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.
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?
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