She's everywhere, all over your YouTube feed- and most disturbingly, this adorable red-haired doll
seems to be popping up on every child’s YouTube feed. But what in the world is Poppy Playtime,
and what's really going on inside the terrifying halls of Playtime Co. Toy Factory?
Playtime Company Toy Factory used to be one of the most successful toy manufacturers in the world,
its line up of toys included: Mommy Long Legs, a spider-like stretchable toy released in 1991,
Candy Cat, Bron the dinosaur, Boogie Bot the rapping robot, Huggy Wuggy, the best selling
toy of Playtime Co. and its official mascot, and his partner Kissy Missy. However, one day
Playtime Co. suddenly shut its doors for good, with all of its staff mysteriously vanishing.
Then ten years later a surviving factory worker, who was not around on the day that the factory
staff mysteriously vanished, receives a letter from the missing staff begging him to return and
help them all. But once our survivor enters the factory, they discover that something is
seriously wrong- not only is the place completely abandoned, but the toys seem to be coming to life.
After acquiring a “grab pack”, which was meant to help employees work more efficiently,
the survivor enters the main lobby of the factory and runs into the famous Huggy Wuggy, standing
several feet taller than the survivor, adorning the lobby as Playtime Co.'s official mascot.
The power is cut and the survivor must restore it before advancing. However, upon returning to
the lobby they discover that Huggy Wuggy is gone! The hulking, blue-furred mascot seems
to have come to life, and immediately begins to torment the survivor who must flee for their life.
Luring Huggy Wuggy out onto a cat walk though, the survivor uses the grab pack to pull down a large
box which smashes into the cat walk and sends the blue-furred menace tumbling to the shadows
below... apparently killing him. But do toys stay dead?
After this, the survivor encounters the infamous Poppy Playtime doll locked up in a case.
Upon releasing her though she comes to life and seems surprised that the survivor let
her out of her display case. Poppy is grateful to be freed and promises to help the survivor
escape the factory by giving them a code that will activate the factory's train, but before
she can make good on her promise a massively long appendage snakes around Poppy and drags her away!
The survivor must now battle Mommy Long Legs, another of Playtime Co.'s toys
that has come alive, but she won't take the survivor head on- at least not yet.
She promises to let the survivor escape if they can complete her three games without cheating,
emphasis on no cheating! In return, Mommy Long Legs will give them the code for the train-
but she warns that if they cheat, she will dismember them limb by limb!
The survivor must solve a few puzzles to get to the actual games themselves, but once the way is
clear to the game room, the first challenge he must complete is a game called Musical Memory.
Basically a version of Simon Says, the survivor needs to recreate the sequences presented to them.
To add to the pressure, the entire time Bunzo Bunny, another animated toy, clangs his cymbals
together as he descends from a long shaft in the ceiling above the survivor. Taking too long
means Bunzo Bunny drops down onto the survivor and smashes them to bits with their cymbals!
Next it's time for Wack-A-Wuggy, a twisted and much more dangerous version of Whack-a-Mole.
In this version miniature Wuggys crawl out of pipes placed throughout the room. Back when they
had children play this game, the Wuggys were on leashes so they could be yanked back before
actually reaching the terrified child. But now Mommy Long Legs has cut all of the Wuggy's strings
and they are free to attack the survivor unless he whacks them backwards with the grab pack.
But wait, what was that about these living toys being used to torment children? Well,
that’s all part of the suspicious origins of the living toys, but we’ll dive into that later.
Next is a game of green light, red light, or stop-and-go. The rules are simple:
the survivor must get to the other side of a large arena, but can only move while the lights
are off and music plays. Sounds easy right? Well, it would be- if it weren't for the massive 50-foot
Pug-a-Pillar continuously searching for the survivor. This massive caterpillar-like
creature moves slowly when the lights are off, but if the survivor breaks the rules
and moves when the lights are on, he'll dash straight to the survivor and eat them.
But Mommy Long Legs has rigged this game, because the exit is blocked by
rubble! To avoid being eaten, the survivor must 'cheat' by exiting via an observation chamber and
down a hole in the ground, which instantly sets Mommy Long Legs off in hot pursuit,
infuriated by the survivor breaking the rules and cheating- something she does not tolerate!
Escaping through the factory, the survivor manages to evade Mommy Long Legs until she
is accidentally caught up in an industrial grinder and is horrifically crushed to death.
Screaming that she doesn't want to be made a “part of him!”, Mommy Long Legs dies and
her broken body is scooped up by the large metal claw of some terrifying and unknown toy
reaching out from under a partially open doorway. With Mommy Long Legs no longer pursuing him,
the survivor can now escape via the train- only for Poppy to send the train in a new direction
saying that she can't let the survivor go just yet! We don’t know what Poppy has in store for
him, because the train derails and comes to a stop next to a sign that reads “playcare”.
So what in the world is going on inside the halls of the Playtime Co. factory?!
Scattered throughout the Playtime Co. factory are posters encouraging their employees to adopt
foster children from all over the world. These children were then brought to work
where Playtime generously offered free child care services with a large daycare
facility. What kid wouldn't want to go to daycare inside a toy factory?!
