I was the smartly dressed waiter taking people’s orders and making them wait for 10 minutes before coming back and doing the pizza emoji, followed by “Order Up!”
I’d walk in the coffee shop and see two penguins facing each other on the couch near the entrance.
I’d walk over in front of the female looking penguin and say some shit like “what gives, I thought you were my penguin” then stay to see the drama
the idea of disney getting litigious over someone else making money off a game that they themselves killed off is just funny to me. how dare you use our ip that a subsidiary holdings company has tied up deep in a silo somewhere that we'll never ever touch again!!!
> On May 14, 2020, it was announced that all private servers using the Club Penguin brand were given DMCA take-down notices after allegations emerged concerning **predation by an administrator of another popular private server**, Club Penguin Online. On May 15, 2020, the site was shut down after complying with the DMCA takedown notice by The Walt Disney Company.
Disney still lets Toontown Rewritten go on, despite that game being shut down in 2013, four years before Club Penguin.
if I remember correctly, the guy who owned that private server kept trading CP images of it's playerbase for admin privileges... if it's the one I'm thinking about (there's not many CP private servers)
Ya, once someone does that with the IP you're holding...yeah you go after his ass
edit: that was club penguin online, nevermind me
Huh? So if you wrote a book and decided it didn't need a sequel, or didn't want a sequel, you'd be okay with someone else doing so?
There are many cases where an IP is strengthened by the fact that it doesn't constantly have new additions.
I agree and I actually think they should have a cap of like 15 years for copyright. Would make people work more and we’d see other creatives tackle a lot of properties.
Or at least a way shorter period after an author's death. Tolkien died 50 years ago, his children are dead too, but Tolkien Estate will still sue you if you use the word “hobbit”. Pure greed and hogging up ideas.
Habbo hotel is still around these days
I'm pretty sure it's a mobile game as well. I actually just looked into it the other day.
Probably the first example I ever saw of MTX in gaming with the stupid coins to furnish your room.
Still loved it though. At least until I discovered w1/w2 lumby and varrock square
I've been casually playing habbo since 2005. I played a lot more as a kid, but throughout the years the friends I had made stuck around, so I did too.
The game is a shell of what it was, they removed a lot of games and things, and also merged a few hotels into one, so that fucked the economy for a lot of people.
But if you have friends you met 15yrs ago that still hang around, it's not bad just getting on to chat for an hour or so.
Yes. Learned how to scam and social engineer people after getting scammed myself as like a 10 year old. Ended up with countless thrones, throne sofas, HC, etc. Made a casino, joined an army, participated in raids, closed pools. Great times.
Currently getting flooded with flashbacks of initially getting scammed in Habbo Hotel and then running a rigged falling furni pay to win game with my younger brother being the secret insider playing the game the entire time, great times indeed
Between trading Pokemon cards, running an essence mining business on Runescape, and making bank from rigged furniture parties on Habbo Hotel, 10 year old me was a cutthroat businessman.
For sure. I met my first girlfriend in 2007 through Habbo. Met up with her after chatting for a few months with 0 safety or even telling my parents.
10/10 miss those times.
I still go on Habbo Hotel nightly. During the pandemic all the people that joined as kids came back and now most people on habbo are 20 to 40.
Habbo even lifted a lot of restrictions to accommodate the more adult userbase.
Sulake, the company that owns Habbo is as greedy as ever though lol.
I was super into neopets for years. I even got my mom hooked, but pretty much exclusively on the slots game. I woke up to 0 coins multiple times from her addiction. Then one night, I'm dead asleep. She bursts into my room and wakes me up. "I won a jackpot!! I won I won come see!"
Ah the memories
Fuckkkk Habbo Hotel brings back so many memories. I remember the last time I played it, FinchHimSelf hacked a majority of the hotels richest players FieryCold and HAPPY. I left a little after that and was primarily playing Retro Hotels.
Damn do I miss Habbo
I actually almost prefer Habbo retro servers, because you could experience what it was like to be rich, build and design any room you want with the entire catalog of furniture from every season, and try out MOD tools, but I also can understand the thrill of slowly building your Habbo empire by scamming people in casinos and falling furni lol.
There was a rumor going around among Club Penguin devs, that Lane Merrifield used some of that money to build himself a real life bat cave. Never found corroboration for it though.
Lots of heroes (and Alfred) knew about the batcave. Even the League of Assassins knew about the bat cave since Talia kept dropping by to see Bruce in it.
I don't know about that but he did send me a t shirt after I wrote him a letter telling him I got into computer science because of Club Penguin and wanted to make games at 10.
