Hey, so apparently I made a couple of mistakes with some of the lore-specifics and names I used in this video. Like I said, I'm a bit of a FNAF noob at the moment, but I'm stoked to learn more if you guys want FNAF engineering to be a regular thing on the channel moving forward! But just to summarize the big mistakes I made for anyone else who's not as familiar, Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie are not canon names, they're just fan ones. They were also not the only 2 springlock suits, it's suggested that there were several scattered across different locations. I said that William Afton was the CEO of Freddy's, but he's actually the co-owner with a guy named Henry. Also, the Crying Child may or may not be canonically named Evan, you all seemed a bit split on that one but I thought I'd throw it in anyway! Everything I said about the springlocks and how they actually work, though, is still true! No matter how you slice it or what his job title is, William Afton is kind of an idiot!
Don't worry about what the crying child's name is, a ton of names have been thrown around for him over the years and even the most dedicated fnaf nerds are absolutely stumped as to his name. For a long time everyone thought his name might have been Sammy. Also I think you could definitely do a mini series about the weird engineering fallacies in the fnaf franchise, there is a good couple of em.
There are names for the spring lock characters, it’s springbonnie (springtrap but in his better days) and fredbear. I’m pretty sure they are the canon names, everyone seems to use them though.
Exactly! The springlocks are only engaged in order to make room for someone to fit inside, they don't actually contribute to the functioning of the animatronic at all (or, at least they shouldn't in a realistic world, but then again we're talking about a universe with ghost robots here so who knows!)
7:25 Based on Phone Guy's calls in FNaF 3, they had springlock suits in multiple locations at once, so more than two suits were made. 13:50 In-universe, the reason for having these suits is to reduce inconsistencies between the animatronics and suited performers.
Also the owners are kind of insane One literally kills children and the other is known to create fully operational robot children with the capacity to bleed and eat
So what I’m getting from this is Afton learned about springs and decided they were the solution to every mechanical problem when better solutions exists.
He's cheap, is what. I adore this man and his creations, but this is a case of being a cheapskate through and through. Or not caring about the safety of people's lives.
All I know is that Crying Child's death was the result of too strong pistons to move a suit's head. I think people forgot the part where the only time the springlocks are ever a threat is when they're in suit mode, which Fredbear wasn't during this event. Considering this happened in the 80's, it kind of says how William thinks as a person. He probably thought he was smart using strong pistons and was either too blinded to see this sort of thing happening or just didn't care enough to reconsider. Considering the recordings for the springlock suits was "If they go off on you, go die quietly in a corner.", it was probably the latter.
Except that only spring bonnie were supposed to be worn, fredbear were a full scale animatronic with hydraulic pistons to stay on stage presenting while the staff guy walked around wearing spring bonnie costume
For those who don't know the lore, William Afton's death CAN NOT be the event that decommissions the springlock suits, because the suit were already banned from use long before that. no other complaints with the video though.
yeah, the reason why the Phone Guy mentions reports to management about the discontinued suit being "visibly moved" is *because* Afton was secretly using it at the time
they were decommissioned but purple guy went to steal the animatronic endos so he destroyed them to make remnant to bring back the crying child but the souls in the animatronic chased purple guy so he put on the suit to scare them but water dripped from the roof and set off the locks which killed him
To bring back CC is very much up for debate To either replenish the scooped after the ennard situation or because he ran out during testing is far more likely Also should add I believe SL is before fnaf 2 and that the minigame takes place before the fnaf 1 gameplay
Honestly you just destroyed Game Therory and like 30 other channels tryna figure out springlocks by just solving it in like 3 minuites you are amazing earned a sub and a like!
I wouldn't say destroyed I would say debunked Plus none of them have a degree in mechanical engineering That's like comparing a car mechanic to a nasa enginer
The size of springlock you got would be used for raising/lowering trailer ramps. Might have other applications but that's what I've seen firsthand. The ramp is held vertical and the springlocks are opened into holes on the edges, much like closing a door that latches into a hole in the wall.
I'm so glad you showed off a real spring lock because now I can say for certain that even if william afton needed to have compression spring locks, this whole situation could have still been easily avoided. My fnaf history is a bit fuzzy, but I remember hearing that the spring locks were known to fail if wet, so that leads me to think they're a lot like the one you showed off. A pin being held in place with nothing but friction. If instead he used a bayonet socket style spring lock, he would still be very alive Also a few notes: you mentioned how the golden freddy suit wouldnt have any springs, but here's my rebuttal. If it's a piston jaw you can use tension springs to retract the jaw faster than gravity could on it's own. I'm not sure how good solenoids or other similar pistons were back in the time frame that scene takes place, but having a spring to retract the jaw actually makes sense. If it was a hinge jaw instead, you could have torsion springs near or inside of the hinge to retract it. On a side note, "When the beginning of the end grows near When he calls the road will begin For the sun to rise it must first set"
I actually originally planned on having a bit in the video about the “sensitive to water” thing that I ended up cutting for time. I thought that it was possible the spring locks were electronic, and the circuitry was just badly insulated so when it gets wet it shorts out. Just a thought I had, because in general the most common types of Springlocks that I could find wouldn’t be that sensitive at all
One thing about the springlock suits is that the locks were probably added retroactively. The costumes came first, and then came the idea for automation, so Afton invented the endoskeleton as a thing to take a human's place - basically a thin humanoid robot. The endoskeletons were much "skinnier" than a human, so he placed a bunch of spring-lock holding systems in place, those probably consisting of thin metal rods which would be pulled back when locked, and then would slot themselves into holes on the endoskeleton when unlocked. The excess power could then be justified as a tool for precision and rigidity - to make the holes in the endo smaller, and for the entire structure to hold itself better. The retroactive addition theory kind of explains the inconsistencies and overall weirdness of the design, and the metal-rod holding systems explains how something like this could be lethal. This is mostly my headcanon, but I think this way of looking at it kind of explains the whole springlock failure shtick in a satisfying way
One thing about the story. While a springlock failure did happen to cause the suits to be decommissioned. It was not William Afton's "death". The event of fnaf 3 with Afton takes place, many years after springlocks suits were taken out of use. The springbonnie suit there was already abandoned and rotting inside of a backroom where it would be stored forever until Afton got in there and almost died. What probably happened that caused the whole suit decomisssioning was that a worker at Fredbear's died at the hands of a springlock failure during work hours and William put the suits out of use before another gruesome legal issue would show up. But that's just speculation.
@@AbbeyYard Did you read the comment? I did not refer to the bite of 83. I said that an unknown event where a WORKER at FREDBEARS got springlocked IN the suit during work hours.
Hey, great video! Very informative! Though if you’re gonna talk about the game series’ springlock suits, you can’t forget about a scene that I think is vital to the discussion: On the fourth night of the fifth game (not including the RPG in the lineup), the player is physically stuffed inside one of the springlock suits for the night. The springlocks slowly open up over time, so you have to keep them wound up. At the same time, a bunch of tiny animatronics clamber all over the suit, trying to get inside, and you have to shake the suit around to get them off before they can climb inside. Shaking the suit loosens up the springlocks more, so you have to balance both the tightening of the locks and the shaking of the suit. I bring this up because the springlocks in the suit don’t pull like the one you bought, they turn with a dial.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know about that one! I will say, based on that description alone though, William is even more of a dummy that I thought! what, are the springs held in place with mediocre break pads or something? Just slide a pin in there and call it a day, those things wouldn’t losen no matter how much you shake it!
Perhaps the mechanism for the moving jaw could be the rotors turning the dials on the springs. That the opening of the jaw would be by turning the dial one way to lock, then after a timer unlock and the jaw would close faster than it opened, giving the illusion of variation of singing. The crying child would have been placed in the jaw during a long held note (they'd spent a lot of time at the place so probably knew the songs and the movements by heart) when the jaw would be kept open by the locked springs. But the crying child struggling shifted the springs just enough that it went from locked to unlocked very quickly and, although the head wouldn't weigh as much as it could, the speed it dropped plus the shape of it hit the child in a vulnerable spot (watch style theory's video about killer heels for examples). Part of the lore is that the kid didn't die right away, so it could have been a nonlethal event, like maybe it caused a brain bleed.
