Toontown is a fictional town where animated and cartoon characters, known as Toons, live.
In the movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the whole city of Toontown is cartoonish, except for anything originally foreign to the city such as people and objects from outside of Toontown. Not only does the city appear illustrated (drawn and painted) and animated, but the whole environment has an imaginary, colorful, almost dreamlike
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Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter...
-like atmosphere.
Toontown is a fictional town where animated and cartoon characters, known as Toons, live.
Description
In the movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the whole city of Toontown is cartoonish, except for anything originally foreign to the city such as people and objects from outside of Toontown. Not only does the city appear illustrated (drawn and painted) and animated, but the whole environment has an imaginary, colorful, almost dreamlike
Max FleischerMax Fleischer was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios...
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Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter...
-like atmosphere. Not only do cartoon characters live in Toontown, but even the buildings, cars, plants, and such are all animated with their own personalities, speech patterns, stylistic movement, and other anthropomorphic traits.
In the TV show
Bonkers, Toontown is the portal from the real world to another universe known to Toons as the “Tooniverse”.
In
The Twisted Tales of Felix the CatThe Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat is an animated series starring the classic animated character Felix the Cat, produced for television by Film Roman from September 9, 1995 to November 25, 1997, and broadcast on...
,
FelixFelix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters next to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck,...
and friends live in the same
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from the film.
Toontown is goodn.
Other uses
Toontown served as the setting for the television series
Bonkers,
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat and
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. Toontown has been reproduced in Disney theme parks as
Mickey's ToontownMickey's Toontown is one of the "themed lands" at the Disneyland park run by The Walt Disney Company. At Tokyo Disneyland, this area is named Toontown. A similar area at the Magic Kingdom is named Mickey's Toontown Fair. It also spun off an online role-playing game called Toontown Online, which...
.
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s featuring a Toontown-based appearance were used on
Toon DisneyToon Disney is a defunct 24-hour American cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company that aired mostly children's animated television series. A spin-off of Disney Channel, Toon Disney showed children's cartoons 24 hours a day ; its format had similarities to those of Cartoon Network...
from its start on April 15, 1998 through September 1, 2002. Cartoon Network also did a similar environment, except that are no anthropomorphic inanimate objects during the 2005-2006 season.
Disney's game
Toontown OnlineDisney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, the depth of the game's content has drawn in many older players as well...
, takes place in a cartoon world populated with classic Disney characters such Mickey Mouse and friends. The game, introduced in 2003, was said to bring the Roger Rabbit franchise online, though it did not include characters introduced in
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Wolf and Disney were engaged in a lawsuit over royalty payments at the time.
Residents of Toontown
With the exception of the characters who appear or were created specifically for the movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, all cartoon characters ever created (ranging from the 1900s to the 2000s) live in Toontown.
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serves as the official mayor of Toontown. It is unknown if any
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Characters live in Toontown.
See also
- Virtual Magic Kingdom
Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, also simply known as VMK, was a free massively multiplayer online game run by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online. It was a virtual representation of the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom theme parks, containing areas and minigames which were based on real park scenery...
- Toontown Online
Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, the depth of the game's content has drawn in many older players as well...
- Disney's MMORPG
- Toon (role-playing game)
Toon is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of cartoon characters.It is subtitled The Cartoon Roleplaying Game.Toon was designed by Greg Costikyan and developed by Warren Spector, and first published in 1984 by Steve Jackson Games.Although Toon is a genuine role-playing game...