He wears a gray suit over a white collar and red bow tie. His lips are painted bright red, which curl in a sinister smile. In his early appearances, Slappy has brown hair and blue eyes. Stine has stated that he views Serling was an inspirational figure.

Slappy may be based on Willie, a ventriloquist's dummy from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone.

Additionally, in the Night of the Living Dummy II TV episode, Slappy says 'Wanna play?', which is Chucky's catchphrase. In his television appearance, Slappy has orange/red hair - like Chuck.

For instance, both have similar-sounding names, and both are living dolls.

Slappy may have been at least partially inspired by Chucky from the ' Child's Play' horror films.The 1945 British anthology horror film Dead of Night is also mentioned in interviews as an inspiration for Slappy.In the Goosebumps Official Collector's Caps Book, Stine mentions that one of the inspirations for Slappy came from when he was a kid and would use his ventriloquist dummy to scare his brother.Stine stated that the idea of Slappy came from his childhood experiences with the original story of Pinocchio since it scared him so much as a kid. Slappy the Dummy was inspired by multiple characters and pieces of media, as well as memories of R.L.

However, this is only viewed as a dream until Jimmy O'James gets a crate with Wally and a set of instructions inside. Slappy's Nightmare reveals that Slappy has a twin brother named Wally carved from the same coffin. He waits for the day someone will say the magic words written on a card kept in Slappy's pocket, 'Karru Marri Odonna Lama Molonu Karrano,' which will awaken him again. When the sorcerer died, he placed his soul inside of the dummy. He learned a lot of magic from an evil sorcerer named Kanduu, who was also his work colleague, Kanduu used his magic to bring his dummy's to life so they wouldn't feel so lonely.Īs revealed in Bride of the Living Dummy, Slappy was carved out of coffin wood by an ancient sorcerer. Long Ago, a man named Franz Maher lived in England until he decided to move to America in the 1920s, and became a ventriloquist star due to the realistic dummies he made. History For a more comprehensive overview of Slappy's history, detailing his many appearances, please visit the subpage Slappy the Dummy/History.

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