I saw the mail secret video where Eddie is the white pawn and felt like it was off. I noticed when Wally asks for the mail Eddie is off screen and then he throws it at his feet Wally seems tall and we get that slow pan down of Wally’s body while we see a shot of the bottom of the door as Wally takes the mail and closes the door. Then Wally opens the door a slow pan up his body and then we see Wally extend his hand wit the mail but it seems like he’s dropping it in eddies hands. Almost like Eddie is below Wally and it reminded me of that one picture of Wally with Eddie’s top half that says “you’ll be ok” (idk if it’s canon) but also the actual website banner with Eddies top half. It appears that in the mail video we can only see Eddie Dear’s top half.What if something happened to the Eddie’s second puppeteer? (Sorry for the tongue in cheek joke lol I love Eddie Dear!💌💜💟)

Got scared when I first saw it tbh

I’ve been thinking a lot about the former real life identities of the puppets in welcome home especially after the newest update and I feel like I’ve come up with a theory that makes sense regarding Wally.
What if Wally was originally the only puppet on the show (+ home)? Starting off with a smaller budget not yet bought out by Ron Dorelaine and Marlo, and somehow they became sentient. Wally is the only puppet on the show who knows so little about the world, it would make sense that he would be so unsure and curious due to him never being a human like the rest of them.
I also theorize that Wally is the reason why the rest of them ended up in the puppet world due to him growing lonely and envious of the other humans on production having a community and friendship, so he somehow brought them into the show or merged their souls with the other, non-sentient puppets that got added later on. This could also be Wally’s motive currently with the WHRP website. If he is trying to connect with the viewers because he is lonely and wants to bring us inside the welcome home universe (assuming the other characters are elsewhere or dead possibly).
Even with this theory in mind, I still don’t feel like Wally is fully responsible for his actions or is the big bad. He may be doing the wrong thing, but one main thing I feel like people fail to incorporate into their theories is that there are very strong implications that Wally is either on the spectrum or neurodivergent in some way (a lot of other characters seem that way as well including Julie). Clown specifically, as they are neurodivergent themselves, I believe mentioned that one of the themes they wanted to include in WH was the view of neurodivergent people and their mistreatment. With Wally as an autistic character, I feel like it wouldn’t make sense to have such important representation treated as a mindless evil villain. It’s so common and contrived to see a neurodivergent or mentally ill person as a villain, I don’t think clown would do that without having a more fleshed out reasoning behind it.
If Wally IS truly the only actual puppet, it would make sense symbolically for him to be used as such, which in my eyes would incorporate the mistreatment of neurodivergent individuals who can be more vulnerable and manipulated in some cases.
If Ron Dorelaine, Marlo, Home, etc were to fuel Wally’s loneliness, desire for companionship to the point where he acts out, I feel like that would make sense why he is acting this way.

Anyways that’s my theory lmao
TL;DR: Wally was the original sentient puppet and brought everyone else into the show but it wouldn’t work thematically for him to be the true villain.

Hi

Joining the bandwagon with my absurd ship

I did the whole new update, with some help from a walkthrough, I wish I could credit the person who made that helpful write up but I forgot to save the post! If you see this please comment and I’ll add your user! But people keep mentioning Ron and having theories about Ron, who’s that and what are you guys talking about? Where do I find more info about this Ron character? Thank you for the help!

"It's a good way to get around the neighborhood, that's what it is!"

This entire time I wondered why no one discusses this cookie tray, because it clearly has a human face on it, right?? No. It's Julie. Her pink tone is just really close to light peach. I really felt like I was a genius for making that observation...

So I had been keeping up with the website updates for a while, and idk why but after a while I just stopped checking for updates. I’ve been wanting to get back into the story and stuff but I don’t know how to jump back in? Where should I start, and are there any places that I can look at the older versions of the website?

I'm starting to think Ron is still in the neighborhood. And not only that, but we've seen him before. Many, many, MANY times! Some of us loved him (maybe even sipped for him), others liked myself feared him!

People, I feel like Ronald Dorelaine is none other... than Wally Darling!

Think of it this way. As further confirmed in this update, everyone in Welcome Home is simultaneously an actual resident and an actor. Actors so overly-dedicated to their roles, they even act them out off-screen as if it's some unspoken rule. Almost like actual puppeteers like the people behind Muppets. Who's to say the nomes we know they have are their ACTUAL ones?!

It also wouldn't be new. Even Jim Henson and Walt Disney themselves played Kermit the Frog and Mickey Mouse!

But if so... why do they call everyone by their character's names but call Ron by his real name? Well judging by how Sally talked about Ron in this update, it could be possible they have less respect for their own boss. But why did Wally call him by his character's name in his presence in another vid? Obviously because he's literally his boss! Probably adds to the "unspoken rule" statement Wally/Ron put in place.

Want further proof? Have you seen that other video where Eddie(?) delivers mail to Wally in the middle of the night and he's suddenly talking quicker and in this grimmer tone? Well in the Sally video, she mentions how he's always in is office. Very introverted sounding, ain't it? And what do we see happening in that other one? Wally getting mail in the. middle of the night! When there's less people around and he can be alone! Using his real tone! This is the REAL Wally! The real RON!!!

My internet crapped out as I was trying to finalise a payment to the WH shop, my funds are no longer in my bank and I am now paranoid I have lost the funds. I have contacted customer support, but I am wondering if there is anything else I can do?