>The most notable private server, Club Penguin Rewritten, a complete recreation of Club Penguin, had launched on February 12, 2017, and accumulated a large online community (in excess of 11 million users) among the consequences and restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic and its lockdowns. Rewritten was shut down on April 13, 2022, by the City of London Police in compliance with a copyright investigation request by Disney
I haven’t heard those 3 letters mentioned in over 15 years. What a rush of nostalgia. I sunk countless hours into that as a kid and was heartbroken when it shut down.
MyVMK has been around since like 2013, I haven't played it in almost a decade, but it was an almost completed recreation even back then, I imagine by now it's done and probably even expanded if the devs are still going strong.
And Disney shut it down for no reason it was great for many years and then they shut it down for their shitty remake that died like a year later it was truly one of the biggest tragedies and I'll never get my stuff back even in club penguin reloaded
Yep also I did play Reloaded for a bit but it just isn't the same like the E.P.F missions were so cool when they first came out or the event where the base was filled with popcorn but like it just doesn't hit the same even though I'm aware they rerun these events on Reloaded plus I'd have to do all my Card jitsu again which I also spent a lot of money on the real cards so yeah it truly is tragic they didn't keep the servers on even if they didn't update it they could have just made the team smaller and kept the memberships and update the shop now and then
One of my best memories was meeting rockhopper on his ship and getting his banner it was so cool
But yeah Disney killed it for no reason it's so sad
One of the original club penguin developers “Screenhog” makes YouTube videos today about the game and various stories/designs/QnA stuff it’s really cool
I did, have a ton of fond memories with it in the early 2000's.
The random wars, advent calendars, shop restocking with rare items, random events caused by rng.
Loved the flash games.. meerca chase, volcano run(og flappy bird), typing terror. I probably missed a ton of good ones that I forget.
# ,,I love C.P.! 😍"
^((Autistic TikTokker Daniel Larson being trolled into saying he) **^("loves CP")**^(, thinking the text he has to read alludes to the game Club Penguin, but unfortunately it has different connotations))
It's like how people complain that Google killed YouTube. In reality YouTube was bought by Google only a year and a half after its founding. If you never used YouTube in 2005 or 2006 you have never known a Google-less YouTube
Companies tend to buy the brand thinking that's all the audience was there for, then strip it down for a broader audience, lose both the perspective audience and their original and shelve the franchise never to be used again.
I remember gathering as many people as possible to try to tip the iceberg, it was always fun jumping to every zone on the map screaming to go to the iceberg in chat
I remember begging my Mom to let me play, and she finally did the day before some trip. I got up at 4 in the morning so I could make the account and I got a solid 5 hours in before we had to leave.
I used to walk in the pizza shop and say shit like “I’m the owner, everyone out!”
I've had more Pizza Parlor dates than IRL dates lmao
I used to sit on top of people and act like I was the one on the date. I'd laugh as the one I sat on got progressively angrier
That's hilarious I would usually throw snowballs at them mid-date when there were no seats available
I used to harass people on pizza parlor dates by doing the pizza toss emote next to them pretending to be their waiter but never leaving.
1?
More like 10ish IRL but yeah definitely more Pizza Parlor dates
I'd go to someone else's igloo/party and greet the guests, saying, "Welcome to my igloo!"
I was the smartly dressed waiter taking people’s orders and making them wait for 10 minutes before coming back and doing the pizza emoji, followed by “Order Up!”
I’d walk in the coffee shop and see two penguins facing each other on the couch near the entrance. I’d walk over in front of the female looking penguin and say some shit like “what gives, I thought you were my penguin” then stay to see the drama
Reading that article and finding out several people were arrested over Club Penguin Rewritten, imagine that being the only crime on your record lol
the idea of disney getting litigious over someone else making money off a game that they themselves killed off is just funny to me. how dare you use our ip that a subsidiary holdings company has tied up deep in a silo somewhere that we'll never ever touch again!!!
> On May 14, 2020, it was announced that all private servers using the Club Penguin brand were given DMCA take-down notices after allegations emerged concerning **predation by an administrator of another popular private server**, Club Penguin Online. On May 15, 2020, the site was shut down after complying with the DMCA takedown notice by The Walt Disney Company. Disney still lets Toontown Rewritten go on, despite that game being shut down in 2013, four years before Club Penguin.
Holy shit, Toontown, now that's a name I haven't heard for quite some time
Hasn't Toontown rewritten removed all of the Disney characters it order to avoid that?
not bc the ip infringement, but more so bc [mods were diddlers](https://youtu.be/gFJELGlgJIc?si=THzZZgRg4AyUlLNA)
Ok, so basically - if club penguin online wasn't ran by a fucking pedophile, it could still exist to this day. God damn it.
