Sonic the Hedgehog LEGO set takes us back to where it all began

Earlier this year, LEGO introduced that it had greenlit Sonic the Hedgehog LEGO set that became submitted via way of means of a fan thru the LEGO Ideas platform. The set aimed to recreate Green Hill Zone from Sonic Mania for the franchise’s thirtieth anniversary. Fast ahead almost a year, and Sega has formally found out the very last Green Hill Zone LEGO set, and it appears pretty a piece distinct from the LEGO Ideas set that became authorized again in February.

For starters, the LEGO set that became introduced these days doesn’t appear to be primarily based totally at the level because it became in Sonic Mania. Instead, this seems to be the authentic Green Hill Zone from the first actual Sonic the Hedgehog sport. The set clocks in at 1,a hundred twenty five portions and recreates a stretch of the authentic Green Hill Zone, whole with a loop-de-loop, a few palm trees, or even some Badniks (because the enemies in Sonic the Hedgehog have been known as again then) like Crabmeat and Motobug.

The set became at the beginning submitted to LEGO Ideas via way of means of 24-year-antique Viv Grannell from the UK. The authentic pitch covered Dr. Eggman’s massive strolling robotic and of the EggRobo enemies from Sonic Mania, at the side of indifferent sections of Green Hill Zone.

By comparison, this completed set drops the robotic and places Eggman in his acquainted Egg Mobile ship. There also are no EggRobos in sight, so something tying this set to Sonic Mania appears to be gone. According to LEGO, the set comes with ten ring packing containers and 4 distinct TV displays showing numerous power-ups from Sonic the Hedgehog – invincibility, brilliant speed, shield, and 1-Up. There’s even a spring mechanism that may shoot Sonic into the air way to the assist of a Technic lever.

LEGO even says that that is a modular set, because of this that it is able to be linked to different Green Hill Zone units and can propose that LEGO plans to introduce greater Sonic the Hedgehog units withinside the future. That hasn’t been showed on the time of this writing, however thinking about that LEGO has launched numerous Super Mario units, we may want to see the identical manifest for Sonic the Hedgehog.

This isn’t the primary time we’ve visible our buddy Sonic the Hedgehog in LEGO form. While that is the primary professional Sonic the Hedgehog set, the blue blur became featured withinside the online game LEGO Dimensions and had a minifigure in his likeness as a result. LEGO Dimensions, like Skylanders or Disney Infinity, became a sport in which gamers may want to experiment NFC figures – on this case, LEGO minifigures on an NFC stand – and play as the ones characters in-sport.

In any case, this Sonic the Hedgehog set could be right here earlier than we recognize it. LEGO introduced these days that the Sonic the Hedgehog Green Hill Zone Set – because it’s formally known as – could be launching in LEGO Stores and at the company’s internet site on New Year’s Day. The set will run $69.99, so it’s pretty middle-of-the-avenue in phrases of pricing. We’ll see if LEGO publicizes greater Sonic units withinside the future, however for now, search for this one to release this weekend.