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Today the Sonic Central 2024 event will air a livestream focusing on all things Sonic, featuring the latest news, upcoming projects and partnerships related to Sonic and things to come in 2025 for Sega's mascot.

Without further ado, let's check the livestream:

• Chao Tales, an animated series focusing on Sonic and his visit to a Chao Garden throughout a year. Will be featured on Sonic's social media accounts
• Sonic Speed Simulator on Roblox will be coming later, with Super Sonic and Metal Sonic.
• Sonic and a Shadow costume will be included into Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble, with other Sonic-related costumes and characters also coming up.
• Two Point Museum will feature exclusive Sonic and Shadow stuff
• There's a little sketch featuring Lego Sonic.
• Some new Sonic Merch is featured, a Shadow Escape toy set, Knuckles Guardian Mech set, Tails Adventure toy set, a 6-inch Shadow figure with swappable and customizable parts, a Realms wireless controller officially licensed by Sega with Sonic features, a new statue of Shadow the Hedgehog will be coming later, a special Shadow motorcycle helmet, and more.
• Sonic Topgolf is a new game, basically golf with Sonic characters.
• A new animated short of what seems to be a collaboration between DC and Sonic The Hedgehog, with the short showcasing Shadow in a Batman costume. Special comic issues of the collaboration will come later, with Shadow as Batman, Sonic as Flash, Knuckles as Superman, Amy as Wonder Woman, Tails as Cyborg and Silver as Green Lantern.
• New information on Sonic X Shadow Generations is coming up, with a new cinematic of Shadow's awakening by Gerald Robotnik, with Mephiles showing up later in the trailer, as well as Metal Overlord. closing up with what seems to be Shadow encountering Maria.
• New scenes for the Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings animated shorts. It will be 3 episodes long, with each episode being released each week starting on September 25th on Sonic's social media channels.
• Gerald Robotnik's Journal will be an exclusive new collector's item for pre-orders of Sonic X Shadow Generations.
• The third Sonic movie gets a spotlight at the end, with some behind the scenes and interviews of the people involved in the previous films as well as the 3rd one. Coming December 2024.

And that's a wrap.
While there's wasn't much of relative importance being showcased, there was a huge amount of new merchandise being announced for Sonic related items.

What part of the Sonic Central livestream interested you the most?
Let us know!

 

[Deleted member 705600]

I was not expecting Shadow Batman and I love it lmao

 

[RedoLane]

What we got:
Merch, mobile game content, DC crossover which ISN'T game-related, cosmetic crossovers with other SEGA games, more LEGO, more Roblox, a new teaser for the Shadow animation, a new Sonic animation without a teaser, more spoilers for Shadow Generations, a book, and an unnecessary Sonic Movie interview-ish thingy.

What we didn't get:
A new Sonic game.

You're welcome.

 

[Bladexdsl]

i expected disappointment and i was granted it

 

[Robert Newbie]

You mean the Sonic Speed Simulator I've been seeing on Roblox is official?

 

[isoboy]

That's a load of garbage right there.

 

[shaunj66]

Some of that show legitimately made my skin crawl.

Nothing for me here.

 

[Chary]

Lmao Sega you madmen, you've done it again.

You somehow disappointed everyone when no one had any expectations anyway.

 

[Deleted member 705600]

You mean the Sonic Speed Simulator I've been seeing on Roblox is official?

Wait until you see the official walmart roblox experience-

 

[BraveDragonWolf]

Nice!

 

[supergamer368]

shadow gens is starting to look really, REALLY good honestly. i do wonder how long it is compared to sonic gens, if it's practically the same length then that'd be huge. either way i'm looking forward to it next month. the prologue animations also look incredible.

 

[Robert Newbie]

Wait until you see the official walmart roblox experience-

I looked it up, and yup it exists. I get the honor of seeing all sorts of ripoff Experiences in Roblox. You can see Mr. Beast's pixelated face randomly plastered around, known IP's injected into a tycoon game template, and of course ripoffs of existing popular games on the platform. It's muddy in there. I didn't think for a second the Sonic game was official, but now I know.

That's what I learned today.

 

[scroeffie1984]

i want sonic adventures 3 and non of this bs

 

[CeeDee]

i want sonic adventures 3 and non of this bs

they made it in 2006, it's called "Sonic the Hedgehog" and it's bad

 

[Robert Newbie]

i want sonic adventures 3 and non of this bs

You know what's crazy? I just thought of how many different franchises have been made with Sonic since Sonic Adventure 2. Off the top of my head, I can think of:

Heroes
Shadow the Hedgehog
Unleashed
The Secret Rings/and the Dark Knight
Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
Colors
Lost World
Generations/Forces
Frontiers
BOOM
Mania
Superstars
Advance

I know I could look up the rest, but that's more than enough. My head hurts.

Basically, instead of a single formula, Sonic has branched out into all sorts of interpretations to keep the series fresh and disconnected. Not a bad idea, though I personally wish the franchise found success in a single mainstay series.

Sonic Adventure does represent that single mainstay series, but Sonic '06 is unfortunately part of that. Any Sega executive that looks at the numbers for Sonic '06 will immediately trash any project related to it. That's why we haven't seen the series in about 20 years.

 

[poughstings]

Making everything but good games

 

[Lum1_]

All this 'hype' for Shadow Gen only for it to play like Forces/ Frontiers Cyberspace....

 

[KingVamp]

Going against the grain, I like most of it. Wasn't expecting a new game, when Gens is not even out yet. Having another Shadow skin is pretty funny. I really hope Infinite comes back. Also, all that teasing, can we just get a modern Sonic X-like show now?

 

[chrisrlink]

you think 3 is the final movie? what i got from the last few words "we gotta get back to making a movie" a 4th one is in the works maybe Mephilis? and silver

 

[Andy2001]

Nice!

fym?