13:20 Alternatively, if you're completely unwilling to have 2 suits, just design it so it's easy to take out the robot bits. Like have the robot bits be able to detach from a hollow chassis and then pull the robot out. Then when the human wears the suit, they're surrounded by harmless metal rings or something instead of pointy robot bits ready to impale you at any moment.
I’m not a expert at mechanics but what I’m thinking is that when the springlooks are pulled back is wearable for humans and when the springlocks aren’t pulled back they connect to the endo skeleton but William added dangerous parts to the springlocks in the suits, this was proven in 9:59 inside the video to connect to the Endo skeleton more stronger so that the suit doesn’t fall off during a performance. But what I think happened that resulted to the Springlock failure is the locks weren’t pulled back enough and the drop of water, made the locks easier to move and while William was laughing he was moving to strong that it caused the locks to slip off from being pulled back causing the springlock failure.
That’s an interesting thought! Realistically, spring locks only have 1 lock positing, so it’s not really possible to not pull them back far enough and still have them lock, but then again this is a game about people possessing highly advanced free roaming robots from the 80s, so anything’s possible!
Because of game logic Scott claimed all the animatronic bits where pulled to the sides when in suit mode including the endoskeleton. And another thing he claims is that the springs in the locks are so powerful that if they fail all of those animatronic parts will get shoved through flesh and bone shown by Springtrap having animatronic eyes shoved where his human eyes used to be
I always figured that having Suit mode be the default for springlocks would have made more sense, especially because then a failure would just make the animatronic collapse which is still scary to the kids but better than an adult dying painfully in front of them. It would also be like the animatronics are wind-up toys which is a cute image imo
I saw a fanmade VHS which had an extremely plausible explanation as to how the spring lock suits actually worked. The animatronic endoskeleton was a separate piece of equipment that would be removed to put the animatronic into suit mode, then there's the exoskeleton which has all of the spring locks and supports the weight of the rest of the components. The spring locks are dotted around the arms, legs, torso, and head, and are connected in sequence so when the crank is turned to wind one of them, it winds all of them in that segment. All they do is keep the exoskeleton locked to the endoskeleton. Over the exoskeleton is a fiberglass shell that gives the mascot its shape, and finally is the cloth cover which gives the animatronic its final look. The hands and feet don't have shells, the feet of the exoskeleton are just empty boxes, and the feet that go over them are built up with foam to give them their shape. As for the hands, they are simply gloves that can fit on either human hands or the endoskeleton hands. The head has its own spring locks not a part of the exoskeleton, and has flip down fake eyes that look almost identical to the endoskeleton's eyes. These fake eyes are able to be seen through from the inside of the suit, but not the outside. I get that the in lore reason why the spring lock suits existed was to mitigate the differences in appearance between the animatronics and performers... But was it really that expensive or difficult to just have the suits look like the animatronics? I know that it was the 80s, so they didn't have 3D printing, but if you want to see costumes that look almost exactly like an animatronic character, there's an amazing Glamrock Freddy cosplay that someone made, I don't remember who, and it looks exactly like Freddy did in the game.
I loved this! You should make more videos like this! After so many years of consuming the same style fnaf ‘theory’ videos, this was so refreshing. Taking a practical look at something in fnaf, loved it!
Every time someone else actually shows about understanding of how springlock suits work I feel so validated (its frustrating how people misunderstand such a simple concept). I am not interested in engineering, and I look vaguely knew slronglocls were real, but even I understood exactly what Scott Cawthon was going for with the mechanisms behind the springlock suits, and how the bite in fnaf 4 couldn't be a springlock failure because the animayromic was in animayrinic mode. The springs were already sprung, and theere was nothing to snap into place because it was all already snapped into place. Thank you for this. I will note, that fnaf 3 cutscene can't be the springlock failure that decommissioned the suits, because it happens long after everything else. The only remaining possibility is that we never got to see it, and it happened to a random employee.
10:20 when you compare the 3d golden Freddy and 8 bit golden Freddy it is not the same suit, it is the same mascot but different iteration of suit like how Chuck E Cheese changes his suits every so often, the model seen in 8 bit is supposed to have a hydraulic mechanism I think, while the other one uses a regular hinge.
Another thing is that Golden Freddy has 4 fingers on each hand, and is thus incapable of being a suit, while Fredbear is capable of being a suit. There is an Easter egg in UCN where when someone deletes Golden Freddy, Fredbear kills the player. The designs are different between the two.
The suits weren't as complicated as you thought. The springlocks held back metal supports (much like the cylinder in your physical one, just not as thick) that would hold the suit to the endoskeleton (which is separate from the suit itself). The one that resulted in William's incident sent the metal supports into his body, physically trapping him in the suit.
Dude... This is just awesome. I'm stuck between studying mechanical engineering and computer science at the moment, and the feasibility of things like this in FNaF is so cool to see. I would love to see or hear where the concept of Spring-Locks came from on Scott's part. They just sound dangerous. To most of the fanbase, it isn't much more than that. I always thought the idea of a bulky animatronic eating a kid so funny, because the actual metal mouth inside is the size of a rat trap, and the rest is all costume. Foxy or Mangles mouth would have to be at darn near a 180 degree angle to even get close enough for it to reach you. I think you'd be more at risk of suffocating from the fabric than you would of getting your skull cracked open. Somebody ought to do skits where the animatronics are about to get somebody, and then the jaw mechanism breaks on the kids head. Have you considered doing something on the legitimacy of star wars robots? I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the droids are able to move around in terrain that is so uneven. BB-8 for example is one of the worst designs you could think of for a robot that patrols on sand. a magnetic head with casters or something that would get clogged with sand pretty fast, and a body that would likely just push sand out from under itself and bury itself into a hole. Not to mention all the little gadgets that come out of panels on the body, meaning the body has some way of opening doors, as well as pushing arms out of its body that align with the ports. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it has also rolled with the arm rotating and staying upright. It'd be better to just store all that in the head, but then you'd run into problems with weight, and the calibration for balance and yadda yadda. tldr, Thanks for going over Spring-locks! As a computer and mechanics nerd, I love hearing the real explanations for how these things would work, even when it really isn't feasible and is left more to imagination than real world application. You've earned my subscription!
I’m just sayin, William Afton going into the Spring Bonnie suit to do… something? Is very much reminiscent of the low budget slasher movie trope of “oh no, the bad guy is chasing us! Quick! Hide in that old shed full of chainsaws! We’ll definitely be safe there!”
I don't think the failure was either case shown here, since the death minigames take place sometime after the more conventional animatronics are a thing(they get disassembled in earlier games). It seems most likely that the first springlock fail, unless specifically mentioned elsewhere(very much a surface-level knowledge here too) was some background incident that lead in part to the closure of Fazbear's Family Diner(where the springlock suits were used). Something that didn't effect the plot other than help shut down the diner so that the pizzaria could take its place later on.
also, another easier way to have suits for both performers and the animatronics is just to make them removable from the animatronics, and designed in such a way that they could be worn by either an animatronic endoskeleton or a human performer.
