Previous Chapter: >>548701323>Play Poppy Playtimehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1721470/Poppy_Playtime/>Official Twitter (MOB)https://twitter.com/mobgamesstudios?lang=en>>Show Bibles<<>Playtime Adventureshttps://archiveofourown.org/works/58801258/chapters/149853037>Smiling Critters: Friends Forever!https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVnGUBQ89bygs0Ox7geW15WbNSw_kSp83MXwv0B-Zig/edit>Ep.1https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2T7-NSknjOxmuMT13_1qC0B5a2EMmw4Y0v310iIksk/edit>Ep.2https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uo1jXVhF0GCIIqYtn8VwLcdsUc5J_OCBsYKreVNqoN4/edit>Let's Hop to the Moon!https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2aOqEnG8xAx4go_NGIzP3WhzqGI71mqeLwO1zqeiS4/edit
>>549221580So what was this about?
It's so fucking Playtover
Both Poppy and Sawyer say that Playtime hurt the Player to, so what happened to us?
>>549288869Survivor's guilt if the dream from chapter 3 is any indicator.
>>549285485There are rumors a lot of people have been recently fired/laid off from Mob so looks like something big is happening. Potentially cancelled games.
What kid would want this as a toy?
>>549294159To hazard a guess, they thought they were big shit after Chapter 3 and the SCs tripled merchandise sales. They used this clout and money to make up for the people who already left (like the original game designer) while also expanding the studio (Zach's "We're nearly a AAA studio" comments). But then 4 got fucked and the NCs and other new characters weren't nearly as popular meaning they were spending more with lower revenues. So all those starry eyed plans they had have been completely abandoned.Glassdoors seems to corroborate this since more reviews are coming in complaining about hours and low wages, just like they were during 3's rushed development.
>>549307538They really needed a 'no' guy when they were coming up with the nightmare critters. Doesn't work in our world and it doesn't work in terms of worldbuilding.
>>549307538>Mob games is a bunch of hacksLel
>>549307538Doing some research around Linkedin a few months back, it looks like Mob hired a number of former Lost Boys Interactive employees. And now it seems like they are making some of the same decisions that led to Lost Boys also losing a lot of money and firing half their staff.
>>549315825Even if Playtime Co still made merchandise for the Smiling Critters and themed Playcare around them after the CatNap debacle, to suggest they would go so far as to keep making new Critter toylines was just stupid. Mob knew that, which is why they never even gave the NCs lore in the first place. They hoped people would just eat them up and ask zero questions. What sucks is that now that we have a new series on the horizon, the Wrongside Outimals, who appear at least to have some forethought put into them, the well has already been poisoned.
>>549321875Because everyone knows goddamn well that they are just going to be critters all over again.
>>549326758>Splapping Cuphead does nothingLorefags in shambles.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k2QsayfU50A
>Huggy has returned from Fortnite
They're bringing back Kubrick to direct the Poppy movie.
>>549338473To get him ready for the job, they stuck him inside a Boogie Bot for the entire shoot
Can you imagine the wealth of true crime documentaries and creepypastas if Playtime Co were a real company?
>>549323190At least in-universe it makes more sense. They're making creepy/gross toys because some kids are into that, but it's a separate toy line rather than based off of an existing toy line that caused a huge controversy.
>>549326758The sheer talent of some people is to be admired. Seeing this makes me want to pick up a pencil and just try drawing something Poppy related.Also Mommy hnnnngggg
Looking at the trailer shot again.>obvious doors behind her>flower-shaped windows?>wall has a suspiciously eyeball-like pattern (possible hint for her face design) along with the diamond shapesClearly none of this fits the labs aesthetic. And the trailer was called "Welcome Home", does Lily just live in a massive fucking dollhouse deep underground what the fuck is the lore anymore
>>549288869Survivor's guilt; the Player survived the HoJ whilst everyone else died.
