The Most Common Bossbot HQ Hoaxes and Why Not to Believe Them IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!

Big Business · #1 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 04:10 PM

Before Lawbot HQ came out, we had tons of attention-seekers who began huge hoaxes when they started threads claiming that they had been to Lawbot HQ or possessed information/screenshots of it. The worst part was that many people naively believed them. In the end, not one of these threads turned out to be true.

This thread contains a list of the most common Bossbot HQ hoaxes that people will no doubt start, coupled with reasons not to believe what they say. However, this entire thread can be summed up in one sentence:

Everyone who claims to have been to Bossbot HQ, have screenshots of Bossbot HQ, or have inside information about Bossbot HQ is not telling the truth.

The first time I ever saw a real screenshot of Lawbot HQ or heard any true information about it was on April 5, 2006 when it was released on test. Nothing said before then turned out to be true. Keep in mind, however, that some Bossbot HQ threads aren't malicious and are just made for fun or to show off an edit.

Now for the list!

Note: This thread had been inspected and approved by Batleth before being posted.

"My father, (uncle, friend's father, friend's uncle, etc.) works for Disney and he gave me information about Bossbot HQ."

This one is by far the most common. It’s the classic “I know a guy who knows a guy” story. A while back, the director of Toontown was interviewed on a gaming website. Naturally, some of the questions asked were about Bossbot HQ, but he refused to give anything but extremely vague hints. The truth is that the developers are very secretive about new content that they are developing. They wouldn't do anything that might cause information to leak out. This may seem hard to do, but it's the same thing that novel writers, movie producers, and other video game developers do.

Before Cashbot HQ and Lawbot HQ came out, there were about forty people who claimed to have inside information about them because they were related to a developer. Not one of these people said anything that turned out to be true. In addition, it's highly unlikely that we'd have forty people on TTC who are related in some way to a developer. I doubt that Toontown even has that many developers. Therefore, I can confidently say that every single person who says this is just looking for attention. And they're getting it, because people believe them.

"I glitched and ended up in Bossbot HQ."

This one is probably the second most common. Many people seem to think that Bossbot HQ is in some secret location that we just can't get to yet. Before Cashbot HQ came out, there were loads of people who mistakenly thought that if you could just glitch past the barrier in Donald's Dreamland, you could end up in Cashbot HQ. In the same way, there are many people who think that if you could just glitch through the walls in Donald's Dock or something, you'd end up in Bossbot HQ.

The big problem with this is the fact that Bossbot HQ isn't in the game yet! When you load Toontown, it first says "Loading Sellbot HQ", and then it says "Loading Cashbot HQ, and finally "Loading Lawbot HQ". It doesn't say "Loading Bossbot HQ". There is also no file for Bossbot HQ in the Toontown files yet. This is because it is simply not there yet. This makes it impossible to get into Bossbot HQ because of a glitch. Anyone who claims to have done it is also just looking for attention.

"I hacked Toontown to get into Bossbot HQ / know someone who did."

Toontown players are very paranoid of hackers today. Whenever there's a problem with the game, some people say that it must be because someone hacked the server. Other people who perform glitches take special care to make sure that nobody thinks they're a hacker. Therefore, Toontown fans probably won't be congratulating somebody who claims to have hacked the game to find out Bossbot HQ information, but will nevertheless believe them. What they don't understand is how difficult hacking Toontown would be. You'd have to get around all of Toontown’s security systems, firewalls, and whatnot, which only an extremely experienced hacker would be able to do.

Even if you managed to hack Toontown, there would be nothing to find because, as I said above Bossbot HQ isn’t in the game yet. The only way that you might be able to get information on Bossbot HQ by hacking would be if you somehow hacked the computers that Disney uses to program the game. However, in the unlikely event that a criminal is skilled enough to hack into Disney’s computers, he’ll probably be going after Disney’s bankrolls, not Bossbot HQ information. Plus, since hacking a computer is a felony, you probably wouldn’t be bragging about it on TTC where the NSA can read all about it.

"I wasn't disconnected when a dev brought Toontown down for maintenance, and I got to see Bossbot HQ."

Many people think that when Toontown is brought down for maintenance because a developer is working on or testing Bossbot HQ. They think that while we’re offline, the Toontown developers have temporarily uploaded Bossbot HQ and are busy doing who-knows-what. Last year, we had an enormous hoax when somebody claimed that the devs had been careless and had forgotten to boot him when TTC went down for maintenance. He claimed that instead, the game had restarted and he had been returned to the Brrrgh, where to his great surprise, the street to Lawbot HQ was now open, allowing him to go to Lawbot HQ, which the developers were busy testing. Of course, he was disconnected after being in Lawbot HQ for a few seconds. He offered several “pictures” as proof that he had been able to go to Lawbot HQ. Many believed him, figuring that a developer must have brought the server down to test Lawbot HQ, but had forgotten to boot him off.

