Bebear cup...
Ok but am I the only one who doesn't hate this wig? I think it gives Beach Bear a more crazy and silly appearence, which is fitting considering both how excited he gets in his songs and all those one-lines he always delievers. I recognize this hair makes the 'laid back' factor that the blonde wigs have feel missing but I wouldn't call it bad or a downgrade. Plus it looks really fluffy and I find that very cute.
This wig scares me :(
Is it wrong for me to like, dislike FNaF more and more for what it has done to the interest in animatronics?
While I won't deny that it has undoubtedly gotten a ton of people interested in them, I also feel that it has had the opposite effect to where people almost exclusively associate animatronics with Five Nights at Freddy's. While a lot of it is just children having their fun, I think the IP itself has done nothing but underutilize and not really explain what animatronics actually do and how they function. Virtually every mech (referred to as an "endoskeleton") in FNaF is an identical humanoid shape with no special feature or function that you'd often see as the particular focus point of a character. Now I understand that this is partially the fault of Scott using the relatively uniform one stage Chuck E band as a base, it continues to perplex me how the series is dipping its toes into the 70's and there's still not a sign of more simplified or specialized mechs. Imagine the horror that could come from an animatronic bound to a specific purpose such as drumming or playing a guitar, or a portrait-like character dragging themselves towards you? The new game is set in a factory and I genuinely could not tell you if there's any inspiration taken from the famous Creative Engineering warehouse or not. There's also no real character to a lot of the FNaF cast, let alone any banter between them. The animatronics in the ENTIRE series interact once, and it's Roxanne yelling at Freddy to get out of her room, with Freddy's half of the exchange being cut... yeah. The closest thing we've gotten to a showtape is also from Security Breach, which is again absent any voice acting and was also outsourced to a likely underpaid VFX studio... great. You have so many unique personalities, so many angles you could approach to an animatronic character, and the current main antagonist of the series is a mech with zero personality. It's a bummer, right? And now you have the FNaF books, whom half of which barely even feature characters resembling real animatronics anymore, they just throw whatever in because it'll sell no matter what. As someone who grew up going to Chuck E Cheese back when they had animatronics as well as seeing constantly in my life through other means before FNaF, it's really disappointing that the IP wears them like a skinsuit and does virtually nothing with them that real animatronics do. The characters don't interact, they don't sing any songs, and now it seems more and more like the series wants to advance on from them altogether. There seriously needs to be another piece of animatronic media that rescues them from the endless gray sludge of mediocrity that is Five Night's at Freddy's.
Aaron's done plenty of bizarre and controversial things and all, but it's kind of a shame that a lot of cool history and stuff he's owned that should be preserved in some way has or will end up in some private collector's hands only to never be seen again.