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I’ve been writing a long fan-fiction for The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin called “Tweeg’s Journey”. I’m about halfway done and I’d love to know what fan-fic readers and fans of the show think of it so far.
This is meant to be a follow up to the original series, picking up after the last episode of the series. Tweeg has fallen on hard times and has reached the point where he is no longer happy being a villain. The only problem is that he doesn’t know how to be a good person. Reluctantly, he turns to Teddy Ruxpin. Little do any of them know that a mysterious force tied to the Crystals is rearing its ugly head and spells doom for our heroes. Can they come together and face this looming threat? Only one way to find out, and that’s to read Tweeg’s Journey.
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Me and teddy enjoyed the cooler weather today! Our area got blasted with two 90 degree days and it cooled down today !! It was a bit rainy so today teddy sported his rain outfit 💛
Yeah yeah, lazy mascot horror based on a "ooh kids thing scary" concept is really turning indie horror games to sludge, but the original concept can work if done with some care and effort.
To make mascot horror work, you need a couple things, nostalgia and a pre-existing fear.
The nostalgia part scares you by taking something, usually from your childhood, that you associate with saftey and comfort, then making it at least feel dangerous to you. This feeling, of something safe being taken away, upsets certain survival instincts and puts you in aplace of deep fear. Not mascot horror, but Coraline does this with the idea of your own parents, or at least imitations of them, no longer being safe, which is why we were so scared of it.
The second part, pre-exisying fear, especially from childhood, takes something that might be irrational at first, and validates it, at least in the context of the game. Always been scared of clowns? Well now Chuckles McFuck is gonna get you! (IT).
Put these concepts together and you got yourself some decent mascot horror.
FNAF worked, at least initially, because it played on these 2 emotions. Pizzeria arcades are places lots of people find nostalgic and comforting, but those animatronic mascots were always creepy. My mom grew up in the 90s and said that some kids couldn't even walk into a Chuck E Cheese's without crying.
Another example of millennial horror is Tattletail, where you literally play as a child in your family home during Christmastime, but your parents are nowhere to be found and you're being tormented by characters based on Furbies and Teddy Ruxpin, two toys that had 90s kids pissing themselves.
Amanda the Adventurer works because she's an expy of Dora the Explorer (she was a cartoon staple back in the day, but the way she talked directly to you was kinda creepy, huh?)
Garten of Banban had a bit of nostalgia potential (kindergarten and daycare) but squandered it by bad, lazy, money-hungry execution.
Hello Neighbor was just Youtuber bait when it tried to be horror.
Steamboat Willie could work as a horror concept, but someone already sorta did that, and did it better (Bendy and the Ink Machine)
last song: attractive today by motion city soundtrack...yeh
fav color: yellow or orange right now. Just ended a long purple streak
currently watching: I dont realy watch shows ummmm I watched romeo+juliet with my sister last week(wonderful!) and caught the latter half of the naked gun at my dads the other day c: sometimes I'll watch adventure time when im bored
sweet/savory/spicy: spicyyyy is the most fun
relationship status: I am single for as long as patrick can keep outrunning me
current obsession: Fall out boy uh huh...and recently I've revisited my love for talkers/animated toys! been meaning to upload some of my favorite teddy ruxpin tunes to this blog + making plans to road trip to the last cec locations with 3-stages (I have to stop putting it off..i feel like remodeling is happening faster and faster)fomo is real theres no more listings for toby terriers. My sister also told me I'm "going through [my] spongebob phase".
last thing you googled: 'special right triangles' cus my 16 year old coworker got his phone taken away and needed help with his homework haha
tagging: I don't know if i know that many people who havent already been tagged ignore this yayaya