Splinta Claws (character)

## Splinta Claws

**Splinta Claws** appears in the episode Splinta Claws.

Splinta Claws is a mysteriously sentient half-scale Santa Claus animatronic display model. He behaves erratically, ignoring anything he deems "naughty" and chasing after nice children.

The origin of Splinta Claws was a long time ago, a Peltzer employee says that 30 years ago an energy explosion occurred in the animatronic Santa Claus that damaged his hands making them look like claws, he says that no one ever fixed it, they just covered it up with gloves , it is unknown why he has the attraction of chasing good childrens

During the evening when Lawrence is visiting a shopping mall, he meets and is unsettled by the glitchy and cheaply made Santa robot in the mall. He messes with the wiring to get it to shut up, but it becomes unstable and scares all the nearby onlookers (including a few terrified children). This gets him banned from the area by a security guard dressed as an obese tall elf.

Later, Lawrence tries to sneak into the area again to retrieve his lost gift necklace, but Splinta Claws talks to him about his status of naughty or nice. Suddenly winking at him, the elf guard takes Splinta Claws away. The elf guard speaks with another shopping mall member and entails of how the Santa robot got its nickname: that its hands were mangled due to a factory accident that left the interior hands sharpened and withered.

When Lawrence and his best friend Mickey meet up and agree to hide overnight in the mall to retrieve his lost present, they are suddenly chased after by the Santa robot, which calls them "naughty children" and malfunctions while straining the electric cord it is plugged into. despite suddenly managing to unplug itself, Splinta Claws continues to function and chases after the two boys.

The boys attempt to escape Splinta Claws by using the Mall elevator, but the robot easily learns to use it itself and follows suite. Lawrence trips on a loose christmas light wire, and it reveals Splinta's weakness in that he distincts "naughty children" from "nice children". Lawrence uses the advantage to grab a plastic large candy cane and knocks Splinta Claws off the railing to the lower floor.

Despite the heavy landing, once Lawrence and Mickey examine the fallen Santa animatronic, it easily gets itself back up out of abnormal mobility, and its face mold comes off. Lawrence and Mickey run off to a small house exhibit and devise to lock it inside by closing both doors. Splinta Claws removes his gloves to reveal sharp mangled appendages and begins breaking through the door with them. After a clever reference to 'The Shining' (granted, its not known how Splinta was able to manipulate the voice box recordings to say things out of the pre-programmed recordings), Splinta continues to terrorize the two young boys. Lawrence convinces Mickey to do something naughty in order to prevent Splinta Claws from attacking him, so he trips and short-circuits a fallen electronic tree.

Mickey hides inside the display room while Lawrence tries to pull at Splinta's plug in cord, to little effort. Suddenly Splinta appears to run out of power, and Mickey now adopts an albeit selfish tone of mood. Mickey convinces Lawrence that the only way they can get out of the locked mall alive is by letting Splinta go after the other children while they leave unharmed.

Splinta is last seen entering the home of a young girl through the chimney, whomst looks at him with shock. Splinta is last heard saying "Nice child", before pressumably killing her. The Curious enters the mall and finds splinta's broken-off claw stuck to the door he escapes at the epilogue, ending the tale.