With that new Chucky movie coming out soon...

>make what is obviously a cartoon to sell toys
>but don’t launch the toys themselves until after the cartoon has already been airing for it long enough to have its own cereal out

>every Good Guy doll is identical to one another and to the character from the show
>not apparently customizable in any way
>but for some reason each doll has its own individual name

I’m kinda not understanding some of this company’s choices.

>spend half the clip assuming the kid is haphazardly throwing together his own breakfast because he’s being neglected
>turns out he’s making his mom breakfast in bed

Wtf I think Andy is my sonfu now.

I'm guessing they're an amalgam of my buddy and cabbage patch dolls. A gimmick with the cabbage patch dolls was a name and birth certificate.

I find it funny that the doll that Chucky took the place of was named Tommy in the sequel

puppetry is Yea Forums dingus

I don’t get it.

the art was pretty bad, but they had an original storyline that had chucky chasing andy to universal studios so there's that

I plan on storytiming them when the reboot drops. There's adaptations of Child's Play 2 and 3 as well as an original miniseries that takes place between the two movies. There's also the Hack/Slash and Devil's Due miniseries which take place after Bride and Seed.

Apparently Child's Play actually was responsible for the direct decline of the My Buddy line.

>think: “aw, that’s sad for those toy makers. I wonder what this “my buddy” doll was even like”
>look it up

Holy shit it is the same fucking doll.

Really should have had their lawyers have a talk with the creators. Though Buddy is pretty unnerving on his own.

IIRC the first Chucky was in fact made in part with Cabbage Patch Kid and My Buddy parts, but Chucky/the Good Guy line is legally distinct from both toys, plus the actual Chucky dolls that they sell are made from scratch.

Also it helps that the majority of Chuckys used in the original Child's Play films are either from-scratch animatronics or midgets/small children in suits. Bride and Seed both use animatronics exclusively. They tried using a CGI Chucky in parts of Curse but it was so badly received that they went back to animatronics-only for Cult. FWIW the reboot is also going to be animatronics-only, though it's weird because the animatronic looks like it has zero facial articulation whatsoever, which is a huge step down technically-speaking.

>Childs Play 2 starts with the kid being taken away from his mother because the courts believe shes crazy and unfit to raise him
That really fucked me up for some reason

They eventually reunite several years later when he's an adult

Cute

Maybe they’re going for the “Home on the Range” strategy with the new animatronic of “maybe if we put out something in this medium but do a bad job of it so that people say they don’t like it, we can switch to CG afterwards and pretend we thought that’s what people wanted.”

Oh good. Not that user, but I could remember that she wasn’t present in 2 or 3 but I’d forgotten why, so I assumed she must’ve died towards the end of 1 and I’d forgotten.

Still really saddening to remember how frustrated Andy must’ve been all through 2 and 3. Kinda worse thinking she was wrongfully incarcerated instead of just killed.

Probably not, the biggest point of contention with the reboot isn't the animatronics so much as how they've thrown away the whole Voodoo body swap thing in favor of a Black Mirror/Stranger Things fusion.

I highly suggest getting caught up on the rest of the franchise. Bride and Seed are fun little romps that aren't terribly scary but really flesh out Chucky and give him a lot more depth as well as add the character of Tiffany, and both Curse and Cult are decent enough horror flicks and proper continuations of the story from the original Child's Play trilogy.

Andy's mom is free and has apparently happily remarried (maybe even Detective Norris), but Andy himself is a bitter maladjusted survivalist /k/ommando who lives innawoods, his documented troublesome history makes it impossible for him to form meaningful relationships and his only "friend" is Chucky's severed head who he periodically tortures to take out his frustrations.

Try being 5, having one, then your parents leave you alone to watch Childs Play at night with the lights off.
that doll was my best friend

>when actors don't want to come back for sequels
happened to regan's mom in exorcist 2 too but she was just "away working"

i used to be nice like that, but years of neglect and abuse have hardened my soul. it's amazing how innocent and perfect we are coming into the world and it wastes no time in hammering us into dysfunctional shadows of our former selves

After all they went through in the first movie, they really deserved their happy ending. But that's the tradeoff with sequels.

Most kids are little barbarians though. I agree kids have their will hammered down quickly, but they're usually little jerks in the first place.

What's the appeal of the chucky/child's play franchise?

