Toontown Online Developers Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Toontown Online developers Jesse Schell and Shawn Patton take on the internet's most searched questions about Toontown -- inspired by the WIRED Autocomplete Interviews.
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[@Scootakip]

Jesse just seems like a genuinely cool guy. He's still talking about his MMO from over 15 years ago simply because the fans care about it

[@strongpointstudios1119]

Scootakip he has said he wants to bring the game back through disney but there isn't enough finances to do it

[@JessRainbow4]

StrongPoint Studios the game is back

[@strongpointstudios1119]

Jessica Ragland I mean the official game through Disney not fan remakes

[@emilychristine7059]

That and I think he cares about it a lot too. He seems to genuinely love toontown and also seems very happy the game is still being kept alive.

[@Mr.Glaube]

He probably is a very good guy.

[@Lily12230]

Who else just wanted to just stick their heads magically through the screen and exclaim, "SOUND. YOU'RE THINKING OF SOUND. YOU ARE THINKING OF AN ACTUAL TRACK! SOOOOUND!"

[@jdfkalfd]

LOL I did so bad

[@Faeryness]

Could of been dropping the piano too

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

@@calebdonaldson8770 this isn’t a documentary, it’s Answering the internet’s questions, Jesse Schell definitely knows about the game

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

@@calebdonaldson8770 an elephant trunk is not a music instrument, nor a foghorn lol

[@toonirl6675]

The word I believe you’re looking for, Sean, is Sound

[@ToontownTV]

Not even Jesse or Joey knew what he was talking about. Turns out Shawn had a real gag track in mind all along!

[@dallaswalker340]

Toontown Rewritten well... only two of the Sound gags are really musical (bugle and opera singer)... the rest are kind of just noisy lol

[@dallaswalker340]

Bike horn, whistle, bugle, aoogah, elephant trunk, fog horn, and opera singer

[@mujiescomedy279]

IDK Animations sound... instruments? ;) joking

[@_Smirky]

This was great! Really great to see them actively engaged with the community. So... was that new music I heard? Could that potentially make its way into the game? I'm also super excited to see them at ToonFest on Thursday evening! It's going to be great!

[@brandonzwtf400]

agreed

[@mujiescomedy279]

Smirky yup. It's the new music from the new musical instruments gag track ;)

[@lilwilly5265]

QUACK MY SACK AND BRING FREE TRIALS BACK

[@prestostorm2876]

but I hope they don't replace too much otherwise it will remove the nostalgia

[@Rivalloni]

I love throwing musical instruments at cogs!

[@WakoDoodle]

"Sounds good to me" :D

[@SuperStarSparklesprinkles]

I've been laughing for the past 5 minutes of an image of a cold caller getting hit by a saxophone. XD

[@selenap5353]

*Throws trumpet at Name Dropper*

[@wwmeloy]

I like how nobody realized he meant sound… smh

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

@@wwmeloy I did

[@mujiescomedy279]

"Where is toontown?" "Who is toontown?" "Better question: why is toontown?"

[@501sttrooperbmc2]

Mujtaba Walji lol infinity war reference.

[@themastergamingplayz7527]

How is toontown?

[@DomusC]

@@themastergamingplayz7527 yes everybody be asking why, nobody be asking how is toontown :'(

[@Froggyman145]

No Sean, mayonnaise is not an instrument.

[@Acm240]

Horse radish isn't an instrument either.

[@ELijahKan10]

MAyo level 8 sound confirmed

[@ImaginationGamer25]

@@ELijahKan10 If they do that it would make, not only my day, it would make my life!

[@roseandlotus]

The answer to where is toontown is at Disneyland lol

[@501sttrooperbmc2]

They changed it in Disney world

[@Sinful_Survivor]

Whoa, Toontown is 20 years old now, wild to think about

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

Well Technically Toontown died at 10 years and Toontown Rewritten is now 10 too

[@silly2tilly]

*I G O T T H E O B O E*

[@masterchief00]

wjkdshfdjkg I DIED

[@CrazyBananas56]

Nerf musical instruments

[@mujiescomedy279]

"It's kind of like normal toontown... except it actually exists" 😂😂😂

[@CocaColaVanilla]

100 bucks says that next April fools day, the TTR team is going to rename sound to music

[@BruhMoment-df6wh]

100 bucks please

[@MailtoonDerpy]

You guys are so great, and I can tell you really care a lot about Toontown. I can't wait to see you both at Toonfest, it's going to be amazing.

