ToonFest: Birthday Bash | Day Three Summary!
Posted by The Toontown Team on May 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM
It’s that time again, Toons! We’re back at it with another ToonFest: Birthday Bash recap! The skies keep getting brighter here at ToonFest in Atlanta, so grab your Vintage Teashades: we’re jumping right into the Toon News (for the Amused!).
Sketch to Screen: Building Toontown
Kicking our first panel off with a Foghorn, Toons got to see a more in-depth look at the new neighborhood that’s currently under construction: Clear Coasts. The panelists discussed the art and design process for the Clear Coasts Toon HQ, revealing concept art, as well as 3D models and prototypes. While everything is still in its early stages, it’s exciting! If you missed out on this Toontastic panel, click here to watch!
Q&A with the Toontown Rewritten Team
After all those announcements yesterday, you Toons were bursting with burning questions! From “Toontown Remastered” to “Clear Coasts”, the interview with the Toontown Rewritten Team had everyone at the edge of their seats, ready to take in information like a Number Cruncher. Did’ya TOON in? If not, no worries! Here’s where you can watch!
The TOONY AWARDS
After a long hiatus, the TOONY Awards finally returned to ToonFest! Our qualified judges sifted through many submissions, as Toons from far and wide skillfully wielded their creativity to create Toontastic things! With so many amazing entries, It was no easy feat for the judges to pick the winners. Speaking of winners, let’s give a big round of applause to this year’s in person TOONY'S costume contest winners: the 3D printed mice (We couldn't catch their names!), Joey (Hare U. Doing), and E.J.! If you’re interested in checking out the winners and runner-ups of all the categories, you can watch the livestream here!
MISCHIEVOUS FUN: Designing Toontown
In the final panel of this evening, we showcased content from the original Toontown Online design documents! It wasn’t just for fun, however, as Toons got to see how that design document was used as inspiration by the Toontown Rewritten Team and how it was applied in the creation of new content, specifically with Clear Coasts! Missed out on the fun? Worry not! You can learn all about it on our YouTube channel.
Don’t go sad just yet, Toons! We’ve got one more day of the festivities here at ToonFest: Birthday Bash, and it’s bound to be a great one! It’s been a while, but you must recall: it’s tradition for us to go out with a Whole Cream Pie at ToonFest, so preheat the oven! Tomorrow is a day you won’t want to miss!
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Today's backstage and panels were so cool, and I love how Toontown Online's design philosophies inform Toontown Rewritten's, TTR's dedication to preserving the charm of the original game while elevating the experience is very admirable! The TOONYs were very fun as well, congrats to all the winners, it's always a treat seeing everyone's entries! Here's to a toontastic final day of Toonfest: Birthday Bash!
Now THAT is TOONERIFIC!
There I am!!!!! I’m so happy to have won top 3!! Thank you so much Toontown team, and congratulations to everyone else!
Well i didnt think 10 years would end up to be so cool. Even if i didnt go the blogs and videos make me feel like i didnt miss out to much. Happy Birthday TTR!!!
My sister and I are the Picklepoof twins - Penelope Picklepoof & Pepper Picklepoof! We were absolutely honored to win first place among the AMAZING cosplay! This was more fun than a barrel of monkeys!
Toontown is about to change in a way that hasn't happened in about 15 years. New playgrounds, streets, cogs and who knows what else is coming? Thank you TTR Team for keeping the game alive and for improving upon it for the past decade, especially considering you do this completely for free and out of your charity. While this community isn't as big as we and possibly you hoped it would be after so long, I hope it continues to be strong even after these updates come and go.
I enjoyed watching this year's TOONYs! I liked everyone's entries, especially the costumes. Such creative and fun costumes! Congrats to the winners, and I'm looking forward to seeing the pies fly!
The TOONYs this year were wonderful! My favorite part was seeing Jesse reading the winning limericks. That made me laugh, haha! Congrats to the winners!
So totally thrilled to have been at Toonfest to see all of the amazing people and to have gotten to be there when I found out I won the accessory category! Can't wait to see yall wearing your very own Doodle Backpacks!
I see myself in the photo! The TOONYs was such an awesome experience and I'm happy that you all loved my costume and my limerick! The entries were incredible - everyone is extremely talented!
It is SO cool seeing my name on the official TTR website!!! I was The Mingler, and I am so honored to have won alongside such amazing cosplays, everyone did such a Toontastic job! Thank you so much to the whole team for putting on such an awesome weekend!
Hey! I’m the tv head that was mistaken as a cog a lot lol- anyways.. meeting everyone was so cool!! The cosplayers definitely outdid themselves! Congrats to the winners big time! And talkin to official toontown staff was amazing! Everyone was so nice! This was deffo a memorable event! I hope to see everyone again soon!