Aight so as a FNAF fan… imma fix some of the errors you made lore wise throughout the vid. So first off, Golden Freddy is not the actual name for the spring lock suit. The canon name is Fredbear, who is possessed by Cassidy, Afton’s 5th victim, and the Crying Child, and the canon name for the the bunny suit is Spring Bonnie. Second, William Afton is not the “main” owner of Freddy’s… he’s the co owner with the main owner being Henry Emily, the father of Afton’s first murder victim… Charlotte aka The Puppet and Henry is the one who also helped William with making the animatronics. Third, The Crying Child does have a canonical name, it just took us a very long time to figure out. The canonical name is Evan Afton All and all what a great analysis video
@@baghassavocadoes A fan found a 4 letter code in the Survival Logbook and they were able to decode 3 of the letters to spell out "EVA_". So, from there, the fan guessed that his name was Evan. This was also the same book that helped us figure out that there were 2 spirits in Golden Freddy and that one of them was named "Cassidy" (another name that was decoded). There was also a hint in the Fazbear Frights books supporting this name, since a character named Evan had an older brother named Michael who acted cold and robotic and only focused on working/making money. (This, of course, being a parallel to the game protagonist, Michael, who more or less became an animatronic at one point and keeps going to various Freddy's locations to work as a security guard.)
I love your video! But I think you forgot something: the Funtime animatronics are implied to ALSO be springlock suits, telling by night 4 of sister location in which you must wind up the springlocks while inside of a Funtime animatronic. This is also corroborated by the silver eyes graphic novel, in which Carlton Burke gets trapped inside of an unidentified blue springlock animatronic.
@@TheChiptide Not all of the Funtimes, just one unnamed suit in Night 4. In fact, that one is never even stated to be a Funtime, just a springlock suit never used for its intended purpose.
9:39 William jumps inside that suit because if he killed the kids with that suit on that means the souls will be scared and leave William alone. Yeah a leaking building, fast movement and heavy breathing is the perfect recipe for you drowning in your own blood(because the springs DON'T kill you but instead you drown in your own blood)
One example of spring locks that I think you should’ve mentioned is the suit you get trapped in in ( I think night 4 ) of sister location. Here you get to see the inside of one of the spring lock suits. However this is a different type of suit to the ones mentioned in this video, withe those in sister location never being intended to be used also for wearable costumes. Great video, keep up the good work 👍
Fun fact: William afton is the co owner. So he didn't built FredBear, SpringBonnie and all Fazbear animatronic (well except the Funtime animatronic because it's made William). The person who built Fazbear animatronic is "Henry Emily" the Owner of FredBear and Freddy's
Depends what you mean by build It’s likely he designed the early models (and probably created the suits that would later be adapted into animatronics (like hand sticked ones like glitchtrap) and later on started building them with Henry before the fun times to gain experience with them Also he owned the company that built and distributed the mass produced models in Acton robotics but thar depends on how you want to define that
Is anyone gonna talk about how underrated this guy is Anyways, im gonna talk about why purple guy became a killer but long: His 2 sons were in the pizzeria and the youngest, which was the birthday boy was scared of the animatronics. So the older son started making fun of him until he put his head closer to the mouth of fredbear while he was performing, his brain was crushed and he had to go to the hospital but he couldn’t recover and died. Purple guy was very mad and sad at the same time so he started taking revenge but on other kids
The Purple Guy's death can not be the reason for the suits getting retired because that scene takes place after Fnaf 1 and 2's events in the story, and in both Fnaf 1 and 2's time period the spring lock suits are still not being used even back then. So Purple Guy getting spring locked could not have caused the retirement of the spring lock suits due to where that event takes place in the Fnaf timeline.
they're actually called fredbear and spring bonnie but they're names change later on in fnaf 1 2 and 3 6 and sb, golden freddy, withered fredbear, springtrap, scraptrap, and burntrap
Ok but William most likely only instead Henry Henry was a visionary who could turn wooden dolls into Robots if the books are to be believed Knowing William he probably didn’t care about safety or cost Henry ripped him off with the mediocre melodies and then bought him out al a Chucky cheese he almost certainly was blinded by his pride and resentment so think about failure These also the fact this man would soon enough create cable animatronics designed to capture and kill children to collect their remnant and implant weird tech like giant claws, child containment tanks, parental voice mimic and illusion disks that use audio to warp a persons perception of literally anything You know I don’t think he really cared about people getting hurt
Wait wait wait, Henry would turn wooden dolls into robots? Like, by hollowing them out and putting motors in them, or making robots out of nothing but pure wood? Because if it’s the first, that’s really not that impressive, but if it’s the second he ain’t an engineer, he’s a straight up wizard!
@@TheChiptide now this is a based on the fazbear frights books but in them he made wooden dolls that were as advanced as the game animatronics How have you not learnt this by now magic is very much real in this world So much so remnant can keep an animatronic going without any power for at least a while
There is actually canonically a 3rd springlock suit, but it goes unnamed. It appears in Night 4 of the 5th FNaF game, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
5:54: hey, look, another secret message. I might get a word or three wrong, it is kind of jumbled. + Indicate purple words, - red words The +beginning+ of the - end- draws near, when he calls, the +(road?)+ will begin for the sun to +(rise?)+ it must first - set-
I don't really like ARG personally, but for anyone who does enjoy those I try to write a comment when I find one in the video, to stream line the process a bit. They should probably create a chronological document for them, unsurprisingly they seem connected.
Just wanna point out that springlocks WERE actually dangerous they have been redesigned now but many types of springlocks back in the day were very dangerous and sharp
7:24 I do not believe golden Freddy is a springlock suit, it is an easy mistake to make as the other springlock animatronic (Fredbear) is a golden bear too.
Honestly, I thought it was going to be super cool when I bought it too, but it's basically just a spring with a handle and a stopper. The most common application for them that I could find was in spring-loaded latches for, like, a gate or something. So yeah, not nearly as cool as the games make them out to be...
I don't actually think Mr. Afton was being dumb at all when he made the suits because if you were to look at it from a killers perspective, these suits would be the perfect way to kill someone on purpose, say it was an accident, and people you'd believe it was an accident so maybe William thaught about that and thaught "hm this could be a good way to get away with murder". He just probably forgot about this when he was getting chased by ghost children seeking revenge because lets be real, who has the ability to think logically when they are panicking and cornered in a room and can't escape because there are vengful ghist children blocking they way. Not William Afton
for 6:23 I thought that you had a sort of shell of metal surrounding your limbs, head, and torso with spring locks all around it so when the endo skeleton is inside the suit, you can activate the spring locks to hold it in place. If you want a human to fit inside, you tighten back the spring locks and then take out the endo, to then climb into the surrounding metal frame and have the fabric costume be put back on. I thought this was more realistic on how its dangerous for the springlocks to activate as the only way they can go is into your head and body.
That was a come, from which is true just want to inform everyone about this. Yes, they do exist again in five nights at Freddy’s3 the person on the call, does explain to the player how to get in/climb out/operate it, and/how it works yes, every one of those characters you mentioned do exist
Please get it right I should have corrected myself that yellow bear is just a hallucination so you are correct about yellow bear it’s just a hallucination. I don’t know how Cassidy is possessing that not real AnimaTronic that doesn’t make sense how Cassidy is possessing yellow bear.
Good morning chiptide your loyal commenter for the algorithm here I hope my answer was satisfactory last week I do have a question this week On a scale of 1-10 how dangerous is Richard? This question is very important
@@TheChiptide id like to see the Richard vs chiptide episode like an entire episode where you prove Richard is weak via statistics and then you just get knocked the fuck out while explaining this to him
I think this is the first time in years I've seen a child death warning on a fnaf video. Kinda refreshing, tbh! I tend to forget how genuinely fucked up this franchise is
I think the springs are meant to hold the endoskeleton in place while its an animatronic. So that way the springs can be pulled back and locked so the endoskeleton can be removed and a person can wear the suit.
You missed one. Sister Location Night 4. We found out that there was a mechanism to wind the springlocks so that they don't unlock... Breathing, Heartbeat or water seems to cause them to go loose and perhaps go into animatronic mode. So when William got springlocked it could have been caused that out of fear he did not wind the springlocks and they went loose...