Poppy will rise
SC fans eating good today. Inubis and Gemstin both released some bangers earlier.https://youtu.be/opc1d1XS41E?si=z8AU8tTH1QNXhQEBhttps://youtu.be/k2QsayfU50A?si=k1lzJfrQX2_BKt80The preview for the new Inubis cartoon's looking real nice, and Gemstin's animation has improved so much from the old slideshow quality lmfao.
>>549360964The orphan dome and the first giant dollhouse were okay but you draw a line here?
>>549383736Why is it in the labs though
>>549384234It reinforces the idea that she was special and was intended to be something big for the company, if they were willing to give Lily her own custom living quarters while everyone else cycled between the Prison and their job postings. It's more a bit of worldbuilding instead of any failing on part of the worldbuilders.
>>549386207I guess so. I don't know why she'd be so special compared to any other toy though, but I guess when we actually get her lore it'll make sense...?
Do you think the star device being next to flowers was supposed to hint at the star being connected to Lily?...And are these flowers even based on a specific species? It'd be weird for a character named Lily to be associated with a flower that isn't even a lily.
>>549389053I'm still sticking with the theory that she's 1424 and since she was gonna be their next major toyline, they did special work to get her ready for the job, which included extensive medical care and even her own room. Then the HoJ happened and she was locked down there with the Prototype for a decade.
>>549390234It leans closer to lilies on the generic drawing of a flower spectrum. We do see how Amber draws poppies from that same image and it is different.
What exactly does "Home" look like for 1006 and Poppy?
https://youtu.be/Vz__JvaBfmQ?si=pqY617E6WQgDBerv
>>549390305What reason do you think the Prototype would have for letting her stay alive?
>>549396481She's either a damn good survivor or they ignore each other. 1006 isn't known to just attack the others toys unless they try to escape the factory.
THE HOUR OF JOY IS UPON US! REJOICE FOR SALVATION IS AT HAND!
If for some reason this site doesn't go back up where do we want to meet next?
>Chapter 5 ends on a cliffhanger that Poppy was taken to the Playtime Co Space Station.
>>549406898>
>>549406898I want it to end when you finally tunnel though the Earth and end up in the overseas Playtime Chinese factory where shit is significantly more dangerous.
>>549410082That wouldn't be any fun. The factory would simply collapse while you're walking through a random hallway, and there wouldn't be any toys to run from, just malnourished children.
>>549410082Random employees trying to commit suicide would be a falling hazard in some places. You have to run for cover from them.
>>549410082They're gonna want to do a sequel when the story's over so Poppy 2 could take place in the future after some other company acquired the husk of Playtime.
>>549382673I still don't understand why Inubis is obsessed with baba.
>>549419461Arguably the only interesting nightmare critter.
Remember that the trademarks came in waves this time around as apposed to all and once then the NCs like with Chapter 4First we got Chum Chompkins, then Lily, Glowby, Giblet and the Wrongside Outimals, then a the rest of the Wrongside Outimals over the course of a few months.Either it's nothing or it highlights a hierarchy of importance.
https://youtu.be/Ai0T8wOzAzg?si=n4-rX_HDSFvsLnGUThis one was kinda weak in my opinion. Also, what was the point of the cliffhanger at the end of smiling in the rain if they are not going to follow through.
>>549399220Okay but where's the exit? We were promised an exit, Theo.
>>549421301I think my favorite part was Bubba thinking Dogday was going through puberty, but otherwise yeah def not my favorite. Picrel for ur question btw.
>>549422305...you're gonna like the answer, for your own good.
>>549423261Ah, I see, no wonder. He never did anything with the other critters but we are having extra baba episodes for whatever reason.
>>549414406>Netflix has purchased Playtime CoWhat happens next?
Stella is Lily btw
>>549431749Wasn't the whole basis behind the theory that they're punishing her like they did Sawyer? But if she's getting special treatment like >>549386207 suggests that doesn't add up.The only thing left that supports the idea is Lily having the star motif.
>>549360964Maybe a room like this is in the labs because they're studying her behavior. Like how zoos have enclosures that kind of resemble the environment the animal is from.
