Disney Shutters Toontown and Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow Online Games
Posted on August 22, 2013
Bloomberg reports that Disney is shuttering three online games: Toontown Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow.
Toontown Online, the oldest of the three virtual worlds, is ten years old. It enables members to battle evil robots. Pixie Hollow is an online world that Disney launched in 2008 as a tie-in with Pixie Hollow toys. We suspect some kids will be sad to see these worlds go.
Disney says the game closures will enable it to focus on the Club Penguin virtual world, which it acquired in 2007, as well as Disney Mobile apps. Disney told Bloomberg in a statement, "We are shifting our development focus toward other online and mobile play experiences, such as Club Penguin and a growing selection of Disney Mobile apps."