This couldn’t have possibly been true, however, because the devs don’t use the server that everybody plays on test new content. The developers have their own computers over in California that they use to program and test new content. If they had to bring Toontown down for maintenance every single time that they wanted to work on and test Bossbot HQ, then Toontown would have to be down around the clock, because programming a game is a very long and laborious process.

Plus, it wouldn’t make sense to upload Bossbot HQ to Toontown prematurely and risk it being exposed like that. Once Toontown has made Bossbot HQ playable, they will release it to the TEST server, so that the testers can test out Bossbot HQ’s gameplay and find bugs. The first time that Bossbot HQ will ever be on the open server will be the day of its official release.

When Toontown goes down for matinence, the developers are just performing a tune-up. They're correcting minor bugs that have developed and that sort of thing. Nothing nearly as exciting as Bossbot HQ.

The "Pictures" of Lawbot HQ

"Another toon gave me information about Bossbot HQ."

I’m afraid to say that if your secret friend claims to have inside information about Bossbot HQ, they’re lying. Either that, or they’ve been lied to by someone else, and they’re just passing it along.

"I found a secret way to get to Bossbot HQ, but I forgot what it is."

Riiight…

"Bossbot HQ is already out on Japanese Toontown."

This was another big pre-Lawbot HQ hoax. Someone claimed to have a screenshot of the Lawbot boss that had been taken on the Japanese server, where they claimed that Lawbot HQ had already been released. This doesn’t make any sense, however, because Toontown is a United States-based game that has international servers to allow playability worldwide. Therefore, there’s no reason that Disney would want to release new content overseas before releasing it in the United States. In fact, many of the international servers have much less content than the United States server, not more. At one point, my sister and I decided to try out the free trial for German Toontown. Although Cashbot HQ had recently been released in the United States, German Toontown didn’t even have Sellbot HQ yet, let alone Doodles or Cashbot HQ!

Another reason is that the Test server is based in America, so if something hasn’t even been released on the Test server yet, there’d be no logic to releasing it in Japan, because it would be buggy and simply unfinished.

The Lawbot Boss

"I found information about Bossbot HQ in the Toontown files."

Get ready for the granddaddy of all hoaxes. A couple years ago, someone claimed to have gone into the Toontown Phase Files and extracted pictures of supposed items from Lawbot HQ such as a wig and an old-style camera from the “Lawbot HQ Folder”. The pictures were so convincing that even I believed him. Extracting the Toontown files is not difficult, however, and later on when I did it, I realized that there was no “Lawbot HQ Folder”. The first time that a Lawbot HQ folder ever appeared was when Lawbot HQ was released on Test. The pictures were fakes.

As of right now, there is no “Bossbot HQ Folder” in the Toontown files nor anything else related to Bossbot HQ. However, if somebody claims to have found something Bossbot HQ-related in the Toontown Phase Files, don’t immediately assume that it must be false. Last year, about a month before Lawbot HQ was released, for some reason, Disney put several files related to Lawbot HQ into the Cashbot HQ folder. One of them was a model for the gavels in the Chief Justice’s courtroom. Another was entitled as a model for the Lawbot boss’s room, but it turned out just to be a duplicate of the model for the CFO’s room. There was also a text file which simply contained programming for the cogs’ movement around the courtyard. None of this was very substantial, but it was there nonetheless. Therefore, if someone claims to have found something related to Bossbot HQ the Toontown files, don’t immediately dismiss what they say as false, but take the time to find out more about it, including if anybody else has found it too.

Note: Please do not quote this post.

Lemonzilla · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 04:48 PM

This is all pretty much true, I cannot say how many times I have ran into kids on the game saying things like, "You want to know a secret? I work for Toontown, keep it on the DL". Maybe other "small" kids believe this, but as far as im concerned I dont. I also remember a little while back when I made a rant where I was sick of people making ideas about what its going to be like, why don't we just make a bet on when it is going to come out and who evers the closest gets a million dollars or something, im getting off topic. I am just glad your posting a thread of those people who want to get so much attention on posting these fake pictures. I know they wont stop, know matter how much anyone complains about it, they will always be there, asking there toontown dev cousin whats happening next. Also I apologize that I did not read over your whole thread, I will do so now.