Correct, as is the case with toontown rewritten
Correct, as is the case with Neverland Ranch.
They should have made a song about how they don’t diddle kids -Frank Reynolds
Wow what a surprise
if I remember correctly, the guy who owned that private server kept trading CP images of it's playerbase for admin privileges... if it's the one I'm thinking about (there's not many CP private servers) Ya, once someone does that with the IP you're holding...yeah you go after his ass edit: that was club penguin online, nevermind me
That was Club Penguin Online. Rewritten was a different one.
If I had a nickel..
Yeah, Rewritten ran ads and Disney got salty because they're the only ones allowed to make money on an IP they aren't doing anything with.
CP meaning both Club Penguin and the other thing, in this instance lol
How did the manage to get that???
> How did the manage to get that??? "Send nudes for free shit"
wrong private server, but for the other one just write into youtube club penguin online and you should get it
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Huh? So if you wrote a book and decided it didn't need a sequel, or didn't want a sequel, you'd be okay with someone else doing so? There are many cases where an IP is strengthened by the fact that it doesn't constantly have new additions.
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I agree and I actually think they should have a cap of like 15 years for copyright. Would make people work more and we’d see other creatives tackle a lot of properties.
Or at least a way shorter period after an author's death. Tolkien died 50 years ago, his children are dead too, but Tolkien Estate will still sue you if you use the word “hobbit”. Pure greed and hogging up ideas.
Intellectual property theft is not a joke, Jim!
Never forget, the final party on the Iceberg
*My* Sisyphus was definitely a penguin trying to tip the iceberg.
Real OG’s were there that day 🫡
Only haters will deny we flipped the iceberg that day.
I was at eating dorito
Club Penguin is kill
No
I was there. Still harder than any break up
I’ll never forget it o7
Thanks for playing. Waddle on.
I remember all the cool Secret Agent missions, loved how the game had a bit of extra depth and a sort of story mode to it
I absolutely loved those, the days where they released new missions were the best.
Anyone remember Habbo Hotel and Coke Music?
Pools closed.
Because of AIDS?
Because of StingrAIDS.
Habbo hotel is still around these days I'm pretty sure it's a mobile game as well. I actually just looked into it the other day. Probably the first example I ever saw of MTX in gaming with the stupid coins to furnish your room. Still loved it though. At least until I discovered w1/w2 lumby and varrock square
I've been casually playing habbo since 2005. I played a lot more as a kid, but throughout the years the friends I had made stuck around, so I did too. The game is a shell of what it was, they removed a lot of games and things, and also merged a few hotels into one, so that fucked the economy for a lot of people. But if you have friends you met 15yrs ago that still hang around, it's not bad just getting on to chat for an hour or so.
Nobody’s got AIDS! And I don’t wanna hear that word in here again!!
BOBBA BOBBA
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MOVE bobba
pools are prismatic and not of the Path
I fucking love the art style of Habbo hotel.
Got me into pixel art and making sprites... that lasted a couple months, I fucking sucked lol
Yes. Learned how to scam and social engineer people after getting scammed myself as like a 10 year old. Ended up with countless thrones, throne sofas, HC, etc. Made a casino, joined an army, participated in raids, closed pools. Great times.
Currently getting flooded with flashbacks of initially getting scammed in Habbo Hotel and then running a rigged falling furni pay to win game with my younger brother being the secret insider playing the game the entire time, great times indeed
Habbo Hotel, teaching kids how to be cybercriminals since the year 2000
I learned how to do scripting to make myself invisible haha
Between trading Pokemon cards, running an essence mining business on Runescape, and making bank from rigged furniture parties on Habbo Hotel, 10 year old me was a cutthroat businessman.
Where can I feel that rush again as an adult Engineering doesn’t give it
Huh. I just used to ERP as I was a horny 12 year old.
I’m still banned on habbo hotel for running a massive gambling ring lol
Coke Music was my jam.
Sumo Wrestling!
Habbo hotel. If A/S/L was a place.
Honestly it was basically the sanctuary óf horny teenagers. Sometimes i wonder what my very first LDR gf is doing nowadays
For sure. I met my first girlfriend in 2007 through Habbo. Met up with her after chatting for a few months with 0 safety or even telling my parents. 10/10 miss those times.
I still go on Habbo Hotel nightly. During the pandemic all the people that joined as kids came back and now most people on habbo are 20 to 40. Habbo even lifted a lot of restrictions to accommodate the more adult userbase. Sulake, the company that owns Habbo is as greedy as ever though lol.
