I noticed something about Frank’s Homewarming outfit…
His sweater is the exact same color as…
THE PEA!
I’ve seen theories suggesting that the pea could represent Eddie and the isolation he experienced leading up to the Homewarming party, as well as Home’s/Playfellow Workshop’s disapproval of his feelings for/relationship with Frank. While I like this theory, I’m wondering if the pea could also somehow represent Frank.
In addition to being a reminder that Home is always watching (hence the pea on the plate resembling an eye), this could be Home sending a subliminal message to Eddie that he had better leave Frank alone as if Frank is the pea on the plate. Some people have speculated that Eddie will be completely absent from the next update as he will have been taken off the show, but what if we see Eddie avoid Frank instead, perhaps even suggesting to Frank that he spend more time with Julie instead?
I love the “Up On The Hometop” audio so much, and I wanted to see how Julie does a Sandy Claws look. She plays with her hair so much I figure she’d happily turn it into a big beautiful beard. I wanted to draw her paws too but it wasn’t working with the vision. I WILL draw her paws at some point!
I’m open to constructive criticism on the look! Ya think there’s any details she needs/would be cute?
Welcome Home - The Homewarming Update : A compilation of the secrets I could find
⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD!⚠️
This post is simply a compilation of all the things I could find during my exploration of the website. I'm not going to delve too much into theories. Enjoy the read!
1- Statics
Every background is now filled with statics. I tried zooming out but I couldn't find anything. Not really a secret, but still interesting to note.
2- It's a dog! Oh, and a pea!
Found in the "Official Welcome Home Cook Book" in the merchandise page. I am... A little worried about Barnaby. For those who are aware, the pea is foreshadowing for a much bigger secret.
3- Audio distortion
Surprisingly, I was only able to find one instance where the audio distorts. In the "Homewarming Storybook Record", when Wally speaks here (timestamp is 18:16), the audio gets distorted. Please let me know if you found more audio glitches on the main website!
4- The page is breathing
I was able to capture something that made my skin crawl. Look very closely at this illustration. It's... breathing. I'm unsure if any other image in the website does that too. Very troubling.
5- Lost track of time
Uh-oh! Looks like our beloved writer is losing their perception of time itself. An effect of the black substance maybe? You can find this on the News page.
6- Pixels? Smudges? Oh, and a new friend!
In The Neighboorhood page, Home now has little white pixels around him? I'm unsure if this was intentional or not. Interestingly, the secret link under Home dissapeared along with every other traces of Wally.
The logo on certain pages looks... dirty? Look closely, there are brownish stains on some letters. This doesn't appear everywhere.
And! New friend! Hello new friend!
7- Symbols!
Okay, now onto the main course. Something I think we've all noticed straight away! There's a ton of tiny little doodles splattered around the website. The doodles are all named after a letter. Here is every letter translated from their respective symbol you can find on the website :
Home : M I O A
Merchandise : P Y E R
Media : Y G
About us : A R
Stickers : E
News : T
Neighboorhood : S F N E
Wally : W
Exhibition : N
Ghestbook : W W W
Transcript : Y
"www" huh? Interesting, like a web link. At first, all of this doesn't really mean anything, until we stumble upon this!
Fascinating, it's a code! Eddie here is giving us the translation to every single doodle. Next, if we solve the question here "What does Home wear at parties?", it gives us the next clue we need. The answer is "ADDRESS". Address? Now, remember the "www" thing? That's right! We need to assemble the letters we found to make a link!
8- Away from Prying Eyes
After assembling a link, you will be able to visit a secret page. In it is by far the biggest secret in this update : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/
When I tell you I lost my marbles when I discovered this. There is a lot to say here! Firstly, one thing to note is that unlike any other secrets we had found in previous updates, Wally didn't put this here. Instead, it was this mysterious "W". Go read the whole thing! It's PACKED with information!
"W" purposely put this here for US to find. W is in distress, confused and scared; this looks like a call for help.
Might or might not be important, but the word "Paranoid" here starts with a capital. It did catch my eye, so maybe it is noteworthy.
