Toontown Adobe Flash Content/UK/Neopets Sponsorship Games & Advertisements

(work in progress) Starting on August 30, 2003, the Neopets website began hosting Toontown sponsorship content. The content was intended to entice users browsing the Neopets website to play Disney's Toontown Online. This content ranged between animated advertisements and games, both of which offered players "Neopoints" (the term used for Neopets' virtual currency). The advertisements would give Neopoints for being clicked on at least once, while the games would primarily offer Neopoints based on how well the user played the game. Initially, in 2003, the only content was the game "Are you Toon Enough?" and three animated Toontown advertisements. However, around 2005, the amount of Toontown sponsorship content increased, with two additional games ("Gag Order" and "Cannon Shot") and their corresponding advertisements joining the Toontown sponsorship roster.

Games

• Gag Order
• Are you Toon Enough?
• Cannon Shot

Advertisements

General

toontown_v8.swf

This sponsor advertisement is contained in the link (images.neopets.com/sponsors/toontown/toontown_v8.swf). It starts off with a plain loading screen, then a blue sky appears along with Flippy's head, which is really close to the screen. Flippy then goes down and out of sight, only to reappear again but farther away from the screen. He pulls out a pie, then throws the pie at the screen, creating a large splatter that says "Are YOU Toon Enough?", the main catchphrase of Toontown. After this, the Flash advertisement shows Flippy on the left side of the screen gently nodding his head up and down, a bunch of Toon buildings in the center, and three buttons. The topmost button named "What is Toontown?" explains what Toontown is to the user and also shows off some screenshots of the game. The button in the middle named "View Trailer" originally allowed the user to view the USA Toontown trailer. The button on the bottom named "Play Toontown Online" originally took the user to the link (http://www.neopets.com/process_click.phtml?item_id=4601). This link would probably then redirect the user to Toontown's main homepage. The "View Trailer" button offered the user 250 Neopoints 1x day. The "Play Toontown Online" button offered the user 500 Neopoints 2x day. The Flash file was connected to seven other Flash files, those ones being newss1.swf, newss2.swf, newss3.swf, newss4.swf, newss5.swf, newss6.swf, and newss7.swf. These seven Flash files were just Flash file versions of the screenshots seen on the "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen.

The loading screen that plays upon startup

First screen where Flippy rises up

The part where Flippy rises up from a farther distance and throws his pie

The pie splatter, which produces a quick "pie throw" and "SPLAT" sound effect

The main screen. On this screen, Flippy gently nods his head up and down and the Neopoints offerings flash repeatedly.

The "What is Toontown?" screen

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 1)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 2)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 3)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 4)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 5)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 6)

The "What is Toontown?" Check out the Game screen (Screenshot 7)

The "View Trailer" screen

toontown05_728x90.swf

Not to be mistaken for toontown_728x90.swf, this Flash file was a simple advertisement for Toontown. It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/728ads/sponsor/toontown05_728x90.swf). It offered 100 Neopoints for being clicked on. The Toontown logo was animated to have a shine effect, and this shine effect would play whenever the Flash file looped back to the first frame. The text was animated to "come out" at the user by expanding and contracting in size quickly. The text then fades away while also expanding in size in order to transition to the next message. The last bit of text, "Are YOU Toon Enough?" (Which is Toontown's main catchphrase) is animated to "come out" at the user like the other text, however, it has no "fade out and expand" transition. Also, the "YOU" was animated to pulsate transparent white copies of itself.

First screen with logo shine effect (The shine goes across the logo from left to right)

Second screen with animated text & image transitions

Third screen with animated text & image transitions

Fourth screen with animated text & image transitions

Last screen with pulsating "YOU"

toontown_728x90.swf

Not to be mistaken for toontown05_728x90.swf, this Flash file was a simple advertisement for Toontown that probably also served as an advertisement for the Flash game "Are You Toon Enough?" (AKA g488_v799233.swf). It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/728ads/sponsor/toontown_728x90.swf). The phrase "Are YOU Toon enough?" would drop into the screen from the foreground word by word, then the words would become illuminated by a white outline. After this, the text "Visit Toontown Online 100 Neopoints 3x/Day" would fade in. Then, the Cog on the left side of the screen and the Toontown logo on the right would flash white, then the Flash file would loop back to the start.

First screen where the phrase "Are YOU Toon Enough?" drops in from the foreground

Second screen where the phrase "Are YOU Toon Enough?" becoming illuminated after having dropped in

The final screen before the Mr. Hollywood and the logo flash white and the Flash file loops

toontown1c.swf (488_1_v1.swf)

This Flash file was a simple advertisement for Toontown. It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/488_1_v1.swf). It had animated text transitions. It didn't offer any Neopoints for being clicked on. This Flash file probably also served as an advertisement for g488_v7_99233.swf (which was a Neopets-Toontown Flash game) since its alternative title shares the same ID number, "488".

