# Scary toys **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087 "2025-06-24T18:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/81 "2025-06-27T13:00:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I always found those freay. OK, now I’m curious what that was a typo for. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/82 "2025-06-27T13:11:16Z")
Presumably freaky ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/83 "2025-06-27T15:19:40Z")
yep must be 5 characters – grumble, grumble yyepp ---
**Author:** ![Hakushon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hakushon/32/5503_2.png) [@Hakushon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakushon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/84 "2025-06-27T16:13:22Z")
When I was 3 years old, my older brother used to terrorize me by making his Marx Bop A Bear come directly toward me, repeatedly (he accomplished this by shooting the toy at the correct angle). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10VxjRrMg4E&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10VxjRrMg4E&t=80s) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/85 "2025-07-03T22:58:05Z")
Update: I haven’t seen it, but I have watched episode 3, about dangerous or useless medical treatments, and let’s just say that I never thought I would hear Fonzie talk about coffee enemas. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/86 "2025-07-03T23:10:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I tried to not go into that room. I’m guessing you weren’t a fan of this commercial. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYXpWf0X7Ho/hqdefault.jpg "Hilton Commercials 2022 🪆 Scary Dolls & (Alley) No Body Lives in it Anymore 🤣") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXpWf0X7Ho&t=9) ---
**Author:** ![Scutcheon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scutcheon/32/11781_2.png) [@Scutcheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scutcheon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/87 "2025-07-04T02:13:20Z")
Skee-ball was the best! I loved it and often won a small toy or other trinket. While the toys weren’t scary, some of the characters who ran the games were scary. Of course, my 10-year-old-self saw those colourful career carnies as a force to reckoned with! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/88 "2025-07-04T02:38:28Z")
When Pluto the spaniel was a puppy, he was given a small stuffed giraffe toy that was motion-activated to play soft classical music tunes - Mozart and Baroque stuff mostly. He developed a dislike/fear of that toy. Once the music started he’d begin to whine, eventually engaging in full-scale howls, nose pointed at the ceiling. He has the same reaction to hearing the theme music from Law & Order. Very limited musical tastes. > [@Yllaria](#): > > When my oldest son moved into his first rented house, I gave him a couple of zombie garden gnomes. One looked like it was clawing its way out of the soil. Was it [this one](https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/07/zombie-garden-sculpture.php)? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/89 "2025-07-04T02:46:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Was it [this one](https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/07/zombie-garden-sculpture.php)? We have a ‘Zombie of Montclaire’. We call him ‘Monty’. My sister gave it to me from Design Toscano. It’s a 404 now. Amazon says it’s ‘Currently unavailable’. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/90 "2025-07-04T15:06:07Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Was it [this one](https://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/07/zombie-garden-sculpture.php)? Ooo. That one looks much more lifelike. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087/91 "2025-07-04T16:31:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Your description reminds me of Lafcadio Hearn’s [_Mujina_](https://www.trussel.com/hearn/mujina.htm). Oh, that was wonderful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-toys/1020087.md?page=4)