Game Theory: Mommy's Secret Army (Poppy Playtime) 

Thank you so much for the mention! Appearing on the best theory channel on RU-vid is definitely the highlight of my career so far!

I’m glad Mat actually calls them out for their money hungry behavior

HIGH FIVE

Mat Pat was DEFINITELY right about mommy being starving. In chapter 2 when mommy chases you after you "cheated" you can hear her chilling groans of pain implying that she's beyond the brink of starvation 😰

"Poppy is not the bad guy, unlike every other horror game ever" "Poppy is going to turn on us" Make up your mind, matt

I really like how y'all were able to cover the lore while still calling out the devs for their greedy tactics.

I wonder if Matpat’s theories have caused creators to change the story of their game.

Well now with the release we find out that, Huggy is not “The Prototype” whatever dragged Mommy’s body is. Huggy wasn’t the violent one. It is. It’s smarter then any other character. My theory is that Mommy didn’t kill the toys. That thing did. For violence.

When mommy says "don't make me part of him!" When being killed do you think she meant a part of the Prototype? Like it was adding the parts of the dead toys to make its self stronger or bigger?

FYI: The holes on mommy long legs limbs are reference to bendable toys having those in general. Because during the mold making process they put pins that keep the wires centered inside the toys limbs.

This is definitely the…let’s say boldest I’ve seen matpat regarding the game he is discussing. The amount of roasting he did regarding this game and company due to their franchising obsession and marketing is hilarious and refreshing.

Hey Matt, just figured I'd try to bring this to your attention. In Chapter 2, one of the slides has all of it's letters scattered on the ground. Where the letters once were are nails where they used to hang from. The first name contains 5 while the last name contains 6. The only name I could get from it is Jamie Hanoby. Could you cover this in the next Poppy Playtime Theory vid?

With the new chapter. That missing secret recipe is definitely Ludwig. And now knowing #1006 isn't huggy I'm 100% sure it's Ludwig himself. While Stella isn't Poppy but Kissy instead. And Poppy is Ludwig's daughter. Ludwig wanted to bring his daughter back to life. But the question is why was she in a cage? Bc like the other toys. She also has psychotic tendencies. Notice how she changes her mood from being friendly at first to being cold after defeating MLL. My theory Ludwig died between post-CatBee and pre-Huggy creation era. Bc CatBee and Bron are the only ones who doesn't have "Life Size/adult alter". While Boggie Bot was made in later years so they weren't able to make an alter of him. My next theory the next monster would be Candy Cat or among them. Like how Bunzo & PJ was. So to say Prototype was created before Huggy. Ludwig offered himself to perfect Poppy. He didn't had bad intentions. But after his creation Playtime Co. started to shift their objectives. Which further angers Ludwig. Prototype is too perfect they can't control it. So they made Huggy. Who is much more humane. But he's too subservient to act on his own. So they made MLL. But she's more strong-willed. And it just goes on and on and on. So who made the note? It was the prototype. I originally thought it was poppy. But after releasing poppy why would she want to help us escape when she was the one who called us? And during the train ride. It seems the prototype talk to her about us. And when the prototype appeared to collect MLL he didn't do anything to us. MLL has a mind of her own and knows to survive she must avoid prototype. She attacks us bc she hates Playtime Co. Huggy is attacking us bc he's programmed to protect Playtime Co. Prototype is the superior toy among the Playtime Toys. But why does he need us? Other than locating Poppy he wants us to see how awful Playtime Co. is. He will definitely need us and he & poppy might be genuine to help us get through Playtime Co. But I wouldn't be surprised if there will be a UNO reverse card where Poppy will lose control and reveal her psychotic side being the Boss monster of the series. Or prototype might use us to transfer himself to our body. Or just like us having to venture those test like the kids. Was being test and how constantly poppy says we're perfect. Maybe just maybe we are being marinated to be the "Perfect Toy" Poppy, the prototype, and the other toys failed to be.

its kinda scary how the factory has a food chain of sorts. imagine being a toy in the factory, must be terrifying to try to survive.

The holes in Mommy Long Legs' arms and legs aren't actually for customization. Many other toys with bendable arms and legs that arent customizable have those same holes such as several Sonic The Hedgehog figures. They likely have something to do with the mobility of the limbs. We didn't get a view of Mommies sides but it is possible that there could be sockets for attachable limbs. Also, love how in order to get across the point of unblinking eyes, he used a picture of the Kirstin mini doll that has painted eyes since the actual 18" dolls everyone knows can actually blink.

every single one of the "toys" have eyes on the front of their head instead of the side. this is a key indicator that they are predators and actively hunt for their food. scary when you think about it...

