Friday, August 12, 2016

Even More Weird FNAF Toys (Coloring books and Papyrus.)

I seriously thought I was done. Wow, that wasn't the case. I found more toys and while some may look familiar, these were definitely worth showing off. Though I fear that this might be the last time I have enough items to do a full report on these FNAF toys... Until, of course, after Sister Location spawns a whole new group of characters to put in merchandise.

First we have a set of five FNAF characters.


You may recognize this packaging from the Minecaft Harem set of FNAF figures. Like those, this is a box with five figures, but this one is clearly more FNAF-like than those. Though it still mistakenly says 'six' figures on the package. The set contains Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Golden Freddy. First thing's first; something looks off about the dolls.

You may notice that right away; they certainly look a bit more cheap than the actual figures in the group. Their colors are a little off, like Bonnie's grape purple and Chica's lemon yellow. Getting a closer picture shows that the painting job is not as good the closer you get.

The legs also look a little funny, but I don't know if they move or not. There's really not too much to say about this. It's... Pretty standard... Except, of course, for one thing that stands out.


Yet again, we have a toy that glows. I... Am baffled. This picture also shows that Freddy and Goldie both have Foxy's ears and I'm not certain why. But even better, you know that background that I said was odd? I found a cake topper that seems to be source image.


If you look closely, this is clearly the picture on the back of the package, and it's on the Freddy Harem too. It's definitely someone's fanart, but I don't know whose, unfortunately.

Now onto another figure. This one... Is very unique...


This is another glowing action figure. You might be wondering who the figure is. This is Blank, an animatronic made to be drawn on. He's one of the characters from 'Five Nights at Candy's'. Which means this is a fan character that's being sold as actual merchandise. This isn't too uncommon, but an actual action figure is a little more than the usual package pictures.




This one actually had me baffled for a while. For a short time I was torn on whether or not this was a legit plush or a knock off. After getting one of the official plushes, and realizing the tag is wrong, I've come to the conclusion that this is a fake. This Marionette plush goes for cheap online and is actually a close likeness, or close to what an in-game Mari plush would look like.

Shockingly enough, out of all of the Weird FNAF toys, this one is the only one that I've truly considered buying. It looks like the Marionette, it's adorable, and being a plush it isn't as likely to fall apart.





It was the Balloon Boy plush frequently shown with it that gave away that Mari was a fake. BB here is quite a bit more inconsistent in looking like BB. He holds a lollipop instead of a balloon, the sign says 'Hugs' instead of 'Balloons', and the shape is pretty off. For some reason I just think the Puppet looks closer to the character than the BB one.

What I'm moving onto next is something that I never expected to see... A FNAF Coloring Book.


Yet again, I'm somehow surprised. Someone made a FNAF coloring book. The cover, like most packages I've been seeing, has left me completely dumbstruck. FNAF World Freddy is surrounded by a cluster of Nightmare animatronics.

What is the most hilarious is the picture of Plushtrap in the front, arms crossed in the 'tough' position, trying to look cool. Or how about that weird endoskeleton on the left of the book? That endoskeleton that I don't think I've seen before in any games.


These are the first two pages. You can also see the stickers that come with it in the center. Plushtrap looks okay, but Nightmare Freddy... Looks ridiculous. With so many dark spots he can't be fun to color. The small squares at the top say 'Pega Aqui', I think it's 'Get/Place Here' and is probably for the stickers. Which is also odd; why put the stickers back into the book? It's not even a sticker book!

There's also plus and minus signs, fruits, and words with letters missing floating around the page. It doesn't contrast right with either of these characters, especially Nightmare Freddy. Look at this; beefy, scary Freddy surrounded by fruits. Totally fits the mood.


Here we have Chica and Funtime Foxy from FNAF World. They're surrounded by numbers and squares but they at least look easier to color. They look so plain though without any backgrounds... Even that silly 'Five Nights with Friends' picture looked like it would be more fun to color than this. There's also a Freddy one, but I'll skip showing it.


Here we have Nightmare Chica and Nightmare Foxy. The same complaint as before with the Nightmare coloring. There's also a Bonnie one as well. Again we see numbers and vegetables floating around in space around the two characters. The back cover has some numbers and shapes on it, no pictures of FNAF.

...And as unbelievable as it is. There's more coloring books.


This is the Halloween version, apparently. There's a cluster of Nightmare animatronics, normal Freddy, and the same Plushtrap from the coloring book before. I'm not exactly sure what that on the left side of the picture is, that white thing, but... I don't know. At least the coloring looks more accurate.

This coloring book is more dynamic certainly, though I wonder if it is stolen fanart. There's another group of stickers that are supposed to be put on the pages, the numbers, and even a word find on this one. I guess that would make this coloring book an improvement on the last one.


