Link to the video by u/Course-Fluffy this comes from here!

For my next meme, I figured I’d try my hand at pixel art again. I haven’t really done that since Reel Danger. 👾

I even used the NES/Famicom color palette and stuck to only three colors for each sprite… well, except one. 👀

I’ll go first:

>!“That movie sucked! They didn’t even solve the tech problem in the neighborhood!"!<
>!“How could they?! The writers would probably be making fun of their OWN kids!”!<
>!“DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!”!<

The trio!

The group!

The buddies!

The bros!

🎞️

[Link to HUB Post!]

I know you’ve all been frowning because it’s been a while since my last proper animation…

But don’t worry! The Smiling Friends wil be coming over to make you smile soon enough! 😊🧙‍♂️

I know I’m gonna get a bit of backlash for this, but screw it! I was introduced to Freddy’s during the 2000s, the Avenger Era designs were the first versions of them I adjusted to, so therefore, they’re my favorite! And I’m glad that the owner of the Warwick location was a chad and kept these designs for the animatronics there until it closed!

Also, you’re probably wondering how I have a cupcake from there if the character was retired from all Freddy’s locations by then? Well honestly, I have no idea. Maybe they just didn’t wanna get rid of a perfectly good animatronic again or the owner liked Cupcake too. So I got to grow up with a plastic shelled Avenger Chica with one of Classic Chica’s fabric hands holding her cupcake. (And yes, it DID look uncanny.)

I still remember how one time as a kid, my brother dared me to climb onto the stage and pick the cupcake off of Chica’s plate as she was moving. But I just couldn’t. I didn’t wanna go anywhere near them. I wasn’t scared, just… really shy. I wouldn’t say I was afraid of how the animatronics looked. I always assumed it was like how cartoons look more realistic when they’re adapted into live action.

But I guess I took the dare in the end after all! 😂

I know I sounded bias before, but I truly think the Avenger Era of the Fazbear Gang is underrated. No incidents (like I said before), Foxy became an official member of the band, and the designs just felt… cozy. I don’t care what anyone says! Tony Ashcroft was really the best person to get Fazbear ready for the Y2K era! I even inherited his art style a bit… Okay, a LOT! 😅

And it sucks that nobody talks about what was my, and probably also YOUR childhood Freddy’s era nowadays, all because nothing bad happened then! Nothing for the company to make horror movies about! But like… isn’t that a GOOD THING?!!! I’m honestly a little worried that this important time in my life is gonna become as obscure as a lot of the older stuff I’ve been researching. 😔

Am I getting too emotional over some character designs? Maybe. But I guess someone had to. Anyway, sorry for rambling. Sometimes, reminiscing gets me pretty emotional. But anyway, back to the question at hand! Which era is your favorite? It doesn’t have to be the one you grew up with, just whichever time you think the characters were at their best design and personality wise.

(BTW, you’re probably why there are quotation marks around the “Era” for the Toys’ one. That’s because I don’t really consider that one a legitimate era since it (thankfully) didn’t even last a month.)

>!<

In the universe of the fanmade ARG, Fazbear’s Forgotten, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza wasn’t just a few measly locations that opened and closed over and over again. It was an entire franchise that had locations spread all across the USA, mostly during the 80s and 90s. Many of them lasted almost forty years before Fazbear began slowly closing them off to make way for their bigger and “better” line of Mega Pizzaplexes.

Of course, as time went on, as whatever kids saw as “cool” evolved, so did Freddy Fazbear’s. Around 1997, to get their main cast of characters ready for the upcoming Y2K audience, they commissioned FunWare Engineering to make them a line of non-walking animatronics, as well as new suits for the ones they already had. Both would feature redesigns of their big four for the all new Avenger Era of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place.

These (at the time) new iterations of their beloved cast would be hipper, funnier, and even have something no other versions before or after would DARE touch… PANTS!!! They were designed and constructed by FunWare founder and CEO, Tony Ashcroft, best known for his more abstract and stylized-looking machines and products.

Avenger Freddy Fazbear, while still dressing dapper-like, maybe a little moreso, has taken on a more “cool uncle-like” persona. More specifically, one who clearly grew up during the 80s. He would often kid around with the audience and his bandmates while still holding the same wisdom he usually had across redesigns.