>>549432581Really it was always wishful thinking and the beauty of it is that there are so few details to go off of anything could be true. Yeah you're right, if she were punished and getting special treatment it doesn't add up. However, if you reframe it instead as her getting the special treatment because she was a higher up, and her actually being on board because that's equally likely given her character, it could work.I'm not going to force it because I know, X character is actually Y character is annoying as sin, I just want them to do something with my girl Stella.
lmao
They keep coming up with new characters but when are some of the OG cast (Bron) going to be featured? He (Bron) is literally in the main lobby while all of these other characters (Who aren't Bron) get bigger bodies.
>just spent multiple hours drawing a Lily Lovebraids design>it looks like some FNAF wannabe shit>tfw it's gonna be completely wrong anyway
>>549442438It has to be better than 90% of the garbage currently made to predict her design
This takes me back to when we were speculating on Mommy from just her hand and CatNap from just the first 3rd of his face
>>549444801It depends, what do you dislike about most of the other predictions?
>>549445540Most just look like cartoon human girls without so much as exposed joints or other features to hint at her being a toy.
What's Lily's personality and arc gonna be?
>>549446297Really? All the post-trailer designs I've seen had joints. One thing I noticed though is they almost always give her light skin even though she's clearly a wooden brown color.Anyway, guess I should post mine... Not really confident about the flower, I was basing it off >>549390234 but it doesn't feel quite right.
>>549449885It's cute, reminds me of a Spyro character
>>549423261They should just lock Kojima in a room and force him to come up with the ending.
>>549409704>>549456675He would be able to fix the ending of Chapter 5
Remember 5AM at Freddy's? The Leith Pierre VA voices Foxy and the Night Guard.https://youtu.be/sG8hViFARHw?si=qrpbfpOfwGZEKSWP
>>549461408>Concludes that Stella is Huggy Wuggy>Predicts the next 30 years of authoritarianism and hostile use of technology in the process
What if Ludwig just died of old age?
>>549472991You aren't gonna believe this
So Poppy was Playtime's best selling toy for 34 years. That's means she has at least 3-4 different eras of commercials behind her. She probably had hundreds of TV spots of varying quality.
>>549447829Basically Mommy + Miss Dleight I wager. Hyperactive and cheerful, with a deep malice and insanity underneath every word.
>>549444953I remember a little bit with CatNap, but I don't remember what the Mommy speculation was like back then.
>>549482276There wasn't a whole lot. A "Mommy" character had been named in the Chapter 2 teaser trailer and Digital Collectables less than a month after Chapter 1 dropped but there was nothing to go off of until a month before her full reveal when the Virtual Security System showed her arm, which most thought was a new GrabPack hand or Huggy variant.
Should I get a PPT toy for Christmas?
>>549505069Celebrating Christmas with Doey (and the Critters)...
>>549505486Get a bootleg one.
>Employee at CERN reading about all of the advancements the toy company that made his kid's Huggy dolls had accomplished
>>549523262I'm pretty sure at least one or two people cracked open their Poppy dolls and noticed some incredibly weird shit in there that never should have been in a toy. Someone would have commented on the weird glowing orange gel.
>>549444953Most people thought Catnap was some kind of dragon for a while.And Aliexpress made knockoff plushies of some of the more popular Catnap designs.
>>549524397And every single one was stocky, bipedal, and for some reason wore a tie. People had a field day with just that png of his face
>>549523456Were the commercially sold Poppy dolls made that way?I get the impression they wanted to go that route but then I guess just forgot and invented the slavery plot point to justify the experiments.
>Companies finances are fucked and needs course correction bad>Someone points out that toy production is already automated and they could just expand on that>Billions of lives saved
>>549505069>the cakeI never really associated that with Christmas. Should've given him a plate of decorated cookies instead.
>>549366857I had no idea what this was about until I saw Danny made it into Fortnite
>>549544592Seriously why the fuck didn't they just build more of these things? Are they alive too?
