Disney to expand MMORPG line-up
by Jared Rea 
{ Jan 11th 2007 at 6:30PM }
No stranger to the online landscape, Disney's CES presentation included word on their future plans to create massive worlds based on many of their licenses. With Pirates of the Caribbean already well into production (if not due this year), Disney intends to "build more virtual worlds like "Pirates" based on a broad range of our properties." Disney is quick to throw out Toy Story as an example of this, but when they mean broad, think real broad. This may not mean that every game is going to own up to the standard, online RPG format. A "virtual world" can be anything from an online hack-and-slash like Pirates to something of a visual chatroom like MTV's Virtual Laguna Beach.
Disney's first foray into the MMORPG format was a kid friendly action game, Toontown, which is still online to this day and at by last account, fairly competent. Should Disney team-up down the line with some designers worth their chops, we may not insist on groaning when we hear word of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Online.
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micheal82 @ Jan 11th 2007 6:42PM
Kingdom hearts MMORPG would be great. But Knowing Disney they would put out that's so raven online.
DocCRP @ Jan 12th 2007 12:15PM
Or maybe a MMORPG time traveling game from 2121. Travel with the Diffys from the future!
MattyB @ Jan 11th 2007 7:16PM
TRON! We demand a Tron MMO!
20XX @ Jan 11th 2007 7:06PM
I'd play a Raven RPG if I could grind my Ravenness attribute until I was in fact So Raven.
Matt @ Jan 11th 2007 7:12PM
How's about a Kingdom Hearts MMORPG?
20XX @ Jan 11th 2007 7:16PM
No.
chinese boiiiii can sing too @ Jan 11th 2007 7:16PM
How about world of warcraft on the ds? I think anyone who gets that on a console will almost be guaranteed to win the next gen. well, at least not the psp, if they come out with WoW foe psp it would not be enough to remove the psp from a deep deep grave and the bowels of hell. but on the ds it would be cool or wii or 360.
Patrick @ Jan 11th 2007 7:46PM
Damm Raven is fat these days. On hangin' with mr cooper she was all cute and all, now just a fat ass..
Defenestrator2.0 @ Jan 11th 2007 8:31PM
@ #8
She's so fat, that when people see her walking down the street, they go, "......God damnit, that's a fat ass!"
I'm sorry, but that episode of South Park was the first thing that came to mind when I read your post.
DISNEY CONSPIRACY! I've figured out the horrible truth for two of Disney's shows: That's So Raven and Hannah Montana.
Disney developed That's So Raven for the military as a torture device!
And not many people know this, but Hannah Montana is a Nazi! (True story, I was playing Call Of Duty: United Offensive, and a player named "Hannah Montana" connected to the server and joined the German team.)
NoHitHair @ Jan 11th 2007 9:44PM
I thought this was a blog about gaming.
Abraham @ Jan 23rd 2007 10:12AM
I'm with MattyB, a TRON MMORPG would be great, for the young ones, I recomend you to watch the Tron Movie and after that play Tron 2.0(Tron movie sequel made videogame).
Imagine, the big PC World of Tron, tech music and of course a lot of games to play in the Tron World like disk launch, ligthcycles, the jai alai stuff, etc.
Xiwll @ Mar 7th 2007 5:44PM
Well, I gotta say that a Kingdom Hearts MMORPG would be awesome, in fact, WICKED AWESOME, and if it wasn't copyrighted, I would make it myself. Kingdom Hearts rules, it always will, or at least to me and others. It's been on Gameboy, and PS2, soon on PS3, why not on world wide internet?? Think, Disney, Before I take action!!!