Playtime Co.

How does everything happen without this? This article refers to the main setting of the game, which is the Playtime Co. factory. There is a possibility it will be protected, unless there is more information to come.

Company

Mascots and Toys

Employees

History

Playtime Co.
Type	A toy manufacturing company.
Timeline
Opened	1930
Creations	Poppy Playtime Bron Boxy Boo Cat-Bee Candy Cat Daisy Huggy Wuggy Kissy Missy Boogie Bot Mini Huggies Mommy Long Legs Bunzo Bunny PJ Pug-a-Pillar Daddy Long Legs Baby Long Legs Smiling Critters
Closed	August 8th, 1995
Appearances
Debut	Poppy Playtime

“	What's the time? Playtime!	”
— Playtime Co.'s slogan.

Playtime Corporation, shortened and advertised as Playtime Co., was an American toy-making company that was built in 1930, until "The Hour of Joy" incident 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.

Information

It is the main setting of the following released chapters, set in an unspecified location in the eastern 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 that hallucinations and schizophrenia symptoms for employees must be reported, which implies that Playtime Co. employees are often exposed to toxic and highly dangerous materials, 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, even if it means bypassing the law.

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.

Mascot Timeline

1950 Information Gallery

1961 Information Gallery

1966 Information Gallery

1979 Information Gallery

1984 Information Gallery

1985 Information Gallery

1991 Information Gallery

1993 Information Gallery

The following toys were also created at an unknown date:

• Baby Long Legs
• Barrel o' Huggys
• Barry
• Bunzo Bunny
• Cat-Bee (between the 80s and 90s)
• Daddy Long Legs
• Daisy (marionette)
• Kick-me-Paul
• Love Bug
• Love Dog
• Mini Huggies
• Orange Robot Toy
• Owen the Oven
• Pet Stone
• Petite Pooch
• PJ Pug-a-Pillar
• The Prototype
• Sir Poops-A-Lot
• Sunni Buddi
• Surprise Hare
• CatNap

Trivia

• It's speculated that the factory closed on August 8, 1995, due to the screams in the Bigger Bodies Relocation Guide tape matching with the screams in the Final Log tape.
  • This means that the events of Poppy Playtime happened in 2005 or 2006, since the factory closed down 10 years ago, as seen in the "Find the Flower" note.
• Playtime Co's Heyday (Most successful day) is May 5, 1992.
• It is interesting that almost all of Playtime Co.'s main toy mascots have some human-like abilities or personalities.
• Playtime Co. was apparently very successful, but it was closed down due to the murders caused by all the "experiments" (mascots).
• The font of the Playtime Co. logo is the Ubuntu-Title font.
• The factory appears to be located in or near a forest, as the map in RESTRICTED disappearance shows various trees on it and the footage shows lots of trees and a deer, which lives in forests.
• The company’s name is maybe based off Playmate toys inc, a company that made the teenage mutant ninja turtles in the 1980s

Gallery

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  Playtime Co.'s logo at the loading screen of the Poppy Playtime Mobile/iOS port.

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  Playtime Co. and Elliot Ludwig’s history

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  Information on Playtime Co. and GrabPack.

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  Playtime Co. on the map on the up right.

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  Playtime Co. during the day.