Absolutey love how passive-agressive Matpat is at 7:14 talking about the terrible merchandizing the game has

This is interesting to come back to after watching Chapter 2 and we now know that Experiment 1006 isn't Huggy Wuggy or any of his variants, but a whole different creature altogether. (If anyone wants more info I shall provide)

If all the toys bleed, how did the company keep running? Toys are inevitably broken by children, and then they'd have some explaining to do!

I feel like every chapter is going to be based off of a specific phobia. Think about it. Huggy chased us through a small vent system. The chapter was even titled "A Tight Squeeze" rendering that it was meant to be claustrophobic. And chapter 2 has a big spider theme, relating to arachnaphobia. I can only hope that the other chapters will use phobias like the fear of snakes, heights, darkness, and maybe even the ocean.

I honestly love how things that sound morbid for another person to say is just completely normal for matpat “Their flesh and organs were actively used as the materials for these toys”

Honestly so shocked that nothing came of Mommy Long Legs’ holes for extra toy pieces. Was 1000% expecting a final boss battle of some kind where she had limbs from all the different toys or something

Now that chapter 2 has came out, it’s kind of cool to see the outdated theory’s and assumptions either triumph or get proven wrong! Especially the “Wuggy being 1006” theory, since it has been proven that he is not. Can’t wait till the next theory video!

MatPat throwing some (totally deserved) shade in this one.

I've never seen Matt actually angry at the practices of a game company before. Seeing his veiled unhappiness at how the company is conducting themselves is not only funny, but refreshing. It shows a human side to him that youtubers typically either hide completely or blow out of proportion.

With chapter 2 out and I just wanted to rewatch what he got right and wrong i’m gonna say he got 10% of this episode right.

Mommy's secret army?? Guess Elliott Ludwig/the prototype/ Exp. 1006 has more to feed on

the fact that the devs even considered nfts having lore killed it for me. make your game, not expensive pngs or merch

Total props to Tericho for taking one for the team! That's a lot of money spent for the lore!

Man, we were so wrong about: A. Huggy = 1006 B. Employees = toys

I think i know what it means when in the chapter 2 trailer, when mommy long legs pulls the huggy wuggy toy. you see the way he fell to his death in chapter 1? we never got to saw him down there and we know hes not returning. and as matpat said mommy long legs is eating the organs of the toys. so when he was gone down there when we never saw him. mommy longs legs was probably down there and pulled him away, and ate his organs. explaining why he never showed up again in any of the new chapters

The scariest thing about Poppy’s Playtime is the NFT line

The amount of salt matt pat displays towards the almost immediate franchisation of Poppy's playtime honestly has made my day

it has been revealed that huggy is 1170 and the prototype is it's own thing. it has a clawed, bony metal hand that takes dead toys and uses the parts on themself Edit: 9:52 is close to what the prototype does.

Really wish Mommy Long Legs had added parts like was theorized

Also,I've wanted to add a suggestion for a theory. I liked the Backrooms survival theory, but I would love to see the lore. Specifically, were did the monster come from? I wouldn't put a creature that hunts and kills my coworkers into my interdenominational storage unit, and I doudt anyone else would either.

Just curious, does anyone have an explanation on why the place that Poppy's case was in was modelled after a house? After walking through a giant toy factory a house setting is quite the offset

11:42 Man, I alway knew that poppy was a Yandere!

⚠️Spoilers!!⚠️ When Matt was talking about huggy wuggy he stated that he was experiment 1006 which is the same number as prototype who mommy long legs refers to him in her dying words by saying “he’s going to make me part of him” and when her torso falls out of the crusher a large claw comes out from under a nearby door which appears to be “prototypes” claw according to the image that shows during the vhs tape about how he almost escaped. so i would theorize that huggy wuggys story isn’t over yet considering that his experiment number is the same as “prototypes”.

I have to say with this episode of game theory having matpat both talk about nfts being bad and telling us to be careful with putting money into stocks it makes me happy that he’s not just promoting anything to his primarily young audience for money and he actually cares about keeping his viewers and the environment safe, I really respect that

I gotta say the editing for Poppy is really cool. The editors really went above and beyond than normal. They get a gold star.

