The Toybox

The Toybox is a song released in 29 April 2022 by The Stupendium.

## Description

Deep in the bowels of Playtime Co. there are secrets to uncover. Poppy Playtime is your classic 'boy meets girl' story. Except the boy is a former employee of an abandonned toy factory where everyone went missing who has been summoned back years later by a mysterious message and the girl is an ominous living doll trapped in a glass case who may or may not be made out of a human being and instead of a romance there is Huggy Wuggy, a giant fuzzy blue abomination determined to hug you into a fine paste.

This was an absolutely mammoth project for me, I don't think any video I have ever undertaken has involved such an intensive amount of pre-production prop, costume, design and set construction work in addition to a hefty amount of VFX work and post production. Hit by multiple delays along the way with late and lost deliveries of materials and props, rescheduled shoots and a myriad of other hiccups, there were points it felt like this would never be finished. I'm so happy to finally have this project complete and to be able to share it with you all. I hope you all enjoy it! I want to give a monumental thank you to everyone involved with this project for helping bring it to fruition!

And now, unfortunately, a disclaimer:

I am aware of the recent controversies around Poppy Playtime, both the NFTs and the other accusations. If you've already seen the video above or any of my other videos you will hopefully understand how big my projects are and how long they take to make. This one has been in production for a long time, I started work on it last year when the game first released and before any of the recent developments.

This was a big, expensive project with months of work behind it and despite the unpleasantness that has surrounded the game of late, I was not in a position to be able to cancel the project so far along and throw away all of that work. The loss of time and money would have been crippling.

If you don't wish to listen to or support the project I understand, but please also understand why I chose to follow through and complete it.

## Lyrics

INTRO: You are about to see the most incredible doll ever invented

Her name is Poppy and she is the first truly intelligent doll in the world...

VERSE 1:

Come take a tour behind the doors where dreams are made

Where boys and girls around the world can come to play

Where you’ll see entertainment innovation on display

Though you can’t escape the fun, imagination runs away

There’s no better place to spend

All your days and play pretend

No, you won’t be on your own

‘Cause you can always make a friend

So, on us you can depend

That the fun will never end

‘Cause we’re much too plush to break

But just maybe we could bend

Then the lights went down

And the doors stayed closed

And the toys soon found

They were on their own

So as silence fell

On their factory home

Well, they climbed from shelves

And began to roam

Now, you may think we’re just playthings

Sitting wasting and decaying,

We’ve been waiting every day since

You made graves out of our casings

We were made for entertaining

So forgive us for complaining

All you left for us to do

Was spool through

Tapes of safety training

Trapped in the factory, what a calamity

Banished to languish in cramped bits of packaging

Plastic all cracked and fragmented and rattling

Tangled and matted and batteries flattening

Warranty voided and sanity vanishing

Stitches have split and our minds are unravelling

Left us abandoned but now you’ve come back and

We’ve banked up the hugs So come get some love

CHORUS:

Out of the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

A little girl can talk to her, Poppy gives her answers.

She is the first doll actually able to have a conversation with a child

Hard to believe? Just watch.

VERSE 2 :

‘Cause we’re destined to be best friends

You and I from the second you stepped in

You give me butterflies in my tummy

As my hugs mulch your intestines

Give a high five to the big guy

And a big hand to yourself

Now your arms are long enough

To slap boxes off the shelf

But if you think that gloves and string

Are really going to help

We’re wondering what other limbs

Can be detached as well

Don’t think that toys have got things to say then?

Look at these points of articulation

Pull on my string, have a conversation

Oh, so you think we’re abominations?!

Look who made us, then betrayed us

Left to must and dust for ages

Rusting, stuck in cardboard cages

Memories fade as rage replaces

What we were, our former names

We aren’t quite sure from where we came

But someone must have worked here once

And now they’re gone and we remain!

BRIDGE:

All we know is how to play Play, play, play, play

Then you took the play away Way, way, way, way

Three and up is what they say Say, say, say, say

Now we’re into playing Way more dangerous games

Wind it up, watch it spin

All the lies come round again

Close your eyes, count to ten

You can’t hide from your friends

And, if you've ever wanted to see how all of the nation's favorite toys were created

Playtime Co. is now offering factory tours at just $2.99 a person

What time is it?

It’s playtime!

CHORUS:

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

VERSE 3:

So take a tour where all the dreams have gone to die

Where just some double-As can make your nightmares come to life

Where imagination paved the way to suffering and strife

It’s a play date with destiny we’ve yet to see survived!

Take those tin toys from the attic

Bring those dolls down from the loft

Take your old friend out and ask if

They resent their resting spot

They may just be some plastic

They may look stuffed and soft

They’ll still put you in a casket

But you won’t be mint in box!

CHORUS:

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Now we’re crawling out the toybox

Ready or not, we’ll find you

Huggy's long huggable arms may present a choking hazard...

Ready or not, we’ll find you