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Huggy Wuggy

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I'll squeeze you until you... *Corrupted audio.*
Huggy Wuggy


Huggy Wuggy, otherwise known as Experiment 1170, is a toy produced by Playtime Co., who made his debut in Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze as its main antagonist. As stated by Playtime Co., Huggy is one of their most successful products.

Huggy Wuggy was initially introduced in Chapter 1 as a statue in the Main Lobby of the factory. However, once the player restores power to the entire facility, Huggy mysteriously disappears. Throughout the chapter, Huggy makes occasional, brief appearances until he finally reveals himself and starts chasing the player during the intense Ventilation Chase sequence. Towards the end of the chapter, he is seen plummeting deep into the abyss of the Playtime Co. Factory.

During Chapter 3: Deep Sleep, Huggy Wuggy makes a minor appearance as an antagonist. While trapped in a hallucination caused by CatNap's gas, the player discovers a VHS Tape that greets new employees. As the tape plays, the game forcefully compels the player to watch as a distorted, nightmarish version of Huggy emerges from the screen and begins to pursue them. He quickly catches the player and jumpscares them, causing them to wake up from their nightmare.

Experiment 1170 was created with obedient qualities, enabling the Playtime Co. staff to train Huggy to serve as a guardian for the factory during guest visits. However, these obedient traits became corrupted as the Prototype occasionally redirected Huggy's objectives. Before his highly anticipated debut, Huggy, following his training, was required to stand and patiently wait for the arrival of a human presence, specifically the player.

Appearance

Huggy Wuggy is a tall, slender creature covered in thick, bright blue fur. His arms and legs are several feet in length and end in large yellow hands and feet, respectively. His hands have large Velcro straps on the palms, and both they and his feet possess four digits, including thumbs, though they are fused together and are unable to move individually (with the exception of the thumbs). His torso is stout and disproportionately small in comparison to his long limbs. His head is large and contains two large black, dilated eyes. On his face are oversized, cartoonish, bright red lips.

His monster counterpart mostly remains the same, with the exception of his eyes being dilated bigger than intended, giving off a deranged and disturbing physique. Behind his lips is a maw of dozens of jagged needle-like teeth. Closer observation of Huggy's mouth shows a secondary set of jaws located near his throat, akin to that of a moray eel.

His nightmare form is similar to the original Huggy's, but he is now much taller, his face is more skewed, his mouth has been elongated and the side parts at the top of his head are shaped into devilish horns. He has two black sockets in place of his eyes, with slightly visible eyebrows over them, and his upper teeth are longer. The rest of his body remains the same, but his hands and feet now have splayed, elongated fingers and toes that resemble claws. He also seems to lack the secondary jaws at the back of his mouth, as well as the blue fur that the original Huggy had.

Using the tallest man Robert Wadlow’s height and weight of 8’11 and 439 lbs, and his BMI of 27, we can estimate that Huggy Wuggy would be around 18’0 and 1795 lbs.

Personality

Originally marketed as a toy intended solely for providing platonic love through hugging, Huggy Wuggy was designed to possess warm and appreciative qualities.

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Huggy stalking and killing someone during RESTRICTED_disppearance.

Meanwhile, his Bigger Bodies counterpart retained a similar purpose, serving as a guardian to children and only reacting aggressively when faced with hostility. This was exemplified in the disturbing RESTRICTED disappearance 06-18-1992.mp4, where Huggy went on a rampage upon being attacked with darts. He was known to be "obedient" as long as no aggression was directed towards him, which was explicitly stated in Log 08502. However, under the influence of the Prototype, Huggy transformed into a relentless, genocidal entity driven by his given objectives, lacking control and mercilessly killing anyone who stood in his way.

In Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze, Huggy strictly adheres to the objectives given by the Prototype. His task is to surveil and protect the Playtime Co. Factory, alerting others to the presence of any new intruders. Huggy takes a stealthy approach, stealthily stalking the player until finally confronting them with a lethal embrace.

History

Prior to Poppy Playtime

Huggy Wuggy was created by Playtime Co. in 1984, and he quickly became a huge success and one of the many signature toys of Playtime Co. A female counterpart was created in 1985, one year after Huggy's creation. In 1990, Playtime Co. started the Bigger Bodies Initiative, conducting numerous unethical and highly illegal experiments on the orphans who lived in Playcare, one such example being Huggy Wuggy, who was known as Experiment 1170. His purpose was to function as part of the factory's security.