I remember I use to have so many Betty spaghetti dolls and I always wondered what the holes in their limbs were for

I LOVE HOW YOUR VIDEOS ARE EDITED

Ok can we give some appreciation to the editors at 12:34 I like how poppy’s eyes and mouth moved with the dialogue

I love the game, its lores and the concept, but I'm a bit afraid of disappointment considering the creators seem a bit too greedy for good's sake.

Hey remember that poster from chapter one ago it the company helping orphans? Maybe the toys had started to feed on those too. As messed up as it is, there’s no way they’re just feeding off the toys

So funny that mat pat still doesn't know that huggy is not the prototype

Whenever there is a mysterious character in any game, Matpat sees one of three things - a dead child - a murderer/sociopath - your father

I guess my only question would be why Stella, an adult, would make simple grammatical mistakes that children make. Stuck in a doll's body, I can easily excuse the handwriting - but her misplacing the apostrophe and misspelling words is a bit odd. There are posters around the factory, encouraging employees to adopt kids, though. Since she was stuck in the box, I doubt she was the one who wrote the letter and sent it to us. Maybe her room is similar to a saferoom, and smaller toys that were stuffed with adopted children go to her for 'protection'. If she instructed them to write the letter, the grammatical errors would make a bit more sense, I think.

You gotta appreciate the editors work on this episode! ESPECIALLY at 12:33, the lip-syncing with Poppy here is just FLAWLESS!

The "holes" in Mommy Long Legs aren't any kind of an expansion port (neither are the holes on the 90's kids toys). They're a manufacturing artifact. In this specific case, pins in the mold were used to suspend a flexible metal wire in the center of the mold channel for the arms/legs/neck while rubberized plastic was injected into the mold. The rubber would encapsulate the metal wire while the pin held the wire in place. They just didn't bother to fill in the holes after the toys were extracted.

Love the SHADE MatPat is throwing in this episode lol

Here's a theory: what if Poppy isn't just trying to restart the factory and create a new line of living toys, what if she's also using us to take out the old, failed ones. We took down Huggy Wuggy (as far as we know) and now we're going after Mommy Longlegs. Poppy is having us kill the threats to her goal before she starts everything again.

I think you need to see the voice line of Poppy, the first voice lines at the game prototype, that was removed on the last version/ final version of the game.

Yeah we were wrong about Stella being Poppy.

now that the game is out, we know that huggy is NOT the prototype. which i kinda like it better, bc it shows that there are monsters far more intelligent than huggy like mommy and the prototype itself, as mentioned in the tapes. also the spider that they mention on the tapes, i think that it might b the prototype. bc even if staff is unaware of experiments, they would recognize mommy long legs since she was a well received toy. but what about the prototype? most staff members would not know, so we can assume that it is spider-like

Damn, a little "girl" with pigtails, red hair, helping us only to betray us in the end? I would have never see that one coming.

I am proud to say I got this before Matpat did about Poppy.

Laughing at the failed crop-out of MiniLadd at 00:20

No one seems to have noticed how amazing the animation for Poppy is in this video. Usually the character animation is GT is just an image dragged across screen, maybe with a few expressions, but Poppy had an entirely anime-esk face. Well done animator. You deserve a raise.

Mat Pat is a very open-minded person, and I love how much he'll make theories but also change theories based on the information that is given.

The demo model of PJ Pugapillar is wild compared to the end result

Even now, the amount of similarities between Circus Baby and Poppy is scary. -Red Hair -Pigtails -Has/Originally had blue eyes -Turns on you later in the game Coincidence? *I think not.*

9:56 Those holes in poseable rubber dolls are (sadly) not for customization. The holes are left behind from pegs holding the wire armature in place during the casting process. I do think you’re on to something with the customization idea, but add ons certainly would not go in those holes.

*Ah yes, Poppy is pulling a Circus Baby, pretending to help us escape alive but ultimately betraying us in the end.*

BEFORE MATPAT UNSCRAMBLED THE LETTERS I KNEW IT SAID MOMMY LONG LEGS IS COMING I GUESSED RIGHT🤭🤭🤭🤭

imagine getting a toy from the factory as a kid for christmas and you drop it and there’s just a pool of blood.