The first screen, which starts off with the words "It's Toon", then has the word "VS." transition in. After "VS." transitions in, the word "Cog" plainly appears without any special transition animation.

The second screen, which has a shaking background for dramatic effect. The text plainly appears without any transition animation.

The third screen, which also has a shaking background for dramatic effect. There is no transition animation for the text as it switches from "In a battle" to "For Toontown!".

The fourth screen, where the background stops shaking. The text has a transition animation where it zooms up to the screen, stops, then zooms closer to the screen and fades out.

The fifth screen. The text has a transition animation where it zooms up to the screen, stops, then zooms closer to the screen and fades out.

The sixth screen. The text has a transition animation where it zooms up to the screen, stops, then zooms closer to the screen and fades out.

The seventh screen. The text has a transition animation where it zooms up to the screen, stops, then zooms closer to the screen and fades out.

The eighth screen. The text appears plainly without any transition animation.

The last screen, which has a "fade in" transition. After this screen appears, the Flash file loops back to the first screen.

toontown2c.swf (488_2_v1.swf)

This Flash file was a simple advertisement for Toontown. It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/488_2_v1.swf). It offered 50 Neopoints for being clicked on. It lacked text transitions, but it had some flashing text. Its theme was a simple "red alert" warning relating to the Cogs invading Toontown. This Flash file probably also served as an advertisement for g488_v7_99233.swf (which was a Neopets-Toontown Flash game) since its alternative title shares the same ID number, "488".

The first screen, which flashes from being red with "WARNING!!" text to blank white.

The second screen

The third screen

The fourth screen, where the "STOP" text flashes.

The fifth screen

The sixth screen

The seventh screen

The last screen before the Flash file loops back to the first screen.

Cannon Shot

511_1_v1.swf

This Flash file served as an advertisement for the Toontown Neopets Sponsor game titled "Cannon Shot". It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/511_1_v1.swf). It had a simple animation of Flippy being shot out of a Toon cannon, flying past the words "CANNON SHOT", then landing into a tub of water. It would then invite the user to play the game.

First screen where the cannon aims upwards and then launches Flippy

Flippy soaring through the air after having been shot out of cannon

Flippy soaring past the word "CANNON"

Flippy soaring past the word "SHOT"

Flippy landing into the water

The last screen before the Flash file loops

511_2_v1.swf

This Flash file served as an advertisement for the Toontown Neopets Sponsor game titled "Cannon Shot". It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/511_2_v1.swf). It had the phrase "Are YOU Toon Enough?" appear word by word on the screen, with most of the words zooming to the screen from the background, with the exception of the word "enough", which quickly slid in from the right side of the screen. Then, it would have the phrase "Find Out Here!" appear, and finally it would transition and show the Toontown logo.

First screen with the word "ARE"

Second screen

Third screen

Fourth screen where the word "ENOUGH?" quickly slides in from the right side of the screen

Fifth screen with the words "FIND OUT" that drop in from the top of the screen and bounce back up to the middle of the screen

Sixth screen with the word "HERE!!!" that that spins in from the background

Seventh screen, which transitions to the Toontown logo with an animation of the Toontown logo eyes looking to the left and right of the screen

Final screen where the Toontown logo eyes become the full Toontown logo before the Flash file loops

Gag Order

518_1_v1.swf

This Flash file served as an advertisement for one of the Toontown Neopets Sponsor games, the game being "Gag Order". It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/518_1_v1.swf). It started off with the Toontown catchphrase "Are YOU Toon enough?", then it switched to a screen with a green cat Toon throwing a Cream Pie at a Penny Pincher. After this, it would invite the user to play Gag Order, and then show off the Toontown Online logo.

First screen

Second screen where the green cat throws the pie.

Third screen where the pie soars through the air for a few seconds.

Fourth screen where the pie hits the Cog.

Fifth screen

The last screen. After this screen, the Flash file loops back to the first screen.

518_2_v1.swf

This Flash file served as an advertisement for the Neopets Sponsor game "Gag Order", just like 518_1_v1.swf. It is stored in the link (http://images.neopets.com/buttons/518_2_v1.swf). It started off with a close-up of a Big Cheese, which should shift its eyes back and forth. It would then show Toontown's catchphrase "Are YOU Toon enough?". After this, it would prompt the user to battle against the Cogs. It would also mention an offering of 100 Neopoints three times a day for visiting Toontown's website, but it didn't mention earning Neopoints from simply clicking on it.

First screen with The Big Cheese shifting its eyes.

Second screen

Third screen

Fourth screen

Last screen before the Flash file loops back to the first screen.