Poppy Playtime Bankruptcy 4 is solely across the nook, with its January 2025 free up window drawing ever nearer, but we nonetheless know treasured little about what to anticipate. Or will we? When it got here to Bankruptcy 3, we already had a couple of trailers, the Deep Sleep identify, and various other hints at this level, giving us an attractive cast thought of what to anticipate on our subsequent foray into the manufacturing facility.
On the other hand, whilst main points are relatively sparse this time, we would possibly know greater than you assume. Ok, possibly it’s extra correct to mention that we’ve were given our theories, however a few of them do have weight and a few cast lore to again them up. Plus, Tilly (PT’s guides editor) and I in truth were given a couple of issues proper the ultimate time we did this.
In our Poppy Playtime Bankruptcy 3 theories article, we have been right kind in our evaluate that Poppy Playtime’s Kissy Missy is our good friend and that CatNap used the crimson gasoline to position the youngsters to sleep – two beautiful large issues to be proper about, so we’re fairly happy with ourselves. Admittedly, we had extra to paintings with when forming our predictions for Deep Sleep, however we received’t let that forestall us from looking to gather some ideas at the subsequent access.
At the start, whilst we all know that Yarnaby is the massive dangerous toy of Poppy Playtime Bankruptcy 4, I nonetheless can’t lend a hand however really feel attracted to Poppy Playtime’s Boxy Boo. As quickly because the credit rolled on Deep Sleep, I had a intestine feeling that we’d see that toy within the subsequent bankruptcy, principally as a result of he’s the one one from The Hour of Pleasure videotape we haven’t observed but, and he options so prominently within the spin-off Venture Playtime.
I nonetheless assume there’s a superb opportunity that Boxy Boo will seem in Bankruptcy 4 in some capability. Or possibly he’s destined to be the celebrity of a special bankruptcy additional down the road – in any case, we extremely doubt that the Poppy Playtime collection will finish with simply 4 chapters. The collection remains to be extremely well-liked, with the primary 3 chapters even getting a bodily free up in contemporary months, and there are nonetheless quite a few secrets and techniques left to discover, so we don’t see our adventures within the manufacturing facility coming to an finish any time quickly.
Transferring directly to a collection of toys we all know seem in Bankruptcy 4, the Poppy Playtime Nightmare Critters designs seem to replicate the ones of the Poppy Playtime Smiling Critters, with each and every Nightmare Critter showing to distinction with a corresponding Smiling Critter. This leads us to consider that there’s some type of competition between the 2 traces of toys, possibly even extending from the unique promotional cool animated film that they’re according to. The Nightmare Critters are extra like angsty teenagers in relation to character, significantly darker than the childlike personalities of the Smiling Critters. Possibly Baba Chops and co are deeper within the manufacturing facility as a result of they weren’t well-liked, failing to achieve the similar heights as CatNap and DogDay.
On the other hand, Tilly thinks there may well be one thing a bit of extra sinister in regards to the dating between the 2 units of toys, declaring that Baba Chops, a Nightmare Critter, eats a mini Canine Day within the first teaser trailer. She believes that the brand new bunch is dominating the Smiling Critters, proving to be a better risk. Truthfully, that is smart to me as neatly. Each and every bankruptcy has stepped up the sport, introducing an increasing number of threats, and we all know Bankruptcy 4 is probably the most frightening but, so it stands to explanation why that the toys we stumble upon will likely be extra bad than the ultimate.
Moreover, we all know that CatNap used the Smiling Critters to do his bidding. So, now that CatNap is long past, does Yarnaby see a gap to step into energy, the use of the Nightmare Critters to take action? If that’s the case, we would like the toy success, taking into consideration what the Prototype did to CatNap on the finish of Deep Sleep.
