The Give Yourself Goosebumps book where the toys are alive. And they're NOT friendly.
You're the Grand Prize Winner of a contest hosted by the Halsey toy company, and you are allowed to choose between two prizes: a tour of the Halsey Toy factory, where you get a sneak peek of the latest toys before they can be released to the public and end the day with a brand new video game set, or becoming the proud owner of an awesome, new toy, a kid-sized robot called the Annihilator 3000.
But choose wisely! Touring the factory will have you uncovering the secret plot of the toys, which are alive, and is ready to convert any unfortunate kid into toys, for their plans to take over human society... and it's up to you against armies of hostile toys, led by one evil doll called "Nasty Kathy".
Maybe you'd prefer the toy robot? Too bad — once the Annihilator 3000 activates, it suddenly goes on an unstoppable destructive spree, just as you're all alone in the house.
The Annihilator 3000 is among the monsters from the GYG series to have a cameo in the 2015 movie adaptation, Goosebumps, although they're smaller in size and nowhere as lethal as depicted by the book.
Toy Terror Batteries Included provides examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Figures in both storylines. The AI behind the toys have made them sentient, self-aware, and on an unstoppable rampage to Kill All Humans.
- Bad Boss: Nasty Kathy in the second storyline, who is the de-facto leader of the living toys, treats her toy underlings like crap, to the point where a toy pig choose to ally with you instead.
- Brainy Pig: The toy pig is the one who explains to you how to defeat Nasty Cathy and her lackeys. At one point, he also uses a Walkie-Talkie to help you fool the other toys into thinking that you are one of their humanoid spies.
- Creepy Doll: "Nasty Kathy", who leads the living toys in the factory on a rebellion.
- Do-Anything Robot: The Hasley ad for the Annhilator 3000 claims the robot can do anything except your homework. Turns out the robot is indeed as efficient as the advert claims... if it's NOT malfunctioning and trying to kill you with its various gadgets.
- Fictional Counterpart: Hasley Toy is a rather blatant nod to Hasbro.
- Fold-Spindle Mutilation: One of the most disturbing endings of the book implies this happened to you. Specifically, you get arrested by several toy police, who tried to put you in a toy police car. As you are a 12-year-old kid, too big to fit in a toy... the narration thankfully stops at that point and leaves everything else to the imagination. But sweet dreams nonetheless!
- Freeze Ray: One of the Annihilator 3000's secondary weapons is a freeze-beam, which it first use to freeze your cat Patches, leaving the poor animal dragging behind a block of ice on it's tail. It will use this attack on you, too, like freezing a phone to your head and turning you into a Human Popsicle.
- Here We Go Again!: In the second storyline, even if you manage to overpower the Annihilator 3000 and destroy it, or contact the Hasley toy company to take it back, you'll be treated to an ending where the toy company offers to give you a replacement robot of the same model. In one instance, the company instead decide to compensate the damage by giving you... an Annihilator 4000.Better get a firehose ready! — the book's Lemony Narrator dropping a Lampshade Hanging on your situation
- It's Personal: You actually name-drop this trope in the story in the second storyline. After the Annihilator reveals its killing intent, it chases after you, sets your room on fire, destroys your dad's prized baseball card collection, wrecks your kitchen... but the moment it tries to freeze your favorite pet cat Patches alive, you decide the robot had gone too far and it's personal.
- Killer Robot: The Annihilator 3000 from the second storyline, who activates itself the moment it leaves the box and goes on a rampage to destroy everything in sight.
- Living Toys: The Evil example shows up in both storylines, where you either end up in a factory full of sentient, killer toys or have a sentient toy robot armed to the teeth attempting to kill you. However, some, like the toy pig in the factory plot or the "good" Annihilator 1500 in the robot storyline show up to offer some crucial assistance.
- Matryoshka Object: If you somehow get the drop on the Annihilator 3000 and successfully smashes it with a golf club, you then realize the broken robot actually contains two smaller ones — two Annihilator 1500s. But as it turns out, one of the robots is good, and the evil one is in control until you smash it down. The good Annihilator 1500 will actually help you defeat its evil twin, and later serve as your robot butler after the story had ended.
- My Little Panzer: The toys in this book, from toy soldiers and policemen in the factory perfectly capable of hurting humans, acid-breathing toy alien Zorgs who can claw through skin, toy guns capable of firing live ammunition, to the Annihilator 3000 who tried to destroy your house.
- Percussive Maintenance: When the Annihilator 3000's rampage reaches from your living room to your dad's home office, you can choose to shut it down by grabbing one of your dad's golf clubs, sneak behind the robot, and whack it repeatedly from behind in order to make it stop. See two tropes above for the result.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: The Hasley Toy Factory storyline reveals a subplot that the toys in the factory are alive, and are manufacturing lifelike, human-sized toy androids to infiltrate human society in order to help toys Take Over the World. Or at least make it more toy-friendly. Exhibit A: Your friend, Benny.
- Robotic Reveal: The second storyline have human-like androids being planted by rogue toys to infiltrate human society, but you can tell the difference between humans and toys by looking at their heels — toy humans have a battery compartment in their foot. Your friend, Benny, turns out to be one of these.
- Shout-Out:
- There's a robotic police officer named Officer Murphy.
- Three guesses as to where The Annihilator 3000 takes its inspiration from. One of this storyline's endings even includes a variation of the tagline "I'll be back".
- Skewed Priorities:
- In the Hasley Toy warehouse, you and your friend Benny ends up getting locked in. Instead of trying to find a way out, you can opt to play with all the toys around you for fun.
- One of the bad endings have you answering a phone call while hiding from the Annihilator 3000, with a chatty girl from your class on the other side. You end up spending too much time on the phone listening to her (instead of, say, hanging up) at which point the Annihilator 3000 catches up with you and turns you into a Human Popsicle.
- Trapped-with-Monster Plot: The second storyline, where your parents are out leaving you alone (you'll need to stay home to receive the package delivering the Annihilator 3000). Then, the humongous toy robot comes to life as soon as it's in your hallway, and it's just you against a Killer Robot.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: This is what the toys in the factory does to their human victims, converting them into agents for the toys to infiltrate human society, and you find out at least fifty humans have fallen to their trap and are now acting as informants to their toy overlords. And of course, there's at least one bad ending having this occurring to you. It's in fact implied that your friend Benny used to be a normal boy until he got tricked by the toys into entering the factory some time ago.
- Zerg Rush: The toy soldiers and policemen in the factory will employ this tactic to overwhelm you, since even though you're a 12-year-old kid, you're still a human, and they are... well, toys.