By the way, I don’t think crying child possessed the golden Freddy suit, I think it was a kid named Cassidy (not certain, if I’m wrong do correct me.) Edit: crying child DID possess golden Freddy, BUT Cassidy also was possessing it, Crying child got kicked out of the suit and turned into Shadow Freddy, while Cassidy possessed golden Freddy
Bro in the plot it was said that the TEARS of the kid caused a maulfaction it didnt specify in the springs and the mouth closed plus wasnt in the cannon story late at night and the kids brother and his friends snuck in the place? So the tears caused a maulfunction and the head was crushed
7:17 - if I'm remembering this correctly, there's actually 3 confirmed springlock suits, if you include the thing Mike was trapped inside for one of the nights in sister location... I think
The springlocks in the game probably have long rods that slot into holes in the endo "bones" so that the endos don't slide around. Endos are much smaller than humans width-wise, so if the locks failed it would drive several inch long metal rods into the human and their skeleton.
I actually made a follow-up to this video a couple weeks back where I totally redesigned the springlock suits to address this very problem, if you want to check it out to find out how dumb of an idea this would be!
Now I have always thought the design principal of having the hybrid suit could work. But here is the better idea than making a dangerous suit that you yourself as the designer intend to wear along with others make the costume parts themself removable then just have it so that it clips on to the animatronic figure separately. The main reason for a hybrid design is consistency, what the kids see when the animatronic preforms is the same looks as the costume. If that is it just have a body suit made of something like spandex and then the assumed foam and plastic shells slide onto the suit and clip in to it. You have the same functionality with 100000000000% less of the risk of death to the user (then again this is Afton so maybe that was its intended purpose)
The dual functionality of suit and robot, is more cost effective because the springlocks are cheaper than having a stand alone suit, and so the immersion is better due to there being only 1 of the characters. Plus the gold paint isn't cheap I think.
Respectfully, there’s no way that’s true. Making a mascot costume would cost probably a couple hundred, maybe a thousand if it’s a super nice one. Designing, buying, and installing all the mechanisms you’d need to make a spring lock suit actually work, we’re talking easily a couple thousand on the low end. Springs aren’t cheap!
@@LiMe251 True, but the physical costume covering is not nearly as expensive as all the mechanisms inside. Adding complexity into a design always also adds cost, and though I don't know exactly what went into the springlock suits, I'm almost positive that the cost of all the extra springs and slides and brackets and electronics and whatnot that make the springlock suits possible would add up to way more than the cost of the costume
btw the spring lock suits are called fredbear and springbonnie not golden freddy and golden bonnie but still i dont rly know if golden freddy and fredbear are the same but if they are then there are 3 spring lock suits or you thought of the wrong one
Honestly surprised you didn't mention the springlocks shown in the comic book where (even if drawn small) get to see how they made the springlocks work.
I know conventionally, we think that the all the spring lock suits in FNAF are hand cranked, but I believe it would make much more sense (at least in my mind) that certain spring lock suits like Spring Bonnie were electronically operated by some sort of button. Makes more sense as to why they fail when they get wet.
At around 6:20 the gears and parts you were talking about is actually just an endo skeleton and when it's in "animatronic" mode, the spring locks lock the endo skeleton in place
Hey, so apparently I made a couple of mistakes with some of the lore-specifics and names I used in this video. Like I said, I'm a bit of a FNAF noob at the moment, but I'm stoked to learn more if you guys want FNAF engineering to be a regular thing on the channel moving forward! But just to summarize the big mistakes I made for anyone else who's not as familiar, Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie are not canon names, they're just fan ones. They were also not the only 2 springlock suits, it's suggested that there were several scattered across different locations. I said that William Afton was the CEO of Freddy's, but he's actually the co-owner with a guy named Henry. Also, the Crying Child may or may not be canonically named Evan, you all seemed a bit split on that one but I thought I'd throw it in anyway! Everything I said about the springlocks and how they actually work, though, is still true! No matter how you slice it or what his job title is, William Afton is kind of an idiot!
Don't worry about what the crying child's name is, a ton of names have been thrown around for him over the years and even the most dedicated fnaf nerds are absolutely stumped as to his name. For a long time everyone thought his name might have been Sammy. Also I think you could definitely do a mini series about the weird engineering fallacies in the fnaf franchise, there is a good couple of em.
I actually just commented on the Evan thing but it is still a great video. Also, I agree. For being such a brilliant man, he's an idiot.
Not even mentioning the complicated backstory of which characters made which animatronics.
There are names for the spring lock characters, it’s springbonnie (springtrap but in his better days) and fredbear.
I’m pretty sure they are the canon names, everyone seems to use them though.
Dw!!! Great video :)). Btw the most used names are springbonnie and fredbear
People forget the Bite of '83 couldn't have been a failure because the suit was already in animatronic mode, meaning the locks are already active
So- It wasn't a springlock failure?
true
Exactly! The springlocks are only engaged in order to make room for someone to fit inside, they don't actually contribute to the functioning of the animatronic at all (or, at least they shouldn't in a realistic world, but then again we're talking about a universe with ghost robots here so who knows!)
It was the hydraulic press in the jaw
@@TheMaskedMan333 yea
7:25 Based on Phone Guy's calls in FNaF 3, they had springlock suits in multiple locations at once, so more than two suits were made.
13:50 In-universe, the reason for having these suits is to reduce inconsistencies between the animatronics and suited performers.
Also the owners are kind of insane
One literally kills children and the other is known to create fully operational robot children with the capacity to bleed and eat
Oh and we know for a fact there was at least 1 more since baby pulled one out from her old restaurant to dump Micheal into on night 4
Which I find funny since Showbiz had a pretty good walk-around suit that looked very close to the animatronic
@@takumi-san116 he had it, what about everyone else?
@@The_Dumb_1_ Showbiz is an irl animatronic restaurant
So what I’m getting from this is Afton learned about springs and decided they were the solution to every mechanical problem when better solutions exists.
In other words, Aftor is bad in desing safe machines but great in create killing ones.
He's cheap, is what.
I adore this man and his creations, but this is a case of being a cheapskate through and through.
Or not caring about the safety of people's lives.
and he died for it lmao
"These weren't the desings we were curious about, Mr.Afton"
@@glasscardproductions4736 you are adorable in that murdered children? And made animatronics to kill children…
All I know is that Crying Child's death was the result of too strong pistons to move a suit's head. I think people forgot the part where the only time the springlocks are ever a threat is when they're in suit mode, which Fredbear wasn't during this event.
Considering this happened in the 80's, it kind of says how William thinks as a person. He probably thought he was smart using strong pistons and was either too blinded to see this sort of thing happening or just didn't care enough to reconsider. Considering the recordings for the springlock suits was "If they go off on you, go die quietly in a corner.", it was probably the latter.
Then again, humans are well known to invent something and go "well, the liklihood of dying is less than 100% so it must be all good"
Don’t worry I won’t let anything happen to you
I doubt it would be easy to die quietly
@@Chilly_1its not easy, but if i am to ever die, i want to be silent, or as silent as i can.
Except that only spring bonnie were supposed to be worn, fredbear were a full scale animatronic with hydraulic pistons to stay on stage presenting while the staff guy walked around wearing spring bonnie costume
For those who don't know the lore, William Afton's death CAN NOT be the event that decommissions the springlock suits, because the suit were already banned from use long before that. no other complaints with the video though.
yeah, the reason why the Phone Guy mentions reports to management about the discontinued suit being "visibly moved" is *because* Afton was secretly using it at the time
they were decommissioned but purple guy went to steal the animatronic endos so he destroyed them to make remnant to bring back the crying child but the souls in the animatronic chased purple guy so he put on the suit to scare them but water dripped from the roof and set off the locks which killed him
To bring back CC is very much up for debate
To either replenish the scooped after the ennard situation or because he ran out during testing is far more likely
Also should add I believe SL is before fnaf 2 and that the minigame takes place before the fnaf 1 gameplay
Honestly you just destroyed Game Therory and like 30 other channels tryna figure out springlocks by just solving it in like 3 minuites you are amazing earned a sub and a like!
