Blacklight FNaF

I didn't think we'd get any more blacklight animatronics for a while, but Funko released this variant of Freddy as one of the Hot Topic exclusive funkoween figures just last year. Someone might wanna add this guy to the fnaf wiki, it took watching a video about bootlegs for me to learn of his existence

Ah Good Stuff. A reminder that as bad as Funko's merch is, it could always be worse. This variant of Freddy is clearly meant to also be a variant of Funko's Blue Blacklight Freddy, but looks(and probably is) far cheaper. Honestly you could probably find better stuff from bootlegs if you're willing to risk lead poisoning

I discussed the Foxy from this line of plushies back in day 4, so let's add another to the list. Blacklight Freddy is a variant of Freddy and one of the original blacklights. While he gets less attention from merch(the only other thing he has is the fazgoo slime), he also has pretty nice colors. I have a weakness for pink, sue me. Also it took me several years to realise that him and the other Freddy in his line just have the placement of the blue and pinked swapped. Even the recolor plushies weren't safe from recolors

Sometime after funko released their initial blacklight wave, they decided to create some bigger version. But alongside those, they created two new blacklights that were exclusive to FYE. One of which is this variant of Freddy. Instead of just switching some colors around like the two pre-existing Blacklight Freddys, this one instead copied Green Blacklight Foxy. Just with less yellow and more pink. It doesn't look half bad and the more 3d eyebrows make this particular plush seem kinda confused

The fact that I like the colors chosen even outside of them being Different is a bonus

When I talked about the funkoween Freddy blacklight, I referred to him as Blacklight Freddy 2.0. That's because of this variant of Freddy. I thought Black Blacklight Bonnie's teeth looked odd with the green outline, but this is way more worse. It really lends itself better to the funko pops. Aside from that he's pretty neat. Maybe it would've worked better if he had three colors instead of four(the black doesn't count), but he's still not half bad

The other spring colorway Freddy had some decently sized changes to his color palette that helped him stand out. This variant of Freddy and Blacklight Freddy, though? Not so much. At first glance you'd assume he was basically the same colors. But they're just a lot more subtle in comparison. This line has a habit of switching the colors of smaller details around and while it's not a bad thing, it's still surprising. You'd think Funko would've put in the least amount of effort possible

I mentioned on the other Blue Blacklight Freddy's day that some blacklights were specifically designed for Help Wanted. This variant of Freddy is one of them. And wow he gets a lot more attention than the other one. The action figures, funko pops, the mystery minis, etc. The only merch that he doesn't appear in is the plushies. But how do they compare aesthetically? Well, I prefer the one that doesn't have green, but this one is pretty neat too. I see why he's gotten merch

Y'know, when I just had the box picture to go off of, this variant of Chica and Nightmare Chica didn't look that bad. But the lighting and the lack of detail on the cup itself... Well, the green fits in with these being "blacklights" and the fact that its colors were going to match the scrapped Blacklight Nightmare Cupcake is neat. Aside from that, though? Honestly it kinda speaks for itself

Blacklight Freddys and Foxy!

Plus, y'know, he's the one I chose for day 400 of this blog. I wouldn't be surprised if I said it at least once on every major occasion, but I truly cannot believe there are this many variants. I usually don't truly process the number of characters I've covered, but it's been over a year at this point. Kinda scary, honestly

FNAF belongs to Scott Cawthon

Anyway, this variant of Golden Freddy and Freddy is the last member of the "Blacklight Golden Freddy" trio. And despite having the least amount of- for lack of a better term, space- available, he's arguably the most creative out of the three. Sure he still doesn't feel like a "proper" blacklight, but at least he feels like a proper recolor

The last two Chica variants didn't have their own Cupcakes, so let's talk about this variant of it(and Toy Cupcake, cus- of course). It's one of the mystery minis and is one of the better/more distinct designs that came out of the blacklight set. Even ignoring the fact that it has the same colors as Blacklight Chica, purple is really nice. It's also fairly restrained in the palette compared to later blacklight designs

But unlike the Foxy vs Mangle situation, this one is easily solved by looking at the non-blacklight version of the keychain set. And thank god for that