Making a springlock suit is my most common comment request, and while I have no plans to open that can of worms anytime soon, I might as well share the meddlings I’ve done with that idea in the past. This is a forearm, and the hypothetical upper arm would have had its own Endo parts swing down just like this to clamp around that pin you can see protruding from end of the rod- and presto, you have an internal skeleton arm with its own elbow joint, fully retractable into the inside walls of the sleeve. Those two extra protrusions from the sides of the rim would be part of a hinge, to keep the two arm segments properly aligned for the gimmick to work. Of course, even if I made an entire suit out of tricks like this, the imitation would only be surface level. What you’d have at the end is a limp suit with the option to fill it with articulated Endoskeleton parts, but those would play no part in making it move, and they would rely entirely on the outer shell holding everything together. Still, all I was going for with this was the idea of retractable internal parts that could be rearranged around the insides to accommodate a person instead. And by that standard, I’m fairly happy with this test.

This is actually really cool, obviously it’s a bit easy to trip the exposed outside parts but I never would’ve thought of this actually being anywhere close to reality.

Could easily see this as the design in a horror movie. Imagine those metal bits snapping closed, piercing flesh and shattering bone. If I were to shoot a springlock failure for a movie or series, I'd have one go off, probably the forearm. The victim screams and looks in dumb horror as blood slowly patters from the unseen wound. There's a beat of sheer tension and terror. Then another fails. And another. And soon the vibrations are setting the rest off. It sounds like mouse traps in concert. The last, glorious shot would be two human eyes popping from the suit's sockets like champagne corks, the goofy, mildly-pleased eyes of the animatronic displacing them. You'd have to establish the force behind the locks, beforehand, of course. Show one going off without anyone in the suit. That way, when it happens, we KNOW how bad it's going to be.

I've been thinking about this type of thing a lot. Especially after reading "The Silver Eyes" graphic novel. One thing that confuses me is the head. There is no noticable head joint. Just these hooks (the springlocks). I would love to know how in the world these suits truly worked, but it's hard to find information that basically doesn't exist except in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's. This goes the same for the feet. How do they compress, when on Springtrap, they look like a solid piece of steel? Unless they're like shoes, I don't see how they would work.

Man You're a pure genius and incredibly smart, please, be careful with it tho (Btw, if Scott Cawthon would see this, he would be proud)

this person is gonna turn fnaf into a real thing

I can hear the screams...

That's a really nice version of it. The endoskeletons in the first sets of games have rather simplistic joints, which I doubt even worked alone in springlock suits - the folding ones would most likely contract at the outer parts, while those endoskeletons seen outside of costumes would be a different variant, intended for the costume to just be put onto it. Presumably both use the same base model of endoskeleton with the springlock variant modified, but since it's part of the costume, it can be taken apart like that too (and indeed is in the first book, after all). One note is that they would need unique attachment points to attach the mechanisms so it all triggers as one and so the costume doesn't fall apart before the suit retracts. I don't think it was ever mentioned how the pieces retract, either, but it might well have just been manually fighting the springs until it locks into place.

Incredible work! I can already see how this kind of design could bring a springlock suit to life.

Always thought springtrap having the majority of his skeleton missing was silly, replaced with a somewhat bland endoskeleton and flesh-ribbons. Having an amalgam of half-extended animatronics components almost grafted against what remains of Afton would be: 1) Metal as hell 2) More showing of the gruesome fate Afton got (and deserved) Imagining the two sides clamping down is definitely... the new headcannon.

now we wait for a child killer in purple to wear this (and make the spring locks powerful) then make it take place in chuck - e- cheese

My man here speedrunning the William Affton timeline any%

your dedication is unmatched, damn this is cool

My jaw litteraly dropped..

i was never able to imagine a springlock failure and what would happen under the suit until i saw this, wow

This is such a cool concept for how the suits work you are bringing Scott's vision of this to life this makes youa genius keep up the good work

This looks great exactly the way it is: an individual, limp, proof-of-concept part and nothing more. It can stay there. No more advancement. *Glances eyes around at the newly inspired FNaF fans*

Awesome! Oh wait. It's becoming a reality.

jeez, he's going to make a real one ;-;

The screams begin.

There needs to be a torso and head of this. I feel like the arms and legs would share the same mechanics, but the torso and head would be very different and it would be interesting to see what that would look like

It will come alive, when you have assembled it, it will live and terorize childrens dreams 😀

This is absolutely amazing, you should be proud

its entirely possible but it would have to be made safe for good reasons also it terrifying because if this was what they were like in game there made of metal and spring loaded which basically means that the endo skeleton is REPLACING AND CRUSHING YOUR BONES just imagining the ktannng of the metal spring loaded parts makes my skin crawl

that's actually really fucking clever what

HOLY SHIT!!!! this is AMAZING!!!

hey man! Remember me from reddit? Yeah, I was talking about making springlock suits too. Well now i've already started making animatronics, I can set my plan in motion! How cool! Well,either way,i've got loads o ideas. If you're looking for extra hands on a project of that size,we could contact!