I wouldn't say destroyed I would say debunked
Plus none of them have a degree in mechanical engineering
That's like comparing a car mechanic to a nasa enginer
@@HUN7ERO I guess that's a Donut Media x SmarterEveryDay collab lol
The size of springlock you got would be used for raising/lowering trailer ramps. Might have other applications but that's what I've seen firsthand. The ramp is held vertical and the springlocks are opened into holes on the edges, much like closing a door that latches into a hole in the wall.
Oh, cool!
The only damage that could come from swapping “active positions” is the suit stopping and falling over
That's just good engineering right there!
Bonnie Collapses
@@TheChiptide Unless someone just so happens to be too close, and a heavy animatronic falls right on top of them, giving them a concussion or worse.
@@TheChiptide THX! Having no experience in engineering I feel honored!😉
This made me laugh for some reason 😅
I'm so glad you showed off a real spring lock because now I can say for certain that even if william afton needed to have compression spring locks, this whole situation could have still been easily avoided.
My fnaf history is a bit fuzzy, but I remember hearing that the spring locks were known to fail if wet, so that leads me to think they're a lot like the one you showed off. A pin being held in place with nothing but friction. If instead he used a bayonet socket style spring lock, he would still be very alive
Also a few notes: you mentioned how the golden freddy suit wouldnt have any springs, but here's my rebuttal. If it's a piston jaw you can use tension springs to retract the jaw faster than gravity could on it's own. I'm not sure how good solenoids or other similar pistons were back in the time frame that scene takes place, but having a spring to retract the jaw actually makes sense.
If it was a hinge jaw instead, you could have torsion springs near or inside of the hinge to retract it.
On a side note, "When the beginning of the end grows near
When he calls the road will begin
For the sun to rise it must first set"
I actually originally planned on having a bit in the video about the “sensitive to water” thing that I ended up cutting for time. I thought that it was possible the spring locks were electronic, and the circuitry was just badly insulated so when it gets wet it shorts out. Just a thought I had, because in general the most common types of Springlocks that I could find wouldn’t be that sensitive at all
@@TheChiptide Cutting it for time? This is a UA-cam video!
@@_MemeMachine yes, that is his reason.
An fnaf springlock isnt real There is NO such thing as a fnaf springlock.
if u we're to such up springlocks all you get is springlocks that would go to ur house
One thing about the springlock suits is that the locks were probably added retroactively. The costumes came first, and then came the idea for automation, so Afton invented the endoskeleton as a thing to take a human's place - basically a thin humanoid robot. The endoskeletons were much "skinnier" than a human, so he placed a bunch of spring-lock holding systems in place, those probably consisting of thin metal rods which would be pulled back when locked, and then would slot themselves into holes on the endoskeleton when unlocked. The excess power could then be justified as a tool for precision and rigidity - to make the holes in the endo smaller, and for the entire structure to hold itself better.
The retroactive addition theory kind of explains the inconsistencies and overall weirdness of the design, and the metal-rod holding systems explains how something like this could be lethal. This is mostly my headcanon, but I think this way of looking at it kind of explains the whole springlock failure shtick in a satisfying way
Some of the lore related things he said here would set the community on fire.
I’m, like, a 3rd degree source when it comes to Freddy’s lore, but if it’s springs you want I got you!
Common sense can set the community on fire lmao
@@1roxyfan491 that too
@@1roxyfan491 And don’t forget indoctrination. Yeah it is really important
One thing about the story. While a springlock failure did happen to cause the suits to be decommissioned. It was not William Afton's "death". The event of fnaf 3 with Afton takes place, many years after springlocks suits were taken out of use. The springbonnie suit there was already abandoned and rotting inside of a backroom where it would be stored forever until Afton got in there and almost died. What probably happened that caused the whole suit decomisssioning was that a worker at Fredbear's died at the hands of a springlock failure during work hours and William put the suits out of use before another gruesome legal issue would show up. But that's just speculation.
It's not a springlock failure, because Fredbear was already in animatronic mode. Springlock failures only happen in suit mode, not animatronic mode.
@@AbbeyYard Did you read the comment? I did not refer to the bite of 83. I said that an unknown event where a WORKER at FREDBEARS got springlocked IN the suit during work hours.
Imagine the springlock suit dropping dead on stage because the springlocks (using tension springs) came loose, that would be hilarious
Fredbear: performs normally
Few seconds later
Fredbear: ouhf [insert yamcha after he got yamcha'd in saiyan saga]
Nah the little kids would be traumatized from all the blood because the spring locks
Hey, great video! Very informative! Though if you’re gonna talk about the game series’ springlock suits, you can’t forget about a scene that I think is vital to the discussion: On the fourth night of the fifth game (not including the RPG in the lineup), the player is physically stuffed inside one of the springlock suits for the night. The springlocks slowly open up over time, so you have to keep them wound up. At the same time, a bunch of tiny animatronics clamber all over the suit, trying to get inside, and you have to shake the suit around to get them off before they can climb inside. Shaking the suit loosens up the springlocks more, so you have to balance both the tightening of the locks and the shaking of the suit. I bring this up because the springlocks in the suit don’t pull like the one you bought, they turn with a dial.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know about that one! I will say, based on that description alone though, William is even more of a dummy that I thought! what, are the springs held in place with mediocre break pads or something? Just slide a pin in there and call it a day, those things wouldn’t losen no matter how much you shake it!
Perhaps the mechanism for the moving jaw could be the rotors turning the dials on the springs. That the opening of the jaw would be by turning the dial one way to lock, then after a timer unlock and the jaw would close faster than it opened, giving the illusion of variation of singing.
The crying child would have been placed in the jaw during a long held note (they'd spent a lot of time at the place so probably knew the songs and the movements by heart) when the jaw would be kept open by the locked springs. But the crying child struggling shifted the springs just enough that it went from locked to unlocked very quickly and, although the head wouldn't weigh as much as it could, the speed it dropped plus the shape of it hit the child in a vulnerable spot (watch style theory's video about killer heels for examples).
Part of the lore is that the kid didn't die right away, so it could have been a nonlethal event, like maybe it caused a brain bleed.
is everyone gonna just ignore the edgy text appearing on the screen at 5:53?
now u pointed that out
Bru
*_THE BEGINNING OF THE END DRAWS NEARER WHEN HE CALLS THE ROAD WILL BEGIN FOR THE SUN TO RISE IT MUST BE FIRST SET_*
He does have a name(not real name ) crying child
2 sec after I forgot
13:20 Alternatively, if you're completely unwilling to have 2 suits, just design it so it's easy to take out the robot bits. Like have the robot bits be able to detach from a hollow chassis and then pull the robot out. Then when the human wears the suit, they're surrounded by harmless metal rings or something instead of pointy robot bits ready to impale you at any moment.
I’m not a expert at mechanics but what I’m thinking is that when the springlooks are pulled back is wearable for humans and when the springlocks aren’t pulled back they connect to the endo skeleton but William added dangerous parts to the springlocks in the suits, this was proven in 9:59 inside the video to connect to the Endo skeleton more stronger so that the suit doesn’t fall off during a performance. But what I think happened that resulted to the Springlock failure is the locks weren’t pulled back enough and the drop of water, made the locks easier to move and while William was laughing he was moving to strong that it caused the locks to slip off from being pulled back causing the springlock failure.
That’s an interesting thought! Realistically, spring locks only have 1 lock positing, so it’s not really possible to not pull them back far enough and still have them lock, but then again this is a game about people possessing highly advanced free roaming robots from the 80s, so anything’s possible!
