Toontown MMO Back: Toontown Rewritten

What happens when a multiplayer online game is closed down by the company that owns it? For those with devoted fans with time and money, some may take matters into their own hands to keep it alive. In 2013, Disney pulled the plug on it's "Toontown" MMO after ten years. But shortly afterwards, a fan-made version of it appeared: called "Toontown Rewritten." Five years, and many updates, later, the game is still going. And it's completely free to play.

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Holocluck Henly on Disney's "Toontown" Closing

Among multiplayer online games, Disney's "Toontown" stood out. Besides it's link to the company known for it's founder's cartoons, it was kid-friendly and one of it's themes poked fun at big business. Unfortunately in late August came some bad news for the game's fans: Toontown would soon be closing. One Second Life resident who played the game, Holocluck Henly, met up with Second Life Neweser to talk about Toontown and some things that made it special.

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