Fridge Horror
- Think about it. This town can't have been the only place the toys got shipped to. What happened everywhere else!?
- Answered in movie, Original-Chip got reinforcement from the mall the rest were shipped to, the implication being that only Original-Chip was activated early. The Rest were probably recalled.
- It's actually a good thing the original toys got found out on this small scale disaster before they were shipped out - especially if they can bust out of their own cases.
- Answered in movie, Original-Chip got reinforcement from the mall the rest were shipped to, the implication being that only Original-Chip was activated early. The Rest were probably recalled.
- The climax of the movie involves an electromagnetic pulse that we see cover the entire neighborhood. In a previous scene, we see an elderly couple turn the volume up on their TV to drown out all the noise outside. What if one of them had a pacemaker or other electronic device as a necessity?
- Someone with more expertise in this area can offer all the fancy terminology and do the calculations. From my limited understanding, it seems that the pacemaker would be at least partly protected from an EMP blast of that particular magnitude, while we know from the movie that the toys' chips are specifically very vulnerable to an EMP, and the plastic 'chassis' of the action figure will offer absolutely no Faraday Cage protection whatsoever. So it's quite possible to generate enough to kill the toys, but not enough to actually affect anybody's electronics besides, of course, knocking out power to the entire neighborhood... and most medical devices have either emergency or normal battery power.
- "The X-1000 is a masterpiece. Imagine a microchip sophisticated enough to control the guiding systems of ballistic missiles. Imagine it can be used to instantly upgrade any system that its plug into like a smart drug for machines. Then imagine it can learn." The MacGuffin of the story enables the AI of the toys. It is a control chip for ballistic missiles. Now, imagine there are sentient ballistic nuclear missiles out there. Let's hope sentience also gives them the need for self-preservation. Hell - just imagine what the chip could do implanted into any electrical device around you.
- Addressed in-universe; these advanced chips never made it into mass military production because of the lack of EMP shielding.
- In the climax Chip Hazard hijacks Joe's truck and activates all the Commando Elite toys he is carrying. If Joe was also carrying any Gorgonite toys (likely), then the Commando Elite probably butchered all of them before the climactic battle at the end. Also, since there no other Chip Hazard toys in the climax, it is possible that Hazard either merely didn't activate them, but it is also possible that he killed them as well to maintain the chain of command.
- While Cristy was attacking the Gwendy dolls, she stated how much she hated them. But then, why did she collect them?
- They may have been gifts. Ever asked Grandma to just give you some money this year, and still gotten a giant sweater?
- Not to mention, sometimes well-meaning people believe the commercials and buy the "trendy" new toy, not realizing it has no bearing on the child's interests. And the parent insists they thank the gift-giver and tell them how much they loved the toy, so Here We Go Again! ...
- She loved them when she was eight, but as a teen finds them cringingly embarrassing. But she never got around to packing them away, or her parents think she's a "collector" and still buy them for her.
- When the Commandos are interrogating him, Archer merely says his name and his rank. He was invoking Geneva Convention.
- It must be something he learned while looking through Alan's computer.
- When Larry is searching the computer for processor chips, he needs a lot so he adds 'surplus' to the search terms. Given he is searching a weapons manufacturer database, of course he ended up with rejected military hardware with that search criteria.
- Why are the Gorgonites made passive explorers when they're supposed to be the enemies of the hard-charging Commando Elite? Larry, the creator of the Commandos, clearly doesn't care too much about creativity and originality judging by the design of the Commando.
- This can be attributed due to the accelerated production schedule that was used to create the toys; the programmers had Larry and Irwin's initial specs to work with for both toylines, but didn't have the time to work out how to reconcile the storylines.
- Going by the creator's description, the Gorgonites were meant to be more toys to be associated with learning and invoking scientific curiosity in the kids who played with them. All they were ever meant to be was toys to invoke learning, not alien warriors. And, as stated above, production was rushed with the sudden new deadline of 3 months to get them on the shelves. So they just put them on the market and threw together some baloney story about them being enemies (which technically still wouldn't be wrong if you count the Commandos attacking them on xenophobia alone).
- The commercials made the Commando Elite out to be the good guys, when in fact, they're unjustly attacking peaceful alien explorers. They're propaganda shorts.
- The leader of the Commando Elite is named Major Chip Hazard.
- The reason the Gorgonites Grew Beyond Their Programming and defeat the Commandos when they were hardwired to lose the conflict. It's because unlike the Commandos, the Gorgonites were explicitly programmed to learn. They were given the freedom to grow and mature on an individual level when the Commando Elite's only thought was, "all Gorgonite scum must die!"
- There's something fitting about Archer having a feline face. Ever heard the old saying about curiosity and cats?
- Archer having a crossbow certainly fits with the Commando Elite's in-universe storyline that he's Major Chip Hazard's villainous arch nemesis. In-character, such a character would prefer to fight from a safe distance. And as demonstrated in the climax, Archer isn't good at close combat.
- At first, the speech Major Chip Hazard gives to the Commando Elite seems rather pointless, except to preface their first 'battle' against the Gorgonites. But listening to it, one realizes it's a hodge-podge amalgamation of other famous war speeches. If anything, this is the Commando Elites' Establishing Character Moment. It highlights how compared to the Gorgonites who are programmed to learn and grow, the Commando Elite have no imagination beyond their programming.