[@masterchief00]

this was genuinely really funny i enjoyed it a lot I even felt a lil sad when it ended!!! I CANT WAIT FOR TOONFEST

[@bobsjobisfob]

that musical instruments joke is even funnier because he probably meant sound which probably is the most important gag track to have in the game

[@lovendor]

rip pixie hollow i spent an unholy amount of money on you

[@nayeonn1e]

nayeons & jeongyeons me too sis

[@piedfaceaj2378]

I didn't spend money on there but I miss it soooo much I spent all of my time on there

[@shonbaryosef6830]

Wow I remember this game when I was young kid. Its been years since i played it. Old good times man... for real.

[@JoelTheParrot]

Why was Club Penguin even popular, anyway? The only good thing it had was the PSA missions. Not even multiplayer.

[@JoelTheParrot]

Remind me that Toontown takes place in the imagination of children.

[@WakoDoodle]

CP was a social game over toontowns more action-like design. Both games did start out as social games but CP had an easier time to get into since there wasn't much needed to learn at the time and kids could chat to friends over it; which is probably why it was popular. Despite this, CP has gone downhill and the most recent "cashgrab" version has turned people away due to limiting what you can do with friends; ruining the whole point of why people played it. *Simple answer* : it was easier to get into and more simple to just chat. Toontown had more strategy, despite this I think toontown was better.

[@WatchPiggy]

maybe because CP didnt require a membership to do essential things

[@Kylohn]

WatchPiggy neither does cpi since this year

[@calebdonaldson8770]

I've played both, but Club Penguin is actually for kids and has much less to offer in terms of content than Toontown. Plus, Toontown has years of exploration and mastery, while Club Penguin has like a month's worth. Toontown gives you a magical feeling in your heart, and is one that I seriously cannot ever leave, so do many other adults. It is addicting and you'll never want it to end, in a good way. Can't tell you how many times Club Penguin was boring again in one day.

[@Nickeljinks]

10:27 "The answer is more clouds" MICKEY'S SKY CLAN CONFIRMED

[@livvykittycat]

I never got to play Toontown when I was younger and I gotta say, I've been missing out. Love all your work and dedication to this game.

[@Umbral64]

Livvy Kittycat you lost your childhood

[@livvykittycat]

Unfortunately not

[@piedfaceaj2378]

Same

[@mars-yv7oi]

I've wanted for the toontown online developers and just workers in general to make this video for a while.

[@WazzupTTR]

Sweet. I like seeing these types of videos. Not much that I learned but it was entertaining nonetheless.

[@JDaTopo]

10:20 The fact that he could’ve picked any instrument but he picked the oboe... YYYYEEEEESSSSS, You’re my new favorite person now. (If it wasn’t clear, I play oboe, and it’s pretty uncommon for someone to mention it in a general topic like this, let alone play it. (I’m not sure if he plays, I though so :P).)

[@ImGonnaFudgeThatFish]

need an "I got the oboe" soundbyte

[@salkhan123]

I wish there was a big youtuber or streamer that would play toontown rewritten. That could totally get a ton of new players!

[@maxderman447]

One of the only turn based mmo rpg's still alive today. Wish there were more games with this play style

[@northstarstatepolitics1652]

Atleast we have Toontown Rewritten!

[@meluvcheese22]

Honestly, can I just say thank you so much for adding subtitles! That was really considerate of you all!

[@cryptbot]

Is throw a musical instrument squidward?

[@definitelyisa5086]

Please keep the community up and going as you’ve all always had. I love toon town! Even as a kid or adult, everyone loves it!!!

