Does anyone belong to ToonTown.com

[*KeepMovingForward*]

My daughter wants me to purchase a membership for her for toontown.com. I know its a Disney site, so I am not worried so much. But does anyone know exactly what it is? Is this like VMK or DisneyBlast?

 

[TruBlu]

It is the BEST GAME EVER! Our whole family is addicted! We pay for two accounts and play on both of our computers. DH and I have stayed up until the middle of the night playing after the kids went to bed.

If you decide to join, look for Pickletooth (that is DS5) and Cecil Fuzzycrumbs (DS7). They play as often as we will let them. The even talked two friends into joining. They call each other and talk as they play. DS5 refuses to talk to anyone on the phone ever, but he called his friend and talked and played for 45 minutes! He has learned a huge number of sight words because he likes to make Pickletooth talk, and he likes to know what others are saying to him. (They select phrases from a dropdown menu. You can't type just anything, so no worries.)

OK, I've rambled enough. You should DEFINITELY give it a try. They offer 3 days free. After that you will be addicted!

 

[CleveRocks]

My 7 year old son and 40 year old self are addicted to it, too. It's completely safe in that you can't chat with others. You can only communicate through a series of pull-down menus that have pre-set words and short phrases. There's really no way to communicate anything beyond what they have set up, and it's all game related.

In the game, Toontown is a wonderful collection of neighborhoods in which toons live and play. The only problem is, there are cogs (robot-like machines) that want to take over the buildings in Toontown. The game has a wonderful sense of humor that is lost on the kids. The cogs are all boring grown-up-type robots. There are lawbots, sellbots, cashbots and bossbots. They have classifications and funny names (some sellbots are Cold Callers and Name Droppers, some cashbots are Bean Counters and Loan Sharks [which look like a shark head coming out of a business suit], some bossbots are Yes Men and Flunkies, and some lawbots are Ambulance Chasers and Spin Doctors).

Toons are guided to complete a series of toontasks to defeat the cogs and keep Toontown a happy place for toons. When you try to defeat cogs, you "fight" them with gags. Gags get stronger as you get deeper in the game, but they start out with throwing a pie at the cogs or splashing the cogs with seltzer. When you have done it enough times to defeat a cog, the cog starts whirring around and then flies apart into a mess of nuts and bolts. It's pretty comical. And when the cogs "fight" the toons, the toons don't get injured but rather lose laugh points. If you lose all your laugh points, you don't "die," but you do get sad. You are automatically transported to the nearest playground, where you must walk around for a while in order to get happy again.

There are several playgrounds, each with its own theme. There's Mickey's Toontown Central (with a friendly Mickey as host), Donald's Dock (Donald drives a boat in the central lake), Minnie's Melodyland (musically-oriented), Donald's Dreamland (Donald sleepwalks in a nightshirt and nightcap) and a place called The Brrrgh, a winter-themed playground.

Each playground has a place to go to play pretty fun games. The better your performance in the games, the more jellybeans you earn. Each playground also has a fishing pond, where you use jellybeans as bait but then catch fish worth even more jellybeans. You collect jellybeans to spend on more gags to "fight" the cogs, plus on things like decorations and furniture for your toon's house, and even to buy a pet. A toon's pet is called a doodle. i LOVE the sense of humor of this site.

The graphics are pretty darn-near 3-D and are very impressive. It teaches strategy -- there are many details about what gags work best against which type of cogs in certain situations, plus you must also balance out fighting cogs with playing games to earn jellybeans, and the games all promote various skills. The game also promotes teamwork. As your toon gains more experience and completes more toontasks and accumulates more laugh points, the toon tasks become so difficult that you can't complete them alone and you MUST cooperate with other toons in order to complete the tasks.

Good CLEAN fun, all in all. I think they offer a very brief free trial -- check it out for yourself. But I warn you now, it's VERY addicitive.

Watch for Baron von Zippenflinger and The Chosen One. But the security is so tightly built-in to this game that even if you read this and then see my toon in the game, there's no way you're going to be able to communicate to me that you saw my post on the DISboards. No way. You'll just be able to choose from a menu and say things like, "I like your name" or "let's go fight the cogs" or "I have to go."

I have to go.

 

[dwaddict]

My DS became a member when he was 6 and needless to say we all just love it. We even converted a couple of cousins who live in Texas and the boys will play together!!! It is a great game and so SAFE for children!