Wow
William got springlocked also because of the leaking roof when raining
Because of game logic Scott claimed all the animatronic bits where pulled to the sides when in suit mode including the endoskeleton. And another thing he claims is that the springs in the locks are so powerful that if they fail all of those animatronic parts will get shoved through flesh and bone shown by Springtrap having animatronic eyes shoved where his human eyes used to be
@@TheChiptide Well, there could be a chance that maybe it wasn't fully twisted and the water caused it to slip and snap.
I always appreciate videos like this that look at the games from a different perspective. Great video!
I always figured that having Suit mode be the default for springlocks would have made more sense, especially because then a failure would just make the animatronic collapse which is still scary to the kids but better than an adult dying painfully in front of them. It would also be like the animatronics are wind-up toys which is a cute image imo
I saw a fanmade VHS which had an extremely plausible explanation as to how the spring lock suits actually worked. The animatronic endoskeleton was a separate piece of equipment that would be removed to put the animatronic into suit mode, then there's the exoskeleton which has all of the spring locks and supports the weight of the rest of the components. The spring locks are dotted around the arms, legs, torso, and head, and are connected in sequence so when the crank is turned to wind one of them, it winds all of them in that segment. All they do is keep the exoskeleton locked to the endoskeleton. Over the exoskeleton is a fiberglass shell that gives the mascot its shape, and finally is the cloth cover which gives the animatronic its final look. The hands and feet don't have shells, the feet of the exoskeleton are just empty boxes, and the feet that go over them are built up with foam to give them their shape. As for the hands, they are simply gloves that can fit on either human hands or the endoskeleton hands. The head has its own spring locks not a part of the exoskeleton, and has flip down fake eyes that look almost identical to the endoskeleton's eyes. These fake eyes are able to be seen through from the inside of the suit, but not the outside. I get that the in lore reason why the spring lock suits existed was to mitigate the differences in appearance between the animatronics and performers... But was it really that expensive or difficult to just have the suits look like the animatronics? I know that it was the 80s, so they didn't have 3D printing, but if you want to see costumes that look almost exactly like an animatronic character, there's an amazing Glamrock Freddy cosplay that someone made, I don't remember who, and it looks exactly like Freddy did in the game.
I loved this! You should make more videos like this! After so many years of consuming the same style fnaf ‘theory’ videos, this was so refreshing. Taking a practical look at something in fnaf, loved it!
Let's have him start with the Scooper. :P
Unironically actually having a degree in mechanical engineering is real cool!
The fnar 4 bite wasn't meant to be a springlock failure, it's just the jaw and it's pistons having way too much strength
Every time someone else actually shows about understanding of how springlock suits work I feel so validated (its frustrating how people misunderstand such a simple concept). I am not interested in engineering, and I look vaguely knew slronglocls were real, but even I understood exactly what Scott Cawthon was going for with the mechanisms behind the springlock suits, and how the bite in fnaf 4 couldn't be a springlock failure because the animayromic was in animayrinic mode. The springs were already sprung, and theere was nothing to snap into place because it was all already snapped into place. Thank you for this. I will note, that fnaf 3 cutscene can't be the springlock failure that decommissioned the suits, because it happens long after everything else. The only remaining possibility is that we never got to see it, and it happened to a random employee.
10:20 when you compare the 3d golden Freddy and 8 bit golden Freddy it is not the same suit, it is the same mascot but different iteration of suit like how Chuck E Cheese changes his suits every so often, the model seen in 8 bit is supposed to have a hydraulic mechanism I think, while the other one uses a regular hinge.
Another thing is that Golden Freddy has 4 fingers on each hand, and is thus incapable of being a suit, while Fredbear is capable of being a suit.
There is an Easter egg in UCN where when someone deletes Golden Freddy, Fredbear kills the player. The designs are different between the two.
The suits weren't as complicated as you thought. The springlocks held back metal supports (much like the cylinder in your physical one, just not as thick) that would hold the suit to the endoskeleton (which is separate from the suit itself). The one that resulted in William's incident sent the metal supports into his body, physically trapping him in the suit.
Mr. Afton was killed long after the spring lock suits were decommissioned and Freadbears closed down
Dude... This is just awesome. I'm stuck between studying mechanical engineering and computer science at the moment, and the feasibility of things like this in FNaF is so cool to see. I would love to see or hear where the concept of Spring-Locks came from on Scott's part. They just sound dangerous. To most of the fanbase, it isn't much more than that.
I always thought the idea of a bulky animatronic eating a kid so funny, because the actual metal mouth inside is the size of a rat trap, and the rest is all costume. Foxy or Mangles mouth would have to be at darn near a 180 degree angle to even get close enough for it to reach you. I think you'd be more at risk of suffocating from the fabric than you would of getting your skull cracked open.
Somebody ought to do skits where the animatronics are about to get somebody, and then the jaw mechanism breaks on the kids head.
Have you considered doing something on the legitimacy of star wars robots? I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the droids are able to move around in terrain that is so uneven. BB-8 for example is one of the worst designs you could think of for a robot that patrols on sand. a magnetic head with casters or something that would get clogged with sand pretty fast, and a body that would likely just push sand out from under itself and bury itself into a hole. Not to mention all the little gadgets that come out of panels on the body, meaning the body has some way of opening doors, as well as pushing arms out of its body that align with the ports. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it has also rolled with the arm rotating and staying upright. It'd be better to just store all that in the head, but then you'd run into problems with weight, and the calibration for balance and yadda yadda.
tldr, Thanks for going over Spring-locks! As a computer and mechanics nerd, I love hearing the real explanations for how these things would work, even when it really isn't feasible and is left more to imagination than real world application. You've earned my subscription!
I’m just sayin, William Afton going into the Spring Bonnie suit to do… something? Is very much reminiscent of the low budget slasher movie trope of “oh no, the bad guy is chasing us! Quick! Hide in that old shed full of chainsaws! We’ll definitely be safe there!”
I don't think the failure was either case shown here, since the death minigames take place sometime after the more conventional animatronics are a thing(they get disassembled in earlier games). It seems most likely that the first springlock fail, unless specifically mentioned elsewhere(very much a surface-level knowledge here too) was some background incident that lead in part to the closure of Fazbear's Family Diner(where the springlock suits were used). Something that didn't effect the plot other than help shut down the diner so that the pizzaria could take its place later on.
also, another easier way to have suits for both performers and the animatronics is just to make them removable from the animatronics, and designed in such a way that they could be worn by either an animatronic endoskeleton or a human performer.
Aight so as a FNAF fan… imma fix some of the errors you made lore wise throughout the vid.
So first off, Golden Freddy is not the actual name for the spring lock suit. The canon name is Fredbear, who is possessed by Cassidy, Afton’s 5th victim, and the Crying Child, and the canon name for the the bunny suit is Spring Bonnie.
Second, William Afton is not the “main” owner of Freddy’s… he’s the co owner with the main owner being Henry Emily, the father of Afton’s first murder victim… Charlotte aka The Puppet and Henry is the one who also helped William with making the animatronics.
Third, The Crying Child does have a canonical name, it just took us a very long time to figure out. The canonical name is Evan Afton
All and all what a great analysis video
Wait, how was Crying Child's name found out? I thought Evan was a fan made name
@@baghassavocadoes A fan found a 4 letter code in the Survival Logbook and they were able to decode 3 of the letters to spell out "EVA_". So, from there, the fan guessed that his name was Evan. This was also the same book that helped us figure out that there were 2 spirits in Golden Freddy and that one of them was named "Cassidy" (another name that was decoded). There was also a hint in the Fazbear Frights books supporting this name, since a character named Evan had an older brother named Michael who acted cold and robotic and only focused on working/making money. (This, of course, being a parallel to the game protagonist, Michael, who more or less became an animatronic at one point and keeps going to various Freddy's locations to work as a security guard.)
