Prerelease:Disney's Toontown Online/Later Alpha Builds
This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Disney's Toontown Online.
circa. Fall
Gag UI Concept
A slightly later image, which is of a mockup screen for what the Gags page would look like in the Shticker Book. This appears to have been made sometime after the early Gag icons from the Spotify source leak graphics.
- The Later Shticker Book icon is used, which appears slightly different from the Spotify leak.
- The Delete Icon was bigger, and higher in quality. Gags were originally going to be deleted, but was removed due to it being worthless.
- The Small Magnet is placed after the $1 Note, despite it being the other way around in the Gag Track documents from May-July 2000. Seeing as the Banana Peel is erroneously listed as a Throw Gag, it may have been a mistake.
- The Laff Meter had brown dog ears, which were removed in the final.
- The Banana Peel's accuracy originally said "High" instead of "Perfect", implying that Trap Gags were originally going to miss, or was changed to avoid confusion with the High Accuracy used with other Gags.
- Toon-Up was called Heal.
- Toons could carry 12 Trap Gags, but was changed to 10 (or 5 if the next level Gag wasn't unlocked).
circa. October/November
Reaction from Disney
The project was very negatively recieved by The Walt Disney Company, coming off as a mockery of executives of a corporation. It was so lambasted that Roy E. Disney himself sent an angry letter to Jesse Schell ordering it not be released. The solution was resolved when Suits were changed to robotic businessmen, where Bruce Woodside noticed that giving them bolts in their design would be enough to distinguish them from the original plan.
Giving them bolts turned out business "Suits" into "Cogs" - turned out to be a good decision.
— Bruce Woodside, back of the finalized Suit concept sheet in this article.
It was at the point when Suits were renamed to "Robots", and later to Cogs as we all know to this day.
