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| “ | What's the time? Playtime! | „ |
| ~ Playtime Co.'s slogan. |
Playtime Company, often shortened to Playtime Co., are the overarching antagonists of the Poppy Playtime franchise.
Once a thriving toy company with its very own orphanage, the organization was eventually corrupted due to the influence of the high ranking employee, Harley Sawyer, the founder of the Bigger Bodies Initiative. Under Sawyer's management, the company began to convert orphans and employees into living Toy-experiments as slaves in an attempt to increase their workforce and cut costs.
The company would continue their unethical experimentation and slavery until a massacre known as the Hour of Joy would force it to close on August 8, 1995. Leaving the factory abandoned and controlled by the Toys.
History[]
Playtime Co. was founded in 1930 by entrepreneur Elliot Ludwig. Ludwig's ambitions were focused on bringing joy to children around the world. Under Ludwig's leadership, Playtime Co. thrived, and by the 1950s it was regarded as the "king of the toy-manufacturing industry". Around the 1950s, the company had also created the Poppy Playtime doll, and in the following decades would release other popular toys such as Bron the Dinosaur, Boxy Boo, Candy Cat, and Huggy Wuggy, further increasing their popularity. In support of his ambitions to bring joy to children, in 1976, Elliot Ludwig created the company's very own on-site orphanage, Playcare.
Despite their popularity, around the 1980s the company began to experience a depression. Problems such as declining profits, lack of safety, toy recalls, and the constant threats of lawsuits have caused the company to fail. In 1990, Harley Sawyer, aka The Doctor, approached the higher-ups with a solution in what he called the "Bigger Bodies Initiative". With this project, Sawyer proposed increasing their workforce by replacing their employees with living toys who did not have to be paid, nor could file lawsuits against the company. The project was approved, and thus Playtime Co. would spend the next 6 years using their Playcare's orphans and disobedient employees as subjects in brutal experimentation that would turn them into living toys.
To further prevent the risk of lawsuits, the Bigger Bodies Initiative was hidden from the lower-ranking employees. However, this did not stop a few employees from noticing the unusual changes in the factory. One employee, Marcus Brickley, had noticed a living PJ Pug-A-Pillar roaming the hallways. He attempted to report his concerns to Leith Pierre, but was quickly dismissed. Rowan Stoll, the head of IT, had managed to discover the truth regarding the initiative, and prepared an FTP server with all of the evidence to expose the company. Yet before being able to release it to the public, he was silenced by The Doctor and eaten by Boxy Boo.
On August 8th, 1995, The Prototype would orchestrate an event known as The Hour of Joy, gathering all the living toys (with the exception of Poppy) to rebel against the company and kill almost everyone within the Factory. After everyone in the facilities were killed, the factory was forced to close its doors. The toys remained in the factory, and used the corpses of their victims as a source of food. Eventually, this food source either dwindled or was cut off, leading to various toys turning on each other for sustenance for the next decade.
In 2005, an anonymous individual (Bigger Bodies DogDay may have been referring to Poppy herself doing so) sent a letter to the unnamed protagonist, calling for them to return to the factory and "find the flower".
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- Playtime Co. on the Poppy Playtime Wiki
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