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Toon Disney
Toon Disney
Toon Disney
Toon Disney

Toon Disney is a cable channel that features mostly Disney cartoons. The network was launched on or about April 18, 1998.

Toon Disney, the spin-off to Disney Channel, shows cartoons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. It is similar to if you combined the Cartoon Network with The Disney Channel. A lot of old Disney cartoon shows appear including shows that used to be part of The Disney Afternoon.

There is also a Spanish langauge version of Toon Disney.

This network was owned by The Walt Disney Company which also owns The Disney Channel and the American Broadcasting Company.

The first logo (1998-2002; used in tandem with the second logo in the 2001-2002 season) and the second logo (2001-2004) are displayed on this page.

Shows Broadcast on Toon Disney

As mentioned before, most of Toon Disney's programming has consisted of now-cancelled Disney Animation shows from the past. But Toon Disney has also shown some non-Disney cartoons, most of them produced by DiC Entertainment, which Disney owned at the time the network was launched. Among the shows Toon Disney has featured, past and present:

Animated movies (both Disney and non-Disney) have also been broadcast on the show every Friday and Saturday. Recently, though, movies have been shown every weekday as well. It is unknown if the movie slot will ever return to just Fridays and Saturdays.

Programming Blocks

Over the course of Toon Disney's broadcast history, it has had several programming blocks that featured at least two of their shows.

A four-hour block called Magical World of Toons was added in 2000, and came on every night. Unfortunately, it disappeared in 2003, where its slot was replaced by The Power Pack, which was really just a bunch of three-hour marathons of certain shows. It was brought back shortly afterward, but did not have its original look, nor was it even called Magical World of Toons anymore. More recently, though, it has been replaced by Jetix (see below).

Princess Power Hour also came in 2000, and is a one-hour block featuring episodes of Aladdin (the ones featuring Jasmine, at least) and The Little Mermaid. It airs every weekend afternoon.

Also added in 2000 was Chillin' with the Villains. Here, a two-hour marathon of a certain show was presented on Sunday afternoons. However, these particular marathons focused on a certain villain from whichever series was being featured. (Teamo Supremo was a bit of an exception, due to the fact that the show's villains weren't regulars.) Unfortunately, this block was removed in 2004.

@Toon, a four-hour weekday-afternoon block similar in spirit to the original Disney Afternoon, came out in 2001. Before each first commercial break for each show, it featured some viewer submissions and game high scores from the official website. Removed in 2004.

2002 brought forth Hangin' with the Heroes, which originally aired on weekends, but then aired on weekdays too. It featured Aladdin, Gargoyles, and Hercules: The Animated Series. But like the last two blocks listed, it was removed in 2004.

JETIX on Toon Disney, and Its Controversy

In February 2004, the JETIX programming block, already featured on ABC Family, was added to Toon Disney's weeknight schedule. It airs every night, replacing the block formerly reserved for Magical World of Toons. In addition to Gargoyles and The Legend of Tarzan, and new Disney series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!, it features these shows, most of which were formerly seen on Fox Kids:

Although fans of these shows are glad to be able to watch these shows in the evening (their ABC Family time slot comes on in the morning while they're at school), many die-hard Toon Disney fans are greatly upset by this new addition to Toon Disney's schedule, and consider the addition of JETIX to be the point where Toon Disney jumped the shark. And they seem to have good reason to, because sometime after JETIX was added, most of the classic Disney shows that the network was meant for fans of have vanished off the face of the network. Prior to the addition of JETIX, though, The Wuzzles, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Marsupilami, The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, and Jungle Cubs had also disappeared. Toon Disney doesn't even show classic Disney shorts anymore. It is unknown if these classic shows will ever return to Toon Disney, so until then, we can only hope.

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