Concept for a bad guy: Need ideas from "fun & twisted" GCs!

[TheTSKoala]

Okay.. here's my concept.  A scientist of Nobel Prize stature who becomes a renowned toy maker.  Problem is.. he slowly slips further and further into lunacy until he gets a great plan to take over the world by holding its children hostage.  So.. I need to think of Toys that the evil baddie can use as gadgets & weapons.  Here's what I have so far...

Hand-Grenade Teddy Bears:  Pull the head off and throw!
Mind Washing Video Game:  Made for the most popular next-gen video game systems.  Creates sleeper agents the baddie can activate.
Viral-Agent Building Blocks:  Radio-triggered aerisol containing building blocks that can distribute any number of viral agents.

[NezMaster]

Not really an answer, however it's cause to tell one of my favorite game moments in my 28 year gaming history. It was a ghostbusters game. We had been sent to a toy shop that was supposed to be haunted. We searched around and couldn't find anything, and there was a sequence of us playing with the toys.

"Dave" picked up a Teddy Ruxpin doll. "Would you be my friend"
"No" he responded by tossing the annoying doll over his shouder, thinking himself quite witty.

"Then DIE!" responded the doll, and all hell broke loose. (The doll itself fired some sort of ectoplasmic blast - and all the toys awoke)  Perhaps it was a need to be ther thing, but it was one of the coolest moments in gaming for me. Something about toys gone bad does have a certain fascination.

[Mister Andersen]

Tiny Soldiers seems too obvious an inspiration

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, for a darker theme see the movie 'City of Lost Children'.

Reaper Miniatures has a package of 'Evil Toys' that you might find handy if you use miniatures.


And as for ideas....

Silly putty oozes. Toy Slime works for this as well.

Silly string spray that remains very sticky.

Slinkies with sharpened edges, coming down the stairs in massive waves.

Tickle Me Hellmo.

Mind Control Bratz with hypnotic eyes... excorting the team to buy them more clothes. (Be very afraid of the one that asks 'does this dress make me look fat?')

And of course it will turn out that the Mastermind is a giant toy himself, a robot. What happened to the real scientist... or has he been a toy all along?

The Auld Grump

[Bill Whitmore]

Ooh, or those little green army men, but these all come from the damaged ones who are upset at people who have pulled off their legs or strapped them to M80s and/or rockets (with no parachute, no less).  And of course, they have raided the lego collection to build themselves some vehicles (and joined forces with a lightsaber weilding Lego Darth Vader of course.

Or maybe those stupid little pencil topper trolls.  When they dance around in swarms, the scintillating brilliance of their hair causes insanity, blindness, and, if you're lucky, death.

Hell, even regular miniatures can come to life and attack.  I know some model's swords, and especially helmet spikes, have drawn blood from me more than once when painting the little buggers.

I'll post more if I think of it.  Maybe this weekend I can stat out a couple of these.  The old board had some toys as NPCs, too.  They were part of the christmas collection (like Gingerbread men) but some of the stuff there may be pertinent here.

[Crafty_Pat]

Chloroform pillows

Poisoned or drug-laced Underoos

Speak and Slaughter (Speak and Spell mixed with the ball from Phantasm)

Jumanji (no modification required - it's plenty scary as is)

Shuriken jacks with a plastique bouncy ball

Life-size easy bake oven (I know, bad, but you asked)

Killer drone Hot Wheels

Acid-filled water balloons (with launcher) - also works as a modified Super Soaker

A dimensional portal engine disguised as Chutes and Ladders

And anything from this.

[Gentry]

Dude, I had to watch that at least through the extra-jammin' theme song, but then I couldn't take anymore.  I'll be playing chicken-wing disco bass guitar for a week. 

Curse you, Pat. 

[Crafty_Pat]

Curse you, Pat. 

Ladies and gentlemen, my job here is done. 

[Mister Andersen]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the troll doll, inflatable chair and daffodils used by the Master when he allied himself with the Autons...

[famine]

Guitar Hero guitar that actually IS an ax.

[spinningdice]

There was a strip in 2000ad about 9months or a year ago with a toymaker who came up with the idea of creating toys to steel from people.
His first command was to bring him what was valuable to their owner. The owners being children they brought back sweets, toys and oddities. He changed the command to bring back what was valuable to their owners parents, and came back to a warehouse full of children's bodies...

[Crafty_Pat]

There was a strip in 2000ad about 9months or a year ago with a toymaker who came up with the idea of creating toys to steel from people.
His first command was to bring him what was valuable to their owner. The owners being children they brought back sweets, toys and oddities. He changed the command to bring back what was valuable to their owners parents, and came back to a warehouse full of children's bodies...

That writer gets a cookie.

[TheTSKoala]

LOL.  I love you guys.  Sorry for the long delay, bloody work had me workin' all sorts of extra hours in the lab.  Okay, here's where I've gotten to so far:

Guitar Hero.  Turned into a meat cleaver-esque two-handed Axe for my main-bad guy's personal Chef.  Mini-Boss who dresses like a clown, weilds a meat cleaver while singing 80 Rock Ballads.  He also has an industrial size, restaurant rated Giant, pink EZ Bake Oven that he cooks his victims in to feed the troops.

Spinningdice, Mister Anderson, & Auld Gump have spawned a line of action figures (for boys) and barbie-esque figures (for girls) that can complete various nefarious acts, including kidnapping and sabotage.  Gotta pitty the poor child who brings his toy with him on Daddy's "Take your kid to work day" @ the Pentagon...

Crafty Pat's Speak & Slaughter idea has gotten a twist.  It's now a twisted version of "Simon" and a Spelling Bee.  Speak & Slaughter says a word.  You have two minutes to spell it.  If you let go of the device or spell it improperly, the 4 ounces of C4 wired into the circuit board explodes.

Bill Whitemores Army men, oh yeah.  They come in air-launched canisters (acting like a military HALO insertion.)  The use of nano-technology and bio-engineering, each solider is capable of carrying out a normal human soldier's objective, just on a very tiny scale.  i.e.  If a normal Demo Troop could take out a Tank, Army men can take out a Tonka Truck Toy.  Sounds dumb on it's own, but now multiply that capability by about 100. 

Oh yeah!  And the henchmen dressed like Teddy Bears, are now dressed up as Stuffed Koalas, and are called "Krazy Kaotic Koalas"!  Which lead to a prison riot in-game.  LOL.

[famine]

Haha, keep us posted on how this one turns out!  Should be crazy!

[TheAuldGrump]

Spinningdice, Mister Anderson, & Auld Gump have spawned a line of action figures (for boys) and barbie-esque figures (for girls) that can complete various nefarious acts, including kidnapping and sabotage.  Gotta pitty the poor child who brings his toy with him on Daddy's "Take your kid to work day" @ the Pentagon...

Believe it or not, there really are toys that are banned from the Pentagon and the NSA - or at least there were. No Such Agency believed for a time that Furby could be used as a recording device....

The Auld Grump