@@WWTWW ohhhhh thank you, I had no idea
I was gonna comment almost the same-
@@WWTWW the fazbear frights books are not canon
I love your video!
But I think you forgot something: the Funtime animatronics are implied to ALSO be springlock suits, telling by night 4 of sister location in which you must wind up the springlocks while inside of a Funtime animatronic. This is also corroborated by the silver eyes graphic novel, in which Carlton Burke gets trapped inside of an unidentified blue springlock animatronic.
Ooh, I didn’t know that!
@@TheChiptide Not all of the Funtimes, just one unnamed suit in Night 4. In fact, that one is never even stated to be a Funtime, just a springlock suit never used for its intended purpose.
9:39 William jumps inside that suit because if he killed the kids with that suit on that means the souls will be scared and leave William alone. Yeah a leaking building, fast movement and heavy breathing is the perfect recipe for you drowning in your own blood(because the springs DON'T kill you but instead you drown in your own blood)
One example of spring locks that I think you should’ve mentioned is the suit you get trapped in in ( I think night 4 ) of sister location. Here you get to see the inside of one of the spring lock suits. However this is a different type of suit to the ones mentioned in this video, withe those in sister location never being intended to be used also for wearable costumes. Great video, keep up the good work 👍
purple guy was full of himself, and thought he was so smart because he made an animatronic that's also a suit. he doesn't care about the cost.
Fun fact: William afton is the co owner. So he didn't built FredBear, SpringBonnie and all Fazbear animatronic (well except the Funtime animatronic because it's made William). The person who built Fazbear animatronic is "Henry Emily" the Owner of FredBear and Freddy's
Exactly, people don’t seem to understand this.
Depends what you mean by build
It’s likely he designed the early models (and probably created the suits that would later be adapted into animatronics (like hand sticked ones like glitchtrap) and later on started building them with Henry before the fun times to gain experience with them
Also he owned the company that built and distributed the mass produced models in Acton robotics but thar depends on how you want to define that
Exactly people forget that part easily
@@jmurray1110 no
Henry made them all by himself
@@SubZero-hs9xc except the Funtime animatronic
Is anyone gonna talk about how underrated this guy is
Anyways, im gonna talk about why purple guy became a killer but long:
His 2 sons were in the pizzeria and the youngest, which was the birthday boy was scared of the animatronics.
So the older son started making fun of him until he put his head closer to the mouth of fredbear while he was performing,
his brain was crushed and he had to go to the hospital but he couldn’t recover and died.
Purple guy was very mad and sad at the same time so he started taking revenge but on other kids
The Purple Guy's death can not be the reason for the suits getting retired because that scene takes place after Fnaf 1 and 2's events in the story, and in both Fnaf 1 and 2's time period the spring lock suits are still not being used even back then. So Purple Guy getting spring locked could not have caused the retirement of the spring lock suits due to where that event takes place in the Fnaf timeline.
the springlock suits were retired after fredbear's closed due to multiple springlock failures.
they were illegal after 1983
they're actually called fredbear and spring bonnie but they're names change later on in fnaf 1 2 and 3 6 and sb, golden freddy, withered fredbear, springtrap, scraptrap, and burntrap
12:56 the compression spring locked suits are the exact reason William was not on Henry's level
Bruh I’ve been an engineer for just a couple months and it took me like 5 seconds to figure out how to fix his suit!
Ok but William most likely only instead Henry
Henry was a visionary who could turn wooden dolls into
Robots if the books are to be believed
Knowing William he probably didn’t care about safety or cost Henry ripped him off with the mediocre melodies and then bought him out al a Chucky cheese he almost certainly was blinded by his pride and resentment so think about failure
These also the fact this man would soon enough create cable animatronics designed to capture and kill children to collect their remnant and implant weird tech like giant claws, child containment tanks, parental voice mimic and illusion disks that use audio to warp a persons perception of literally anything
You know I don’t think he really cared about people getting hurt
Wait wait wait, Henry would turn wooden dolls into robots? Like, by hollowing them out and putting motors in them, or making robots out of nothing but pure wood? Because if it’s the first, that’s really not that impressive, but if it’s the second he ain’t an engineer, he’s a straight up wizard!
@@TheChiptide Hagrid: Your a wizard Henry
@@TheChiptide now this is a based on the fazbear frights books but in them he made wooden dolls that were as advanced as the game animatronics
How have you not learnt this by now magic is very much real in this world
So much so remnant can keep an animatronic going without any power for at least a while
William Afton made the springlock suits so if any robot acts weird he can play as the robot to keep entertaining kids
There is actually canonically a 3rd springlock suit, but it goes unnamed. It appears in Night 4 of the 5th FNaF game, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
They were dangerous in the suits because the Spring Bonnie suit was old and wet.
5:54: hey, look, another secret message.
I might get a word or three wrong, it is kind of jumbled.
+ Indicate purple words, - red words
The +beginning+ of the - end- draws near,
when he calls, the +(road?)+ will begin
for the sun to +(rise?)+ it must first - set-
I don't really like ARG personally, but for anyone who does enjoy those I try to write a comment when I find one in the video, to stream line the process a bit.
They should probably create a chronological document for them, unsurprisingly they seem connected.
Yet to find how they are connected to our lord and savior the decision matrix, though.
Yup it’s kinda creepy
Just wanna point out that springlocks WERE actually dangerous they have been redesigned now but many types of springlocks back in the day were very dangerous and sharp
I like how this guy doesn’t know the proper names for everybody
Just so you know for some reason there are spring locks in the head to keep the eyes of the suit form impaleing you and and more in the head
I just realized this series is labeled as a podcast... WHAT?
Yeah, UA-cam introduced this new thing where you can turn your playlists into podcasts, but it doesn't seem like it actually changes anything
They were decommissioned because of the bite of 83 but it wasn’t a spring lock failure
This was a very educational video! And about fnaf two thing that are a great mix! ❤
7:24 I do not believe golden Freddy is a springlock suit, it is an easy mistake to make as the other springlock animatronic (Fredbear) is a golden bear too.
Actually William is co owner. The owner is Henry Emily.
"this is a very industrial springlock, its used in... i have no idea" that deadass made my day
I’m really surprised you got one of these, and I liked this video, hopefully I can get my hands on one so I can try some things with it.
Honestly, I thought it was going to be super cool when I bought it too, but it's basically just a spring with a handle and a stopper. The most common application for them that I could find was in spring-loaded latches for, like, a gate or something. So yeah, not nearly as cool as the games make them out to be...
I don't actually think Mr. Afton was being dumb at all when he made the suits because if you were to look at it from a killers perspective, these suits would be the perfect way to kill someone on purpose, say it was an accident, and people you'd believe it was an accident so maybe William thaught about that and thaught "hm this could be a good way to get away with murder". He just probably forgot about this when he was getting chased by ghost children seeking revenge because lets be real, who has the ability to think logically when they are panicking and cornered in a room and can't escape because there are vengful ghist children blocking they way. Not William Afton
bro's an absolute chad for finally doing something reasonable for once
for 6:23 I thought that you had a sort of shell of metal surrounding your limbs, head, and torso with spring locks all around it so when the endo skeleton is inside the suit, you can activate the spring locks to hold it in place. If you want a human to fit inside, you tighten back the spring locks and then take out the endo, to then climb into the surrounding metal frame and have the fabric costume be put back on. I thought this was more realistic on how its dangerous for the springlocks to activate as the only way they can go is into your head and body.
The only springlock suits are Fredbear and Springbonnie,not Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie!Golden Bonnie doesnt even exist!!!😠
Yes, they did exist. They do in Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 FredBear exist and spring trap was spring Bonnie, but now is burnt
That was a come, from which is true just want to inform everyone about this. Yes, they do exist again in five nights at Freddy’s3 the person on the call, does explain to the player how to get in/climb out/operate it, and/how it works yes, every one of those characters you mentioned do exist
Well, actually, yellow bear is a hallucination yellow bear is not golden Freddy yellow bear is yellow bear not named golden Freddy
Please get it right I should have corrected myself that yellow bear is just a hallucination so you are correct about yellow bear it’s just a hallucination. I don’t know how Cassidy is possessing that not real AnimaTronic that doesn’t make sense how Cassidy is possessing yellow bear.
