VERY excited about this polar bear / robot reveal. Sure, polar bears might look cuddly - but what are they really up to way up there in the North? If they weren't secret robots, why don't they live in the woods like normal bears? Huh?

You'd never guess the robot inside this reindeer didn't come from, say, a headless cuck. With weirdly menacing wire arms?

Pink puppy? Sure. But this worm-like thing hiding inside!

No idea what's going with this bird thing, but I did NOT expect the secret robot to be green.

This murderous-looking blog was worth a photograph with its skin half-on, half-off..

This Teddy Ruxpin knockoff will read you books but also definitely murder you, for sure. So good I'm including additional angles here to show all the great murderbot components

Good lord, why does this Christmas bear have a giant butt? The answer, of course, is that it twerks, while singing a jingle-bells version of Sir Mix-a-Lot's I Like Big Butts. A real case of when the original toy is just as disturbing as the secret robot within. Please note the molded BUTT component that wiggles on its own actuator.

Heaven help us, this bug twerks. It's got a little molded ass and everything, I'm pretty sure the same mold part as the Christmas bear..

This little bandit sings and of course (why???) waggles seductively. Why.

This little elephant's secret robot almost looks cute? The harmless disc face feels just a bit friendly.

Another take on the elephant; this one weeeeirdly infantilized. It's hard not to like these robot elephant ears, though!

Looked cute enough, but made a very, very sad robot.

OK, this might be cheating a bit because this is closer to taxidermy than uncovering a secret robot. But I'm keeping it because this is so delightfully horrifying!.

Why does the sunflower play the saxophone? Honestly I'm not sure I want to know.

I don't like the look of this bear. I just don't. Is it some kind of lemur-bear Island of Dr. Moreau creation?

This little bear plays a Christmas song on his saxophone. Yikes.

Baby seals! Nothing scary here, right?

A blue bunny. sure.

I've seen a few of these cats, but they never seem any less ugly on the inside.

This is 'Dalton the storytelling Dragon', and it literally reads fairy tales to you.

A little chimp! Cute! Right?! CUTE?

Another day, another wiggling elephant...

He looks so sweet at first!

One of those cases where the original toy is more alarming than the robot hiding inside.

There's SO MUCH robot inside this long-armed monkey. I know I don't trust it.

Wait, that last monkey had suspiciously long arms. What is THIS one going to do?.

This little bear/angel thing seems innocent. At first.

That BEAK.

There's a lot of robot in this weird pink lamb face.

Like all cats, the furry outside is not to be trusted.

This little zebra seems cute until you see it's little creepy-crawly-baby-skeleton robot hiding underneath.

And here's another zebra - this time one with ... a long extended giraffe neck? It pistons up-and-down as it plays an off-brand rendition of 'Wild Thing.'

This cat robot must be from the same designers as the polar bear? Honestly I find the furred version just as alarming.

I never would have predicted the legs on this dalmation!

Little bunnies are so cute - until you find the murderbot hidden within.

It could almost sing you a song...

Scary... poodle?

Sadly this threatening cat was broken beyond repair - we'll never know what happened if you dared.

This lab's paws and creepy, creepy eyes are all that was left.

This little hamster would sing a song and bop its head up and down.

This weird bear isn't a topless nevernude, as it might seem at first. Just a nude-colored sweater?

This blue-hatted bear is probably the oldest toy I've disassembled.

This chicken - and the next - play the Chicken Dance and fling themselves around with abandon. It's much less cute without the feathers.

This one flings its head back and forth until it knocks itself over.

THIS chicken, which I think comes from a disney movie? - has a nice t-rex vibe inside, which chickens ought to.

This little goat-robot spins its head around and around, so quickly until it falls over.

The lab pup rolls, pants, whines, and wheels its way into nightmares.

This sad bundle of wires was actually programmable - you could configure it to actually say your child's name in its songs. But who would be so cruel to unleash this on their child?

A weird cat; it would purr and meow, and even stretch out to let you rub its belly.

This deceptive panda looks cuddly, but is full of sensors and circuits.

Somehow, the world will never tire of making weird robots that YIP! YIP! at you.

Eeyore! Sad in the cartoon, sad as a robot.

The little flapper panels on this robot really did not work out the way I expected.

Honestly, I expected more from this moving deer toy. The formlessness of it is still pretty unsettling, though.

This litle rabbit has a leash. The creepy robot inside hops and waggles its nose.

This litle piggy went to market, this little piggy was a secret terminator.

Look, these Minion things are creepy under the best of circumstances. The stripped version of this robot still... really looks like a minion, which I think is a testament to how uncanny the regular character is.

The latest in a long line of robots, disguised as Elmo.

Is it a wolf pup? Or an amorphous plastic blob?

This terrifying hound dog sings carols, throws its head back, and howwwwwwllls.

The chittering squirrel seemed alarmingly anatomical after losing the fur.

This bunny robot (from 1986) had a disconcerting amount of fur stuck to its robot parts.

This off-brand birthday bear sings an off-brand birthday song, with its sad candle feebly blinking.

This Elf/Dog hybrid was weird enough before his snake-spine was exposed.