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- Mickey's Toontown inspired an online role-playing game called Toontown Online, which was released in 2003. The online game is similar to Mickey's Toontown.
- In the Wii game Epic Mickey, OsTown was inspired by Mickey's Toontown. However, OsTown features more "dog-faces", an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit fountain, and Clarabelle Cow.
- In July 2011, for the television program Curb Appeal: The Block, designer and host John Gidding installed a comical Toontown-style railing on the front porch of an Alameda, California home. Despite the frequent chuckles it provided to friends and neighbors, it was quietly removed and replaced by a more appropriate railing.
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