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- This article 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, or "toons", live.
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Toontown is a fictional, cartoon city created by author Gary K. Wolf. It was present in his 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, but only in brief mentions. Toontown served as the central setting and reached a wider audience in the novel's loose 1988 Disney film adaptation Who Framed Roger Rabbit,[1] in which Judge Doom intended to destroy it for commercial development along a planned freeway. The film won four Academy Awards,[2] and Roger Rabbit was featured in three subsequent animated shorts, 1989's Tummy Trouble, 1990's Roller Coaster Rabbit and 1993's Trail Mix-Up.[3]
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, almost dreamlike, 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 not possible in reality.
Toontown served as the setting for the 1993-1995 television series Bonkers. Toontown has been reproduced in Disney theme parks as Mickey's Toontown.
Disney's game Toontown Online, the first MMORPG for children, takes place in a cartoon world populated with classic Disney characters such Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.[4] The game, introduced in 2003, was said to bring the Roger Rabbit franchise online,[5] 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.[1]
-Br'er Bear from Song of the South
-Peter from Make Mine Music
-The Magic Brooms, the Dacing Hippos and the Dancing Ostriches from Fantasia
-Snow White and Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
-Porky Pig (an officer in the Toontown Police Department)
-Black Pete (another officer in the Toontown Police Department)
-a colorized Koko the Clown
-Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
-Tinkerbell from Peter Pan
-Dumbo and the Pink Elephants from Dumbo
-Screwy Squirrel (part of the Toontown Fire Department)
-Pinocchio from Pinocchio
With the exception of the characters created specifically for the story, all of the characters were created in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s
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- Virtual Magic Kingdom
- Toontown Online - Disney's MMORPG