[@Nevouti.x]

These guys had a big part of making my childhood so much fun with games and really glad to see these guys still making games!

[@BoomBang101]

I'm very glad you were able to make this.

[@coolbeandip]

Cool! I love these videos, and now one about Toontown?!?!

[@rainascarlette]

I literally cried when watching this, so many memories 😢, been playing for years (on and off but still playing) since I was 10, and now I'm almost 26 ;D I understand why Disney stop sponsoring toontown back then, mainly because there's a lot of money they spent than they gained from the game. Even myself cannot spend any money, despite how many times I beg from my mum on that time 😢 And it was around 2002-ish which online payment is not as accessible and common as nowadays. Kudos to developers 👍🏻💕 I hope toontown will be "online" back and I really can't wait to spend my money on them. 🙉🙈

[@ClintonomoBay]

Thank you guys so much for reviving the game just out of the love for it!

[@deiko3981]

Wow I loved this video, both of them seem like cool guys to be around.

[@slurpwis]

Thank you for all of your hard work!

[@BrianHalsteadToontownrewritten]

A safe environment for children and adult children (53) a great place to escape from this fallen world

[@Zozo-ke2dl]

I wish I could go to toonfest but I live in Scotland soooooo Much love to the Toontown developers from Scotland!! X

[@ToontownTV]

We hope to see you one day! Players from all over the world come to ToonFest: Even England, Brazil, Indonesia, and Israel! We've yet to see a true ScotsToon yet, though.

[@ItsJobbyTime]

Are the devs at TTR planning to make some graphical updates to toontown? Like change the 2d spinning trees to fully 3d modeled trees, or fix the flashing weird graphical issue caused by windows and signs on buildings. Stuff like that would be really nice to see in TTR.

[@ickyvicky2939]

Joshua Friedman many of these requests were delivered in toontown corporate clash

[@mugoloo]

Smoarthy which is why they’re the superior game.

[@alanduncan2001]

I believe they are planning to update the graphics, as they have talked about it in the blog and shown examples of their progress at a previous Toonfest. I think that the project is called Toontown retexured or something.

[@joaoninguem9499]

yea theyre planning, the project is called ''toontown retextured'' you can search for it on google, there a page on TTR wiki talking about this project, there is also a blog post on the official TTR website

[@MikeGamePro]

The problem with a texture overhaul would be it wouldn't feel like the base game, which is what I think TTR is aiming for. Corporate Clash did a good job with the textures and modeling but it caused it to shift away from the original Toontown feeling.

[@infernofrog1163]

U guys made my childhood... Thank you 🙏

[@GeForce1080]

Thumbs up as always. Keep on making great content

[@Walternity]

The whole video I was waiting for "who is the chairman" Darn.

[@deviousghost7258]

These seem like cool dude's to hang out with, good video

[@12369ja]

I want to know what Jesse Schell thinks of Corporate Clash

[@jonathanrood22]

12369ja I wouldn't be surprised if he said trouble and said it's trouble because ttr will die if they don't do anything

[@telmnamm7549]

Eh to say TTR will die is a bit dramatic. The two servers are so different they can easily coexist.

[@Coolkc456]

jonathan rood If TTR dies, then it dies. They died because they were doing nothing with the game. And honestly if they do die, I wouldn't be that surprised in the end. TTR isn't even that much of a feat. Polishing a game is one thing but to create and make new things for a game is something both TTO and TTR failed to do. I don't think of something like that as trouble. It's what games are SUPPOSED to do. If TTR dies, it's because they did the same things as Disney. They both stopped working on the game.

[@Kyle-fy1tb]

I'd love to see Disney turn around and offer the entire Toontown Rewritten team jobs and adopt the project

[@daisy-td9qs]

the devs are amazing omg

[@WhiteAerithAngel]

I think there should be a new gag track called "fly!" ='D Wouldn't that be awesome to work on ground to sky based aerial attacks!?

[@alexiskuwata]

Yes.

[@ahmedabdalla4022]

I was watching this with pain on my face thinking about my childhood.