But Playtime wasn't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts- they had ulterior motives.
Somehow the researchers at Playtime were figuring out how to bring toys to life-
unfortunately they needed the souls of children to do so.
These adopted children were put through rigorous tests to condition them to become perfect toys.
During this time they were under the guidance and care of Mommy Long Legs.
Mommy loved her children and her job, but once the children disappeared and the factory shut down,
she went crazy and turned into the homicidal maniac that nearly kills the survivor.
How did the children get turned into toys? No one knows- yet- but as a future chapter
of Poppy Playtime is released we will hopefully learn more. What is for sure though is that it's
likely that Poppy Playtime is herself a human soul inside a doll, as in a secret VHS tape inside the
factory we discover that a woman named Stella Greyber was interviewed and then hired to work
at the Playcare facility. Interestingly, in her interview she mentions how much she misses being
a child and playing with toys, and laments how human bodies just grow older and older.
Also, she happens to sound exactly like Poppy Playtime. Coincidence, or has Stella received
her wish and had her soul transferred to a doll so she could play with children forever?!
Huggy Wuggy has also been brought to life somehow, but the survivor's encounter with
Huggy Wuggy gives a huge clue to the nature of these toys- as does Mommy Long Leg's death.
Upon falling to his apparent death, Huggy Wuggy can be seen smashing into a lower floor
and leaving behind a large smear of blood! Likewise,
Mommy Long Legs leaves behind plenty of blood when she gets crushed to death.
So wait a minute, how can these be toys that were brought to life if they're... bleeding?! Could
it be that these toys are actually genetically engineered creations, perhaps with the brains of
victims put directly into their bodies? There's no way to know for sure, but what we do know is
that poppies play a big role in creating these intelligent toys- and that might not be blood
after all, but a reddish poppy mixture which is important for the creation of these living toys.
Poppies are mentioned in various VHS tapes and notes found by the survivor throughout
Playtime Co., and there's even mention of an experiment trying to resuscitate a dead rat
using a poppy mixture. So the living toys may not actually be bleeding when injured,
just leaking this precious poppy juice which might be keeping them alive.
Chapter three will hopefully answer these and many more questions about Poppy Playtime, but until
then there's one thing for sure: whatever is going on inside Playtime Co. is now affecting the real
world. In the UK police have issued warnings to parents over the Fuzzy Wuzzy character, which has
exploded in popularity across social media. Young children are believed to be at risk from these
videos, with some parents reporting that their children have had nightmares of the character.
On the playground, children have invented games themed around Fuzzy Wuzzy, with one British school
reporting that children invented a game where they would chase each other and then hug tightly,
with the chaser whispering sinister things into the ear of the child being chased
while hugging them tightly, in a bid to recreate the terror of Fuzzy Wuzzy's deadly embrace. The
fact that Poppy Playtime's villains all look like adorable children's toys means that terrifying
content meant for older audiences is slipping past filters and the watchful eyes of parents,
and exposing young kids to very scary images and videos meant to thrill more mature audiences.
But as Poppy Playtime only grows in popularity, it's feared that its impact on young children will
also grow. Toys of the main cast of the horror game are now widely available, and a movie is in
development. But the most unsettling news is the report of 'Fuzzy Wuzzy' challenges sprouting up
in schoolyards around Britain and beyond- and as we saw with the popular Slender Man fiction,
impressionable children can do truly terrible things in the name of a silly fandom.
In an infamous incident from Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve year old girls lured their friend into
the forest and then stabbed her in an attempt to contact the fictional slender man. Incredibly the
victim survived 19 stab wounds, and the two girls were sentenced to 25 years to life and 40 years
to life, though one was released after seven years and placed under state supervision until she's 37.
Are the Poppy Playtime toys even evil though? There's speculation that perhaps
the survivor is the real villain of this story. After all, it's strange that he's
the only worker to escape whatever fate befell the rest of the factory. Perhaps the toys are
just carrying out their revenge against someone who cursed them with their current existence.
Perhaps just as big a mystery though is Experiment 1006. To date we've only seen the
terrifyingly long claw of this creature, but we do known that it was created in the 1960s
after Poppy, and that it was also meant to be a living toy. However,
unlike the other toys who were eventually made safe for children,
Experiment 1006 almost immediately rebelled and murdered an unknown number of scientists. His
escape led to an emergency lockdown, and whatever Experiment 1006 is, it's very intelligent. One
tape described this creature disassembling some electronics to create a laser which it used to
blind a camera for 23 seconds. It used that time to escape and kill yet another employee.
Experiment 1006 is clearly some unwanted byproduct of the toy creation process,
but seems to be more than that at the same time. The other toys appear to be scared of it,
and Mommy Long Legs even begs the survivor to set her free as she is being crushed to death, afraid
that she will join “him”. Whatever Experiment 1006 is, it's clear that it’s using the other toys to
add to itself- whether that's just body parts or even absorbing the souls of the people used to
create the toys remains a mystery, but hopefully one we won't have to wait long to discover!
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