Not sure if anyone else has discussed this, but did anyone else find that toy bear creepy as hell? Especially the tea party scene where they put the camera right up to his face. Very creepy... Lol
shareMe lol.
I wasn't born yesterday, you know - I've seen movies.
No but I have fond memories of my own Teddy Ruxpin from when I was a kid.
shareTeddy Ruxpin is basically the complete opposite of creepy.
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It's not exactly what you're talking about but my memory of Teddy is a scary one because the bottom part of his mouth fell off of mine. Scared the crap out of me when I was 4.
shareThe really freaky thing about it are those blank plastic eyes. It makes it seem as if Teddy is looking through the film and directly at the people watching the movie.
I thought I read somewhere that during the scene, the bear's mouth had been moving a bit, as if trying to speak. Might just be my imagination.
What's scary is the white bit of the eyes... they're very human... not like the dark eyes of most teddy bears.
shareMy guess is that the makers of the toy gave it more lifelike eyes, so that in conjunction with the voice it made Teddy seem like an actual friend who is more interactive than a stuffed animal that just lays there like a rock. Kids wouldn't need to make a voice for it, so it would really seem as if it were it's own entity. That's my unnecessarily long explanation anyway.
shareLOL. I had Teddy Ruxpin as well, and his mouth also fell off, because my Aunt's cat clawed at it. I tried fixing it with super glue or something, but he was never the same after that. My cousin one day asked, "Is he breathing?" and then smacked his mouth back off. We still laugh about that.
I also had his good buddy Grubby. :)
It was always fun back then with Teddy though, used to always put in music tapes into his deck and had him sing along to the songs, or at least he'd try to. :)
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Ah yes, I remember Teddy Ruxpin. That was a novel invention when I was a kid.
It scared me silly, and frankly I never wanted one and still find it creepy.
I liked how they included one in this film, not only for its eerie appearance, but to create a 'scenario' where a talking 'make-believe' friend would be accepted as commonplace...and not attract as much attention from the parents.
That way talking to Toby would not be considered such an odd thing for them to do, since the girls already liked to have 'make-believe' friends.
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I had a Teddy Ruxpin and one of my younger friends was afraid of it. Even though I had one, in this movie it did give me the creeps.
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This thing doesn't move a bit, but it still freaks me out more than the Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror. And that doll had a knife and some very freaky teeth.
shareWell lets just say I always wanted a Teddy Ruxpin when I was little, and all I could think while I was watching the scenes he was in this movie was "Thank god I never got one of them!" haha.
shareMy interpretation was that the teddy bear hated being in the house with the entity, and was praying for a garage sale to escape lol. The bear didnt look terribly happy to be present at that tea party.
shareIf you are old enough to remember MST3K, as your name suggests, then you must remember that creepy ass bear from when it was being sold.
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I find any and all toys that talk to you or make noise to be terrifying and I'm 29. My father got me a stuffed build-a-bear Penguin that was the pengy from that Happy Feet movie and put in the voice box which scares me and would wake me up if my cat bounced on it just right or I kicked it. Same goes for any other voice/music/noise toy I had when I was a kid. I once had this dino that was motion/light activated and if the lights that occasionally bounced in off the highway my house sat above hit it just right it would roar. I would lock it in my closet.. it would be out a day or two later. I'm still convinced it was haunted. It'd go off in pitch black too. The bear from the movie AI always scared me. Things that move of their own volition? Scary.
shareI had at least 2 Teddy Ruxpin dolls, because the lower jaw of mine was broken off and we got a replacement, and the one in this movie bugged me because it was making very un-Teddy Ruxpin like sounds. It almost sounded like one of those spirit boxes they use on Ghost Adventures lol.
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