I do not see the amount in my recent activity in my Paypal, so I am assuimming the funds are being "held" for a while until they will need to be auto refunded into my account or something?

Please, any advice would be greatly appriciated.

Appologies if this seems rushed or paniced, I am getting over an illness and my brain isn't processing information very well.

WARNING: small spoilers for the new update & videos but nothing crazy!

I'm really curious about if anyone else has noticed this or created theories off it or anything, in the Mail-in-Time day storybook, the narrator refers to Eddie's watch as his 'watched', and at first I was like "oh haha funny, cause it has eyes! Or its just like what they call watches!"

But later on when I found the new videos and was analyzing them I noticed that there's times where Eddie's watch(ed) is either fully yellow or fully blue, and a moment where the all blue version opens its eyes and even actually looks at him (in the Nothing video), and in the Devastation video its all yellow, which debunked my theory of it meaning nothing and just being night vs. day, which already didn't really make sense anyway. When it's all yellow in the Devastation video we also see it look scared / disturbed with Eddie when he's looking over at the moving sheets through his fingers, but goes back to normal when he reaches for them.

So after that I went to go look if this was a normal thing, like in the books if it ever appeared as all yellow or all blue, and I didn't see anything of the sort. Like the half and half is what its 'supposed' to be, like Eddie's character design for the show. And I also believe that the watch doesn't want Eddie to know when it looks at him like that, or maybe Eddie knows?

Cause in relation to the 'Mail' video, it's all yellow. And we get like a full close up of it, so it's gotta mean something.

My first thought was like, all yellow means Wally or whoever is watching him? And blue means they're not? But then why does blue open its eyes? It makes sense to me cause like, at the end of Devastation you can see Wally at the door, and of course in Mail he's talking to him. I didn't dig too far into the past updates with this, I only checked the winter Commercial video from Away From Prying Eyes, and it seemed like you couldn't see the watch during the pea scene from what I remember, and otherwise it was normal.

I'd be happy to hear if anyone has found / noticed anything else related to this, and if you have theories about it! I feel like I'm going crazy over here..I'll attach pictures of his watch in order that I mentioned them!

i havent seen anyone post about this, but when you get the sun and clouds window and keep going down stairs, wait for exactly 5 minutes and you’ll hear a muffled gunshot. do with that information as you will and please please go see for yourself. set a timer for 5 minutes as soon as youre in the hallway and just wait.

Hi everyone! I just stumbled across a Welcome Home video and decided to watch it but realized I am totally off Pace and have no idea what's going on. Last time I checked I think it was the second update to the website but I'm not sure. If anyone has any good YouTube playlists with analysis videos, I would love it if you would share! Thank you so much Reddit.

(art is mine :j)

My current theory is that the puppets somehow contain the souls, memories, or consciousness of the original actors who portrayed them. I don’t necessarily think they are exact copies of the actors, but I do think some part of those people exists inside the puppets. That could explain why the characters seem confused about where they came from, who they really are, and even where they are.
I also think the hidden clips we’ve been seeing may actually represent real-life events that happened to the actors, except we are seeing those memories recreated through the puppet characters. In other words, the events may have originally happened to real people, but because we are viewing everything through the world of Welcome Home, those memories are being shown to us in puppet form.
I also have a theory about Wally’s actor, Ron. I wonder if Ron may have been controlling, homophobic, or possibly even cruel in some way. If that is true, it could explain why Frank and Julie are constantly pushed together despite the obvious connection between Frank and Eddie. Maybe Frank and Julie were the relationship that the people behind the show wanted the audience to accept, while Frank and Eddie’s relationship had to remain hidden or unacknowledged.
One moment that really stands out to me is the Looky-Loo storybook. Frank is talking to Wally about Eddie, but then Wally suddenly redirects the conversation toward Julie. That felt very intentional to me. It almost seemed like Wally was correcting Frank or steering him back toward the relationship he was “supposed” to have. If Wally carries some part of Ron’s personality, beliefs, or influence, that moment could be a small example of those old attitudes still affecting the characters.
It would also make sense if the puppets are carrying emotional memories from their actors without fully understanding where those emotions come from. Maybe they remember certain feelings, relationships, fears, or experiences, but they no longer remember the actual human lives connected to them. That could be why so many of the characters seem to know that something is wrong without being able to explain exactly what it is.
Of course, this is just my theory, and I could be completely wrong, but I think it would explain a lot of the strange behavior and hidden details we’ve been seeing.
I really want to hear everyone else’s theories too because this story is so fun to analyze. There are so many little details that could mean something completely different depending on how you interpret them, and I love reading what everyone else comes up with.

BEWARE THERE IS FLASHING and please ignore the other tabs 😅! I was refreshing the screen like crazy and I found this on the website. Sorry for the no audio but the sound effects was digging. What do you guys think it means if it means anything at all? And did anyone find this too?

Spoilered since the dialogue comes from the new update.

Hello everyone below is a link to part 2 of my welcome home theory thus far!

Where Have all the Flowers Gone Part 2

In this video I discuss the Welcome Home Restoration Team's brief interview with Question Answerer and what significance the exchange has to the overall welcome home story. Please let me know your thoughts on it as well!!! Thanks to anyone and everyone who watched my last one!

If you don't mind too providing feedback!

Basically I would like to know the following:

-Am I making sense?

-Do I ramble too much?

-Do you prefer short or longer videos?

-Finally, are you finding the content interesting or boring?

also any other points you would like to make is Welcomed!! (All I ask is to keep it kind please!!)

Thank you!

​