Sonic Prototype Merchandise Page 14
What about Sonic items that have not been made yet? Or things that NEVER got made? It's time for prototypes & mock ups! All the things on this page are Sonic items which are NOT yet released, or are items which were NEVER released. If something doesn't ever get produced, it'll stay here forever, for you to see and read about it. Also included on the page are 'mock ups' which are not real items. They're an illustration created by a company to show what a final item would look like. Sometimes they're Photoshops, others are combination of art and photos. A mock up never becomes real itself...but the item it illustrates is often made. When any item on this page DOES get made, (and SonicGear gets some kind of retail confirmation/fan photo) it will leave this page and move away onto the page it belongs on. (EX: a keychain appears here, gets produced, a fan buys it and mails SonicGear--that key chain will then leave this page and show up on the Key Chains page) Anything that does/is getting made should have release date info near it if it is available, along with the company which should be producing it--to help you find it!
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					Play by Play toys releases this factory photo of their proto plush clip heads. They're probably meant to be like a backpack dangler of some kind, as these would be far too big to be a key chain. It's 3 modern plush heads only, for Sonic Tails & Knuckles. They have embroidered details and look fully 3D. Each has a plastic clip in the color of the characters' eyes looped to the top of the head. As for construction, they're all pretty typical for small plush at this size. Knuckles with the shortened spikes, modern Sonic but the spikes stick out
		like the forward facing classic one/flat flap ears for Sonic & Tails etc. The expressions are good enough, and they're all right. It's nothing amazingly new, and they're pretty solid. This is likely to be pretty much exactly what the final product will end up looking like. This is supposed to release in Fall 2023.
						Here is a proto photo of some hand done mockup figures of EXGPro's try at having some classic style Sonic figural device holders. The Cable Guys did these first (and likely better, if they don't fix some things up here before release!) You can spot several mistakes in the photo, as well as their 'new' gimmick.
		The gimmick is that the bases fit together to create a nice dsiplay...but they've got to fix those figures! Tails is suffering badly from 'big body', classic Sonic has green eyes and the mouth is too big, Tails' shoes are wrong, Super Sonic is leaned such that you won't see him when the phone is there, and
Knuckles may be missing his shoe tops. Their actual issue is that they're waaaay too similar to The Cable Guys which are still all on store shelves and readily available so it's basically a duplicate product that people may already own. Linking bases isn't enough reason to spend 20+ buying characters again. They're prototypes...so there's a chance they fix the issues, but there's no real way to fix that they're repeats of another company. They're trying a bit, by posing Sonic (he's leaning, the leg is out) but nobody else is doing anything. If these get released, it'll be interesting to see how they do.
				This is a trade show booth display by the company Just Funky. It's probably from some point in 2023 or so. But which of the items stayed prototypes and which ones actually were made? The big head Sonic mug did, the wierd classic Eggman mug did too but it took till the end of 2025 to see it. The lidded Sonic & Tails head ceramic things are unknown. The Sonic in a ring is a light (ring lights up). The top right mug is unknown, the annoyed Sonic water bottle did, the bottom 3 mugs and pint glass are also unknown. The stickerbomb style (yellow) water bottle did, but the notebook is unknown.
					Normally, something like this wouldn't appear here on Gear Prototypes because it is just art. However, this IS a part of the prototyping process, and so at least one of these compilations should be seen so everyone can know what's going on. This is a First 4 Figures board that has many different ideas for their Rouge the Bat statue. Usually stuff like this stays 'in house' and is voted by the art team as to which one would make the best
statue that the most people would want to buy. However, for Rouge, they opened up voting to their mailing list members, and people could choose which numbered item they liked best. You can see their different ideas over similar themes. The bottom right one is very clearly her stock art pose (touch knee), while the ones where she's at the control panel are game scene ideas. They really like the green circle of 'wind' indicating her flying poses over the various bases. The differences between the console ones are her hand poses. Several of them feature a chaos emerald. Her expression seems fairly consistent, though. None of them are bad. Which one won? Unknown because crumbly moviesonic got in there and they never ended up making her! That scruffy blue lawn gnome canceled the Rouge statue because they 'needed' movie Sonic and then of course movie Knuckles too for the 2nd one so as of 2025 Rouge fans are out of luck.