun.

[@DrewDoesThings]

2:20 - I know why TTC buildings were always crowded, bc back when Toontown Online was still around, I NEVER had a paid membership, and thus could only do buildings in TTC. I'm sure there were many other people like me, free-to-play toons, usually kids, who couldn't go to any other streets and rarely got the opportunity to do a building, so we would all crowd around the rare building for the opportunity to experience something new. 9:52 - Taxi toons are toons, either friends or an alt account that gets added as a friend, who "park" in certain places that would be useful to be able to quickly access. Because you're friends with the taxi, at any time you can use the "Go To" option in the friends list to instantly teleport to that place. They are very useful in tasks where you have to come and go to the same place many times, for example.

[@ciatana1267]

awesome video!!! so cool to see such in depth toontown content nowadays :] keep up the great work!

[@devonjohnson8536]

Amazing video! I don't even want to think about how long this took to put together, maybe you can use it as a college assignment in the future. It is sad to think about the endless potential Toontown had and honestly still has. Disney is sitting on a goldmine, they could release movies or TV shows based around Toontown along with a new game and I can guarantee it would be very successful.

[@amberisrad]

it makes me sad thinking about toontown's potential, it had such an amazing concept going for it!

[@Concludedgaming]

A lot of districts were used as “adoption centers” for other toons. Not kidding

[@masterseal0418]

The composer for this game-and I’m not joking here, also made the soundtrack for Metal Gear Rising! So anyone wants Platinum Games co develop a Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days sequel anyone?

[@siqxyre8473]

44:55 "im not even sure where this takes place considering the buildings in the background" *immediately cuts to modern footage with buildings in the background*

[@TuxerTuxar]

It was From TTOFF, They don't have it anymore as now they're TTRealms

[@TuxerTuxar]

It was From TTOFF, They don't have it anymore as now they're TTRealms

[@AnthonyRanieri]

Yep that was an older area created by Toontown Offline called “The Toontown Outskirts” which attempted to recreate that area in that old image.

[@sagacious03]

Excellent video! Love stuff that goes deep into things & provides a ton of information, so huge icebergs like this are a lot of fun for me! Thanks so much for uploading!

[@darryberrymemes5739]

From what I remember was everyone wanted to go to nutty river because there was always cog invasion. Which doubled your merits and stuff

[@VenetinOfficial]

One thing I wanted to add to this iceberg, which i was surprised it WASNT on here at all, was Toontown Spoofer projects/content packs like Nightlife (easily the most popular one). Toontown Nightlife was one of very few Toontown Spoofer projects that aimed to replace textures and music to change how the game felt. I always wanted to play with Nightlife as a kid, but my parents were adamant on not letting me modify the game. It's perhaps one of the oldest forms of modding TTO in existence, and required a specialized program to achieve a successful mod. It's easier to install than it used to be, from what I gather, and still works.

[@AnthonyRanieri]

Looking back on this video, there’s a ton of topics I found out about that didn’t make this which I’m surprised never did. I did talk about the Toontown Spoofer in a video I did talking about textures packs with the game and it was a strange thing for its time, but an interesting relic with Toontown. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to go more in depth with some other things with Toontown Online I never did here.

[@captintom]

YES!! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS

[@ResonantTonalityMusic]

Nutty River as far as I remember was the key place that consisten bean fests were held in DDL with frequent CFO runs and bean unites being thrown away for players who were trying to max or gather unites for larger battles. It was TTO's universal basic income.