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Seeing as the Orientation Notebook has a few teaser images now, may as well go over them!

Transcriptions first, because the quality is very crunchy 💖

Candy Cat

"In the 1970's there was a danger of our products seeming old-fashioned, so in 1979 we launched Candy Cat as a more free-spirited character with a mischievous, even rebellious side. She loves candy! What made this design really successful was Candy's lolling tongue, which kids could roll up and put back into her mouth. Meanwhile, the hatch on her back meant you could literally stuff her with candy- or whatever you liked! She's still available to purchase in the Gift Shop today."

Bunzo Bunny

"Bunzo is a cheerful yellow rabbit who loves to celebrate birthdays and clashes his symbols together when he's excited. This toy is equipped with the ability to remember up to eight birthdays and deliver greetings on the day itself. Kids love to freak out their family and friends when Bunzo tells them when their birthday is!"

Eddie M.N. Ritterman

| Head of Research |

"Eddie has been working on new facilities here at the factory. We can't tell you much about what he's working on- he doesn't always tell us much about it!

But we're sure it will lead to great things!"

Note: "NO ONE HAS MET EDDIE. AS FAR AS I CAN TELL EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT HIM IS JUST RUMOURS. HE DOES EXIST THOUGH...I THINK."

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A Few things to Note/Speculation:

Firstly, the mention of putting "whatever you liked" in Candy Cat's hatch. We remember the Candy Cat cutout in Chapter 2 begging us to stop feeding it, and if I had to hazard a guess, this is a subtle nod to the fact that some of the child experiments were fed something toxic. A few of the other cutouts seem to be speaking about the childrens' experiences, so this might fit thematically.

Alternatively, this could hint at a Bigger Body Candy Cat having smaller enemies inside, or something otherwise hazardous.

And secondly, we get a bit about Candy Cat's personality. This may mean nothing at all, OR it may explain why the Prototype picked Mikayla Hyssop in particular to put under his influence. If she was paired with Candy Cat on the basis of personality (which may or may not be the case), then she might have had a rebellious streak as well- hence why the Prototype might find it easier to have her bend to his whims. If he is indeed trying to save the children, she might have been his first attempt at trying to find someone who was able to save herself and the other children via the power of his influence.

Bunzo and Eddie's sections are pretty self-explanatory for now. There may be context with Eddie I'm missing, but that will have to wait. (I've got a lot of information to re-teach myself between Poppy, Project Playtime, AND the ARG's, lol.)

Reading the Orientation Notebook is wild because you get normal things like creation dates and employee notes and then you get lore drops like "Huggy ate some deer while we were trying to catch him" and "Daddy Long Legs was mean on the barbecue and that's his entire personality"

**Orientation Notebook Spoilers**

Was NOT expecting this from the Orientation Notebook LOL.

The last line seems to imply that the other Critters were used to fix any potential issues with Catnap. There's only one number between 1186 and 1188, though, which is odd. I assume they were just working out of numerical order, as I don't think Dogday was 1187. He was seemingly functional in comparison- why backtrack?

It also seems like the Critters were built with the same "blueprint" as Catnap, having long limbs and the same skeletal structure.

Not exactly the same pose but something I noticed regardless

Extra tidbits from the Orientation Notebook!

Can we please see the miss delight info from the orientation book? 👉👈

Unfortunately, she doesn't have her own section like the rest of the characters. I have no idea why this is, but she's ended up being the "odd man out" assumedly because we don't really see her toy counterpart or know that much about her. I think she'd make a killer figurine or irl plushie, but I assume most efforts are going into the Smiling Critter plushies irl right now.

In any case, what we see here makes sense on a surface level, but I do have a question. Who was put into these dolls? Playtime's experiments have been shown to need human parts/consciousness to function. I would assume more orphans, but staff have also voluntarily signed up to be "repurposed" into experiments as we saw with Thomas- so which is it?

Also, a nitpick, but how come we've never seen a Miss Delight doll in Poppy Playtime? Did they not sell well, were they a limited run...?

In any case, it would be nice to see more of her.

Is it possible we can see what it says about Huggys in the orientation book? Please ✨️

Haha you might wanna buy the book at this point! These are the main pages, there are other tidbits sprinkled in there about Huggy.

So apparently the Red Smoke has positive(?) effects on most kids, it's just a handful that had the nightmares and horrible side effects.

Free my man Catnap he didn't do nothing wrong

I could do a whole essay on these two in particular- but circling back to Catnap, can we talk about how he's just notttt evil at all lmao?

When he wasn't busy putting the staff out of their misery, he was actually regarded as "gentle" and "a bit shy" in Playcare according to Stella Greyber. Leith also noted that he was "impressionable," mainly to the Prototype, whom he would follow around. It's also worth noting that the Red Smoke actually improved brain functions of most of the orphans, and only caused violent nightmares in a select few.

Catnap also rounded up children before the Hour of Joy and took them to a secure location, and didn't let Miss Delight get anywhere near them.

Like, so far his track record consists of protecting kids and 360 no-scoping people complacent in the murder of orphans sooooo......let's all get in a circle and apologize to the giant purple cat

Common Catnap W let's go