Everyone thinks they know yellow bears actual name, but a lot of people do know
Something I got mad about was when he said “The crying child doesn’t have a name” HIS NAME IS *EVAN AFTON*
William Afton was both a Genius and an Idiot XD
It takes a special kind of person to create fully operational, free-roaming robots in the 80s, and yet mess it up SO bad at the same time
@@TheChiptide Also gotta remember, the man figured out a way to bring himself back to life yet also dies so many times 🤣
@@FennixGamingYTYeah, it's like, if you didn't want to die, stop doing stupid stuff that gets you killed!
"the beginning of the end draws near
when he calms the road will begin
for the sun to rise it must first set"
-Random creepy text
Is Richard a real person? This is my new conspiracy theory 😈
@16:52 the piston design was the older model after frd bears shut down they probably tried remodeling golden freddy.
So both designs are canon.
Oooh, there are more than just the 2 golden suits? That makes more sense!
Dang, you have good subsribe button punching form. You should teach a class how to do it so great.
What can I say, I watch a lot of pro wrestling...
Basically Afton was using car hydraulics springs to lock it together
Good morning chiptide your loyal commenter for the algorithm here
I hope my answer was satisfactory last week I do have a question this week
On a scale of 1-10 how dangerous is Richard?
This question is very important
1. He thinks he's a 10, but I could take him any time!
@@TheChiptide id like to see the Richard vs chiptide episode like an entire episode where you prove Richard is weak via statistics and then you just get knocked the fuck out while explaining this to him
We got Dave the crying child, and William Applington
I think this is the first time in years I've seen a child death warning on a fnaf video. Kinda refreshing, tbh! I tend to forget how genuinely fucked up this franchise is
maybe the springlock failure in the game was a pen breaking.
his name is evan
I think the springs are meant to hold the endoskeleton in place while its an animatronic. So that way the springs can be pulled back and locked so the endoskeleton can be removed and a person can wear the suit.
8:40 um.... he has a name. Its Even Afton
🤓
And also is Chris
@@tizioepico guess what I’m double 🤓🤓 cause I know that Chris is just a name fans came up with but the cannon name is Even
@@zachary.bachary Evan and Chris are both unconfirmed and arent proven yet
@@Piraka1 that’s not true, Evan was confirmed in multiple books. Chris came from a fan made reimagining of the FNaF.
@@zachary.bachary you called it even at first nd now its evan :|
You missed one. Sister Location Night 4. We found out that there was a mechanism to wind the springlocks so that they don't unlock... Breathing, Heartbeat or water seems to cause them to go loose and perhaps go into animatronic mode. So when William got springlocked it could have been caused that out of fear he did not wind the springlocks and they went loose...
By the way, I don’t think crying child possessed the golden Freddy suit, I think it was a kid named Cassidy (not certain, if I’m wrong do correct me.)
Edit: crying child DID possess golden Freddy, BUT Cassidy also was possessing it, Crying child got kicked out of the suit and turned into Shadow Freddy, while Cassidy possessed golden Freddy
William after discovering springs:
7:25 : exists
The entire FNaF fandom:
Bro in the plot it was said that the TEARS of the kid caused a maulfaction it didnt specify in the springs and the mouth closed plus wasnt in the cannon story late at night and the kids brother and his friends snuck in the place? So the tears caused a maulfunction and the head was crushed
*scary music* William afton.
*happy music* Purple guy :D
7:32
7:17 - if I'm remembering this correctly, there's actually 3 confirmed springlock suits, if you include the thing Mike was trapped inside for one of the nights in sister location... I think
The springlocks in the game probably have long rods that slot into holes in the endo "bones" so that the endos don't slide around. Endos are much smaller than humans width-wise, so if the locks failed it would drive several inch long metal rods into the human and their skeleton.
I actually made a follow-up to this video a couple weeks back where I totally redesigned the springlock suits to address this very problem, if you want to check it out to find out how dumb of an idea this would be!
@@TheChiptide oh cool, I'll watch it in the background while I do the dishes later.
Actually three springlock suits spring Bonnie, fredbear and golden Freddy
Now I have always thought the design principal of having the hybrid suit could work. But here is the better idea than making a dangerous suit that you yourself as the designer intend to wear along with others make the costume parts themself removable then just have it so that it clips on to the animatronic figure separately. The main reason for a hybrid design is consistency, what the kids see when the animatronic preforms is the same looks as the costume. If that is it just have a body suit made of something like spandex and then the assumed foam and plastic shells slide onto the suit and clip in to it. You have the same functionality with 100000000000% less of the risk of death to the user (then again this is Afton so maybe that was its intended purpose)
Afton will be taking notes
The dual functionality of suit and robot, is more cost effective because the springlocks are cheaper than having a stand alone suit, and so the immersion is better due to there being only 1 of the characters. Plus the gold paint isn't cheap I think.
13:43 I saw another video that said that a seperate animatronic and suit actually costed more than a springlock suit
Respectfully, there’s no way that’s true. Making a mascot costume would cost probably a couple hundred, maybe a thousand if it’s a super nice one. Designing, buying, and installing all the mechanisms you’d need to make a spring lock suit actually work, we’re talking easily a couple thousand on the low end. Springs aren’t cheap!
@@TheChiptide but if the mascot costume cannot also be used for the animatronic then you still have to get a whole other suit made, right?
@@LiMe251 True, but the physical costume covering is not nearly as expensive as all the mechanisms inside. Adding complexity into a design always also adds cost, and though I don't know exactly what went into the springlock suits, I'm almost positive that the cost of all the extra springs and slides and brackets and electronics and whatnot that make the springlock suits possible would add up to way more than the cost of the costume
@@TheChiptide maybe so, I am not an expert in engineering so I'll take your word for it,
@@TheChiptide Just so you know the video i saw said a animatronic and a suit costed 14k while a springlock suit costed only 10k
Fantastic video! Love the explanations. (Btw as a side note, the springlock animatronics are called "springbonnie" and "Fredbear". Hope this helps :))
btw the spring lock suits are called fredbear and springbonnie not golden freddy and golden bonnie but still i dont rly know if golden freddy and fredbear are the same but if they are then there are 3 spring lock suits or you thought of the wrong one
Honestly surprised you didn't mention the springlocks shown in the comic book where (even if drawn small) get to see how they made the springlocks work.
12:38 the springlock failure would traumatize the kids for life as the animatronic would just drop to the ground
I know conventionally, we think that the all the spring lock suits in FNAF are hand cranked, but I believe it would make much more sense (at least in my mind) that certain spring lock suits like Spring Bonnie were electronically operated by some sort of button. Makes more sense as to why they fail when they get wet.
I thought spring locks were used to hold the endo skeleton in place in the animatronic
You might be right, but it works out the same. Getting stabbed by sharp, pointy things that could have easily been avoided!
7:28 Their names are Fredbear and Springbonnie
15:43 The crying child didn't possess Fredbear, the Golden Freddy suit (also known as Yellow Bear) is possess by a girl named Cassidy
The crying child has a name.. his name is norman his elder brother and his friends are the cause of the bite of 83 but his name is norman
The beginning of of the end draws near when he callsls the road will begin for the sun to rise it must first set 5:53
The Silver Eyes: Do I look like a joke to you?
At around 6:20 the gears and parts you were talking about is actually just an endo skeleton and when it's in "animatronic" mode, the spring locks lock the endo skeleton in place
You are so under rated! Keep posting, man!
Bro wanted the entire afton experience
fredbear and golden freddy are different things