When action figures came to life in the “Toy Story” franchise, it marked a joyous development.
A world where toys love us back? Give or take the occasional teddy bear dictator, those sentient toys were a delight! But harsh reality comes for us all.
Eventually, we age out of the G-rated bliss of “Toy Story,” and into the PG-rated horrors of R.L.
Stine, aka the Stephen King of Kids’ Lit, where the truth of talking toys reveals itself. And so begins the reign of Slappy the Dummy, introduced in Stine’s novel “Night of the Living Dummy,” where he’d teach billions of unsuspecting children…The post R.L.
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