Cogs were battled using a timed turn-based combat system with up to four Toons in a battle.

The Laff meter functioned as a health meter, representing how much damage Toons could take from the Cogs before going 'sad' – in-game defeat. Each 'Gag track' had Gags with different properties that could be unlocked by completing 'ToonTasks,' and each gag track would get progressively more powerful as 'Toons' used their gags more. Gags, rooted in old cartoon slapstick humor, were weapons used to destroy the Cogs in Cog battles. Toons began with basic 'Gags' and a 15-point 'Laff' meter and had a maximum of 137 point Laff meter at the end of the game. Cogs came in four types: brown-clad Bossbots, blue-clad Lawbots, green-clad Cashbots, and maroon-clad Sellbots, each with increasing levels throughout the game that increased their health and damage.

'Cogs' were the antagonists in-game, stylized to be corporate robots that wanted to take over the town to propagate business culture. Players could create characters called 'Toons.' Players were able to customize their Toons in various shapes, colors, clothes, and sizes, as well as their species, with choices consisting of cats, dogs, ducks, mice, pigs, rabbits, bears, horses, and monkeys. A month before the closure, Disney released a statement that the company would be 'shifting its focus to other online and mobile play experiences, such as Club Penguin and a growing selection of mobile apps.' The mention of Club Penguin was eventually removed from the statement via Toontown's website likely due to backlash by fans. Various Toontown Online servers were shut down over the years long before the US servers closed on September 19, 2013. The game made its official launch on June 2, 2003. Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on a cartoon animal world, developed by Disney's Virtual Reality Studio and Schell Games, and published by The Walt Disney Company. Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft Windows Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameĪugust 2001 – Janu( Beta 1)

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