[@litwithhaley6919]

Was I the only one who thought he was just trying to say sound. When he was talking about musical gag tracks

[@doggy20ful]

OMG! I LAUGHED AT YOUR ANSWERS WHEN YOU WERE PEELING OFF THE TAPE ON THE GOOGLE SEARCH BOARD... 😂😂😂

[@saltedsins]

Closure at last

[@scrapbookstudios9871]

"My favourite is drop" I knew I liked Jesse

[@bubfusion]

What did Shawn do? Was he more backend server stuff, because he doesn’t seem to know the actual content in the game.

[@ToontownTV]

Shawn worked on the Make-a-Toon, Match Minnie, and the Ring Game while interning at Walt Disney Imagineering. Later, at Schell Games, he was heavily involved with the creation of Toon Parties. He's a major fan of Toontown, his memory is just a bit rusty!

[@mujiescomedy279]

Toontown Rewritten agreed. It's been years. He can't remember everything

[@ImaginationGamer25]

@@mujiescomedy279 True, I was lucky to recall what my old toon even looked like let alone her name.

[@SchoolGNM]

I believe that the music in the background is Toontown ReTextured music.

[@decemberlova]

Love this!

[@Hyskaris]

This was edit like a meme and I appreciate it.

[@RTS-APERTURE]

The video we didn’t deserve but we needed.

[@WackoMcGoose]

"'toontown why are cats so popular'??? Have you SEEN the internet?" I mean, mood. And yes, Sound is the best gag track, to the point that Soundless players straight up will get kicked out of boss groups sometimes, and almost every single high-level strat assumes everyone in the group has max Sound. It got to the point that... another Toontown revival server, recently added a status effect _specifically_ to inflict diminishing returns on Sound Spam.

[@happyhedgehog249]

I love these guys

[@kristenmckenna1517]

musical instruments xD

[@lilytoonk8]

Oh man, I can't wait till musical instruments come out!!

[@niawilliamd5089]

OMG I FORGOT ABOUT PIXIE HOLLOW!!!!!!! Also, hurt that I'm finding out that Club Penguin lowkey bullied my other favorite games out of the arena lol

[@redymedy]

wtf did Club Penguin do

[@jellybeanmutt3228]

Do this again!

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

These guys are Legends :D

[@tigergray6227]

I love throwing pies at Cogs😍 It's so much fun

[@j.p.5081]

Well actually if you think about it, there are two locations of toontown, one being physical and one in a movie, the Physical one being Disneyland Resort in Anaheim California, and the movie one being on the outskirts of Hollywood California, of course I'm talking about Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[@ShadeTheBade]

You should add musical instruments as a secret 8th gag track

[@saltylemonton5537]

Rick role is clearly the lvl 7 music gag

[@icyplays9081]

If they make musical instruments a gag then I can’t wait to have a Mayonaise gag!!!

[@silverthefox5363]

Huh neat video TTR staff.

[@santiagocruzclavijo9261]

No hablo ingles pero porque lo serraron pero yo vi en wikipedia la pagina de toontown online y me aparecio que se puede istalar primero me aparecio que lo serraron pero coloque play now y me aparecio que se puede isntalar

[@MzAdditude998411]

pirates of the Caribbean and toontown was really my favorites games ever :( sadly they cancelled them to focus on a game that got cancelled not too long after.

[@pixelbit9276]

Q: Why are cats so popular A: It's called the Internet.

[@TheGreatBoiMan]

I love toontown

[@KBladeHero]

Here's a good one: When will ToonTown be defeated by the Cogs?

