June 2, 2003 - September 19, 2013
Toontown Online commonly known as Toontown, was a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on a cartoon animal world that was developed by Disney's Virtual Reality Studio and Schell Games, and published by The Walt Disney Company on June 2, 2003.
Players played as anthropomorphized animals, known as Toons, to explore a cartoon world, complete quests ("ToonTasks"), and engage in combat against the Cogs, robot businessmen who served as the game's antagonists. Players used weapons known as "Gags"—typically slapstick comedy items, such as a thrown cream pie—in combat.
Various servers hosting Toontown Online were shut down throughout the game's tenure; the primary U.S. servers and the game itself were ultimately closed on September 19, 2013. Various fan servers have since been created using most of the game's original assets, with the most popular being Toontown Rewritten, which was created less than a week after Toontown Online's closure.