I always have fun reminiscing about good times with old friends. Tonight is one of those special nights where I stumbled around on that wide, worldly web called the Internet, in search of ancient Sonic the Hedgehog fan websites/webrings to talk about. A specific website of old, sonic-club.net, was something I wanted to share. As with all good things, it has seen it’s end. Removing the dash, however, has brought my attention to something… very special, and I wanted to share it with you all. Ladies and gentleman, straight from Nagoya, Japan, where anything can happen:
Yes, this is a real place. However, people in the video are speaking Portuguese, because the club decided to have a Portuguese-themed night, I guess! If you look closely, you might see Sonic Team doing lines of cocaine off of Sonic’s quills.
Today Good Smile Company announced a Sonic Nendoroid figure. If you don’t know what Nendoroids are, they are figures usually based on anime or manga characters (Sonic being an exception) made in a style with a huge head and small body. They are about 10 cm or 4 inch in height and are adjustable, meaning you can put them in various poses or give them different facial expressions.
The Sonic figure is based on the modern iteration, meaning it basicly looks like classic Sonic with green eyes (heh) and a thinner body. It comes with the item box, chaos emerald and checkpoint items shown in the pictures and will be released in April 2012 for ¥3,500, which is about $45 according to Google.
[Via Andriasang]
While Europeans and Australians were able to get the collector’s edition of Sonic Generations earlier this month, those in the US only got the standard game with the Casino Night pinball stage as a pre-order bonus. You’d think Japan wouldn’t get this kind of treatment either, seeing how there aren’t a large amount of Sonic fans there. Surprisingly this isn’t the case, Japanese site ebten.jp has listed a 20th Anniversary Set with pictures and information on what it includes. This special edition is completely different from Europe’s CE, so you might want to see what it includes:
The main attraction of the set is a crystal cube with Sonic and a life monitor engraved into it (pictured above) which is 6 x 6 x 10 cm. They used a laser to make this thing, and as you may know everything is cooler with lasers. Other extras include a cloth with both Modern and Classic Sonic as well as Sonic the Sketchhog printed on it and the History of the 1st Stage soundtrack, which is different depending on whether you get the PS3/360 or 3DS version. While this doesn’t have as much content as the European CE, it still has some neat stuff collectors might want. The track list of the the soundtracks, more pictures and links to where you can buy this can be found after the jump.
SEGA of America has opened up a bevy of auctions on eBay, all benefiting the Red Cross Relief Effort for Japan. There are over 50 limited edition items, ranging from press kits, posters, trade show displays, autographed copies of games and the rare Dreamcast hoodies that SOA recently manufactured (currently going for over $300). There’s so much awesome and rare stuff that I bet T-Bird at TSS is losing his mind. He loves his merchandise.
Today, I’m going to show you the more eccentric and strangely expensive items that you can bid on.
This item is the least eccentric out of what I’m going to show you, but this is Sonic Retro after all and this item is the only one with the ol’ pudg’ems adorned on it. As of this posting it’s going for $46, but there’s 6-days left, leaving a lot of room for the price to skyrocket to insane levels. If you manage to get your hands on this masterpiece of school supplies, don’t write in it. Look at the inside of this magnificent bastard:
Past the jump: a really expensive lanyard, forklifts and a double dose of America’s most popular brand manager.
A little blurb for ya on this Monday. Sonic 4 Brand Manager Ken Balough has informed me that SEGA Football Manager and all Sonic titles on iOS devices are discounted and that all of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross relief efforts. The sale/relief effort will extend through the rest of this week.
If you already own the discounted games but still want to donate, please head on over to the Red Cross and pitch in what you can.
If you live in the Midwest, you were probably shocked to see more effing snow outside when you woke up this morning. With spring on the horizon, winter is doing whatever it can before its time is up. Oh, and there’s still nothing going on in Sonicland, but we do have a ton of fangame news.
Sonic Retro News
Sonic/SEGA News
Unless you’re a hermit who has not heard the latest news, Japan got rocked pretty badly by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and a devastating tsunami.
While we may not have many active Japanese users around here, it’s no secret that both Sonic Retro and Sega Retro are both centric around products from the nation and a lot of the user base follows some aspect of the culture. Our hearts and prayers are with the people of Japan that they can overcome this tragedy.
We hope those of you with friends over there find that they’re okay.
The Japanese Sonic portal of Sonic Channel today put out their 100th desktop wallpaper. They’ve been releasing these monthly since June 2005 – initially with a clean or calendar-emblazoned version of the image, since July 2007 they’ve stuck to a single variant.
The milestone spot features a sketch-style Amy Rose. If this isn’t your cup of tea, why not check out the back catalogue?
[via: Sonic Channel]