Chucky (Character)

“	Hi, I’m Chucky wanna play?	„
	~ Chucky

Chucky

Charles Lee Ray, best known as Chucky was one of the sub icons for Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen at Universal Studios Orlando.

Character Description

Charles Lee Ray, also known as The Lakeshore Strangler but best known as Chucky is the main antagonist of the Child Play franchise. He is most famously voiced by Brad Dourif and many people see Talking Tina from The Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll" as the archetypal "killer doll", being the inspiration for Chucky from the Child's Play series as well as other possessed doll types.

Biography

As a child, Charles Lee Ray had a difficult life. His Irish-American mother had come from a wealthy family and was a bartender and dancer, but because she was a dwarf, other kids made fun of him. To make matters worse, his Austrian-American father was a raging and an obnoxious alcoholic who abused him and his mother. Eventually, Charles became a serial killer and his abusive mother was his very first victim.

On November 9th, 1988, Charles is chased down after a failed robbery, by detective Mike Norris. After he is fatally shot, his partner in crime Eddie Caputo decides to bail and drives away in the get-away van, despite Charles's pleas. Stumbling into a toy store, Charles desperately uses his voodoo magic to transfer his soul into a Good Guy doll. The chant causes lightning to burst through the store skylight and cause an explosion. Although Mike finds Charles's dead body, his soul successfully transferred into the doll, which is found by a peddler.

Inspiration for Chucky

Chucky is modeled after several dolls, particularly the popular My Buddy doll line from the mid 1980s and Robert the Haunted Doll of Key West. His name is a blend of three notorious murderers:

• Charles (after Charles Manson)
• Lee (after Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated president John F. Kennedy)
• Ray (after James Earl Ray who is responsible for assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.)

Appearances at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando

• Dungeon of Terror (1991)
• Universal's House of Horror (1995) (Unconfirmed)
• Festival of the Dead Parade (1998)
• Universal's Creature Features in 3-D (1999)
• Boogeymen (2001) (Voice Only)
• Nightmare Alley (2001)
• Chucky: Friends til the End (2009)
• HHN: 20 Years of Fear (2010)
• Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past (2010) (Doll)
• Dollhouse of the Damned (2014) (Doll)
• All Nite Die-in: Double Feature (2015)
• Revenge of Chucky (2018)
• Chucky's Good Guys Toy Box Photo Op (Photo Only) (2021) & (2022)
• Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit: Chucky's A Killer Ride (2022)
• Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count (2023)
• Chucky's Twisted Playground (2023) (Photo-Op)
• Chucky Killer Treats (2023) (Food Booth)

Appearances at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

• Chucky's "In-Your-Face" Insults (1992)
• Chucky's Wedding Chapel (1998)
• Chucky's Insult Emporium (1999) (2000) (2006) (2007) (2008)
• Chucky's Funhouse (2009)
• Terror Tram: Live or Die (2009)
• Terror Tram: Chucky's Revenge (2010)
• The Curse of Chucky (2013)
• Titans of Terror Tram: Hosted by Chucky (2017)
• 80s Throwback Thursdays (2019)
• Chucky's Good Guys Toy Box Photo Op (Photo Only) (2022)
• Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count (2023)
• Late Night with Chucky (2024)

Appearances at Halloween Horror Nights Japan

• Chucky's Horror Factory (2014)
• Chucky’s Horror Factory 2 (2015)
• Chucky's Horror Factory 3 (2016)
• Cult of Chucky: Chucky's Hospital Ward of Madness (2017) (2018) (2022)
• Cult of Chucky: Maze of Madness (2019)
• Chucky's Carnival of Chaos (2023) (2024)

Pictures

Chucky as he appeared in 1998 in Orlando.

Chucky in Chucky’s Wedding Chapel

Chucky in Nightmare Alley

Chucky's appearance in the Halloween Horror Nights 19 commercial

Chucky in Chucky: Friends Til The End

Chucky in Terror Tram: Live or Die. Image from John Murdy on Twitter.

Chucky in HHN: 20 Years of Fear

Chucky in Horror Nights: The Hallow’d Past

Chucky in Curse of Chucky. Image from Jared Clemons on Facebook.

Image from Jared Clemons on Facebook.

Chucky in Dollhouse Of The Damned

Chucky in All Nite Die-In: Double Feature

Chucky in Titans of Terror Tram: Hosted by Chucky

Chucky in Revenge of Chucky. Image from AllCentralFlorida on Youtube

Chucky in Revenge of Chucky

Image from Jared Clemons on Facebook.

Chucky in HHN Japan.

Chucky’s appearance on the 2018 Scarezone Shirt

Chucky’s HHN 28 T-Shirt Design

Chucky in 80's Throwback Thursdays.Image from @insideuniversal on twitter

Chucky’s appear on the Best of HHN Houses Poster

Chucky alongside Frankensteins Monster & Jack The Clown in the Retro Universal Studios Florida Logo Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Chucky's costume in Cult of Chucky scarezone during Halloween Horror Nights 2013 Hollywood Image from InsideTheMagic

Image from HHNYearbook

Image from Brian Gurrola on Flickr

Chucky's Artist Signature Series T-Shirt Designs

Image from Villain_Online on Instagram

Trivia

• In 2012 it was revealed that Chucky was a part of The Morphan Legion, most likely because of his playful nature and small stature.
• 2010 revealed that Chucky was responsible for burning down the Universal Backlot as revenge for his shows cancellation, a meta reference to real life events.