It's a kinda spooky slasher series that became a violently self-aware parody of itself with Bride Of Chucky.

There aren't a whole lot of possessed killer doll movies/show that I can think of other than that one episode of Twilight Zone with Talking Tina and I guess maybe the other one with the Dummy.

Its just fun. Chucky himself is extremely etertaining and the practical effects are usually pretty good.

there's two twilight zone episodes with talking dummies

>That time Chucky got put on trial and had his asskicked by Raggedy Anne and a whole crowd of toys
It was from one of the comics all I Anne sentencing him to death for trying to kill a child

Yeah, but My Buddy was just a doll. He didn’t talk or anything. The talking aspect reminds me of Teddy Ruxpin or Jill.

Side note, Jill was fucking huge.
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I used to do my mother breakfeast in the morning and bring it to her bed. Overtime, I stopped doing it, had to go to school early and by the time she'd wake up, it'd be cold. I miss doing that.

This part always make me sad because it reminds me that Chucky ruined Andy's life, here he's full of innocence, happiness and he still has his lovely mother with him, but Chucky ruined it.

Think of Chucky kind of like the Joker- his antics are simultaneously both amusing and terrifying. Like watch this clip from the latest movie to see what I mean: youtube.com/watch?v=uQR_i0ydJik

The woman in the scene, Angela, is in very real danger, and yet she is oblivious to it because of her own mental condition. The situation gets even more dangerous for her because she does probably the worst possible thing you can do to piss Chucky off, which is refuse to take him seriously as a threat. So there's a very prominent dramatic irony that creates a ton of terror. But at the exact same time that exact same dramatic irony is being used for comedy, because the scene is inherently silly. It's amusing to watch how agitated Chucky gets due to Angela's insistence that he isn't real.

This might cheer you up: youtu.be/bdFo-WtjOmA

And as an added bonus, Alex Vincent turned out remarkably well as far as child actors go, he has his own recording studio and podcast. Also, the woman playing his mother, Catherine Hicks, actually came out of the movie quite nicely, she wound up meeting her future husband Kevin Yagher there, the two are still married and have a daughter together. Unfortunately, her life was marred by tragedy in the mid-90's when her husband made Hellraiser Bloodlines, holy shit that movie fucking sucked ass.

No, they clearly stopped production because of the rumors but then some idiot resumed it because nostalgia money

I'm worried about the new Childs Play movie cuz he's a robot instead of a vooodoo serial killer.

I get he's an electronic toy now but they dropped the voodoo stuff?

>that spoiler
You're my kind of people, user.

He's like a malfunctioning AI now and he's gonna Skynet all your drones.

Really? Man, it would be cool seeing magic and technology combining.

Man, I wish there was someone nuts enough out there to make an 80s horror cinematic verse and have Chucky with Englund's Freddy, Jason and the other slashers from that decade in a single movie.

That would require a level of talent seen in Infinity War. When was the last time there was a good slasher flick?

That gives me an idea for a drawthread request.

>Villain is an emotionless robot instead of a wise-cracking psychopath

That's unfortunate

But user, how can someone who cracks jokes and acts silly be scary? Don't you know there's no room for camp in horror?

Not place for Camp in Horror?! Dammit! Where am I going to put my Lake then?!

Its confirmed the plot twist is he's possessed after all

proof?

Bride actually uses midgets for the top-down fight scene at the end between Chucky and Tiff.

You're gonna have to trade in your lakeside camp for a cabin in the woods.

But I heard you get fevers in those. If I must feel hot, I'd rather go to Texas.

Huh, didn't know that.

Anne’s one to talk when she has her own possessed murderous doll irl.

>Chucky
>Tommy
Rugrats reference?

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>cuz he's a robot instead of a vooodoo serial killer
THAT'S what you're worried about?

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Has there ever been a gag where Chucky was startled by a murderdoll?

>Chuckie's decapitated head is going to be fucked with by Andy till either he dies or Andy dies
>And it don't look like Andy's goin' anywhere soon.
God this series is really fucking awesome. It's like if Nightmare actually went the smart route and had the Dream Warriors be a constant fucking thorn in Freddy's side.

Also nice fucking animatronic.

I didn't get it before, but I guess Chucky became the first "Abridged" series before they became a thing in Youtube.