>>549476561I've been thinking about this recently because if there's one thing we don't get a lot of it's worldbuilding. We could do with learning about the actual promotional campaigns and reception to the toys. That's probably the single biggest reason the Critters are liked, they actually did something for them, even if it was just a single animated snippet, it gave them flavor.Just picture your favorite toys and what they could do with them>Poppy commercial where she cross-promotes Doey Dough>Poppy themed makeup>Disco themed Poppy commercial>Huggy Wuggy tie-in cereals with a chance of winning a tiny Huggy>Post-CN Incident Smiling Critters episodes that features Mommy tucking the Critters into bed
poppin poppy
>>549570227Don't pop the poppy!
>>549577993Yeah, that's very rude, she hates it when you do that
>>549562327>Disco themed Poppy commercialNow we're talking!
>>549602451Sawyer isn't gonna like this
>>549602451He'll break them :(
Do you think the Christmas art will have clues this time around?
>>549622195Sawyer doesn't like anything.
>>549631694He likes science.
>>549631694He loves pickles
>FNAF2 is shitPoppybros, our time has come.
>>549646236The Poppy movie will be the exact same. Within the first 30 minutes we'll see the Prototype, the Player will bring their daughter along for the ride, and the finale will end in a big battle between the Chapter specific toys and the Prototype.
>>549630346perhaps
>>549646236Wasn't that true when the last game was FNAF themed Poppy Playtime?
>>549672061Yeah and it was a steaming pile of dogshit too. Unironically Poppy Playtime has been better than Fnaf since SB released.
looking back, one of the funniest things in the whole mascot horror scene, was how baldis basics was so clearly just a shitpost with zero real story or lore, and yet, there was this huge group of deviantart/animation meme kiddies (who prolly found out about the game through markiplier) who, without a shred of irony, tried to make it into another angsty dinergoth comic dub darling
>>549679272I actually remember this first hand because I was in middle school at the time and had a creepy friend who was treating Baldi like he was the next Freddy Fazbear in terms of scariness
What do you want to see gameplay wise in Chapter 5?
>>549695447Lily Lovebraids jokes have been 90% Rumi, 9% Murder Drones, and 1% Amazing Digital Circus
>>549434208Well here is something to consider. The last time we see Stella is in the Stella Greyber Project Audit tape. In the Hartmaan Incident, she doesn't actually know why Jeremy was taken, but here she's finally given the details and what does she say? Well she's shaken up by it, but her own aspirations get the better of her and she ultimately approves of the BBI for the greater good as she sees it.
>>549696627We can go further.Her room looks like the cats room from Joyville
>>549685661More involved/innovative puzzles.
Lily commercialhttps://youtu.be/P7no-a6l2xoIt's sad to realize that given how early she was revealed and how much more important characters are already in the Chapter that Lily probably won't get the main commercial.
>>549705929Also one for Blanky from the same channelhttps://youtu.be/hh1jHC3YVC4
>>549705929Why did they add spikes coming out of her hair when she clearly has none in the trailer?
>>549706263+5 defence+5 attack+When hit automatically causes the attacker to receive damage worth 50% of their attack
>>549630346I really hope so.
>>549630346This time it'll be set in a mall with everyone shopping around. Doey will be a mall Santa and in the background is Lily, Blanky and the silhouette of the Prototype.
>>549740921>Doey mall SantaThat's fucking adorable
>>549706057Gives me an ideaWe've only actually seen him directly. For some reason all the others have been hidden. So what if Blanky is like the baseline and all the others are costumes or modifications on him? Maybe there's just one who is constantly bouncing between styles?
>>549749959I think he is special among the group since they're using him as the calling card and he is the single oldest member that we know about
>Open World Poppy game
>>549761626>Using a GrabPack to scale a Ubisoft tower
>>549768245>Need to find all the hidden poppies
>>549695447If someone still has the parody image you need to add her and also Sackboy
>>549726708Still wondering why he called us that.
