| “ | ...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... | ” |
| — Supervisor, Welcome To Playtime | ||
Welcome to Playtime is a VHS tape recording seen within Chapter 3: Deep Sleep of Poppy Playtime.
The tape plays a speech from a Playtime Co. employee directed to new employees, before transitioning to a speech specifically directed to The Player. During the tape, Huggy Wuggy’s face can be seen before transitioning to Nightmare Huggy’s. It is the second required tape in a chapter, the first tape being the GrabPack Training VHS tape.
Location[]
The tape can be obtained in the final room of the nightmare sequence after entering the smoke-filled Home Sweet Home and the VCR player is located in a corner of this same room.
Analysis[]
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 work family very loving and as supporting as their own. The supervisor then happily tells them to wander the halls, sit in the mess hall, or watch the children. He then offers them to join the science innovationists or the Playcare counselors. He lets them know that should they return to work one day feeling unhappy for where they are or “what they’ve done”, their supervisor is happy to listen to their concerns.
However, from this point onwards, due to the effects of the Red Smoke and The Player being trapped in a nightmare, 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.
Audio and Transcript[]
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Supervisor:
"Greetings, employees, and welcome to your first day here in Playtime!" "We're certain that in the days to come you'll find your new family here every bit as loving and supportive as your own." "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." |
Theorizing[]
The speaker in the tape says "Should you come back, years later, your conscience finally getting the better of you." This could indicate that The Player feels guilt, either for not being present to help the employees during the Hour of Joy, or for being involved in the experiments. If The Player was involved in the experiments, then the presence of Huggy Wuggy in the tape could mean that The Player was involved in creating the Bigger Bodies version of Huggy Wuggy.
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 Chapter 3 Official Game Trailer 2, albeit in a different voice tone. It is unknown why it was changed.
- The scene where Huggy crawls out of the TV is a reference to The Ring horror franchise, where Sadako Yamamura (Samara Morgan in the US version.) 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.