Talking of CatNap, we’ve lengthy idea that his heinous gasoline belongs to him by myself, however one have a look at the Yarnaby trailer finds that the Pink Smoke is making its go back in Bankruptcy 4, and seems to be touring deep into the Poppy Playtime manufacturing facility by means of some pipes. However why? We all know that the Pink Smoke is a semi-hallucinogenic, sleep-inducing gasoline that may induce maniacal conduct and nightmares, therefore the rationale CatNap used to be discontinued to start with. Perhaps this gasoline is what makes the toys beneath such a lot worse than what’s come ahead of. Sure, we’re assuming that the toys are extra fatal in Bankruptcy 4, however taking into consideration they’ve gotten gradually worse around the first 3 chapters, Tilly and I think it is a truthful assumption.
Some other risk, as identified by means of Tilly, is that Playtime Co. used the gasoline to keep watch over the experiments that live deeper within the manufacturing facility. If you happen to pay shut consideration all the way through the Yarnaby teaser trailer, you’ll catch sight of bars, cells, and surveillance cameras, main us to consider that we’re about to go into a jail or one thing akin to at least one. If that’s the case, the use of the gasoline round right here is smart, and it kind of feels most likely that we’re going to want to stay our mask shut as soon as once more.
Earlier than we cross to any extent further, let’s take a second to take into accounts who or what would possibly live in the ones cells. The obvious take is that the scientists housed failed (or bad) experiments in them, despite the fact that we predict there’s additionally an opportunity that one of the crucial kids ended up right here – possibly those who misplaced their sanity all the way through the horrid experiments. Some other risk is that it’s no longer simply orphans that Playtime Co. experimented on, however criminals from outdoor the manufacturing facility, too – possibly that they had a shady handle the federal government to supply take a look at topics as they persisted their analysis. Both means, whoever the corporate stored right here, it’s transparent that they wanted some safety features, and we predict one in every of them is Poppy Playtime’s Yarnaby.
The kid who changed into Yarnaby used to be Quinn Navidson, a tender lad who shaped fairly an attachment with Physician Henry Swayer after making an attempt to downplay his intelligence within the Sport Station. Sawyer brainwashed him, turning the boy into Experiment 1166 – differently referred to as Yarnaby. The physician supposed to make use of him as a non-public bodyguard, however Playtime Co. later ‘got rid of’ Sawyer, inflicting Yarnaby to lapse into an unresponsive, grief-stricken state. Given the character of this corporate, we think that ‘got rid of’ in truth manner ‘killed, so we predict it’s not going that we’ll see Sawyer anytime quickly.’ Sawyer’s alternative, Dr Carmine McKabe, then deemed Yarnaby a failure, in the long run leaving his destiny to the higher-ups.
Our principle is that the higher-ups noticed the similar doable for Yarnaby as Swayer, in the long run turning him into some type of a guard or surveillance measure within the jail. There’s each likelihood that the table and surveillance digicam within the Yarnaby trailer as soon as belonged to Henry Sawyer, however, taking into consideration the later occasions of the Hour of Pleasure, we predict we’re onto one thing with our ‘he’s useless’ principle, although he survived on the time. This additional helps our assumption {that a} higher-up became Yarnaby right into a bodyguard to offer protection to themselves as an alternative. Who is aware of, possibly even the Prototype has one thing to do with this, as a result of, as Tilly issues out, “the Prototype makes use of the entire primary toys as its underlings till it not has use for them.”
Diving even additional into a possible connection between Yarnaby and the Prototype, it’s closely implied by means of the Bankruptcy 4 Icepick ARG that Yarnaby can stitch toys in combination, as proven by means of the Huggy plush sewn in combination by means of Yarnaby’s threads. All through the Poppy Playtime Bankruptcy 3 trailer, we see the silhouette of what we consider to be the Prototype, reputedly made up of a couple of recognizable Poppy Playtime characters morphed into one. And, on the finish of Poppy Playtime Bankruptcy 2, Mommy Lengthy Legs screams, “he’ll make me a part of him.” Is it conceivable that Yarnaby is the only connecting those toys to the Prototype? If that isn’t the case, Yarnaby may well be copying Experiment 1006. Both means, it’s one thing to believe.
