The blonde girl in the Wrongside Outimals commercial is most definitely Marie Payne
Okay so a lot of people have already universally agreed on this, but I think it’s HIGHLY likely that the blonde girl in the Wrongside Outimals commercial is Marie Payne / Mommy Long Legs. There’s the obvious of her hair being styled basically identically to Mommy’s, with both of them having the ponytail facing the same way secured with a scrunchy, but this girl seems to be in the range of 10-13 years old, and we know Marie is around that age thanks to her rough height in the New Year’s art, as well as their skin tones being basically the same.
Additionally, according to the Poppy Playtime fanon wiki, we know that the Wrongside Outimals were made anytime between 1990/91 to 1995. The commercial is very 90s style, too. We know Marie was turned into Mommy Long Legs in 1991, due to CatNap being made in November of 1990, and there being almost a 40 experiment gap between the two of them, which would be impossible to achieve in the one and a half months left of 1990, especially given how rickety the experiments still were at that time. Also we know the Smiling and Nightmare Critters were made back to back thanks to Rabie Baby’s experiment number being revealed, but that’s a theory for a different time.
The Mommy Long Legs toy commercial dates to February of 1991, and given the fact that we now know that, despite having a commercial made, the Wrongside Outimals never hit the market, so Playtime probably has a track record of making the commercials before their respective toys are even tested out. The commercials are probably made FOR the testing audiences, hence why the MLL one has a date on it: it’s its own standalone tape created for test audiences. All of this is to say that Marie’s experiment date is probably around February of 1991, at the earliest. Whilst yes, the toy was made AFTER the Bigger Body due to Mommy’s success in the Game Station with the orphans, the whole project had to be planned out in advance, and we know MLL canonically went through many different designs until they landed on one that wasn’t too scary for kids.
Also we know CatNap was settled in Playcare by February of 1991 so Marie’s nightmare incident was probably around that time.
Another thing I wanted to point out is the reason the Outimals were made in the first place, and I believe that to be to try and replace the Smiling and Nightmare Critters in a way. Playtime releases the SC in 1989, the CatNap incident happens, the line starts failing. Playtime panics and launches the NC in a last ditch attempt to save the line, probably in 1990, but it doesn’t work. But Playtime believes in this collectable plush concept and so attempts the Wrongside Outimals in early 1991: a line of multiple different characters with their own names and personalities that kids are encouraged to collect all of. Like the SC and NC (we literally see in the NC commercial the tagline “collect them all”).
Marie likely filmed this commercial, then had her nightmare incident not long after. I’ve had the theory for a while that Playtime used its orphans in its commercials because it was easier than scouting out child actors, and the orphans were probably told it would increase their adoption chances. Yuck.
Anyways let me know what you think!! I wanted to do a bit more of a deep dive into evidence that this is Marie, I LOVE theory crafting so much.