Movie Sonic Merchandise Page 5

Sonic Gear Movie Live Action Sonic Merchandise (That I don't approve of) So here's a sub-standard title card that's very boring.
After the art fiasco that set the internet ablaze with flames for 'bad design' (true) in 2019 the "Sonic Movie" live action Hollywood production went back to the 'drawing board' and re-made the hideous hedgehog into something more akin to a friendly hairy bigfoot troll that happens to be blue. People seemed to like this better, and so merchandise moved ahead. However it's #NotMySonic so, like bandana and sports tape loving Boom Sonic (And poor Stupid BoomKnuckles) the merchandise must all get corralled away onto a special page/set so as to keep it from contaminating other items. This is that page. There is also Movie Clothing * Movie Items 1 * Movie Items 2 * Movie Items 3 * Movie Items 4 * Movie Events *
			Even First 4 Figures gets into the movie merch scene with this display figure called "Sonic Standoff". This is made for Movie 2, but it was only announced at the end of 2023. It is actually only 1 half of the final item, which is a 2 piece set with Knuckles running the opposite way planned for the other half so that the title will be appropriate as it's "them facing off against each other" like the battle from the movie. As is the usual for F4F, look at what an amazing job they did for the base. The broken pavement and double-yellow line texture is super perfect. The defeated/half buried Eggman Robot even has the missle side door open/stocked with fully painted mini missiles. The 'eye' is clear plastic. As for the gremlin, they do the best they can for it, texturing in all the wooly hair and making sure the hands are small & the face is angled down to (seemingly)
	minimize the look of the eye divide. The pose is good/convincing, and attaching it to the base only at the very tip of the heel makes it very active/action.
				Until 2024, there were plenty of Sonic commercials all over the world, and on lots of different shows and channels, but there had never been one on the supposed pinnacle of all advertising: The Superbowl. The football event known for its highest ad prices and most extravagant high-budget big production ads that comes only once a year.
In past years, the Superbowl ads were even more extravagant than more recently (So, early 2000s/2010s kind of times and a bit before) they even would have clip-shows which were TV shows dedicated to rebroadcasting compilations of the most famous and memorable ads that people would deliberately watch. "Kind of a big deal" is an understatement, but you did have to know the history of it. To know why having something Sonic on there would have been inconceivable years ago/and why it's so surprising even to see it now. Of course, as you can see it's part of the Nickelodeon collaberation they had with part of it to show like Spongebob doing football something, and that's why there's random CG fish in the row ahead of them. But, that they think the movies are a big enough deal to have the characters in an ad spot on the biggest ad area of the year is really some sort of milestone.
		With Movie 3 on the horizon, natrually even more toys will start to appear. This is the Jakks Pacific Ultimate Talking Sonic figure, and it's much larger than their usual figures, with 15 points of articulation. It also will play 30 phrases from the movie. The third feature is that it lights up....because...lighting up is what Sonic is just so known for. Not being fast, spinning, or anything else, lighting up. (Again with the movie nonsense! Yes I'm going to complain*!) The other words on the box are the same text over and over in various languages as this box is meant to be sold everywhere. The back text says he saved the world twice already, but who's counting. He also has 2 new friends, but are they enough to stop
the new threat?" Which is a perfectly spoiler-free blurb to put there so it is fine. What may not be as fine though is that this will be a more expensive figure (big, many features) but then they didn't enclose it at all! The bos is another of those open-seat card things that exposes it to paint rubs, fall damage and more in stores. They figured this out on the small line/register-area figures and enclosed those...why not this guy? It seems like kind of an un-smooth move for a costly item. This will be sold at Target and Walmart, but probably Amazon will get it too as it's a big 1 off sort of thing. *The complain isn't here to draw a false equivelence between this and say...a glow in the dark Sonic squishy keychain or a Sonic themed neon lamp/crystal cube etc. where the purpose of the object is to glow and be a gimmick. This is that somehow Sonic's 'thing' IS that he lights up and has magic glowing eyes AS one of his powers which is wierd but like the movies are severely wierd so...oh well.