#pikky talks way too long about animatronics

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Overthinking about how Sha's revealed in Bunnyfarm was accompanied by a distorted love song. Presuming Jack's inside Bon or straight up the Bon entity, even death couldn't stop this man's love for his wife. Rosemary might have designed the characters but you know Jack had some hand in writing Bon and Sha's relationship. If Bon was truly mindless he would have stuffed her into any of the animatronics but no, it had to be her self-insert. They had to be together even after they were murdered.

Love is quite literally stored inside the sheep.

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Very grateful there was no post-credits sequel set-up scene in the FNAF movie. The music during the credits does that, but it could have easily been written off as a reference to the series if a sequel hadn't been approved.

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Thinking about the FNAF movie sequel under the cut.

Obligatory 'FNAF movie 2 needs a ballpit' sentence.

Half-joking aside, since Mangle has been all but confirmed, I'd love to have them be a source of body horror in the next film. Maybe they start off as an assembled Toy Foxy, only to be dismantled and considered 'offline'. Some time later, he pulls himself out of Kids Cove using only his hook.

Every time she's disassembled, she rebuilds herself. Have her scuttle across the ceiling, their head swinging loosely and capable of swinging around 360 degrees because it's not firmly locked in place. Bonus points if the filmmakers decide to replicate his jumpscare from FNAF 2.

Mangle's radio garble could either be played for suspense (you know their nearby, it's just a matter of how close), or used for growls or screams.

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I saw the FNAF movie, so brace yourself for some fanart at six AM tomorrow and for me to talk about it intermittently.

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Can someone explain why this is advert is using fan models to advertise the FNAF movie.

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I still think about the FNAF 3 minigames.

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If I had a nickel for every time a yellow rabbit murdered children for fun I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't much, but it's strange it keeps happening HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!

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I should really share those fics, I like my guards, they are a group of young adults who Definitely Did Not Ask For This.

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Really love that despite the animatronics being technologically advanced enough to have eye scanners, real-time vocal processing, the ability to walk around, and articulation so fine-tuned they can play string instruments, they still can’t blink properly.

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All right, first off, hardcore FNAF VR spoilers under the cut.

Foxy gets shoved right under the bus during the showtime song, and I loved it.

Actually, the whole showtime song was great.  The black humor from the games is still present (which implies Fazbear Ent. kept writers from the FNAF1 days and it's just good), and I LOVE how the lip-synching is so poor.  Especially Bonnie's guitar.  Look, I will gush about IRL animatronics all day long, but don't think I'm ignoring Beach Bear's/Jasper's absolutely static left hand.  Especially his 2-stage version my GOODNESS.

I also love how these are more "store accurate" performance than a "promo tape" performance, because there is a huge difference unless the animatronics are well-maintained.  And Freddy's was not.

Seeing the animatronics move like real animatronics is such a huge treat, so I kind of love the maintenance portions more than the main game recreations, though I love the movement there, too!  I'm also fond of Mangle's scuttling in the Vent Repair minigame, I thought it was cute.  She's a good monstrosity, 10/10, would kiss on the snoot.

I'm glad Bonnet returned.

I'm also glad a lot of the sillier stuff I think of the animatronics kind of turned out to be true.  Bonnie takes a lot to set him off, Foxy is twitchy as crud, and Freddy will go off if ANYTHING of his is broken.  He was ready to kill when we drop the music box.

I've yet to see this rumored Withered Bon-Bon or any of the blacklight stuff outside of fanart, but I have seen plenty, perhaps too much, of Malhare, and hoo boy, I'm excited we have more Spring Bonnie content.  I love that little mystery.  I do want to know what he exactly plans to do, though.  Is he just this weird little hiccup, virus programming but ultimately harmless?  A way to prove that everything Fazbear Ent. touches becomes corrupt?  Is it literally Purple Guy's ghost because the man can't take a hint?  Who knows!

Also, mild aside: since the FNAF games are now canon to FNAF, were the Shadows intended inclusions or glitches like Malhare?

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I have this headcanon where Freddy just does not like Foxy.  He just gets thrown under the bus for everything, and in my friend and I's silly AU, it's to the point where he'll deliberately interrupt Foxy's shows for almost anything.  Once he just punched Freddy for it.  There's no reason for it, he just hates Foxy.

I'm so glad that's canon.

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Funneling my one thought on Security Breach here before I sit down and watch gameplay:

Gregory’s running from Vanessa/Vanny and hides in Freddy, Freddy’s immediately ‘haha, hi pal, you can’t hide in there. :)’ and when Gregory explains he’s trying to hide because Vanessa wants him dead, Freddy immediately agrees to help, even though he’s barely processed the situation.  Meanwhile, his friends are glitching out and acting weird and hunting down Gregory too, even though he’s a kid and not a rogue endoskeleton.  So Freddy has that to deal with on top of all that.  Eventually the others become too unpredictably violent for Vanessa to deal with so she throws on the rabbit suit and when questioned by Freddy (who has Gregory in tow) she lies and says she’s a new animatronic since the others aren’t acting right.  Freddy doesn’t even think twice about her, he just tells her what happened while Gregory sneaks off.

