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You can't keep up! 6 more shirts from 2014 Tags: 2014 Shirt

This tee is from Target in Summer 2014. It has the slogan "You can't keep up!" with classic style running Sonic. The background is a series of horizontal brown & white stripes, while the shirt looks like a medium blue. This is in the boys/teens section, so the larger sizes should fit more people. Notice the printed-in tag in the back, these are common to Target shirts but they generally don't say what company made it.

 Clap and roll Sonic shirtOwned by Shiro Ulv

This is an adults size shirt from American Apparel / Dopest Threads. It's white with a navy blue background of repeated rolling classic style Sonics. The main graphic is all-color clappin' Sonic. The all-over print adds interest & helps it to look retro. 

 Sonic words shirt?Discovered by Taaron

Is this shirt for real?
(There's a possibility it could be a photoshop alteration, writing comic-sans words onto a black tee background isn't very hard) If it isn't....some shirt designer really has an internet sense of humor. The words on the shirt go to the meme of "Doge" the wrongly spelled version of "Dog". Who spelled it wrong? HomeStar-Runner, a flash cartoon which sometimes had nonsense plots & a somewhat dim main character (hence, why he could not spell 'dog' when he tried) Then, it was applied to a photo of a Shiba Inu dog that was rolling its eyes. Someone then wrote the sentiments of the dog (which, because it is a dog, it could not use grammar...) onto the photo. Writing wrong pre-word modifiers like "Very Sonic" & "Much Kickin" fits the sentiments of the meme-dog. The shirt also has: Wow, So Cool, Blaze It, Such Speed, Chillin all Max, Super Fast & Wow".
Watch out for another phrase though "Blaze It" is also known to mean "Its time to do pot"...whether or not the shirt makers knew that is unknown.

 

Usually it is "Blaze It 420" because 420 is supposedly "international pot smoking time". This is A LOT of contrivance to go through for one shirt. Why? Because memes fade and if the explanation isn't archived up in there with the item, it'll stop making sense at some point and no one will know why / the reference. Maybe block out the "it" on the "Blaze It" because pot is not cool & its too bad pot co-opted that phrase & wrecked it. 

 Red grid classic Sonic shirt

This is an adults' size red tee. It was labeled "Womens" but it looks like something anyone could wear. It has a large white grid background & classic logo. The Sonic is "getting ready to run" but the art is the old Japanese version, which is interesting. All has faux wear / weathering

 Loop Leap Tee shirt

Here's a nice tee with a fresh look. It is called "Loop Leap". It features a shaded version of neo-classic jumping Sonic. He's shown leaping through (notice that one hand is 'behind' the background) a checkered Green Hill style loop. The background is a blue-white fade, which breaks up into checkers at its edges. "Sonic the Hedgehog" is written in a thin white font across the top.
This manages to have a cute, fun AND classic looking style without resorting to being grungy, worn out or stale looking. What company produced it? Where is it available? This is in the Sonic Gear Store in 2014.

 One does not simply go fast Sonic shirt

This tee has a rather odd slogan. It says "One Does Not Simply Go Fast". Really? Because it looks like the phrase is being applied to Sonic (classic style finger waving) who actually does 'simply go fast'.
The phrase is trying to be like a meme. The meme got started in The Lord of The Rings movie with "One does not simply walk into Mordor". Then, people would add guitars & say "rock into Mordor" and it just went on from there. Memes, even when obscure/complicated or many-layered need their explanations recorded in museums of items like this one. This is a men's shirt, so it should fit anyone. It is in the Gear Store, but it should also be elsewhere. But where?

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