Before this time, LEGO blazoned that it had greenlit Sonic the Hedgehog LEGO set that was submitted by a addict through the LEGO Ideas platform. The set aimed to recreate Green Hill Zone from Sonic Mania for the ballot’s 30th anniversary. Fast forward nearly a time, and Sega has officially revealed the final Green Hill Zone LEGO set, and it looks quite a bit different from the LEGO Ideas set that was approved back in February.
For starters, the LEGO set that was blazoned moment does n’t feel to be grounded on the stage as it was in Sonic Mania. Rather, this appears to be the original Green Hill Zone from the veritably first Sonic the Hedgehog game. The set timepieces in at pieces and recreates a stretch of the original Green Hill Zone, complete with a circle-de-loop, some win trees, and indeed a many Badniks (as the adversaries in Sonic the Hedgehog were called back also) like Crabmeat and Motobug.
By comparison, this finished set drops the robot and puts Eggman in his familiar Egg Mobile boat. There are also no EggRobos in sight, so anything tying this set to Sonic Mania seems to be gone. According to LEGO, the set comes with ten ring boxes and four different Television defenses displaying several power-ups from Sonic the Hedgehog – invincibility, super speed, guard, and 1-Up. There’s indeed a spring medium that can shoot Sonic into the air thanks to the help of a Technic switch.
LEGO indeed says that this is a modular set, which means it can be connected to other Green Hill Zone sets and may suggest that LEGO plans to introduce more Sonic the Hedgehog sets in the future. That has n’t been verified at the time of this jotting, but considering that LEGO has released several Super Mario sets, we could see the same be for Sonic the Hedgehog.
This is n’t the first time we ’ve seen our confidante Sonic the Hedgehog in LEGO form. While this is the first functionary Sonic the Hedgehog set, the blue blur was featured in the videotape game LEGO Confines and had a minifigure in his likeness as a result. LEGO Confines, like Skylanders or Disney Perpetuity, was a game where players could overlook NFC numbers – in this case, LEGO minifigures on an NFC stage – and play as those characters in- game.
In any case, this Sonic the Hedgehog set will be then before we know it. LEGO blazoned moment that the Sonic the Hedgehog Green Hill Zone Set – as it’s officially called – will be launching in LEGO Stores and on the company’s website on New Year’s Day. The set will run$69.99, so it’s fairly middle-of-the- road in terms of pricing. We ’ll see if LEGO announces more Sonic sets in the future, but for now, look for this one to launch this weekend.
