AGH!! Terrifying Teddy II!! (Nightmare fuel!)

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I just came across this on eBay, and had to post it here.



What's scary about it, you ask*?

*(If you're unfamiliar with Teddy II.)

He appears to have had an eye-transplant, and has Teddy I eyes - and they're far too big for him!

I know for definite that he's not a prototype, because the Teddy II prototype didn't look much different to the final version;



This is how Teddy II is supposed to look (late-WoW on the left, PlaySkool on the right);



The creepy-looking, bugging-out eyes aside, the restoration of the Teddy II from the auction is clearly a good one - going by the video in the auction listing, he sounds perfect and correct, and his movements are perfect and correct, too! But those eyes... I just can't get over them...

[thelunarfox]

Ahh! That is strange looking, though in the video they seem to work. It is strange to see a Teddy II in action! I know he only has one motor, but to see it in operation where his eyes can't move when his mouth does is interesting.

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I must admit, until I learned last year that it's not possible for a Teddy II to blink whilst speaking, I *never noticed it*, haha...

[thelunarfox]

I can totally believe it. I probably wouldn't have noticed either if I hadn't grown up with Teddy I. The way he'd shut his eyes when opening his mouth wide to singing long notes like a real singer fascinated me when I was little.

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The funny thing is, I had a Teddy I before I had a Teddy II (Teddy I didn't work, was replaced several times, and ultimately had to be returned; I got my own Teddy a few years later, and he's still with me ). I still never noticed, for some reason... Perhaps it's the whole suspension-of-disbelief thing?

I just wish I could suspend my disbelief about this bug-eyed creature, though! Hahaha...

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what? teddy's eyes dont look weird. All Teddy's eyes look like that. all of mine that is. it just depends if there's fur in front of the sides of his eyes that all. I thik teddy looks weird when you put the fur in front of the sides of his eyes but thats just me

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Mar 31, 2012 18:06:34 GMT -7 @teddysonicfan98 said:

what? teddy's eyes dont look weird. All Teddy's eyes look like that. all of mine that is. it just depends if there's fur in front of the sides of his eyes that all. I thik teddy looks weird when you put the fur in front of the sides of his eyes but thats just me

There's no fur blocking the eyes on the late-WoW Teddy II in one of the other photographs I provided, nor in the photo of the Teddy II prototype. The eyes in the one on the auction really do appear to be too big...