>>549780869That's the only language he speaks. Everything down there is framed in terms of religious imagery and metaphors. Notice how even on the Steam page they capitalize every instance of He in relation to The Prototype.
They're saying the Poppy movie won't be good on /v/
>>549795505Where?
I have a feeling the SC fandom is gonna be stuck on life support until survivors comes out (whenever that is).
>>549804008I heard that Survivors was possibly cancelled
>>549804106Damn fr?
>>549804008>>549804229Nothing is confirmed but there are rumors that Mob has been bleeding staff and also the trademark has been in limbo alongside other cancelled-but-not-officially-so projects like the Playtime Automated Companion
Poppy Playtime will win TGA
>>549805087Fact
simply Hoppy a wonderful christmas time
>>549815324What if Poppy Playtime was good?
Cast the movie.
>>549820354areana grande as kissy missy
>>549826761ngl I can see it
She seems like a great teacher
>>549810902Still not a fan of the puppet mouth designs, kind of flies in the face of her whole vibe
>>549843484I don't see the problem with it.
>The hidden penis in chapter 3
We need more catnap
>>549843484>>549844338 (me)I think I need to argue for why I actually like the puppet mouth.Part of it is it helps avoid the problem that >>549446297 complained about. Additionally, we already have a ball-jointed doll character with Miss Delight, so going for a specifically puppetlike look for Lily would help set her apart.Also, puppets can be creepy. This is a horror game. It's not much, but it could help make her look slightly unsettling, which she should if she's meant to be an antagonist.
>>549866487That's fair, I just feel like given how "hip" she feels it seems like they're trying to go for a more modern toy.Then again, her dollhouse has a weird vibe that could support a weird character.
Wouldn't it be so funny if they dropped another random short trailer this weekend teasing a character we haven't seen yet?
Poppy has only lead us to disaster. We must make our voices heard. I'm voting for The Prototype, he seems like he has a clear vision for the future.
https://poppy-playtime.fandom.com/wiki/Experiment_1467
>>549907901It very well could be that not all experiments, even ones made after the Prototype, are full on bigger bodies but instead just...experiments. Tests run to see how something works.
>>549909591I've heard some say that there were experiments conducted on Elastic Plastic but I need to find where that was. Still that would make more sense, especially when you consider how many experiments exist vs how many toys the company actually made, and just how frequent the experiments were
>>549907243Voting for Bron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7qYXH4Zyw8&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3DNew 'ampage
>>549921781I don't know why I didn't see the connection between the shirt and that funky guy in the trailer
Does this mean Chum and some of the others are going to be separate new characters?
>>549924601Never overestimate Tyler's intelligence, he's probably refering to Loopsy Noodle or Bindle Boogie
>Mini Miss Delight
>>549928410Who's the blue sneedster on the right? PJ?
>>549928716It's a PJ. The thing between him and the Bron head looks like a Huggy pillow.
>>549928410Special appearance by the shit bear.
>>549929364Implies that they made experiments of him
>>549907243>Prototype>clear vision for the futureLook at the factory then look back at me and tell me that to my face.
>>549930513>Playtime Co scientist seeing the boardroom actually isn't impressed by the creation of a large cartoon bear that shits a lot
>>549924601>>549926760He is just the social media guy, not really one of the main team working on the game itself. He might not know a whole lot about what is in the game.
>>549924601I still really want Chum to be the Prototype because otherwise this Chapter is going to be bloated out its ass with characters. Sheep's video had a whole section about modularity and how that was a big focus of the team at the moment so take that as you will.
>>549948108We're going to need an arachnophobia mode after this chapter
>>549952792I doubt Lily is gonna be spider-like when we already had Mommy in Chapter 2.
>>549954482I know lol she just has that unhinged demon women energy
But who is Boxy Boo?
At least one of the new characters has got to be a cat>Get Captcha ARGGJWhat was meant by this?
>>549971240>ARGGJPirate toy confirmed
No respite for the wuggies.
>>549972239Kissies don't grow on trees
>>549971321Little sailor bros we are so back!
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