Disney's Toontown Online Receives People's Voice Webby Award in Kids Category.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 Disney's Toontown Online Toontown Online (more commonly known as Toontown) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. (www.toontown.com), the first massively multiplayer (MMP MMP Matrix Metalloproteinase (enzymes related to tissue healing/remodeling and cancer cell metastasis) MMP Mixed Member Proportional (New Zealand electoral system) MMP Multi-man Publishing ) 3D online game created for kids and families, received accolades in the 2003 Webby Awards For the Ducktales character, see . Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites". The awards have been given out since 1996. as the People's Voice award winner in the kids category. Now in its seventh year, The Webby Awards is the leading international honor for Web sites and individual achievement in creativity and technology. "We are tremendously honored to receive such recognition for Toontown so early in its history," said Ken Goldstein, executive VP and general manager of Disney Online. "The People's Voice Award is especially meaningful for our team because it says that we've impressed the most important critics of all, the wonderful people who are already playing the game. We hope their embrace will soon extend to an increasingly broad fan base." Disney's Toontown Online is a downloadable, immersive 3-D multiplayer online game designed for both adults and kids as young as seven looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a nonviolent alternative to online gaming. In the game, players become "Toons," personalized cartoon characters, who join together to save the world from the evil Cogs These are all the Cogs found in Disney's Toontown Online. Names that are moved forward are leaders of the HQ of that specific Cog type. Bossbots
brook, endure, tolerate, stomach, abide, bear, digest, stick out, suffer, put up, stand, support - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant , Toons confront them with gags, such as squirting flowers and a pie in the face. The game allows participants to play together, communicate in a safe environment, and undertake challenging quests. Toontown is currently available online at www.toontown.com for $9.95 per month. A retail version of Disney's Toontown Online, primarily for narrowband households, will be available in September 2003 through a Disney specialty card powered by AT&T Prepaid Web Cents(SM) technology, a new secure payment alternative for consumer purchases of online digital content. Disney Online Disney Online (www.disney.com) produces the number one kids' entertainment and family community destinations on the Internet that consistently reflect the magic that has come to be expected of Disney. Its "neighborhoods," specifically designed for each member of the family, include Disney's Blast (www.disneyblast.com) and Disney's Toontown Online (www.toontown.com), both premium subscription services, as well as Disney Store, Destinations, Playhouse Disney, Kids Island, Entertainment, FamilyFun and Main Street Merchants. Disney Online also produces FamilyFun.com (www.familyfun.com), the premier online family resource for great ideas, practical advice and fun stuff to do, and Movies.com (www.movies.com), a leading site that provides a broad array of reviews and information to help movie fans make the right choice on movie night. Disney Online is a part of The Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. , which provides integrated strategic and operational Internet services for The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS) Internet initiatives. About The Webby Awards Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards are the leading international honors for consumer Web sites and individual achievement in technology and creativity. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences or IADAS was founded in 1998 in New York to help drive the progress of the Internet and evolving forms of new media. The academy selects the nominees and winners for the Webby Awards. selects the nominees and winners, and presents the awards event. Sponsors of The 7th Annual Webby Awards include media partners Business 2.0, Fortune and Fortune Small Business magazines; Event partners PricewaterhouseCoopers and Nielsen//NetRatings; Official Sponsors The Creative Group, IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) , Absolut Vodka, Comstock Images, and Rackspace Managed Hosting. For more information visit http://www.webbyawards.com/. |
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