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That is why it is with enormous pleasure that as the founder of Playtime Co., I announce... Playcare! Our very own on-site orphanage.
Elliot Ludwig


Playcare is Playtime Co.'s on-site orphanage and the primary location of Chapter 3: Deep Sleep. It is the on-sight orphanage used to house the orphans after testing in the Game Station. Playcare's main mascots are the Smiling Critters, a group of colorful animals with giant smiles, who were popular when the company was active.

General appearance[]

The outside appearance of Playcare is a giant metal dome, located within a giant underground cave system, with a bunch of pipes connected to it from the outside. It is only accessible through Elliot's Express.

Inside of the dome is the official site of Playcare itself. It has an artificial sky light behind a large fan in the ceiling. The dome is painted to make it look like stars when the lights go out. Dangling from the top of the sky dome is fake clouds. Around the dome sides are fake walls of painted skies and clouds on it.

In the center of Playcare is a large round statue platform that presents all of the Smiling Critters. The CatNap statue is on the floor due to one of the fake clouds knocking it down. And around at the base of the statue is a podium with each description for each of the Smiling Critters and a button to hear an audio file. The entrance to Playcare is located directly below the statue of Hoppy Hopscotch. Playcare has five main locations: Toy Store, Counselor's Office, a School, Playhouse, and Home Sweet Home. There is fake grass and trees and plant life to give a illusion to the orphans to make them think they are on the surface.

There is a map that shows where all the locations are in Playcare.

Backstory[]

Sometime in the past, Elliot Ludwig announced Playcare, their on-site orphanage used to house orphans, using the famous Smiling Critters as mascots of Playcare along with Miss Delight and her sisters as teachers for the School. Children at Playcare would undergo testing at the Game Station, kids with particularly good scores would be marked for additional testing.

Playcare would run for many years, with some orphans being adopted by outside parents while others would be redirected to the Bigger Bodies Initiative. The aforementioned Initiative's influence was most prominent in Home Sweet Home. Behind Home Sweet Home's exterior lay hidden rooms; the scientists having utilized two-way mirrors to observe the orphans.

At some point, a child that lived in Playcare, 7-year-old Theodore Grambell, was repeatedly visited by The Prototype and convinced by him to rummage through Joel Sinclair's office and steal two GrabPacks and two Green Hands. Soon after, Theodore would get severely injured by one of the Green Hands while trying to open a maintenance door in Playcare with The Prototype's help. CatNap was later created and sent there with the purpose of putting the orphans to sleep so Playtime Co. could experiment on them without creating suspicions. However, this caused them to cause horrific nightmares to kids such as Marie Payne, who saw a "colorless monster".

During The Hour of Joy, many employees were slaughtered in Playcare with the fate of the children only being hinted at in a tape from Miss Delight.

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A map of the hub of Playcare

Trivia[]

  • In the prototype version of Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web", Poppy Playtime reveals that the train is heading towards Playcare. However, in the final version, she does not tell The Player where they are going.
  • Since Playcare was announced and opened by Elliot Ludwig, who passed away by the 1990s, the orphanage must be quite old.
    • This may mean that either Playcare was originally built for genuinely moral purposes or that the experiments had been going on for a long time even before the Bigger Bodies Initiative.
      • It is possible that the Bigger Bodies Initiative was active during the time of Elliot Ludwig.

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Setting
Playtime Co.
A Tight Squeeze
Main EntranceGift ShopSecurity RoomMain LobbyPower RoomWarehouseMake-A-FriendVentilation ShaftPoppy RoomSecret Door
Fly in a Web
Elliot Ludwig's OfficeEmpty ClosetBackroomsNavigation RoomHigher-Up TunnelsPower RoomGame StationMolding RoomMusical MemoryRejected RoomWack-a-WuggyGrabPack StorageCart CorridorsStaircaseStatuesStatues WatchtowerWater TreatmentIncinerating RoomHidden LabyrinthBay 09Train Station
Deep Sleep
Trash CompactorTrain StationElliot's ExpressPlaycareGas Production ZonePlaygroundHome Sweet HomeSchoolCavernsPlayhouseCounselor's OfficeToy StoreDuck PondSafe RoomSealed Lift
Project: Playtime
TheaterPlaytime FactoryDestroy-a-ToyMisfit PitStorage B
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