This is actually very good, you content is underrated, that's a shame

It looks great, keep it up!

im so inspired now, looks amazing

Looks extremely painful…….u can easily imagine the pain the characters go through . ur 3d printing skills are freakin awesome.

Hmmm this looks like something that could be in a fangame. The outer spikes would look very cool on a design. I think I know what I'm doing someday :)

This is awesome!

IT'S BRILLIANT! bravo!

If he makes this a real animatronic. That someone can actually fit inside that would be awesome.

Interesting to see the full suit.

Simple but functional and fantastic

Great job

This guy literally about to springlock himself

Ok that's actually really cool.

this looks super accurate to how it would seem to be depicted, its terrifying to think of someone successfully making a working version

Man’s just ASKING to become a walking corpse inside of a bunny suit…..huh that sounds familiar

It is canon that the original 4 1983 designs did have springlocks involved, meaning if you were to make a springlock suit, perhaps ‘83 Bonnie would be the best.

so good!

NAH SPRINGLOCKS BOUT TO BECOME INSIDE AN ACTUAL SUIT

Amazing!

This is really cool. But I would also like to point out that there is an entire game series that explains why this is a bad idea lol

Makes suit Clicks spring locks : *dies and turns spring trap*

You maid history scott is taking notes on how he was right

Put it on and let the springlockes go off

Oh shit it's happening

SO COOOOOL

This is why I follow you

Damn Poor William got that shooting into his… everywhere

Now I think about it this is exactly possible. If motors inside are motorized to hook up with the hinge like that with a bit of tinkering we could have a real springlock suit working in both modes. Shame you abandoned it but still proves its possible.

And so it begins

Imagine if someone made a working performing animatronic and you helped making the mechanism go to the side of the suit so you could enter it. But that would be an actual springlock suit and it would be dangerous. Unless you made it so the springlocks are just foam or fragile plastic so they break if something is in the way instead of death.

Super awesome.

So that's how springlock works

I Dont get how are u creating these. I Imagine getting 1 of these on my birthday i would be literally so happy.

"Furries when they wear the wrong fursuit and the springlock activates"

it makes sense

This is sick, they need to hire you to make the animatronics for the Fnaf movie

0.0 What surprises me is that it is safe. If that had made Henry and William; William would not have died since it is seen that a person is needed to put them on and take them off and not only.

Thanks

Nice bro

MAKE A FULL ONE AND SELL IT. I NEED THIS, IF I'M GONNA DIE ITS GONNA BE IRL SPRINGLOCK SUIT

Put it on

No Michael, don’t leave me here. MICHAEL!!!

Dang, willam sure had alot of pain

What can’t this guy do. He can create and animate and even game

someones say thats plastic,but imagine this of metal thats its soo sharpness, and instead of closing slow close in a 6kg pression on you arm, while de hook its getting ajusted inside you meat, and while its in process of ajust to lock the springlock, he slowly brake you bone,imagine the grottest pain while hear the metal boom of the pression and you bones crack sound.

i dare you to wear a whole springlock suit and then go outside when it raining and enjoy

i cant believe this vid only 343 likes! but the time this vid is like a few hours old, this will have so many likes

It has begun...

Cool!

NEARLY 200K PEOPLE!!!

This is very very accurate because hoses and cylinders and valves are things in animatronics I'll call them animatronic parts for short you'd have to disconnect the hoses and then pull them to the side along with the endo and since it's all disconnected it would not function right giving it a reason to be pushed back in place and why they couldn't just slip it on it also has an easy way to kill you too the only problem is that you have to assume that the animatronic can walk because real life Chuck e cheese's animatronics can't walk obviously and if they use those same mechanisms the animatronic would likely fall over hurting somebody and they would also have to be able to bend its knee and considering both Fazbear entertainment and Chuck e cheese are companies that lose a lot of money and if the animatronic can't walk then there would be no reason to use the suit so what kind of be a waste of money actually never mind this is a terrible idea still accurate though the companies are pretty stupid

It would be cool if there was a real and safe spring lock suit like this be made

Epic moment

Nice

Welp time to get springlocked

oh no William goanna be knocking on your door...

_FNAF will be real in 1987 seconds._

Omg I love that

Quick the ghosts r here

Holy crap dude this is so cool! What printer did you use?

I like this interpretation a lot more than the weird rings the Canon series has settled on in graphic novels.

aight back up man

just don't make any sudden movements, and don't breathe in the suit

Ok cool. ..what happens if the springlocks go off when you wear it--

Me testing it out: wait what if i put water on it Insert afton screams here

The design is very human

Cool but horrifying at the same time. Just for the love of God don't go too far and end up making a real one

TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW YOU MADE THAT I’m definitely not going to try and make springlock suits and trick my friends into thinking it’s just some costumes and kill them why would you think that

so thats how your bones get crushed

Can you remake this project bro?

cool

Now wait for the rain to come

We have a whole franchise explaining why this is a bad idea