![]() ![]() As far back as the early 20th century, boys played with dolls regardless of whether the toys were marketed specifically toward them or not. The idea was not totally alien to the market. In marketing My Buddy, Hasbro hoped to pioneer a new toy category: a doll line for boys. The Cabbage Patch dolls were highly desirable among young girls boys gravitated toward the veiny, sword-wielding characters of the He-Man franchise. Then there was My Buddy, which seemed to straddle the gender lines the other major toy companies had drawn. Masters of the Universe was Mattel’s hit, with both the action figures and ancillary products doubling the take of the Cabbage people. Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids were a bona fide phenomenon, ringing up $540 million in sales the year prior. In 1985, toy stores were stocked to the brim with some of the most indelible properties of the decade. That was the case for My Buddy, an oversized doll first introduced by Hasbro in 1985 that failed to make waves on store shelves but informed the creation of the carrot-topped spree killer doll Chucky in writer Don Mancini and director Tom Holland’s 1988 film Child’s Play. Chucky is said to be a technologically advanced smart toy whose AI is programmed to have no limitations to learning or violence.If your toy company's boy-oriented doll doesn’t set the world on fire, you might take comfort in the fact it partially inspired a series of slasher movies.In the remake, Chucky is created by a disgruntled sweat shop worker who disables all his safety parameters. In the original Child's Play, Chucky is created through Voodoo.They, too, had the interchangeable features of the other puppets. Two of the 'Robo-Chucky' puppets were built. ![]() The body was filled with servos to control the various body parts and the head was also completely remote controlled. One version of the Chucky puppet, which was referred to as 'Robo-Chucky,' was entirely self-contained.Unlike the original Child's Play (1988) and it's sequels, Chucky was not possessed by the serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Chucky's human form) who transferred his soul into the doll.In place of the Play Pals company that manufactured the Chucky Good Guy Dolls is Kaslan Industries, which are manufacturers of the various Buddi dolls: ranging from human dolls to animal dolls, and initially unlike Play Pals did not begin primarily as a toy creative company, but rather an advanced electronics industry: developing advanced robotics such as drones, camera wear and modem software.This is most likely a nod to the slasher film series of the same name. Among the accessories displayed for the Buddi2 doll is a Leprechaun costume. ![]()
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