Welcome to Playtime is a VHS Tape found within Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep" of Poppy Playtime. The tape can be obtained in one of the rooms of the nightmare sequence upon entering the smoke-filled Home Sweet Home. During the tape, Huggy Wuggy’s face can be seen before transitioning to Nightmare Huggy’s. This is the second required tape in a chapter, the first tape being the Grab Pack Training VHS tape.
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The tape begins with an image of Huggy Wuggy's regular and happy face, with a supervisor speaking, welcoming new employees to Playtime Co. saying that they will find their new family very loving and supporting as their own. The supervisor then happily tells them to wander the halls, sit in the mess hall, or watch the children. The man then offers them to join the science innovationists or the Playcare counselors, with the supervisor happy to listen.
However, from this point onwards, due to the effects of CatNap’s gas, the tape becomes more and more frightening, with Huggy's face becoming creepier and twisted, and the supervisor calling The Player out for returning to Playtime Co. years later in a sadistic manner and eerie tone of voice, saying that the toys are watching and waiting to eat The Player. The tape ends with the man saying "Welcome home", before a monstrous, nightmarish version of Huggy Wuggy crawls out of the TV to chase The Player down a dead-end hallway.
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Supervisor: "Greetings, Employees, and welcome to your first day here in Playtime!"
"Feel free to wander the halls!" "Sit in the mess for lunch. Or watch our children play and learn to their little heart's content." "Join the Innovationists, where the bounds of science are continuously pushed." "Or join the Counselors of Playcare, whose diligence and care for our children will help shape a brighter future, just you see." "Now, every one of you has your part in that future, so should you come back tomorrow feeling unhappy for where you are, or what you've done... worry not, for your supervisor is here and happy to listen!" "And... should you come back... years later... your conscience finally getting the better of you." "May you descend into the dark and the dust, finding all that awaits you are incomprehensible horrors... each hungry for your return, each eager that they might find you." "Perhaps they'd smile at you from a shadow, their smiling mouths full of teeth and meat and plastic, watching and waiting patiently for their turn at a warm welcome." "Or perhaps they won't allow you such time to figure your place in the world you'd left." "A world that's theirs now." "Welcome home." |
Trivia[]
- The phrases: “All that awaits you are incomprehensible horrors", “Their smiling mouths full of teeth and meat and plastic”, “A world that's theirs now”, and “Welcome home”, were used in the Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 Game Trailer 2, albeit in a different voice tone. It was unknown how it was changed.
- The scene where Huggy crawls out of the TV is a reference to The Ring horror franchise, where Samara Morgan also crawls out of a TV upon watching a cursed tape.
Huggy Wuggy crawling out of the TV to pursue The Player.
- When the tape starts getting more disturbing, The Player will be unable to look away from the TV screen until Huggy Wuggy crawls out of it.