 

[TruBlu]

If you decide to try it you'll understand this more...
The other night I could hear my boys in their room laughing. They came out wearing their Easter suits, walking like cogs, and threw their clip-on ties at me! They find lots of creative ways to duplicate ToonTown at home. We even ordered ToonTown t-shirts to wear at Disney!

For anyone who plays... if Pickletooth acts strange it is because he is only 5!

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

Wow...thanks so much for all the info! I am definitely going to try out the 3 day free trial tonight. My only thought is uh-oh...I may become addicted myself! It sounds like a very safe and fun place for the kids and something cool for the "big kids" too!

 

[mabenoab]

Chester Zooblepretzel at your service!! My dd and I love the game. Perfectly safe, and lots of fun, AND you can have different characters so the game can be played in so many different ways. Sometimes I have to wait for dd to go to bed so I can get on and play...and I KNOW that at 2:00am, its me and a lot of other parents on there. Spunky Soursnooker, and Winky Jeeperphooey (and Chester, too!) will be out there, so look for us!!

 

[DaisyD]

DD loves Toontown! You can chat with actual friends online. You have to give your friends secret codes via email or phone call. The friend enters the code and from then on they can chat to each other. Others can't see what you are saying either. If you are a duck then the only thing others see you say is quackk quack quack. I played some games for DD today to get her 500 jelly beans for a new wardrobe! Those kids I played against are too darned good! LOL!

 

[beavismom]

Same story as all the others here... kids started it years ago when it first came out and then I got hooked on it doing some "fishing" for my son. I got tired of them fighting over who I was playing more for and made my own toons. If you see Tinkermommy or Chococat come say "Hi". (As far as I know, I am the only person with those names. I know that there are some other names used by more than one toon")

 

[beavismom]

But the security is so tightly built-in to this game that even if you read this and then see my toon in the game, there's no way you're going to be able to communicate to me that you saw my post on the DISboards. No way. You'll just be able to choose from a menu and say things like, "I like your name" or "let's go fight the cogs" or "I have to go."

I have to go.

Even at Toontown there are ways around that. I am not going to say how on the board, and most of the people who know how to do it are adults so it isn't a huge deal. I do have some younger secret friends though and it always concerns me that they might not have their parents permission. I usually ask for a parent to let me know it is ok. It is pretty easy to tell the difference between when a parent or child is typing.

 

[TruBlu]

We just don't allow secret friends. You have to have a parental password to do that.

 

[beavismom]

We just don't allow secret friends. You have to have a parental password to do that.

LOL. There is that... not a way to get around it if you don't allow them at all. But then I wouldn't be able to talk to my secret friends either .

 

[2Pirates_1Princess]

If you save disney rewards from the disney movies one of the things you can redeem them for is a month subscription to ToonTown. If my DS9 gets his grades up we are going to let him play over the summer. Thanks for all the great information.

 

[toddlerhouse]

We are the friends that TruBlu introduced to ToonTown. The kids (DS7 and DD4) love it. My DH plays almost as much as the kids. Definately a great game.

 

[TruBlu]

We are the friends that TruBlu introduced to ToonTown. The kids (DS7 and DD4) love it. My DH plays almost as much as the kids. Definately a great game.

Good to see you on the DIS - it's ALMOST as addictive as ToonTown!

 

[beavismom]

It would be cool if they could set up a sub-board over at VMK for us Toontown folks. That way we could help each other out for VP battles and such.

 

[TruBlu]

It would be cool if they could set up a sub-board over at VMK for us Toontown folks. That way we could help each other out for VP battles and such.

Great idea! Hopefully the DIS is listening...

 

[DaisyD]

I love the names you get for these characters too. My DD had 6 toons but her favorite, and mine, is a duck named Petunia CrinkleMonkey. I also love how they do that little dance when they win a game or kick a cog's butt! This whole game is laid out so well. I wish I had this when I was a kid. We were stuck with that new technology that brought us Atari! Anyway, that is probably why I am always on DD's games to make up for what I missed!

 

[TruBlu]

It's really funny, but you can tell when the parents are playing. DS5 loves to play during the day when all the kids are in school. He can always find a group to defeat the Sellbot VP then with no problem. It makes his brother mad at him.

 

[clm3]

We all love the Bingo Fishing I too am an addicted 43yr old. We only have one account so we sometimes fight over who plays.