What are our children playing?

Indeed, the question is not idle. What toys to buy for a child, and which ones are better to refuse? Let’s try to figure it out. We tell the story of the blue Huggy Waggi.

Who is Huggy Waggi

Who is Huggy Waggi? I ask my eight-year-old grandson.

– This is a character from the computer game Poppy Playtime, the first episode of which was released a few years ago.

Yes, enviable knowledge and, most importantly, true. Now dozens of elementary school students around the world are playing Poppy Playtime in the new Roblox mode. Shark smile monster toy. Brrr… I wouldn’t want that, but the mentality of the modern generation is a completely different dimension.

The game, like many other indie horror games (low budget horror games. — Approx. author), quickly became popular with letsplayers and streamers. The audience especially liked not the plot of the horror, but the monster Huggy Waggi himself. Art and clips with the character began to appear on the Web. Sometimes a female version of Huggy Waggi with pink fur appears in the works of fans – Kissy Missy. Although her image appears in the original game, she herself is not there. However, this does not prevent Poppy Playtime fans from fantasizing about the relationship between Huggy Waggi and Kissy Missy: it is generally accepted in the community that these characters are in a romantic relationship.

Why kids love Huggy Waggie

Huggy Waggi is so popular that toy lines of different quality immediately appeared in all the world’s marketplaces, often bundled with them are pop-itas that are losing popularity. The average price of a toy on Ozon is now about 500 rubles (but there are Hugs and four thousand each!), And with them, cups, backpacks with prints, anti-stress squishes and everything else that schoolchildren can ask from their parents “flew” on the market, when they have a “hero of the season”.

Is it worth it to refuse a child to buy Huggy Waggi or another similar monster? From the point of view of psychologists, there is nothing wrong with children’s interest in “scary” toys.

But is such a conclusion so unambiguous? In any case, the choice is still made by adults when buying. Therefore, it is the responsibility of dads and moms to buy or not these fashionable and bright toys with strange names: pop-it, simple-dimple and squish.

Meanwhile, it became known that Roskachestvo will inspect children’s stuffed toys hagi-vagi. Due to the fact that the characters caused a stir, the producers began to “rivet” them in order to be in time for their peak of popularity. Because of this, the quality of toys may suffer. Roskachestvo will test them for safety, flammability, resistance to saliva and sweat, durability.

“Particular attention will be paid to goods sold in online formats: online stores and marketplaces. The focus of the study will be directed to the analysis of the accompanying documentation, which will allow checking the origin of the goods and tracing its path to the shelf, ”the press service of the research center writes.

Moreover, all toys will receive a psychological and pedagogical assessment with the involvement of third-party experts on the impact of toys on the child’s psyche. Experts tend to think that negative characters in games, cartoons and other media can cause anxiety.

Toys for children that feature popular imagery have two reasons for parental concern. They are based on characters that are bloodthirsty monsters in the game. A child can repeat the scenarios of playing with a killer toy in real life, so it is important to determine during the examination how this can affect the child’s psyche.

The results of the Roskachestvo study will be published at the end of 2022.

Nina DONSKIKH.