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So since we visited OsTown and had mention of the physical Toontown, it's worth mentioning ToonTown Online, Disney's attempt to make a child-friendly MMO. It was created in 2003 and managed to survive up until 2013 before its US servers finally closed down; you could make toon characters of varying species and battle using various comical gags against the Cogs, rogue creations of Gyro Gearloose. Some of the more unique features of Toontown include: - that it was a turn-based RPG, in an MMO. And what's more, it was firmly cooperative; you needed to team up with other players to get much of anything done past a point, and it even had endgame raids to progress in as larger groups. - It initially only allowed players to communicate via Speedchat, a set of pre-defined phrases. Later it would allow True Friends to be set, allowing for free chat between them... except this was on a whitelist of words, which notably did not allow discussing one of the in-game gags. (It was a water pistol, and pistol was not on the whitelist.) - To encourage the cooperative element, there were seven categories (tracks) of gags, but any player could only ever learn six of them. What's more, the healing track Toon-Up only healed allies; your healthbar was called Laff, and you couldn't make yourself laugh very well, after all. An oddity as one of the few cooperative turn-based RPGs out there, Toontown Online was popular enough to be recreated by fans after its closure; the most well-known is Toontown Rewritten, which largely represents the game as it was (with minor tweaks like free chat being for all players). For those who want more quality of life changes and original content, I was recently recommended Toontown Corporate Clash.
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