3. They Harbour Strange Connections with 'Otherworlds'
It seems as though Hollywood has taken the ancient Egyptian cat motif, mixed it with the notion of Voodoo dolls and come up with toys having a strange bridging technique with otherworlds. A technique which invariably ends badly for anyone unfortunate to just happen upon a bad one! In Labyrinth, the scene exactly preceding Sarahs inter-world jump is riddled with toys! Yet one bear in particular seems to go unnoticed for his dastardly deeds: Lancelot. The teddy belonging to Sarah which just happens to be missing from her room and winds up in her little brothers, triggering the soliloquy which leads to her brother going missing and her traipsing the Labyrinth looking for him for the rest of the film! Considering the goblins seem to be waiting close at hand, it wouldnt be a far stretch of the imagination to consider sweet silent Lancelot a mole for the Goblin king! All the while people are placing the heavy burden of guilt on the goblins when this little Judas is lording it about in the 'real' world. Bastard! Bear-slander aside, therere also numerous examples where just playing with a toy or game can be a ticket to trouble. Jumanji, for instance. One minute youre trying to impress a girl and the next youre trying to stop yourself from being the girl (in a prison sense) for every oversized bug and over-sensed hunter in an alternate universe! One thing is for certain with toys, youre never sure which one could lead you somewhere you dont want to go! (Thats not a euphemism, by the way! You and your filthy mind!)