UPDATE: Confirmed to be real. The toys will release Summer 2025 for $49.99 USD and are five inches. Pre-orders will be available at Target on December 10th, 2024.
Original Story:
Sonic is having a good year. Not only is Sonic X Shadow: Generations a great game (check out our review here), but the blue blur is getting a new feature-length film starring Keanu Reeves as Shadow on December 20th.
Sonic, however, seems to be insatiable. He wants more and more, and he’ll stop at nothing until he’s the most famous talking animal in the world. To that end, he’s prepared to team up with Hasbro’s Transformers franchise in the form of some new toys.
Here’s a supposed leaked photo of the toys:
And here’s the official marketing images of today, posted by the Transformers Instagram account:
Per Sonic Stadium:
“Provided these [leaked photos] are current and accurate, the Speed Star Sonic includes an extra large ring shield, while the Tornado converts its auxiliary thruster into a blaster. The latter offers a surprising amount of detail and accuracy for the classic biplane, its thin wings converting into shoulder shields in robot form.”
I’m not going to pretend to be a Transformers fan, but these toys do look…okay, lame. They look lame. Part of the benefit of operating my own website single-handedly means I can be honest, so here’s my honesty for you. But who cares what I think. What do you think?