Prerelease:Disney's Toontown Online/Pre-Beta Builds

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Disney's Toontown Online.

February

Near-Final Map

The map with the nine-neighborhood plan was drawn, showing slight layout arrangement differences from the previous map plan. It would be used in the Shticker Book in the final, except the unrevealed locations would be hastily blurred or photoshopped via extracted graphics, leading to many, many infamous rumors spread throughout the fandom, especially when the trailer briefly showed two of the locations at the beginning.

The blurred-out locations had remained to be a mystery in the fandom for years until YouTuber LoopyGoopyG managed to get the original graphic in 2017, revealing the locations. The map shows an interesting number of changes and scrapped locations;

• Next to Daisy Gardens and Toontown Central was originally Goofy Coliseum. It was supposed to be a playground based off of the 1973 illustrated children's book "Goofy the Sportsman". The playground was supposed to include activities mentioned in the book, such as pole vaulting, chariot racing, and canoeing. It was ultimately canned because the development team hadn't finalized their ideas for sports, and they couldn't figure out how to turn it into a neighborhood. The idea would be completely retooled into Goofy Speedway.
• Near Donald's Dreamland and Minnie's Melodyland was a place called Funny Farm, where everything was in black-and-white reminiscent of old cartoons. According to the ToontownGlobals.py in the source code, Funny Farm has a zone ID of 7000, was planned to have assets in phase_8, and is listed as "not done yet" in dnaMap, the array list that indexes street and playground data. This suggests it never got past the concept stage.
  • In case players somehow end up here, the game clones Toontown Central (hence the famous glitch that teleported players into a broken Toontown Central). For the Field Offices update, some shopkeeper NPCs were added under the zone ID 7000, as a fallback. The game explicitly says so :

        if not self.shopOwnerNpc:
            self.notify.warning('No shopkeeper in this cogdominium, using FunnyFarm Sellbot FO NPCToons')

• In between Toontown Central, Donald's Dock and Daisy Gardens was an area called Construction Zone, based off of many early cartoon depictions of construction sites. The plan was that players could climb and jump around wacky construction sites with dangerous events. This possibly was cut due to technical limitations, but may have also been because the development team deemed it unnecessary. ToontownGlobals.py also lists it as having assets in phase_8, and as having no street or playground data. Its zone ID is 6000.

• • Interestingly enough, the location name itself was originally spotted at ToonFest 2006 held in Burbank with the blurred out location in its place on a computer likely of a developer build of the game. When asked about the location to the staff there, they did not want to say anything about it.
• The Cog Headquarters were all mixed up, and was likely planned at this point of development instead of a singular location consisting of factories focusing on different Cog types.
  • Cashbot Headquarters was located in Daisy Gardens instead of Donald's Dreamland.
  • Sellbot Headquarters was located in The Brrrgh instead of Daisy Gardens.
  • Lawbot Headquarters was originally located in the scrapped Construction Zone location instead of The Brrrgh.
  • Bossbot Headquarters was located in Donald's Dreamland instead of Chip 'N' Dale's Acorn Acres.

(Source: MMO Central Forums)