sonic the hedgehog

Two close friends of mine surprised me yesterday with this gift. After spending a few hours helping them demolish their garage (not yet complete) they gave me this 20th Anniversary Sonic the Hedgehog. He’s really well done. He looks spot on perfect and he’s also very pose-able.

Sonic Unwrapped

I’m sure it’s pretty hard to design a toy based off a character that was only ever 2 dimensional but Jazwares Inc. did a great job with this Sonic figure.

Sonic’s New Home

Sonic in The Sega Collection

I knew exactly where I wanted to place Sonic and I think he looks great in his new home. He adds a little splash of colour and he’s through and through SEGA. He’s perfect.

One thing I did notice after placing him is that I have a lot of white space around the collection and all of a sudden it looks a little barren. The games look great but there is some room to dress things up a little. I’ll work on this over time.

I find it ironic/funny that I got this gift just one day after I posted a comment stating that Jon doesn’t give a damn about my Sega Collection! It’s still might be true but regardless I am feel’in the love.

But back to the main point of this post. Thank you two for this very cool gift! I’m already really enjoying my Sonic 🙂

My wife and I were enjoying this past Saturday walking around downtown in our city’s China Town district when I spotted a beat up looking store with a bunch of consoles, games and accessories piled up in the window. The oldest thing I saw was an xbox 1. I didn’t expect to find much but I had to look and it was worth the two minute detour. I found a complete copy of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Game Gear. It was in such great condition that I couldn’t pass it up. I’m not collecting for the Game Gear but for $10 I was happy to take it.

I’ll trade this one if I can get something I like for my Master System or Genesis/Mega Drive collection.

Sonic the Hedgehog