The Dogfather · #3 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 05:08 PM

I completely agree with you that all of these falsifications on Boss Hq do seem to crowd TTC, but there is a positive side to all of this. I remember reading a thread that stated that Boss was due out on June 21st, 2007, and we are now June 26th! Where is Boss Hq? Why can’t I get into Boss Hq? I think back to reading all of these stories and looking at all of these edits and I just think it’s hilarious!

There are plenty of reasons why someone would make up stories of Boss Hq, and yes you hit one of them “attention seekers.” But also, I have looked at it from a different perspective. If you think of it, these so called “attention seekers” do help arouse people somehow and do get people interested in playing TT. Some of them are just plainly having fun, which I think is great.

They bring about this new enjoyment of venturing into an unfamiliar and untouched area that most of us are anticipating. They make these wonderful edits and relay stories that have a realistic composition to them. Heck, even I for once thought that a few of these were real! You have to hand it to them for being very creative which in my mind I feel is very significant for getting ahead in life, especially if it’s a young child or teen coming up with these creative ideas. If so, I would say go for it and expand those creative thinking processes, because they will pay off in the future.

Also, just like in any book or story we read, the author has the right to “dream up” whatever they so desire, and I feel that these threads here on TTC portray what good writers do, they make us believe the unbelievable. Regardless if it’s just for enjoyment or for attention, these individuals surely do bring out what we are here to do, to have fun.

The Dogfather

ViLlAiN · #4 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 05:29 PM

The Lawbot boss is just plain sad...

Nice thread. Now finally people will understand that NO ONE knows ANYTHING at all about Bossbot HQ. Except the fact that it doesn't exist in this world yet.

Big Business · #5 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The Dogfather

I completely agree with you that all of these falsifications on Boss Hq do seem to crowd TTC, but there is a positive side to all of this. I remember reading a thread that stated that Boss was due out on June 21st, 2007, and we are now June 26th! Where is Boss Hq? Why can’t I get into Boss Hq? I think back to reading all of these stories and looking at all of these edits and I just think it’s hilarious!

There are plenty of reasons why someone would make up stories of Boss Hq, and yes you hit one of them “attention seekers.” But also, I have looked at it from a different perspective. If you think of it, these so called “attention seekers” do help arouse people somehow and do get people interested in playing TT. Some of them are just plainly having fun, which I think is great.

They bring about this new enjoyment of venturing into an unfamiliar and untouched area that most of us are anticipating. They make these wonderful edits and relay stories that have a realistic composition to them. Heck, even I for once thought that a few of these were real! You have to hand it to them for being very creative which in my mind I feel is very significant for getting ahead in life, especially if it’s a young child or teen coming up with these creative ideas. If so, I would say go for it and expand those creative thinking processes, because they will pay off in the future.

Also, just like in any book or story we read, the author has the right to “dream up” whatever they so desire, and I feel that these threads here on TTC portray what good writers do, they make us believe the unbelievable. Regardless if it’s just for enjoyment or for attention, these individuals surely do bring out what we are here to do, to have fun.

The Dogfather

I have fun reading all of these hoax threads too. I just can't stand it when people say, "OMG!!! DATS SOOOO COOOL!!! IT MUST BE COMING OUT TOMORROW!!!!!!!"

mamaste · #6 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 06:54 PM

Actually, Disney does have banks of dev/QA/test servers around the world. Outside of the U.S. they are only used by TT employees, but they do exist.

Oh, and the FBI handles hackers. The NSA only collects data and doesn't get actively involved in anything.

Good post. Now, let me tell you what my friend's cousin's next door neighbor's hairdresser's son who works for TT said about BBHQ.... Haha.

Big Business · #7 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by mamaste

Actually, Disney does have banks of dev/QA/test servers around the world. Outside of the U.S. they are only used by TT employees, but they do exist.

Oh, and the FBI handles hackers. The NSA only collects data and doesn't get actively involved in anything.

Good post. Now, let me tell you what my friend's cousin's next door neighbor's hairdresser's son who works for TT said about BBHQ.... Haha.

Thanks. And to clarify, I meant that all new content after being programmed must pass through the US test server before branching out into other countries.

King Leroy Hulatooth · #8 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 08:36 PM

Lol, I remember those LBHQ hoaxes. Good times, good times.

Coolchewbaca · #9 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by King Leroy Hulatooth

Lol, I remember those LBHQ hoaxes. Good times, good times.

Yeah, I can't WAIT to see what people dream up for BBHQ!

bcb · #10 (**permalink**) 06-27-2007, 12:11 AM

Wow, Big Buisness...you've outdone yourself. I enjoyed looking at the pictures. It gave me a great laugh! Escpecially, the Lawbot boss. I actually read the whole thing! Pretty awesome. This deserves five stars if not a sticky.