Pop-ups

Popups are a mechanic used in many horror games. The idea is to flash the player with a disturbing Image/Animation, often with a loud sound playing. It is supposed to scare the player.

This mechanic is used in Slendytubbies and Slendytubbies II

Slendytubbies/Anniversary Edition:

In the first opus, the popups are screens of the teletubbies, showing their situation.

Tinky Winky.

Dipsy.

Laa-Laa.

Po.

A Pop up of Po and Laa-Laa (This only appears in the 2012 version).

A little popup of Tinky Winky. It means he is very close to the player.

Slendytubbies II:

In the second opus, the popups are edited images of teletubbies. Some of them are just supposed to scare, but a few of them seems to talk a bit about the backstory.

Tinkytank.

Tinky Winky and the New Borns on the screen.

Horrifying version of Laa-Laa and Dipsy.

Dark picture of Tinky Winky.

Dark picture of Laa Laa.

Po and Tinkytank (behind).

Ditto, but brightened.

All of the teletubbies, hanging.

Original:

The evil Dipsy and Laa Laa costume

Trivia:

• The "Tinky Winky and Newborns" popup is a modified version of "Without Title" from Teletubbies From Hell gallery by DeviantArt user Yaro42. This is also the image that inspired the New Borns.
• The "Dark picture of Tinky Winky" popup is originally the thumbnail of the 2007 video "teletubbies are scary" uploaded by YouTube user chicksSCY.
• The "Po and Tinky Tank" popup is a modified version of "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh" by Flickr user TudorCostache.
• The "Hanging Teletubbies" popup is a modified version of a previously photoshopped image of the Teletubbies in the gallows. The source of this image is unknown, and while the earliest record of this image leads to a 2004 post made by Fotolog user analyzator, another post using a higher quality image was made in 2006 by Fotolog user diego_x16.
• It was confirmed that popups may not return in Slendytubbies III, as the developers think they are outdated and not scary anymore.
  • Only one popup occurred in Slendytubbies III, which is when Tinky Winky breaks the Custard Machine. The popup is the Slendytubbie's II Tinky Tank face popup.
• The "Horrifying version of Laa Laa and Dipsy˝ were inspiration for the new monsters for Slendytubbies III named Brute Tubbies.