Avenger Bonnie the Bunny acted and sounded a lot more flamboyant and sort of vain. He would often care about and compliment whatever he or his band mates looked or were wearing. This iteration of Bonnie is also infamous for having traded his red bowtie for a red headband and gold chain necklace made to resemble a combo of a bunny’s head and the letter B.

Whenever he got too self-absorbed or distracted, he would get called out by his guitar, which had been brought to life for this generation. It had already been confirmed that Bonnie’s guitar was magical in 1987 as a way to explain why more than just that single instrument could be heard during shows, and Tony thought it would be a good idea to bring it to life to enforce that. Especially since he had a dream about the idea prior.

Bonnie’s guitar didn’t talk with words though, but instead with musical instrument sound effects. Each sound would reflect what she was conveying and feeling. Such as a quiet slide whistle when she was sad and a happy energetic guitar riff when she was excited. Only Bonnie himself could understand her. During shows, several parts of her body would light up, with her mouth doing so to the rhythm of the lead instrument of the song’s soundtrack, making it look like she was singing.

Avenger Chica the Chicken would have her animatronic trade hands for pompoms and her bib would read “LET’S PLAY!!!” Yes, this was still around the time when Fazbear was moving away from the original “gluttonous” Chica from before 1987, without actually reducing her appetite. This design only further enforced it.

While now essentially being a more playful and energetic version of Freddy, her hunger allowed her to retain her once-iconic robust body shape.

As for Avenger Foxy the Pirate Fox, after years of being a solo secondary act, it was decided that the character would be made an official member of the band! His animatronics were moved from all existing Pirate Cove rooms, which were later converted into party rooms, to the main area’s stage with the rest of the units. Whenever people asked what Foxy’s role in the band was, the answer would always be “He’s the pirate.”

This iteration of Foxy’s pants were more torn and sported one leg that ended with a peg. Something that Tony confirmed was a reference to how Foxy was usually the first animatronic to break at most locations.

This era of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place would last up until 2014, just a year after the creation, and premature cancellation, of the infamous Fazbear’s Fright attraction that had brought the darker parts of Fazbear Entertainment's past back to light. This also led to the creation of independent games based on said horrors. Presumably worried that horror fans would start painting their characters in a negative light, Fazbear transitioned over to the infamous Rockstar Era. As such, nearly all animatronics, including the ones built by FunWare, had their suits changed to the Rockstar designs.

Speaking of Funware, something else what also happened in 2013 was that FunWare was forced to file for bankruptcy, selling all of their assets to Smiles and Servos Inc, who ironically also opened their own chain called El Chip’s Fiesta Buffet AND would build Fazbear’s Rockstar Era animatronics.

Ironically, out of all other eras in Freddy Fazbear’s history, the Avenger Era was by far the least problematic era of them all. A time when little to no incidents occurred up until the factors just prior to its end. Which is presumably why there’s hardly any official or even fanmade horror media of it. It isn’t as talked about by most of the Fazbear community, with most of the people who grew up in the 80s or even after talking more about the “classic” times.

By the Author:

Have you ever wondered what Freddy’s would be like during your childhood?... I’m talking about the 2000s/Y2K kids… I sure did! I came to realize that having the characters keep the Classic style for over 30 years and then jumping to the Rockstar Era in 2014 didn’t seem right in terms of its now more Chuck E. Cheese’s-like lore in my AU. So I started imagining what the in-between of these two eras would look like.

I made sure to be careful about how much detail I gave each character. Just enough to seem different, but not to the point where it seemed too overdone or stylized. I’d say the closest to where I over did it was with Avenger Bonnie and his guitar, but the excuse for that would be how they’re technically different characters. I also decided that their unique shared feature would be that they would have pants, since their animatronics couldn’t walk. So there was no need for those parts of their suits to be segmented. 

Since we brought up Bonnie’s guitar earlier, I was actually going to make an Avenger Cupcake for Chica early in development. But then I realized something. Out of all the members of the band, Bonnie is the only one without a “little buddy.” Chica has her cupcake in a lot of iterations, Foxy has a parrot in his Rockstar iteration, Nightmare AND Funtime Freddy had the Freddles and Bon-Bon respectively, what about Bonnie? Why didn’t HE have anyone yet? So I had a nice long thought about his guitar, remembered how I already headcanoned it as magical, and decided “Yes! Give face!”

