Club Penguin
A generation decorated igloos and met friends as cartoon penguins until Disney closed the original web world for a mobile successor.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A moderated children's massively multiplayer social game created by New Horizon Interactive and later owned by Disney.
Players chatted, played minigames, adopted puffles and attended large live events in an accessible browser world built on Flash.
Existence timeline
Club Penguin opens its moderated browser world.
The Walt Disney Company buys the rapidly growing service.
Official apps broaden access beyond desktop browsers.
Disney names Club Penguin Island as the successor.
Players gather for the final moments before servers stop.
Why it ended
Disney closed the desktop and mobile original on 29 March 2017 while shifting the brand to Club Penguin Island.
Last confirmed trace
An archived official notice, videos, fan archives and private-server recreations preserve aspects of the original world, but not Disney's service.
What it left behind
Its rituals, safety systems and final shutdown became a shared childhood memory and a major case in community-led game preservation.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.