Disappearance Incident

A restricted, edited tape explains an incident that occurred on June 18th, 1992. On that night, Experiment 1170 managed to escape the Playtime Co. factory through an open bay delivery door. Two staff members witnessed his swift escape and sounded the alarm, alerting the company to his escape. He travelled nearly a half-mile from the factory before a survival team was deployed. One employee, depicted as a male adult, was seen driving through the forest in an attempt to catch up with 1170 by driving to the railroad covering most of the land around the factory. He quickly stopped when he came across a creature wandering around in the forest. In an aggressive and swift manner, Huggy rammed himself straight into his car's windshield, frightening him and resulting in him attempting to shoot Huggy with tranquilizer darts. The man successfully shot Huggy, but died at his hands in the process.

After this attack, the security team began to block and surround 1170 at a railroad crossing. Catching up with Huggy, they successfully shot him with a tranquilizer dart in his left leg. Unfortunately, he escaped back into the forest. The security team then spread outwards using their increased search radius of four miles. However, their radios became unreliable as they were outside of effective zone. Later that same night, An unknown security worker could be seen roaming the woods at 11:34 PM, encountering the fresh corpse of a deer. They then heard crunching and snaps before Huggy Wuggy appeared, staring down at them ominously. It is implied that this security worker was killed. More workers went missing, and it was confirmed that five were dead and six were still unaccounted for, presumably eaten by 1170. Four hours after the worker was attacked, their camera was seen still recording, as Huggy Wuggy can be heard shrieking in the woods. Seconds later, it is confirmed that Huggy was caught and brought back to the factory nearly four hours after his escape.

After the incident, Leith Pierre wrote a document explaining how 1170 escaped the factory through the ventilation system, stating it was only blind luck that he was caught before being seen by anyone else. He concluded his document by saying that neither he nor the Innovation Department were happy regarding what had happened that night. The VHS tape ends with Huggy Wuggy looking at the camera while standing in front of a suburban house, presumed to be his foster home. (This implies that the orphan soul inside of Huggy was scared and wanted to return to a familiar location, though this theory hasn't been proven yet).

The Hour of Joy

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Huggy Wuggy killing a series of civilians in the Main Lobby.

On August 8th, 1995, half a decade after the disappearance of the Prototype, an emergency warning was broadcasted upon all televisions and electronics in the Playtime Co. Factory. It was stated for all employees to hide as the experiments' rampage against Playtime Co. began. It is heavily implied to have began with Huggy Wuggy being influenced by the Prototype to mindlessly kill all of the employees in the Main Lobby. This was all depicted in the Hour of Joy VHS recording, which recorded snippets of Huggy Wuggy and various other toys, such as Mommy Long Legs, the Ruined Critters, Miss Delight, her sisters, Kissy Missy, Boxy Boo and CatNap, in that order as shown via the tape.

Project: Playtime

After the catastrophic events of the Hour of Joy, Leith Pierre emerged as one of the few known survivors. Driven by his determination to carry on with the Bigger Bodies Initiative, Leith Pierre initiated Project: Playtime. This project involved dispatching six "Resource Extraction Specialists" into the Playtime Co. Factory, where rampant toys roamed freely. Their mission was to retrieve artifacts related to the Bigger Bodies experiments, despite the threatening risk of facing potential death. In the end, this project would fall futile as, canonically, the employees would be killed by the toys and fed to the smaller Bigger Bodies experiments such as the Wuggies and the Ruined Critters.

During the Monster Tutorial, it is divulged that Huggy Wuggy plays a vital role as one of the selected toys assigned by the Prototype to provide sustenance to the smaller experiments.

After Project: Playtime was cancelled, Huggy and the other experiments were left without a source of food. Desperate and out of options, he and the other bigger experiments began to eat the smaller toys in order to survive. Huggy continued to live in the abandoned factory for the next decade until the player’s return in 2005.

During Poppy Playtime

Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze

Huggy Wuggy makes his debut appearance in the Main Lobby, appearing as the main attraction for all tourists who engaged in Playtime Co.'s scheduled tours, as they are stated to exist in the Vintage Poppy Commercial, which doubles as an advertisement for fans to potentially tour the factory. Upon unlocking Security and obtaining the GrabPack and its Blue Hand, the player now has the ability to delve deeper into the factory. Upon making an attempt to open a shut door which required the Blue Hand, the power cuts off and Huggy can now be seen with a yellow key hung on his "fingers" and could be grabbed by the player. This key opens the Power Room, which requires a mere electric current towards two nodes. This can be done using the GrabPack its its electricity-conducting wires.

