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Sonic the Hedgehog most likely needs no introduction. Debuting in 1991 and becoming one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, the series has an absolute slew of merch for fans to collect.

While I had been a Sonic fan since I'd played that original game, I only started seriously collecting Sonic merch in 2007. Then 22, on a whim I decided to pick up a copy of Archie Comics Sonic series. I hadn't read the series since I was in primary school and so was surprised with just how good it was. Thanks to the brilliant writing of Ian Flynn, which captured the characters and the world they inhabbited so well, I instantly fell in love with it all. From that day on I became a diehard Sonic fan!

Apparelle & Accessories

American toy company Jazwares gained the Sonic licence in 2008, reasing figures based on spercific games, and general Sonic-related characters. In 2014 they decided they did not wish to continue with the licence which was then picked up by Tomy.

Tomy, a Japanese company, originally secured the Sonic licence in the early 1990s. They released merchandise based on the main Mega Drive games. This ended sometime in the late 1990s, although they did distribute Jazwares' merch throughout Europe. In 2010 they picked up the licence once more making toys based on Sonic Colours, Sonic Boom and a special line for Sonic's 25th anniversary

After re-gaining the licence, Tomy's first release was a figure of Sonic with three Wisps that came with the DS and Wii Limited Edition of Sonic Colours

Sonic Boom was supposed to be the big Sonic spin-off. Games, TV, comics and toys were supposed to launch a transmedia phenominon. Unfortunatley, thanks to the brilliant decicion making powers of SEGA rearing their ugly head again, the games flopped and thus the sub-franchise was dead, despite the other three tentpoles being quite good. Case in point; the toys from Tomy.

Jakks Pacific, an American company, began releasing Sonic figures and merch in 2020. They have released figures based on everything from the games to the films to the comics and animated series.

The Eggman in Luthor Armor and Rouge as Catwoman 2.5" I picked up because, as far as I know, Funko isn't doing Pops of them.

I'm sure Funko's Pops need no introduction. The did an early set using the original "black eye" style Pop figure (first image), but many fans didn't care for it. Personally, I like them the most, and they are actually collectors' items now. Their more modern Pops I don't love as much so I've not bought all of them, but they are still cool in their own way. In fact, I've stopped buying Pops pretty much all together with the exception of my absolute fav franchises.

Several companies have released toys based on the Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and Transformed games. Rather than put these under a section for each company, I thought it made more sense to have them together