Past Yarnaby being a conceivable guard within the jail, we additionally want to deal with the eyes that seem at the pc track, indicating anyone is staring at. This leads us well to our hypothesis on what the brand new mechanic could also be. In Deep Sleep, you wish to have to make use of a gasoline masks to traverse via spaces stuffed with CatNap’s sinister crimson gasoline – one thing we strongly consider you’ll want to do within the new bankruptcy, too. On the other hand, as Mob claims Bankruptcy 4 is about to be the largest but, we predict it’s most likely that there’s going to be some other new gimmick. On the other hand, myself and Tilly have differing ideas on what this may well be.
Because of the chance of you going to a jail and coping with anyone staring at our each transfer with safety cameras and surveillance apparatus, Tilly believes that we will have to cover from each Yarnaby and the cameras – a robust principle needless to say, particularly whilst you believe our different speculations. On the other hand, I feel there may well be a brand new mechanic via but some other new toy.
Following the reputable unveiling of Poppy Playtime’s Pianosaurus, I will’t lend a hand however take into accounts how the secondary antagonist can play a job within the new installment of Mob’s horror sport collection. Smartly, because it’s a musical toy with piano-like keys on its frame, what if there’s a portion of your journey through which you wish to have to depend on sound to resolve the place he’s?
Each Poppy Playtime’s DogDay and Poppy Playtime’s Leave out Satisfaction have chase sequences in Bankruptcy 3, similar to Mommy Lengthy Legs and Huggy Wuggy do of their respective chapters, so possibly Pianosaurus supplies that during Bankruptcy 4 as an alternative, and I in reality hope to look his musical aspect play an element by hook or by crook. You by no means know; possibly each Tilly and I are onto one thing with our theories at the new mechanic, which means we would possibly want to keep away from cameras, concentrate for noises, and feature restricted imaginative and prescient because of the returning crimson gasoline. Yeah, we’d like to depart the manufacturing facility now, please.
Ok, we all know we aren’t leaving this hellhole any time quickly. We finish Bankruptcy 3 on an elevator able to take us all the way down to no matter awaits beneath, and the trailer means that Bankruptcy 4 selections up precisely the place we left off. On the other hand, it’s attention-grabbing to notice that it looks as if we’re revisiting the caverns in Bankruptcy 4, a space you talk over with ever-so-briefly in Deep Sleep. From the glimpses we’ve observed to this point, those caves would possibly function a mass grave for discarded (murdered) toys. If that’s the case, Yarnaby might be the grave keeper so that you can talk, as we see a shadowy determine akin to the toy within the trailer, skulking some of the corpses on all-fours.
We’ve coated numerous flooring for what we would possibly see in Bankruptcy 4 and the way the other toys would possibly play an element, so permit me to transport from theories into wishful considering – we’re hoping that we’re going to save lots of Kissy Missy. I like Kissy, Tilly loves Kissy, all of us love Kissy, and we want to save her. On the finish of Bankruptcy 3, we start to trip the elevator again up into Playcare as she screams within the background, obviously being attacked, and within the trailer, we pay attention extra shouts from what seems to be Poppy herself. Is it Yarnaby who attacked Kissy? Is he dragging her during the cave device and additional into the manufacturing facility?
Whilst my intestine response tells me no, if we run with our principle that Yarnaby may well be creating a transfer for extra energy, it is smart that he’d all at once seem on CatNap’s turf after his dying. It is also so simple as the Prototype attacking her, as we all know he used to be within the space on the time. Regardless, we wish her again. I’m hoping and pray we save her in Bankruptcy 4, but when I put wishful considering to at least one aspect, we would possibly no longer uncover what occurs to her till Bankruptcy 5.
Smartly, that’s numerous unraveling we simply did, such a lot in order that Yarnaby may more than likely stitch Tilly and me to the Prototype with all that thread (please don’t). Whilst there are lots of extra theories with some benefit, those are those that give us pause for idea, and you’ll ensure that we’ll revisit this newsletter to look how proper we’re when Mob Leisure in spite of everything releases Bankruptcy 4.
Within the interim, take a look at our Poppy Playtime tale defined article to remind your self of what’s took place to this point, then take a look at our Poppy Playtime Poppy and Poppy Playtime Ollie guides to be told extra about one of the crucial maximum vital figures on this global.