Upon setting power to the Main Lobby, Huggy Wuggy is now missing from his podium. Huggy goes on to stalk the player as they make their way through the facility. During this time, Huggy is briefly seen twice. The first time, his arm is seen sticking out of the door in the Make-A-Friend hallway after the Main Lobby. He is later seen again in the Warehouse peeking from one of the vents before closing it when the player goes to the balcony a second time.

Huggy's Death

Huggy Wuggy's death.

The game reaches its climax when the player activates the power in the Make-A-Friend room. To progress, the player must create their own Swap-imals toy, which serves as a keycard to unlock a sealed door. Upon opening the door with the Cat-Bee toy, Huggy Wuggy emerges from the dark hallway and starts chasing the player. The player's only escape route from Huggy is through the Ventilation Shaft, where the intense Huggy Chase takes place. As the player navigates through the maze-like ventilation system, Huggy Wuggy pursues them, mirroring their every move. At times, the player must wait for narrow shafts to open while Huggy closes in on them.

Ultimately, the player reaches a pair of catwalks where Huggy fiercely pounds on the ventilation door. The player's only option is to pull down a wooden crate, which causes Huggy to crash through the door and lunge towards the player. However, Huggy ends up under the wooden crate as it was falling, sending Huggy to his death by plummeting into the depths of the Playtime Co. Factory after colliding with a series of large pipes.

Chapter 2: Fly in a Web

Huggy does not make an appearance in this chapter, but is instead mentioned in the second tape discussing Experiment 1006, in which he was confirmed to be a different entity, as he went with the alias Experiment 1170 instead. In the Water Treatment zone, a vent surrounded by blood and blue fur can be seen in a specific room meaning that The Prototype took him away to graft him on his body. Even though he's not in the chapter, smaller versions of him known as Mini Huggies appear in the Wack-A-Wuggy game in Game Station.

Chapter 3: Deep Sleep

Home Sweet Home

Upon entering Home Sweet Home, the player encounters The Red Smoke. Despite Ollie's warnings, they walk through it and ultimately pass out in the real world. Unbeknownst to the player, CatNap seamlessly puts them into a trance within their mind, while they remain unconscious in reality. CatNap twists Home Sweet Home to be a nightmarish labyrinth filled with unsettling images of children and eerie messages etched into the wood.. As the player unknowingly wanders around the location without their only source of defense, their GrabPack, the player is subjected to a radio recording of a news outlet covering the recent passing of a person near Elliot Ludwig's residency. On some occasions, the radio glitches and instructs the player to do a series of acts such as to cease moving an inch.

The disturbing scene climaxes when the player reaches an unknown nursing room. A tape titled "Welcome To Playtime" sits on a bed. After obtaining the tape, the previously-open curtains covering the bed now enclose on the player, and the door slams on the player. The Player is subjected to watch the tape, which during its starting runtime, only appears as a greeting tape for all new employees. It states that the employees have the ability to watch over the children, wander around the atmosphere, and more.

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Nightmare Huggy's jumpscare.

Over the course of the tapes runtime, the tape begins to outright call out employees who may be unhappy with something they've "done". During the concluding segment of the tape, the tape begins to take a more monotone turn as the announcer directly calls out The Player's actions for not being present for the other toys, mocking them for descending downwards into the factory. The announcer describes the factory as "their world", and welcomes them to "their home". Suddenly, a monstrous version of Huggy Wuggy emerges from the TV and begins chasing the player.

Defenseless, the player has no choice but to head towards the never-ending corridor they had previously entered. The monstrous Huggy Wuggy taunts the player, intentionally slowing down as they approach, before finally delivering a jumpscare. The player suddenly wakes up in the real world, lying on the floor.

CatNap Dream sequence

Later on during the runtime of Chapter 3, CatNap knocks the player out and puts them through a lucid trance. Using the voice of Poppy, CatNap attempts to dissuade the player from delving further into the Playtime Co. Factory. Through Poppy's voice, CatNap poses questions that are answered through vague hallucinations of lively environments prior to The Hour of Joy, showcasing joyous children running around Home Sweet Home and the Playhouse. The sequence makes an attempt to put The Player through the lens of the toys, proving The Hour of Joy to be an event in retaliation to Playtime Co. and their Bigger Bodies Initiative.

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Huggy as seen during the Dream Sequence.

