| Toontown | |
|---|---|
| Located in | Los Angeles, California (fictional) |
| Type | Cartoon City |
| Notable characters | Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Roger Rabbit, Betty Boop, other Toons |
| Population | Toons |
| First appearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Toontown also known as ToonTown is an animated cartoon city and the fictional home for various cartoon characters in the Touchstone Pictures 1988 hybrid film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.[1]
Description
In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the whole city of Toontown is cartoonish, except for anything foreign to it such as people and objects from the real world, outside of it. Real foreign objects have also been known to become animated once being exposed to the Toon environment. However, the same cannot be said for Toon-based objects, such as the Punching Glove Mallet. At the time of the film, Toontown's look is that of a city in the 1940s. The total population of the city is not widely known, nor its area.
At one point a non-anthropomorphic airplane can be seen, revealing that the city of Toontown has at least a few airports.[2]
Not only does the city appear illustrated (drawn and painted) and animated, but the whole environment has an imaginary, fantasy, almost dreamlike atmosphere. Not only do cartoon characters live there but even the buildings (some of them at least), cars (some of them at least), plants (some of them at least), and such are all animated with their own personalities, speech patterns, stylistic movement, and other anthropomorphic traits that are impossible in our reality.
Furthermore, humans are, more or less, able to experience cartoon physics or perform feats that contradict the laws of physics in the human world, seen with Eddie when he was flattened in an elevator. Due to the erratic nature of the Toon World, Toontown was considered to be both remarkably fun and extremely dangerous for humans.
Residents of Toontown
With the exception of the characters appearing or created specifically for the movie, all cartoon characters ever created (ranging from the 1900s to the present) live, some perhaps even born, in Toontown such as Mickey, Bugs, Daffy, Donald, Goofy and many others. According to the Roger Rabbit comic series, they are separated in different areas of the town according to their age of creation: toons born during the black and white period live in a monochromatic zone, while colored toons like Roger live in another one with more tints; older toons belonging to the mute period have the peculiarity to not produce any sound, therefore their home neighbourhood is completely silent.
Several residents of Toontown are cartoon buildings where other residents enter, while other buildings are non-sentient, such as the apartment complex (where Droopy works as an elevator valet), Mickey's House and McDuck Manor.
Toontown in other Versions
Toontown has other appearances besides appearing in Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
Trivia
- According to the letters column in issue #13 of the Roger Rabbit comic book, the main unit of money in Toontown is called a simoleon. Before this, the city's currency was never revealed in the movie except for a line by Lt. Santino. The word itself means a United States dollar.
- Outside of being mentioned in the theme song, the term Toontown is actually never used on Bonkers.
- In the Mickey Mouse universe, there's a city that was inspired by this town from the film and the Disneyland selection Mickey's Toontown.
- As mentioned before, the total population and area of Toontown are currently unknown.
- The filming location for the tunnel to Toontown is the Mt. Hollywood tunnel, located in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.
References
- ↑ "The Funeral of Marvin Acme". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ↑ [1][dead link]
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