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According to a 2004 Game Developer article by developer Mike Goslin, the decision to give the game a physical release was due to anxieties from consumers about not being able to physically hold a game that they were spending money on, as online distribution had not yet been fully established as a mainstream distribution model for video games.
Disney Online Newsroom article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051202171511/http://corporate.disney.go.com/wdig/online_releases/2005/2005_0825_disney.html
Sony Online Entertainment article:
https://www.sony.com/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-online-entertainment/2005/platform-publishing-lets-the-toons-out-with-disneys-toontown-online.html
Game Developer article:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/postmortem-disney-online-s-toontown
https://web.archive.org/web/20051202171511/http://corporate.disney.go.com/wdig/online_releases/2005/2005_0825_disney.html
Sony Online Entertainment article:
https://www.sony.com/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-online-entertainment/2005/platform-publishing-lets-the-toons-out-with-disneys-toontown-online.html
Game Developer article:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/postmortem-disney-online-s-toontown
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The original flash launcher of the game, shown while the game was downloading, included an animation about how the cogs were made.
The story was that Scrooge McDuck visited Gyro Gearloose but didn't find him at home, he then found a robot and tried to repair it to make a profit, the robot in turn then created the cogs with another machine found within the lab.
The story was that Scrooge McDuck visited Gyro Gearloose but didn't find him at home, he then found a robot and tried to repair it to make a profit, the robot in turn then created the cogs with another machine found within the lab.
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There is an unused animation of a cog's feet walking away after the body is blown up.
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The Japanese version replaces the noises that accompany text dialogue with full voice acting which reads out the dialogue.
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Prior to 2007 when they were changed to green, Toons originally had orange name tags.
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During the game's beta, a character's Toon Laff could only go up to 100.
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During the beta of Toontown, Donald Duck wore his normal sailor outfit instead of his pajamas in Donald's Dreamland, and was not sleepwalking.
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Goofy could be found in Daisy Gardens until the gardening and racing activities were released.
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During the game's Beta, cogs were called "The Suits".
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