[Link to the main post on Fazbear’s Forgotten!]

Synopsis:

Before fantasy and fun could come to life… passion and dreams had to die.

Jackson Desorcy, a semi-punk yet otherwise normal young man, becomes obsessed with the secret and disgusting history of the company behind his favorite childhood playplace, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.

Ignoring the warnings of ghosts and death, he researches and posts his findings for Fazbuddies and Fazbrats alike to read and learn about the lesser known and tasteless aspects of our favorite characters and franchises’ origins.

What Jackson either doesn’t realize or is trying to ignore however is that, somewhere along the trail, he’s writing himself into Fazbear Entertainment’s evil legacy. Just not in the way he would like…

What This Is:

Fazbear’s Forgotten is a fanmade Five Nights at Freddy’s ARG presented exclusively here on the Fazbearfandom subreddit. It stars a fictionalized version of the story’s own author, Jackson Desorcy.

Interacting with posts, you will encounter secrets hidden in the form of story beats, comments from Jackson, mainly portraying a cruder, semi-punk version of himself, and other surprises.

This OOC post is written to act as a “hub” of sorts. A way to more easily navigate most of the different uploads related to the overall story.

Navigation:

History Articles:

Fazbear’s Forgotten: The Mycellium Men (November 26th, 2025)

Jackson’s Cupcake:

The Cupcake’s Debut (November 9th, 2025)

Assistance Needed: How can I disable Night Mode? (November 15th, 2025)

The Cupcake’s Haiku (Archival Repost; Originally Posted January 21st, 2026)
Apology About the Recent Post (January 21st, 2026)

UPDATE: IT’S GETTING WORSE!!! (January 22nd, 2026)
UPDATE: It stopped… (January 3rd, 2026)

Apologies again. (May 26th, 2026)

Artifact Finds:

Ronald Widelock’s CPW Membership Card (September 3rd, 2025)

Rare Photo of Fredbear’s Singin’ Show? (September 30th, 2025)

Photos Leaked From the Afton Family Archive (December 9th, 2025)

The Candy Cadet’s Post-Christmas Debut (December 26th, 2025)
Sequel Post-Repairs (March 16th, 2026)

My Fazbear Merch and Relic Collection (March 25th, 2026)

The Mycellium Matt Plush (June 15th, 2026)

The Party Time Chica Plush (July 4th, 2026)

Community:

[RANT] Why is everyone so insensitive?! (December 31st, 2025)

What’s an MCM property that you wish could be talked about more on this subreddit? (January 10th, 2026)

Does anyone know what Fredbear & Friends was about? (February 15th, 2026)

My First AMA (June 28th, 2026)

Other:

Ronald Widelock’s 105th Birthday Shoutout (September 29th, 2025)

Introducing Myself: Jackson Desorcy (November 2nd, 2025)

About the Puppet (December 21st, 2025)

Happy the Frog (February 23rd, 2026)

Pride Month Faz-Fact (June 1st, 2026)

Behind the Scenes:

Differences Between My Storyline and the Version on the Fazbear Ent. Media Wiki: (November 28th, 2025)

Early Versions of Photoshop Edits (December 30th, 2025)

Disclaimers:

• This AU contains information modified from the original Five Nights at Freddy’s lore. Expect confusion.
• Not all comments left by Jackson are canon.
• OOC sections of information are blacked out.

You guys aren’t going to BELIEVE what I got today!!! It ain’t even my Birthday yet and a relative straight up mailed me a genuine plushie of the ORIGINAL Chica the Chicken from Chica’s Freaking Party World!!! 🤯

You’re probably wondering how they even got such a score! Well you see, like how I got Ronald Widelock’s membership card, they won it on an eBay auction. They didn’t tell me who originally owned it though.

It really makes my day that they would be so generous to win this for me of all people, especially since money has been pretty tight! I’d give them a shoutout, but I don’t like being public about too much of my family, you know.

And for those wondering what my Cupcake thinks, I showed the plush to it and its eyes just started following it around. So… I think it likes it?

Do you prefer redesigns that make them look more realistic, unnerving, or more like existing animatronic franchises?