Freddy:  So anyway, I’m just glad I have a new friend to help me take care of Greg till 6 AM when the cleaning crew comes in so he can get home safe. :)

Vanessa: Speaking of which, where did he go?

Freddy: ...MY BOY

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My guard interps reacting to Fazbear’s Frights

Mike: Claims he reads them ironically, but he also bought copies of all of them.  The line between ironic and unironic enjoyment is fragile and often invisible.

Jeremy: Reads the first one because Fritz gave him the book without telling him what it was about.

Lizzie: “I can’t believe you made me read this with my own two eyes.”

Fritz: Definite ironic enjoyment, but is thoroughly freaked out by a couple of them.

Matt: Got halfway through ‘To Be Beautiful’ and promptly threw the book at Fritz the next time he saw him.

Maddie: Hasn’t read them, but has absorbed enough second-hand knowledge from Fritz to understand when someone talks about them.

Mikayla: “Fritz look at the new cover, it’s a goth muppet.  It’s the closest they’ve gotten to acknowledging Chica.”

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I did a little more thinking about my crack "new teaser is Spring Bonnie" theory I threw out this morning.

Before I begin, I just want to say that I'm not claiming my theory is right, and I'm not bashing anyone or their theories in any way, shape, or form!

1.The reuse of the "iamstillhere" title.  The first time it was used was for Springtrap, and we had a similar set-up: a partially obscured animatronic that, when brightened, didn't reveal more of the animatronic.

2.Scott's teasers, with exception to the first, reveal new characters, or new iterations of the characters.  When FNAF3's first teaser emerged, people believed it was Golden Freddy, the same way people are thinking the new teaser in the animatronic is Baby.

3.Spring Bonnie is the only animatronic to appear in FNAF World without a counterpart in the core series, aside from two brief cameos in FNAF3 and FNAF4.  FNAF World depicts Spring Bonnie with noticeable eyelashes and set-in eyes, like early-game animatronics.  In addition, SB's eyes are green, much like the lights in the new teaser.

tldr; the new teaser might feature Spring Bonnie because of the parallels to FNAF3's earliest teaser, which featured an iteration of Spring Bonnie, Springtrap.

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Thoughts on the new FNAF Teasers!

The Twisted animatronics are horrifying but dang if Twisted Foxy isn't the coolest thing.

For the FNAFWorld.com teaser, I've noticed two things: there is evidence of a cosmetic shell, and that the eyeholes of said shell are cracked and broken.  If this isn't a new animatronic, it's probably Baby in a 'new' suit, after being ejected from the Ennard amalgam.  CBEAR at this point is closed, with three employees dead and all animatronics missing, and Baby is forced to slink back and use an old suit that had been scooped.

It's tough for me to explain how Baby's AI could possibly be ejected from Ennard; they're a tangled mess, probably so deliberately put together that one loose thread can cause the whole thing to fall apart.

Alternately, it could be the 'good' part of Baby you are asked to remove in Night 5 in a different animatronic.  That chip is placed in a reactivated Baby, with a new endoskeleton and an old suit, or possibility the gutted, shredded remains inside of it.

What throws me off, though, is that the eyes are farther back inside the head than Baby's, and there are noticeable, pronounced eyeholes farther out that the 'flat' style Baby has, and they're not shaped quite right to belong to Ballora.  I had the brief thought that it MAY be Spring Bonnie, but so far the eyes look more plastic-y than  loth-like, and Springtrap has cloth eyelids.

Either way, I'm game for Spring Bonnie, Baby, or a new animatronic.

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You know what, more complaining, let's get it out of my system.

I'm tired of the 'family entertainment centers are actually full of rotten kids and terrible people' cliché, along with 'animatronic is actually inhuman monstrosity' one.  Like...I saw a video of one this morning and it just rubbed me the wrong way.  I'm so tired of that trope. Give me the animatronic pizzerias that are too clean, too nice.  Give me the employees who's smiles are faked not from exhaustion or anger, but because they know too much.  Employees that work too hard and flinch when people approach them, that break once in a while and yell at a kid over something little.  Give me repeat visitors that are too well-behaved, that will reign in their kids too tight for little things.  Give me people who won't let the kids near the animatronics, or quake at the sight of the mascot coming out to dance.  New visitors who request to see the manager and the employees exchanging a knowing, petrified glance.

The animatronics run perfectly, but something's wrong.  Their blinking falls out of synch.  They always seem to be looking at you, if not totally tracking your every move.  In the corner of your eye, you see them jerk in place like a movement has been locked up.  They work fine once they're fully in your field of vision.  Despite being over forty years old, their airlines don't hiss and their cosmetics are always clean.  They've always been this way, even though the technicians won't meet your eye when they saw they've just been fixing them.  Strip them down to their bones and there's nothing out of the ordinary about them.

The place smells of baked bread and freshly vacuumed carpet every day.  Some days the smell is stronger than others.