… So the way that the doll came to life was that because Andy is a lonely kid - no dad around, his mom is a busy working mother - in that classic rite of brotherhood he cuts his own thumb and the doll’s thumb so they’ll be best friends forever -‘friends ’til the end’ - and after that, the murders start.” Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Mancini explained, “And since we were doing a satire on marketing, the idea was that when you’re playing with the doll, if you played too rough with it the latex skin would break and then this blood would start to seep out, so you had to go out and buy official Good Guy band-aids to put on. Mancini intended to satirize consumerism aimed at children. Yagher then built the first doll from those sketches and my details."īut there’s more. Kevin went off and sketched many designs of Chucky until the final was picked. I described ‘Buddy’ in my original script, now ‘Chucky’, as wearing red-buttoned overalls, red sneakers, a striped sweater, with red hair, blue eyes, and freckles. What I told Kevin Yagher was, I wanted something similar to a My Buddy doll. The director went out and got a 'My Buddy' doll, a Raggedy Ann, a Raggedy Andy, and one of those life-size baby infants. IMDb quotes Mancini stating how Chucky draws heavily from the My Buddy dolls: "In my original script, he was originally called Buddy, and we couldn't use it because of the 'My Buddy' doll. Though it is unlikely to be ever evidenced, the My Buddy dolls were probably figuratively murdered by the knife-wielding evil Chucky, an idea that was born from the dolls themselves. But its popularity diminished and ultimately died. My Buddy and his various offshoots remained on store shelves for a few years. We didn’t position it like a girl doll, soft and sweet.” We show them climbing up trees, riding their bikes. “My Buddy is positioned as macho,” Hasbro's senior vice president of marketing Stephen Schwartz had told The Boston Globe in 1985. Rather, dolls that looked like infants, something that was strictly marketed to girls in that era.Īs per Mental Floss, My Buddy was intended to be a companion for boys perceived as more active than girls. We are, of course, not talking about action figures. My Buddy was an oversized doll first introduced by Hasbro in 1985 and it attempted to be a pioneer - dolls for boys, in an era when dolls and masculinity mixed as nicely as water and oil. Where to buy the Chucky 'Good Guy' doll? Horror TV series opens to rave reviews on SYFY The chilling inspiration behind Chucky: Robert the Doll, voodoo and an evil curse And while the ‘ Child’s Play’ film series is a modern horror classic with its tightrope balance between camp comedy and gory slasher, the films did have a detrimental effect (or perhaps more than one) on a line of toys that were being specifically marketed to boys at the time. The new ‘ Chucky’ TV series looks promising in every way, especially with Mancini leading the project. Just like Stephen King made sure clowns would inspire nothing but horror, Tom Holland (not THAT Tom Holland) and Don Mancini made sure we’d never see toys that look like toddlers as anything but sentient murder-dolls. (Yes, the killer doll trope existed before ‘Child’s Play’ but other films just don’t compare). It changed how we viewed something that was considered innocent and wholesome - dolls. Chucky is just one of those things that defined culture so profoundly.
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