Blue Gale 🌊

[image] I honestly wish that Honey's purple eyelids became part of her actual design instead of them just being colored the same color has her fur, she looks prettier and they look much better to begin with in my opinion.

[image] I really love this awesome silhouette of Sonic's head used in SEGA Joypolis stores during the 90s on Sonic products, it looks so insanely cool. I honestly prefer this logo much more than the design Sonic Team uses for their logo.

[image] I'd never thought someone would find the entire video, but it happened!! It's so cool seeing the Beta Sonic Adventure 1 model for Sonic in action alongside an early model for Tails too!

[image] As much as I love SA1's visuals, I honestly agree with this. It's really a shame they decided to throw out the colorful landscapes for most Sonic games (Until Heroes) in favor of more realistic ones to showcase the capabilities of the DC. it's apparent since the first level.

[image] Really nitpicky but I really miss when the coloring of Sonic's vehicles were based off of the coloring of his boots (Red, white and yellow/gold). It was a cool gimmick he had which was a lot more unique and interesting than having his vehicles colored off of his entire palette.

[image] I love how Sonic's original design's cute and endearing appearance really help facilitate that he has a heart of gold, it also makes moments where he is especially cool stand out more as well. Which his modern design sadly removes this nuance to emphasize on his visual coolness.

[image] The fact that the 1UP monitor icon seen in modern games has better eye dominance and better shaped ears than the actual main Sonic model of all things is hilarious to me like, just look at this LMAO.

[image] I find it interesting how Sonic Team left Sonic and Amy's relationship in Sonic CD mostly left up to the players interpretation depending on if you wanted to actually interact with her or not.

[image] Not gonna lie, it'd be great if we got to see Tails sparkly pupils more often. (Especially in the games!) They don't really seem to get used as often in Modern Sonic material which is really a shame because it's such a tiny detail that helps to make him look all the more cuter.

[image] Took me quite a while to find where those manga panels came from, but they actually are from the "Sega Game Gag 1 page comics"! The artwork is really adorable and there's multiple pages for Sonic! Here's some of my favorite panels from the first Sonic section.

[video] I love whenever Sonic media exaggeratedly stretch out Sonic's quills to put further visual emphasis on how fast he's going on top of making him look cooler. (He's not really going fast in the gif here but you get the picture lol.)

[image] One thing I've always found odd is how most 90s Classic Sonic games never really showed Sonic's golden boot buckles. Even as far back as Sonic 1, multiple sonic statues done by Taku Makino were created as reference for the animators and his gold buckles WERE there.

[image] I've noticed that the pilot and his family from Sonic's backstory all share similarities to Sonic, Amy and Tails. The pilot has that constant “frowny” face Sonic has aswell as spiky hairs, his wife has similar bangs to Amy and for their daughter, just look at her twintails lol.

[image] My favorite genre of Tails artwork probably has to be the ones where he sits adorably on the floor, lol. Genuinely wish we got to see more of him being an adorable kid nowadays.

[image] While there's some truth to this, it ain't exactly true either. Sonic has only really been this lightish blue color in Japan for only early Sonic 1 promotional material among very few outside material. (Like the Sonic OVA for example.) Otherwise, his fur was mostly dark.

[image] Pretty small detail, but it would be pretty cool to see Knuckles dislike of sunshine in newer Sonic media. It's pretty unimportant and all but I think it's a pretty cool and unique detail from the others, which is the reason why he wore shades in media like the OVA at the time.

[image] Their Shogaku Gonensei proportions are a bit better than their concept artwork proportions in my opinion, especially Mighty since he has more meat on his bones. (Unrelated to the post, but Mighty is meant to have a tan colored tail by the way.)

[image] Sonic just having shades that perfectly fit his mono-eyes is really funny to me, lmao. It would be pretty cool to see them appear more in my opinion lol.

[video] I find it genuinely adorable how Sonic puts Amy back on her feets before she could fall on the ground during the ending of Sonic CD.

[image] Reading the Maraguto Sonic book from 1993 is really interesting in my opinion seeing interviews from Sonic Teams and cool facts about their characters! Stuff like Sonic's personality being talked a bit more in-depth here than in the manuals at the time.

[image] I feel like this Sonic plushie from the 90s has got to be one of the best Sonic plushies of all time in my opinion. He's round, he even has his little pointy fingers and he's overall just so cute. (It was so good even Micheal Jackson got it!)

[image] I also felt like adding onto this, but Sonic isn't just for Japan or the US, he is for the world as said by Sonic Team.

[image] I feel like the best design that pulled off this lighter blue fur color is his design from the Sonic 1 manga. Though, I'd still prefer settle with a dark blue fur color, it just looks nicer to look at in my opinion.

[image] The thing is, running for multiple days without sleeping or stopping isn't new to Sonic and doesn't really affect him lol. Even as far back as Sonic 2, this dude literally ran for THREE entire days without stopping.

[image] I can kinda see the resemblance and why you'd think that to be honest. Honey and Rouge do share some similarities design wise. Like, they both have wings, a heart on their chest that's part of their outfit, they both wear heels and have eye shadow. (Unfinished attack but eh.)

[image] I just realized this but the endings of Sonic 2 and it's 8 bit version are literally just mirrors of one another. In OG Sonic 2, Tails saves Sonic from the sky where they fly off. While in the 8 bit version, Sonic saves Tails on the land and they run off to new adventures.

[image] While looking at scans for Japanese Sega magazine during the 90s, I found these 2 very obscure pieces of Joypolis artwork featuring Sonic that I haven't seen anywhere else. They look REALLY cool and I hope we get to find higher quality versions of them!

[image] I've rewatched the Sonic OVA last night and man, the casts interactions with one another were so fun. It really made me wish we had gotten more dialogue in the classic games directly in game rather than it being mostly told in the manuals.