This entire phone call is absolutely fascinating and gives us answers about the lore. I highly recommend people to give it a listen : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/phone
AND THIS??? OH MY GOODNESS!!! Clown is spoiling us with gifts for this Homewarming! Truly, thank you Clown and the whole WH team, you're doing such a marvelous job. Watch the whole thing here : https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/commercials
And what's this hidden among the commercials? Eddie! Remember how I said the pea was foreshadowing? Eddie can hear Home's heartbeat. Well, our dearest mailman doesn't look too well :( Thankfully Frank seems to be looking out for him!
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Important things to note: This update is almost completely void of any trace of Wally infesting the website. The symbols were placed by the website manager here. Wally is not there anymore. Also, Eddie is purposely left out of the main update, only to be the center of attention in the commercial compilation.
Well! That's all I managed to find for now! Please let me know in the replies if I've missed anything. Thank you for reading, and Happy Homewarming! <3
what do you mean it's March no it's not it's still desperately cold out and-
Anyways! Happy WH update everyone, if you checked out the Wish Book, you saw a few things I got to make for the update! :D These were so much fun to make and I'm so glad it seems like everyone has been really enjoying the update, getting to make props for this project has been amazing and I adore working with the whole crew!
I made Eddie Dear's toy set bag, cut & sew Frank & Wally plushies, and the big Welcome Home tree skirt! (Design collaborated with Echo to get everything to look just right!)
(fun goofy fact: I used a Lost Origins ETB to help stand the mail bag up because I couldn't find anything better than a pokemon tcg box lol)
THINKING ABOUT THE WORDING HERE ESP WHEN IT COMES TO FRANK…
“STILL STANDOFFISH, BUT A LITTLE MORE ANXIOUS”
Girl wdym “still”??? I’m reaching a little with this one but it does kinda poke at everything being an Act… just bare with me.
“CONCERN STARTS TO SHOW THROUGH”
Show through??? Show through what??? What does his Concern need to fight against???
Also why is Frank whispering to him? Like it was so abrupt, the switch from “This is how I’m supposed to be talking to you” to “Hey wait man are you for real???” you KNOW? Alarm bells are definitely going off for him. It doesn’t seem like a reaction from someone who expects his friends to be helpful at all if Eddie is having a bad trip.
And this may be me overthinking but it was kinda strange how Sally vanished completely. Even in the video you could see her just pop out of frame with no explanation. It’s almost like… the script broke? The illusion of the Show fell apart? Leaving Frank and Eddie, the only ones with their foot in reality at the moment?
IDK GUYS just jotting down everything I felt during my exploration… wildest day everrr
Alrighty since I'm going in alone here's what I could personally find on the website. I'm making this post as I go along and hunt for clues! The first thing I noticed:
The Staffer seems to have lost track of time completely and moving the website was less about wanting a new domain, and more about needing a place where Wally couldn't communicate as easy. I hope this doesn't mean finding any audio or photos is a lot harder this time lol otherwise I'm cooked and will have to rely on everyone else like always to solve THOSE puzzles. The very first thing I did when I got on the website was to immediately look for Wally's eyes by zooming all the way out only to find I couldn't see his eyes anywhere, so I don't think Wally is watching...for now.
2. During the advertisement in which santa lists all of the various toys for each neighbor, everyone gets a toy except for Eddy who is again suspiciously being left out of these little cute interactions.
3. In Wally's ADORABLE Housewarming song, there is an emphasis on "toyland" and never being able to return once you leave and go. Considering Welcome Home's entire theme of puppet's trying to make contact with the outside world as much as they possibly can, I feel as if this is a very important detail to note.
“I'M JUST PEACHY ABOUT HELPIN’ YOU PUT UP YOUR TREE TOO, POPPY!”
Please let us acknowledge that Eddie got some sweet Homewarming time with Poppy! He’s so happy 😭 and Poppy is literally a gem 💚 she’s so sweet and absolutely made some kind of cute seed based meal for them.