Toontown Grand Prix details

[Big Tom Supernugget]

This article tells which Disney "stars" (ahem) will be at the Toontown Grand Prix on Saturday, and it explains that they will be racing REAL karts. No menton about whether any REAL anvils will be dropping on them, LOL.

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September 21, 2005 03:22 PM US Eastern Timezone

Celebs to Race in 'Goofy' Grand Prix; Inaugurating New Kart Racing Game Feature in Disney's Toontown Online

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2005--
What: Young Hollywood celebs will put the pedal to the metal
for some friendly competition at a "goofy" grand prix
event featuring custom built karts modeled after those
in a dynamic new game play area called Goofy Speedway
on Toontown, Disney Online's first massively
multiplayer online game (MMO) for kids and families.

Who: Kyle Massey, of "That's So Raven"; Brenda Song and
Ashley Tisdale of "Suite Life of Zack and Cody"; and
Luis Garcia of "The George Lopez Show"; along with
Toontown fans, industry guests and senior executives
and developers from Disney.

Visuals: -- Tricked-out, cartoon style karts (go carts) raced
by celebs around Disney's Legends Plaza
-- Goofy will be on hand to inaugurate Goofy Speedway
-- Approx 500 fans enjoying the race and post-race
midway carnival

When: Saturday, September 24, 2005 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Disney Studios Lot in Burbank, Calif.
(Legends Plaza, enter X gate)

How: To request media credentials to cover this event,
please contact Brandy Phillips
(Brandy.Phillips@dig.com) or Lily Bedrossian
(Lily.Bedrossian@dig.com) at Disney Internet Group at
818-623-3200.

Event-day, on-site press contact: 310-592-2486




Disney's Toontown Online is the first massively multiplayer (MMP) game for kids and families, that allows thousands of participants to play together online, communicate in a safe environment and undertake challenging quests. In Toontown, players create their own character and join together with other players to help save Toontown from the humorless Cogs, a band of bungling business robots attempting to turn the Toons' colorful world into a bleak metropolis. Because the Cogs can't take a joke, Toons can diminish the Cogs' power by choosing from fun gags and jokes to play on them, such as smashing a pie in their face, or squirting them with seltzer water.

Since launching in 2003, Toontown has attracted gamers of all ages and levels and has received critical acclaim in the media. Gannet News Service touted that "Kid-testers of all ages consistently gave this game an enthusiastic thumbs up." Toontown also has been recognized with numerous industry awards including: the 2004 Game Industry News Family Game of the Year; 2003 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World; and, it was named on of the Top 10 Games of the Year 2003 by the New York Times.

Toontown is available for download at www.toontown.com for $9.95 per month, and, for consumers who prefer to try before they buy, there is a 3-day free trial period available on the site.