Safety Scissors

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## Store description

Slice through anything\* with these high-end safety Scissors!
\*Actually, these are the dullest scissors ever made and can only cut through jumpropes, bubble gum, and cheap wires.

**Safety Scissors** are an inventory item found in the *Baldi's Basics* series.

## Description

Safety Scissors are a pair of magenta scissors with symmetrical circular finger holes and oval-shaped plastic blades bearing a resemblance to actual safety scissors.

## Usage

Currently, the item can be used in three ways by cutting, according to the description of Johnny's Store:

* Playtime's jump rope to end her minigame. When the scissors are used on Playtime's skipping rope, her smile will turn into a frown and she will say "*Oh! That makes me sad!*". Playtime will not be able to play with the player for 15 seconds.
* 1st Prize's wires to cause him to malfunction and spin for 30 seconds which prevents him from pushing the player. The malfunctioning time will be accumulated when using other Safety Scissors. Unlike other characters, in order to cut his wires, the player has to look at him.
* Beans' bubble gum to get out of it faster.

Safety Scissors should typically be used on Playtime and Beans due to them being a large obstacle - although it is also a good idea to use them on 1st Prize when absolutely necessary (for instance, if he is pushing the player towards Baldi).

## Locations

The Safety Scissors item is commonly found in classrooms, faculty rooms, and the library. They can also be bought at Johnny's Store for 50 You Thought Points.
It is also one of the five items that can spawn with another item (in faculty rooms), the other four being the Quarter, Dirty Chalk Eraser, Alarm Clock and Principal's Keys.

## Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Classic*, the Safety Scissors are found in three classrooms with the green, black, and cyan-colored notebook. However, the effect when using them on 1st Prize only lasts for 15 seconds.
* In *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*, Safety Scissors can be found randomly in either presents or Crazy Item machines. Like in *Classic*, the effect on 1st Prize only lasts for 15 seconds.
* In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, the Safety Scissors can be found in the same locations as in *Baldi's Basics Classic* in the Classic Style. The item uses mechanics from *Baldi's Basics Plus*, so the malfunctioning time for 1st Prize is 30 seconds.
* In *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*, the Safety Scissors are unused in the game, but found in the game code.

## Trivia

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* There is a poster that explains what the Safety Scissors do, saying that they are used to cut paper, jumpropes, robots, and homework. While the usage of cutting jumpropes and robots was confirmed, the rest aren't.
* When Beans was first introduced in *Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*, using the Safety Scissors after getting hit by his bubble gum would not work. Since *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.1.2, Safety Scissors can now be used to cut Beans' bubble gum.
	+ However, the bubble gum is not listed in the "`scissors`" poster yet.
* While playing jump rope and being hit by Beans' bubble gum, using Safety Scissors will cut Playtime's jump rope, but not the bubble gum.
	+ However, while being pushed by 1st Prize and being hit by bubble gum, it will only cut the bubble gum.
* In the current version, there is a chance that two Safety Scissors will spawn in the same faculty room.
* In a future update, cutting 1st Prize's wires will work at all times when the player gets pushed by him, whether they look at him or not.
* In V0.2.1, Safety Scissors could not cut 1st Prize's wires.
* Prior to V0.2.2, in the store description, the text "**jumpropes, bubble gum, and cheap wires**" was usually "**very specific things**". It was changed in order to make it clearer to mention the use of Safety Scissors.
* Prior to V0.3.5, the old description of the poster was:

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* During production on V1.3, the Safety Scissors were originally located in the classroom from the left side of the starting hallway, seen in mystman12's tweet.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*/*Birthday Bash*

* When clicking the "Use item" button too much or early with the Safety Scissors selected while Playtime approaches, the Safety Scissors disappear yet Playtime's rope is not cut.
* The Safety Scissors can sometimes come with an error, with a line in the middle of the sprite.

### *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*

* Using Safety Scissors will end the jump rope minigame, but it does not make Playtime sad. This was fixed in *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.1.2.

## Gallery

* Screenshots
* Kickstarter

*Baldi's Basics Plus*
The Safety Scissors from a prototype screenshot.The Safety Scissors from the teaser of Johnny's Store.
*Baldi's Basics Classic*
The Safety Scissors from a current screenshot.
*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*
The Safety Scissors from a current screenshot.Ditto.Ditto.Ditto.Ditto.The Safety Scissors from an old screenshot.

The Safety Scissors from the "**Rewards**" header from the Kickstarter page.
## References

1. ↑ "*Were you looking at First Prize when you tried to do this? You need to aim at him for it to work.*" - *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* Steam Community Hub
2. ↑ "*I might change it so it's automatic while being pushed, that's probably more intuitive.*" - *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* Steam Community Hub
3. ↑ "*D'oh! I'll get that added in the next patch.*" - mystman12. September 15, 2020. Twitter
4. ↑ "*Check out this hype new feature coming in the update!!!! #ImSorry*" - mystman12. May 30, 2018. Twitter