Towards the end of the dream sequence, the player finds themselves in a black void with only the presence of Huggy Wuggy. CatNap, speaking through Poppy's voice, questions the player, "Do you know what's real?" and then declares, "No, you don't," in a more focused tone than before, ending the echoing. The Player is later taken to the Main Lobby yet again, overrun with The Red Smoke and its glass dome shattered open. Presumably taking the perspective of Huggy Wuggy, The Prototype reaches down towards Huggy, which can later be called back to the beginning of The Hour of Joy when Huggy was taken control of by The Prototype and ordered to kill anything in sight.

Abilities and Anatomy

While walking, Huggy has a stiff, yet rather lithe and oddly organic-looking gait. He is capable of breaking into incredible bursts of speed, using his long arms and legs to propel himself forward. While crawling through the vents after the player, Huggy is able to bend and contort his body to fit into tight spaces. Before the player drops the crate onto Huggy on the catwalk, he can be seen sprinting towards the player on all fours, much like an ape. Due to his sheer height of a whopping 18 feet tall, he possesses a size advantage against average humans. During the vent chase, Huggy is able to cut off and keep up with the player by navigating through the ventilation system. He also wields formidable brute strength, capable of damaging and knocking down barriers, including those constructed from metal. Huggy is mentioned to possess a digestive system.

In Log 08502, Huggy was briefly mentioned as Experiment 1170, and was dubbed the most optimal subject, as he possesses the ideal amount of intelligence and is obedient to the scientists working at the company.

Trivia

  • According to Micah Preciado, Huggy Wuggy was not actually inspired by any animal like a dog. Instead, he was unironically inspired by Sour Patch Kids[1].
  • Huggy almost appears as the same shape as a hanging toy monkey, with the bowtie, shape, and black Velcro straps on his hands (which is possibly how he gives hugs).
  • Huggy Wuggy's height stays inconsistent throughout the chapters:
    • During Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze; it was said that Huggy Wuggy was 17 feet[2], although after Chapter 2: Fly in a Web's release, it was said on Twitter that Huggy was 18 feet.[3]
  • In a trailer headshot close-up of Huggy, it seemed that behind his plastic "eyes" lie big bloodshot, human-like eyes.
    • However, this has been proven false, as it turns out the eyes are assumed to have been viewed as a reflection of the floor.
  • Huggy's lips and teeth move around when he attacks the player.
  • Due to Huggy Wuggy falling off the catwalk, it is unknown whether or not he survived, and thus if he will return in future chapters of the game. However, it's widely believed he'll return due to being the main mascot of both the game and the in-game company Playtime Co, as well as appearing heavily in the marketing for the game stated by mashoor.
  • Huggy is presumed an ex-human, as some writing in the Ventilation Shaft says "This isn't my body."
    • This, however, can be proven as false, as three different entities can be depicted talking to us throughout the Ventilation Shaft via the conveyor walls.
  • Huggy Wuggy is confirmed to be Kissy Missy's lover, based on her profile on the digital collectible website.
    • “Better half” is a term for a spouse.
  • An interesting fact to note is that one of the Huggy Wuggy toys in the Main Lobby seems to be sitting down with the front of the box broken or opened. This Huggy toy has his eyes blacked out and a large grin showing his teeth.
    • This could have been a foreshadowing to Huggy Wuggy's return in Chapter 3 as the hallucination with the eyes blacked out and the large grin.
  • Huggy Wuggy is presumed to be the one who wrote the countless words within the walls during the Vent Chase.
    • This is evident by the fact that some writing says "Starving" and "I'm so hungry." This is further proven by the fact that he seems to eat the player when he catches them.
    • Huggy climbing out of the TV in Chapter 3 was actually teased on an official sticker back in 2021.

Navigation

Toys
Wuggies
Huggy WuggyKissy MissyMini HuggiesWuggies
Long Legs Family
Mommy Long LegsDaddy Long LegsBaby Long Legs
Smiling Critters
(Ruined Critters)
CatNapDogDayBobby BearHugPickyPiggyBubba BubbaphantCraftyCornKickinChickenHoppy Hopscotch
Swap-imals
Cat-BeePJ Pug-a-Pillar
Mascots
Poppy PlaytimeBoogie BotBronCandy CatBunzo BunnyDaisyBoxy BooMiss Delight
Rejected
Sir Poops-A-LotKick-me-PaulOwen the OvenSunni BuddiSurprise HareLove DogPet StoneBarrel o' HuggysOrange Robot Toy
Additional
The PrototypeBarryLove BugPetite PoochBucky
Scrapped
Cassie Cutie-PillarCy-DogJolly ClownLilly the FrogMonster Truck

References

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