[@reginaldzaxbys2132]

wouldn't you like to know

[@jonathanrood22]

LegalEagleLawbot when Disney shut it down

[@jdfkalfd]

LegalEagleLawbot as soon as you took over the comment section

[@LittleLilac27]

Here’s the answer: *NEVER*

[@t4bbyz_]

In Nevah Day

[@mistakesnshakes]

i am so so happy to have the same quality o had as a kid years and years ago. it’s just brings back so many memories. Kids wouldn’t appreciate the old quality today, if they update the graphics, it kinda ruins the nostalgic effect of the game

[@alex_plays4.595]

Did youguys also make toon town corpetclash and whats the difrence between rewiten and corpret clash

[@cassiebeebe5539]

This video popped up on my homepage. I played original TT when I was a kid, and now I still play Rewritten. ^_^ the only thing that stops me from playing is the fact that it's impossible to do a lot of things by yourself, like factories and higher level cog stuff, and it's really difficult to find enough people to participate with you. There always seems to be people in Cashbot HQ for some reason, but the other HQs are usually super empty. So it bums me out to not be able to do the other factories. It's also annoying when you finally get to do a factory, and everyone you're with expects you to know exactly how it all works and gets mad at you when you don't know it all. Lol it's like dudes, chill, I've never been here before. I'd rather just be able to do everything by myself, so I can take my time and enjoy the game without people rushing me and getting annoyed whenever I linger at any given moment.

[@anthonyjordan6695]

Guys, Disney is already making a lot of money now, so I would really appreciate it if you guys brought back ToonTown Online. You have no idea how happy you would make millions of people around the world :)

[@brandonzwtf400]

Add that music you put in the video pls

[@Narutojaden]

Thank you brain I just remembered what I used to play it was like Newburry something!!!!!

[@peggyrichmond2076]

Toontown already has musical instruments, it's called sound. It has whistles, horns, and even an opera singer.

[@michaellastname2421]

Neither of those are technically musical instruments though. The only one that literally is a musical instrument is the bugle

[@DanielleS21]

Ok I know this is an old video but were they serious when they said we will find out what is under the cloud?? I know it’s Funny Farm but is that coming out on TTR ever?

[@valdemar642]

I want to go to toonfest but i live in denmark and usa is so far away and also it cost money to get over there :(

[@thebigboi7152]

Should I start playing toon town rewritten or toon town corporate clash?

[@dianakrodziniece1597]

Toontown can you fix this glitch? Everytime i go to my main toon i go to the battle and i cant do anything and after 20 seconds i get sent this : The server is temporarely unavailable still trying... help me

[@AnthonyRanieri]

I cannot wait for toonfest

[@ZackMuffinMan]

I remember Disney saying that they would keep everyone's data, so I always thought that someday it would come back. Still waiting...

[@cjsmith1402]

I need help getting the launcher to work! I’ve downloaded the launcher on both my laptop and my main computer. It plays just fine on my laptop, but every time I try to login on my main computer, it says “Looks like Toontown Rewritten has crashed, check your log file and report it for fixing!” I’ve tried reinstalling it, I’ve tried fiddling with the compatibility settings and nothing works! I contacted your support email and a person named Alex recommended to delete a “settings.json” file in my folder, but there was none in my folder. So now I’m back at square 1. I’m dying to play TTR on my main computer, because my laptop is kinda on the fritz, and really hope I can get this all sorted out soon!

[@mrmuffins951]

Where is toontown? Disneyland in California!

[@pablopenguin24]

If you reach Max laff you should be able to train the last gag track, but all xp requirements have an additional zero tacked on to the required xp

[@CALIADAM1]

Please do not delete rewritten

[@EverythingCassie]

this is brilliant im-

[@PeachIceCreamy]

Man I really wanted to know “is toontown rewritten legal”

[@darenneely1606]

Yes

[@ghostfromafandompast]

I wonder what are the developers' favorite Cogs?

[@Gerpar_]

I was hoping they would answer the quesion about the cloud more seriously, explaining what the initial ideas the team had for it. But they kinda just skipped over it. Edit: Or a lot of the questions they kinda skipped over, I'm a game dev myself and it's always interesting seeing into the minds of more experienced developers and how they think.

[@wwmeloy]

Seriously… like how it was funny farms and black and white. I don’t understand why they couldn’t take the 30 seconds it would have took them

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

Hahah music instruments, he meant sound and I have to agree there

[@taebear]

I will spend my entire life savings on toontown