It's so strange to think that unsettling things like clowns, china dolls, marionettes, costume characters and various other unsettling things were originally intended as "kids stuff". Even fairytales are known to be fairly grim (pun intended). And while some may have gone down well with the younger generation many adults shiver at the sight of them.

So tell us. What kiddy toy, character, song, site, story or place gives you nightmares?

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Furbies.. they keep me up at night.

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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate them, always have. Even as a kid. Also love your pfp.

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    Those goos and various other liquids that are advertised as kids toys that somehow keep popping up from time to time as a trend. I mean, they're marketed to a kid, and I get why it's interesting for them, but some of the stuff that kids are into are pretty gnarly.

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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bingo, I hate slime, kinetic sand, and playdough. I would say that is children "goo". After 3rd grade I ended my love of playdough cause of all the hair it collected. I realized that slime picked up far more hair than playdougb, and kinetic sand was kind of like playdough. . . :|

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    #3

    Clowns, dolls, furbies, talking toys, etc. They freak me out. Oh, and a lot of nursery rhymes have questionable lyrics

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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost all of them have morbid backgrounds. Ring around the rosy is about the Bubonic Plague, for instance. And I've always wondered what's so relaxing about a baby in a cradle falling out of a tree like WHAT

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    #4

    Clowns 🤡.

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    #5

    Porcelain dolls. Those creepy glass eyes and weird faces. Nope.

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    #6

    The muppets

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    #7

    The movie Coraline traumatized me as a child I only recently got to where i could watch it

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    #8

    Those poop themed toys. You know the ones.

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    #9

    Both the tv show and book series, GOOSEBUMPS by R/L. Stine

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