I’m so glad I can continue to hear matpat rant about how stupid nfts are outside of GTlive. He makes sure his audience is well aware of his (very educated) stance lol

Whoever’s the animator for poppy in this video is nailing their job perfectly. The expressiveness and threatening aura are wonderful. 100% amazing job animator(s). Rock on! 🤘

poor matpat about to get things retconned. Chapter 2 is here, Matt

Is nobody gonna mention how the holes in the arms are not for customization it's for flexibility. It's just how the flexible rubber arms are made. Like any kind of those toys

Definitely wasn't expecting to hear about Matpat's opinions on NFTs while I was watching a theory video about Poppy Playtime of all things but hey, it was a welcome surprise none the less. Nice to know your thoughts on NFTs stand on the right side of history, Matthew. :)

I've never really been into Poppy's Playtime, but I'll always stay for a GT video- ALSO American Girl Dolls are horrifying, you're right. Even as a young girl I was terrified at night of them and would lock them in my closet...

7:44 why did this remind me of fnaf

I keep screaming when he says we know huggu is 1006

The holes in Betty Spaghetti and Mommy Long Legs' arms are probably there to help the arms bend and move without breaking rather than actually helping with customisation. You see it with some other toys that aren't customisable.

7:25 I think this is the closest we've ever come to hearing MatPat being angry.

10:03 I feel like he used the pokemon missinu the pokemon for the it's not a rendering glitch

Matpat you NEED to do an updated theory on the 2nd chapter since you’ve already played it. What’s the new theory w all of the info that was dumped on us during chapter 2.

*Don't you just love how matpat can make a theory about a character that we've seen less than 60 secs of?*

For your theory on mommy long legs getting more legs is highly plausible, the holes on the limbs are more for the air compression that comes with toys that have bendy wires for the limbs

MCG: bro not me hearing Gabriel from Mandela catalogue 😭

Theory fact: poppy is actually possessed by the owner of playtime co daughter, and huggy wuggy was named EX1220 and kissy missy is friendly and MLL is possessed by [U N K O W N ] Edit: also when the experiments were made they had a urge to or not to kill and supposedly when children were present the experiments were calm but now that they are gone they have gone cold crazy, the owner of playco locked poppy in the case to pervent her to become like the “others”.

TBH I hope that this particular theory is true, or at least the first part - about the Playtime toys eating each other, and about Mommy Long Legs upgrading herself with parts from those other toys. There's just something so awesome about that idea, so *appealing*. Also thank u MatPat for denouncing NFTs and the general practices of MOB games. I hope they do better in the future.

She's basically like Baby. Guiding you in the way you're supposed to go but she secretly has an ulterior motive

This really makes sense, like the employees who did not get turn into dolls knew or learned her intentions and locked her in. And actually she's the main villain in discreet and maybe she'll betray us then will need our help someway and we will have to make a choice to either rescue her or leave her.

Just came back after a year and Poppy is so cute 😭

I love how matpat blatantly tears into poppy playtime as a franchise any chance he gets with 0 hesitation lol

When Poppy is introduced, Poppy quotes “ I’m a real girl, just like you” so that tells you this theory is pretty much true.

anyone else notice that during mommy long legs’ death scene she screams “You’ll make be part of him”?

Dang that's almost correct now we need a 3 chapter

This game proved Human's have a natural instinct to high five anything and everything with a raised hand

Could Mommy Long Legs be semi-based on the story “Little Miss Muffet”? It would make sense, I think.

I love that you always make your intro always is based on the game!

9:17 I loved Betty spaghetti when I was a kid in the late 90s/early 2000s. I even had a betty spaghetti music CD 😂 I knew that thing in poppy playtime reminded me of her, I’m glad it wasn’t just me who saw it haha

I just want to kudos the editors and artists for this episode. The drawn Poppy dolls are beautifully unsettling and creepy, and the subtle mouth and eye changes really bring those sections alive!

I absolutely love that mat knows that this game is clearly a cash grab and nothing more.

The flower thing in the ciling in the final game it turns into a bunny called bunzo bunny

Every single person who has played this or done a video on this always say ‘I don’t trust her’ or somewhere between those lines. It’ll ether be terrifying if they are right or hilarious if not

Oh my God! Never in my entire life did I ever think I would be featured in a Game Theory video! Thank you so much MatPat! Also thank you for sharing my tweet spreading awareness to those uninformed that they won't do NFTs anymore.