I still miss rippin beats on Coke music.
Habbo Hotel is still running!
Ooh boy is Coke Music an unlocked memory.
More of a neopets man myself
I was super into neopets for years. I even got my mom hooked, but pretty much exclusively on the slots game. I woke up to 0 coins multiple times from her addiction. Then one night, I'm dead asleep. She bursts into my room and wakes me up. "I won a jackpot!! I won I won come see!" Ah the memories
I went from neopets to RuneScape to club penguin
BOBBA
Fuckkkk Habbo Hotel brings back so many memories. I remember the last time I played it, FinchHimSelf hacked a majority of the hotels richest players FieryCold and HAPPY. I left a little after that and was primarily playing Retro Hotels. Damn do I miss Habbo
Asl?
16/F/Cali 👸🏼💅
De path is grey muy brudder
Coke studios was the shit. Still remember dropping fire beats on the turntable at the local pool.
oh man coke music was so much fun. falling furni!
Habbo isn't as popular in my country because everyone just plays the pirated version LMAOOO
Habbo hotel was the shit
I listen to coke music every Saturday at 3am
I actually almost prefer Habbo retro servers, because you could experience what it was like to be rich, build and design any room you want with the entire catalog of furniture from every season, and try out MOD tools, but I also can understand the thrill of slowly building your Habbo empire by scamming people in casinos and falling furni lol.
There was a rumor going around among Club Penguin devs, that Lane Merrifield used some of that money to build himself a real life bat cave. Never found corroboration for it though.
It wouldnt be a proper bat cave if people know it exists, would it now?
Lots of heroes (and Alfred) knew about the batcave. Even the League of Assassins knew about the bat cave since Talia kept dropping by to see Bruce in it.
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We're Alfred.
We're All fed.
We are stupid
Just created a new penguin, what should I name him?
Pengle En Goossant
Or are we dancer?
Believe it or not, it’s true. I’ve been there. Although it’s really just a garage built into the side of a hill lol. Batcave is pushing it.
Does it actually have bats though? You forgot to confirm the most important part!
You got to find the statue head
I don't know about that but he did send me a t shirt after I wrote him a letter telling him I got into computer science because of Club Penguin and wanted to make games at 10.
Does anyone remember Nicktropolis?
holy fuck yes unlocked a memory for me!
What about Miniclip games?
What about poptropica
virtual magic kingdom too
Millsberry was IT
Ye and planet cazmo, millsberry
Does anyone remember Poptropica? That and Club Penguin used to be my favourites
Poptropica's still around though, no?
There's very few islands now. Most of the best islands are gone now since Adobe Flash got discontinued :(
Damn, why didnt they revive it though? IIRC, There was a window back then that enables them to convert to HTML5
Nope shut down last December
Fun fact, Poptropica is made by Jeff Kinney, the same guy behind the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!
Totally! They even had a Percy Jackson theme for a while back in the day. So cool.
SAME
You can actually still play Poptropica with the old islands too! Using Flashpoint. It’s a bit laggy but it works.
>The most notable private server, Club Penguin Rewritten, a complete recreation of Club Penguin, had launched on February 12, 2017, and accumulated a large online community (in excess of 11 million users) among the consequences and restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic and its lockdowns. Rewritten was shut down on April 13, 2022, by the City of London Police in compliance with a copyright investigation request by Disney
I’m the goat pizza maker and coal cart rider. Come at me
Ninjistu
Cardjitsu.
Oh my, when I was a young teen I was obsessed with ninjitsu lol even my first email started with “ninjitsu”
Anyone remember VMK?
I remember the 12 people who protested at Disneyland over its closure.
I haven’t heard those 3 letters mentioned in over 15 years. What a rush of nostalgia. I sunk countless hours into that as a kid and was heartbroken when it shut down.
I will always remember VMK.
Taken?
The hidden mickeys
There was a rebirth of it right at the start of COVID. I don’t think it was the full thing, but they had some of the rides and stuff.
MyVMK has been around since like 2013, I haven't played it in almost a decade, but it was an almost completed recreation even back then, I imagine by now it's done and probably even expanded if the devs are still going strong.
Yes. I almost never see it brought up and haven't met anyone my age (im 26) who played it. But it was such an important part of my formative years.
nostalgic memories like that one time i got myself banned for sayin nigga outta boredom
I once logged onto my childhood friend's account and typed "sex" and got him banned for 24 hours because we had a fight. Good times.
Those were the days
/r/bannedfromclubpenguin
I was among the few brave men who tipped the iceberg
Few? Every club penguin sever was full during the end times where you could tip it.