Though I am now starting to wonder if these pages are appropriate for children. That on the right really looks like it could scare a kid. I mean, I know there's adult coloring books, but with the numbers and stuff... This audience is seriously confused.

These two look more child friendly... With math questions on them. Huh... I'll skip past the Chica one that looks like Freddy and Foxy from before. Instead I'll move onto the back cover which is much more interesting than the last one was.


...Okay this... I ran out of words to describe this. Not only do both Springtraps look weird and Chica is winking, but what is up with Foxy?! His coloring is completely shot and his face- He doesn't even look like Foxy! What on Earth- Where did this even come from?!

This is where I reveal that there is a third comic book... And this is the one that left me the most speechless. I couldn't even believe this; there's not even as many provided pictures, it's just this cover that left me entirely speechless.

...Why yes, that is a freakishly deformed Nightmare Freddy.
And, yes, that is also a character from a FNAF fangame.
And, you see right, a cartoon Spring Bonnie.
And Papyrus.

What... How do I even react to this? A stolen fan character, an out of place cartoon, and Papyrus from Undertale. From the few pages shown inside the coloring book it doesn't look like there are any Undertale characters inside. What in the hell is he doing here?
(I didn't post the pictures because they were basically more of the same.)

The last item of the evening is another set of those FNAF handmade figures. The only reason I show them is because of how scary and deformed the Puppet looks.


It's like if the puppet from Saw melted and grew super big, long hands. Freddy and the gang are kind of unsettling too, but that Puppet is just frightening!... And strangely enough, that Endoskeleton actually looks pretty good. The painting and everything on him is actually nice, which is quite a contrast to the others. If he was alone and cheap then he'd be worth a purchase... Then again, Scary Mari might be fun for collectors.

So that is another set of weird FNAF toys! I don't know if I'll find any more, but these were certainly some strange ones to stumble upon. Will my quest of Freddy toys ever end? Will we ever figure out why so many of these toys glow? Only time will tell.



(These guys glow too.)













Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Reviewing Facebook Games (UPDATE): Suburbia abandoned.

Oh boy, I am wanting to eat my words now. A while back I reviewed a Facebook game known as Suburbia and gave it a moderately positive pass as a sim game. Unfortunately, I now realize the dark truth behind Suburbia, beyond the murder and scandal is something that is actually pretty bad.

My first sign that something was going on was when I noticed that the Easter themed items were still able to be bought and hadn't moved on to summer themed ones. I just assumed that they only did ones for specific holidays, shrugged it off, and continued to play. Then I got to episode six and hit a brick wall. The game said, and I quote;

"More to Come: Thanks for playing our beta so far. Like our game to receive updates about new releases! In the meantime, move up the career ladder and decorate your home. The Suburbia Team."

At first this seemed innocent enough. Okay, so I went through the main storyline faster than expected, right? It'll get a new episode soon, right? Wrong.

Upon checking the actual Facebook page for Suburbia I saw something that confirmed my worst fears. Fears on the game I mean, of course. The last post from the game was on September 20th, 2015, and this was just a, "Happy weekend! Some free money!" post. If we'll get technical, the last post that wasn't one of those was a contest where you could spot a zebra and win in game money. That was May 1st of 2015.

The Easter stuff came in April of 2015. I thought it was this year's Easter, but it was last year's! This was also the last update of any kind. Now brace yourself... Episode 5 was posted, get this, on March 13th, 2014.

This game has been abandoned by its creators, no longer updated, and yet it is still taking people's money. I saw thousands of comments begging for a continuation, lamenting spending money on rubies, and getting not even a response. The company that published this, the 'team' knows its in an unfinished state, and they haven't been able to update in two years. It's not that hard; these Facebook games don't need much implementing.

Look at City Girl Life, a game I panned because of its greediness for gold to get actual prizes. That game updates constantly with missions, specials, roulettes, and such. If that game can do it constantly, then why is it so hard for this game to do it? To do even the most basic of things? Game designing isn't this hard; all you do is set the mission to require x amount of items and type a little dialogue. It shouldn't be that hard.

And honestly, regardless of the little bit of money they make off of this game, they would be able to make so much more if they continued adding episodes. These people who bought rubies would have most likely bought again if the option was given to them, but it wasn't, and the game is abandoned.

I found this game on the front game page presented as though it was popular and thriving. Facebook doesn't have any sort of rating system, no comments on the actual game page, and frankly doesn't regulate the games it does have at all. This game should be labelled as incomplete and either taken down or have the ruby system removed entirely. This 'team' doesn't deserve money for slight content.

I will not be playing Suburbia again, I don't recommend it at all, the story really isn't good enough to warrant playing it, and I hope you take my suggestion and stay far, far away from it.