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This redirect is about a fictional town from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. For the Disney theme parks, see Mickey's Toontown. For the Internet video game, see Toontown Online.

Toontown is a fictional city near Los Angeles where animated 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 Fleischer/Dr. Seuss-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”.

Other uses

Toontown served as the setting for the television series Bonkers and House of Mouse. Toontown has been reproduced in Disney theme parks as Mickey's Toontown.

Commercial bumpers featuring a Toontown-based appearance were used on Toon Disney 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 Online, the first MMORPG for children[citation needed], takes place in a cartoon world populated with classic Disney characters such Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.[1] The game, introduced in 2003, was said to bring the Roger Rabbit franchise online,[2] 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.[3]

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Gudmundsen, Jinny. 2004-02-10. "Keep the Cogs from overtaking 'Toontown'". USA Today, via usatoday.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
  2. ^ 2004-01-06. "Michael Eisner, Disney Chairman and CEO, Speaks at Smith Barney Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference". Business Wire, via findarticles.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
  3. ^ McKee, Mike. 2004-01-22. "Roger Rabbit Rumble Revived" The Recorder, via law.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
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