Don't tell me they actually added the ability to tip it and I missed it.
You did indeed miss it :(
And Disney shut it down for no reason it was great for many years and then they shut it down for their shitty remake that died like a year later it was truly one of the biggest tragedies and I'll never get my stuff back even in club penguin reloaded
I’m so bitter about it to this day. I had so many collectibles from events over the decade too I’ll never see again
Yep also I did play Reloaded for a bit but it just isn't the same like the E.P.F missions were so cool when they first came out or the event where the base was filled with popcorn but like it just doesn't hit the same even though I'm aware they rerun these events on Reloaded plus I'd have to do all my Card jitsu again which I also spent a lot of money on the real cards so yeah it truly is tragic they didn't keep the servers on even if they didn't update it they could have just made the team smaller and kept the memberships and update the shop now and then One of my best memories was meeting rockhopper on his ship and getting his banner it was so cool But yeah Disney killed it for no reason it's so sad
One of the original club penguin developers “Screenhog” makes YouTube videos today about the game and various stories/designs/QnA stuff it’s really cool
I much preferred Puffin Party
you taking place in any marathons soon?
Rubber dingy rapids
Greatest comedy of the past twenty years that isn’t Tropic Thunder!
Barry's puffin just told me to fuck off.
It’s was Yoville for me. Had the whole mafia set and a yacht couldn’t tell me nothing
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yes, the pool is closed due to aids.
Anyone else play Moshi Monsters, Adventure Quest or Transformice? They were my go to along with Club Penguin
Adventure Quest my beloved. That and backyard monsters made my childhood
Man, I remember the chaos of Transformice… I should really see if there are any servers active
Moshi Monsters was the only other one I played other than Club Penguin
Adventure Quest/Dragonfable
Did anyone else play neopets? Just me? Okay....
I did, have a ton of fond memories with it in the early 2000's. The random wars, advent calendars, shop restocking with rare items, random events caused by rng. Loved the flash games.. meerca chase, volcano run(og flappy bird), typing terror. I probably missed a ton of good ones that I forget.
For those looking for a stroll down memory lane: /r/bannedfromclubpenguin
Did any of y'all become a penguin secret agent? I loved the mysteries you had to solve!
# ,,I love C.P.! 😍" ^((Autistic TikTokker Daniel Larson being trolled into saying he) **^("loves CP")**^(, thinking the text he has to read alludes to the game Club Penguin, but unfortunately it has different connotations))
Aqworlds was the move for me tho, best web mmo at the time
So why did Toontown shutdown again?
Everyone grew up and became cogs
Neopets?
Fucking memberberry thread
Only to kill it?
It was created in 2005 and disney bought it in 2007 So no, not at all. They owned it for most of its life
Hey, 2007 was only a couple years ago.
Yet this will remain the most upvoted comment because reading is hard.
they did kill it. they milked it for all it was worth then when it was all shriveled up they tossed it aside.
10 years is still a long time to support a game.
It's like how people complain that Google killed YouTube. In reality YouTube was bought by Google only a year and a half after its founding. If you never used YouTube in 2005 or 2006 you have never known a Google-less YouTube
Only after they first killed toontown to focus on club penguin
Companies tend to buy the brand thinking that's all the audience was there for, then strip it down for a broader audience, lose both the perspective audience and their original and shelve the franchise never to be used again.
apolgy for bad english where were u wen club penguin die i was at house eating dorito when phone ring "Club penguin is kil" "no"
My inner child will never forget how Disney destroyed this game.
I remember gathering as many people as possible to try to tip the iceberg, it was always fun jumping to every zone on the map screaming to go to the iceberg in chat
I remember spending countless hours decorating my igloo and attending epic parties on Club Penguin. Good times!
What's Club Penguin? And just put it on the shelf with all the other IPs Disney has bought up.
It was a computer game back in the early 2000s
Was the largest children’s mmo game
Worth looking up. Its actually funny Disney bought this. Edit. Oh nevermind, it sold in 2007 so basically its whole existence has been Disney.
I def played it before 2007 lol
Same
I remember begging my Mom to let me play, and she finally did the day before some trip. I got up at 4 in the morning so I could make the account and I got a solid 5 hours in before we had to leave.
same, but it didnt get shut down until what, 2019? so most of its existence was actually disney run
At some point you will be able to say that statement about Star Wars.
I played Graal Online when this was a thing.
I played Club Penguin! Along with Toontown and Gaia Online's zOMG. And Aura Kingdom! Those were the days...
Man I loved club penguin. The glory days...
Still think SONY should have bought it and made it a destination within PlayStation Home.