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***Leer Containment**,* was a German company that was built in 1950, until "The Hour of Joy" caused it to close on August 8, 1995. Playtime Co. is the overarching antagonistic faction featured in the indie-horror game *Poppy Playtime*, as well as its prequel *Project: Playtime*.

Elliot Ludwig founded the company in the 1930s. Although an unfortunate and unnamed family death in the 1960s pushed him to his lowest, he continued to work on his company. He would later create popular toys like Poppy Playtime, which helped his company grow. He also hired people like Jimmy Roth to help his company thrive, alongside Leith Pierre to function as one of his top executives.

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It is the main setting of the following released chapters, set in an unspecified location in the United States. It was established in 1930, with the intent to entertain children across the globe, becoming the most famous and well-known toy manufacturing company of its time.

After years of creating new toys, many toys became popular. Out of all the toys ever created by Playtime Co., Huggy Wuggy was the most popular and memorable toy. During an unknown time, Playtime Co. offered factory tour guides for $2.99 per visitor, although it is speculated that this was around the time Poppy gained popularity as both her commercial tape and the tour guide' commercial tape are put into one VHS tape.

Playtime Co. experimented with their toys, trying to revive a dead rat with poppy flowers. While the experiment failed, Elliot Ludwig or Harley Sawyer thought that something larger than a rat would yield better results. These results later help found the Bigger Bodies Initiative. It is revealed within the documents that the orphans Playtime Co. adopted possess these toys. Marie Payne, for example, possesses Mommy Long Legs. It is also presumed that Poppy Playtime is possessed by Elliot Ludwig's adopted daughter, and she was the presumed family member that pushed him to his lowest.

After the implementation of the Biggers Initiative, Playtime Co. utilized the toys to their advantage by making them fulfill various jobs, such as with Huggy Wuggy who functioned as the Factory's security and Mommy Long Legs who helped manage the kids in the Game Station. This helped Playtime Co. to increase their workforce efficiency without needing human workers who required payment and needing breaks.

Although Playtime Co. is based in the United States, the corporation is shown to be international, as in Chapter 2 of Poppy Playtime, there is a box with Russian letters on it and in RESTRICTED relocation, German and Russian letters are shown telling the viewer to stop watching the video. These two appearances of different languages also could mean that Playtime Co. owns facilities in other countries and/or international companies supply Playtime Co. (especially from Russia and Germany)

Playtime Co. is also infamous for its horrific and diabolical treatment of its employees and workers. (Presumably, this started after the Bigger Bodies Initiative's introduction.) This is seen throughout Chapter 1, 2, and the Rowan Stoll tapes. One example is Marcas Brickley reporting the appearance of a large monster in order to protect other employees, which is subsequently underestimated by Leith Pierre (who knew what the monster is) and the latter subtly threatens Marcas. In the Big Spider tape, numerous complaints of Mommy Long Legs is ignored and downplayed by the higher-ups, since they want to keep the monsters a secret. In Chapter 1, it is also shown that employees have very short breaks if at all, as a poster mentions that breaks can not be over 5 minutes long. It likely does not factor lunch time but it still shows that breaks are a luxury compared to other workplaces and may hint at overworked employees.

According to the Playtime Co. Employee Safety Rules, it is stated that "Reports of noxious and or hazardous material used in the production of our toys are both entirely fabricated and highly exaggerated". It is interesting to note because beforehand, it mentions hallucinations and schizophrenia symptoms for employees must be reported, which implies that Playtime Co. may use toxic and highly dangerous materials despite what they claim so, further hinting at Playtime Co.'s immorality and lack of employee safety and care. In the same tape, it is also stated that employees are liable for their own safety and thus the corporation is not responsible for any injuries or accidents, not even if they killed someone. This again shows Playtime Co. does not care about it's employees, but more important is that this means Playtime Co. is not bound by vicarious liability, a law requiring employers to be responsible for their employees, meaning Playtime Co. may be cutting corners intentionally too.

Playtime Co. is additionally not above murdering its employees in order to hide their secrets, such as the case of Rowan Stoll, who knew about the secrets of the corporation and whose car was subsequently sabotaged by a Playtime Co. worker, causing him to nearly die in the incident, and then being eaten by Boxy Boo.

Adding on from before, workers and employees who do acts that are undesirable and/or a threat to Playtime Co. are punished severely. Rowan Stoll's pension was halted and his name was written constantly, Rich was demoted from his previous post and moved to work in the Rejected Room due to his numerous complaints of the company, and Patty Hall was sent to "Storage B" for sabotaging equipment, presumably the area where she was turned into Kissy Missy. Marcas may have also suffered a similar to fate to one of these 3, as he is referred to as a "potential problem" in his tape and given his knowledge of a monster, he would have been removed for being a threat. in Playtime Co. In the "Can you hear us?" tape, it is mentioned that the Bigger Bodies Initiative planned to reduce the number of lawsuits made by people, presumably dissatisfied workers.