Where is Teddy Ruxpin from?
Science History Institute , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Technology in the 1980s was just advanced enough to do some cool stuff, and just bad enough to make some of those things terrifying for children.
Such was the case with many of the toys that came out in the '80s. Teddy Ruxpin fits squarely into that category — even just the simple animatronic motion of his mouth was mind-blowing, but his dead eyes were deeply unsettling.
And between the toys, a cartoon, and some other miscellaneous media, his backstory was actually quite strange. Where was this little guy from?
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