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Subject: ToonTown Description (Spoilers)
From: kat@gtc.com (Kathryn Fielding)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:15:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
Keywords: Long Toons Spoilers
Summary: Description of part of ToonTown

This is a little long, so I'll write this in three different
postings. Please excuse any memory lapses. If you want to
be surprised when you go to ToonTown, you may not want to
read this.

Well, yesterday (Tuesday) was the official grand-opening to
the public of ToonTown. We had already been there for one of
the sneak previews, but this was different. So we took a
vacation day and went to explore.

Some of the stuff was still up from the Celebrity opening
on Sunday, and the Press opening on Monday. There were a lot
of tables and portable fax machines and stuff lining the way
into ToonTown. Various radio stations from all over the
world were set up at these and were broadcasting. (It's really
funny hearing someone give the weather for Denver prefaced by
"The latest up to the minute forecast" when Denver is several
states away)

ToonTown:

I'll try and describe some of the things that we saw, and our
impressions of them.

Overall - ToonTown is very three dimensional with lots of attention
to detail to make it seem like a real community. There are assorted
buildings that would be in a regular town, and many of them are
quite funny. The Street Repair building has a sign with the words
street repair falling into a hole. The planning department has the
last few letters on it's sign all squished together  because they
ran out of room. There are no manhole covers, however, there are
Toonhole covers, one of them will say something when you stand on
it.

Goofy's Bounce House:

This is designed for people over three, but under a certain height.
They make the kids take their shoes off, and it's a house made of
large plastic balloons that the kids can jump around in. The house
has a green Goofy hat on top, and the walk up to it is amusing.

Goofy has a garden growing pumpkins (only his are jack o'lanterns),
The garden also has squash (round vegetables mashed flat), popcorn
on the cob, and a money tree (growing somolies(??) not Disney dollars,
the money used by Toons in Roger Rabbit.) Outside, there is a
high diving board. The bottom few rungs of the ladder are broken,
and there is a wading pool (filled with water) for diving.
Next to the wading pool is what is supposed to look like a sandy area,
with the unmistakable outline of Goofy in it - they did a good job
of making it look like he had missed the pool the last time.
Out front is Goofy's mailbox, and a toon car for the kids to climb on,
steer, and take pictures in.

Across from Goofy's house is the gas station. The gas pumps have 
toon fish swimming in them. The bathrooms are located here - The
men's has a picture of Roger, and the women's has a picture of
Jessica dressed in mechanic's overalls. There are also a lot of
cute signs around the gas station.

Next door to Goofy's house is the Miss Daisy. It's a boat, with
toon whistles on top, and a figurehead of Daisy on the bow. There
is a waterfall behind it, and lily pads and cat tails floating in
the water (Disneydendron varieties). There is a rope net that
kids can climb up to the second story, and a slide to come back
down. The washing is drying up top, above the boat.

Gadget's Go-Coaster is next to the boat. It's fairly cute and not a
bad ride for a kiddie roller coaster. It's short, but cute. There
are lots of little touches to amuse you while in line - there is a
bridge over the water, and the hand railings are made up of toothbrushes
and matches. (giant sized of course). Flexi-straws are used for
the drain pipes. The roller coaster appears to be powered by
what I call the fish-o-matic. It has a semi-deflated soccer-ball,
with air coming out through a tube. On top of the ball is fish bowl
containing a toon fish swimming in circles. On top of that is a can
of Acorn Nut soup (bearing a suspicious resemblance to a Campbell's
soup can. Some of Gadget's blueprints for the ride are hanging on
the wall inside the building. They were done by the Chinny, Chin, Chin
construction company :-). The control panel for the ride is a giant
sardine tin.

Next door to Gadget's is Chip and Dale's Tree house and Nut crawl. The
tree house has two slides in it - the stairs leading up to them are
fairly narrow and steep. The slide we went on was not very slippery -
that may lead to problems. The nut crawl was cute. It's designed
for children over three but again under a certain height. They
take their shoes off and play in a large pool of plastic acorns.
Some of the kids were having a great time diving into the pool. It
seems to be fairly well supervised, and they limit the numbers inside
at a time.

Next door to that is Mickey's house (and Movie Barn), which I'll 
describe in another posting. Above that, is the famous Toon Town sign
on the hills - bearing a toony resemblance to a famous sign in
Lost Angeles. (Now I know where the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
got the idea :-)

Next door to Mickey's house is Minnie's. Minnie has a wishing well
in between the houses and it says things - I didn't hear what.
Minnie's house was all right - but I'd go there before Mickey's
because otherwise it might be a disappointment The house is typical
Minnie Mouse - lots of pink, hearts and flowers. She has a copy of
that well known lingerie catalog "Jessica's Secret" open on the
easy chair in the living room. The radio is on and playing music,
or giving news bulletins. The answering machine periodically takes
calls - and she has note pads with lists of things to do today i.e.
Mousercise, visit Mickey...

Minnie's boudoir has a chaise lounge, perfume atomizers which can be
squeezed, and a computer with a touchscreen. This has various
pictures of Minnie and you can select the outfit, and the colors
that are displayed on the screen. Lots of big buttons for the children
to push. 

The kitchen was the biggest hit at Minnie's house, the dishwasher was
washing dishes (with a glass front so you could see inside), the
refrigerator can be opened and you can see the cheese, and various
other mouse delights inside. (Lots of puns there) Minnie's shopping 
list is pasted on the front. The stove/oven has a cake baking in it,
which grows to full size, and then collapses. The kids seemed to
find that funny. On the kitchen table there is a plate with some
holographic chocolate cookies - there were lots of children trying
to grab at those and laughing hysterically. Like all of the houses,
there are various house type things lying around - flour bins, plates,
sponges. The blender at Minnie's has some setting that mine doesn't,
slow, fast, really fast, too fast!

While we were there, Minnie came out a couple of times - she was
hanging out in the area between her house and the gas station.

Like any good town, this has streets and sidewalks, and fountains
in the middle of the areas. The fountains are cute - and they
are where people line up for the Jolly Trolley. There are two
fountains - one at each end of town, and the centerpieces are typically
toony. (More on the trolley in another posting!).


-Kathryn

(Tigger's Number One Fan)

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kat@gtc.com                                       genisco!kat

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