![]() The whole thing was stuffed with fabric so it would be pretty resilient to rougher play as it was meant to be an active use toy and not to just sit on a shelf. He also had freckles, a button nose and a corn cob pipe. My Buddy also had blue shoes with white stripes (not the band) and they would vary between blue and brown eyes on him. He was dressed in a long sleeve shirt that had multi colored stripes of red, yellow, blue, and white.Īnother distinguishing feature were his trademark red overalls that had the “My Buddy” logo right on the front, in case you forgot what you were playing with… He had a few distinguishing features including a red hat and brown hair. My Buddy was a fairly large 21 inch doll that had the look of being around the age of a toddler. This article is all about My Buddy and if it is, or isn’t the inspiration behind Chucky from Child’s Play. It was a memorable toy form the ‘80s with a pretty memorable commercial and song to go with it. ![]() It was a doll and it’s intent was to teach boys about being caring for their friends. ![]() My Buddy was a straight up attempt at marketing a doll towards boys but there was nothing that was being over enhanced like giving him scars or a punching action. My Pet Monster was the attempt to crack back into that market by taking a stuffed animal and trying to “toughen” it by giving it fangs and handcuffs. Every kid has a stuffed animal at some point but boys tend to outgrow them. I wrote an article about My Pet Monster and how it was seen as a plush doll marketed towards boys. My Buddy was a success and wa considered as the inspiration behind Chucky from the Child’s Play movies. This was controversial as marketing a doll specifically to boys was seen as a big risk. My Buddy was a doll line made by Hasbro in 1985. And after trying to find an actor who would capture that crazy "Jack Nicholson" attitudez they begged Brad Dourif to redub the lines.If you grew up in the ‘80s you know it was a time when manufacturers of dolls were trying to crossover and have them appeal to boys and vice versa. But it was changed because not only did the test audience laugh at the screen for being unintentionally funny but Don Mancini felt it would've made Chucky sound gay. Also, Brad Dourif was only meant to play Charles Lee Ray in the opening scene and the late actress Jessica Walter would've voiced the Good Guy/Chucky voice. And ending with his remains sent to the evidence room with his severed arm silencing a fly. One ending was set on the rooftop, another had Mike knocking the burnt Chucky's head off, another had Andy using a remote control car with a knife tapped on and stabbing Chucky. But this draft/original cut of the film was over 2 hours long, so a lot of scenes had to be trimmed to 88 minutes long. Detective Mike Norris was included to add more characters throughout the story and give him a connection to Charles Lee Ray. But Holland wanted to include a voodoo backstory for Charles so he could cast a spell to transfer his soul into the doll and his motivation to possess Andy. Originally, Charles was a prisoner who died from the death row, only to haunt a nearby toy store and possess a Good Guy doll. As by this point had concept art with him dressed in a long sleeve shirt, patched jeans, and a parted pixie haircut.)Įventually, Tom Holland came back as the director and took out many ideas from Lafia's rewrite. But while definitely an improvement, this version still just wasn't working. And not only gave Chucky his iconic Good Guy catchphrases, but was also responsible for Andy's badass line "This is the end, friend" at the ending.Īndy was at one point gonna be renamed MARTIN before it was averted back, and was rewritten to be more of an innocent kid who's a victim of circumstances instead of making him an unlikeable kid with sickening violent thoughts. And added "Lee Ray" for Charlie's full name. Lafia was responsible for giving the doll's name, CHUCKY, to co-aside with Charles as a nickname. It had a lot more backstory for Andy and his Mother: such as what happened to the father, why they were struggling, etc. ![]() And it was this much needed change in direction and elevated the character and story. John Lafia was hired for further rewrites. Buddy was renamed to CHARLES, Susan was renamed to Karen but was still a CEO of the toy company and the mastermind of the Good Guy doll toyline. The next version had rewrites from director Tom Holland.
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