This shirt is fun, if you didn't already have a similar one. It's another variant on the "4 squares with images in them" for a design. This time though, they choose really, really old Japanese artwork from the Sonic 1 era. It's placed on a yellow & blue checker background. Since the shirt itself is an off-blue color & the original red for the logo was kept...it kind of clashes. Look at the bottom left art, that one is quite seldom-seen. The unusual / uncommon art selection helps to make this shirt more unique.
Here are 2 shirts from Target's winter 2014 selection. The first is sort of interesting, it's like a plain "graphic layout" or character profile type tee. It is classic styled, with the weathering effect on the ink. There are 3 rings, Sonic, Tails, Eggman & Knuckles, all faced forward. Then, you can see kekleon, moto bug, roller & burrobot with the classic logo. This shirt is pretty unique, with it's layout-like design.
The right shirt could be for Sonic haters? Why would someone want a shirt where
Sonic is shown dieing? It uses part of the 16-bit Sonic 1 blue sky background (applying a blur effect on the top clouds) & overlays a big pixelated "death pose" Sonic. Is it to advertise the wearer is bad at his games? Maybe the shirt people (it's just the plain Sonic logo / copyright info collar tag) had to use every single pixel pose available, and so a dieing one would come up eventually. It's unique too, but oddly so.
"Getting Ready To Run" classic Sonic is the right art to choose for this slogan tee. It says "I'm outta here" at the bottom. There are a variety of blue squares and some lines for interest in the background. The tag is just the rectangle "Sega" copyright one. Looking at the proportions of the tee, you can see this particular one is for little kids. Hopefully it comes in more than just extra small.
This is an adults sizes only shirt from 2014. It has classic running Sonic as a white+line art graphic. He's printed over the words "Sonic Speed!" Written over & over, as it gradiates from white to...purpleish. What's sort of unique about the whole shirt is that it's lavender. Sonic is rarely seen on purple anything (why?) let along an odd sort of lavender color like this. Because the art of Sonic isn't filled in at all, both he, his shoes AND his arms (notice that's a mistake there...the arms should have been the color of the belly dot, but they're not) are also that lavender-ish color. It's an interesting shirt with a bit of an odd effect.
It's been a while since anyone saw a "Toddler Item" showing up, but fall 2014 brings this tiny set. A green tee with black collar & cuffs is paired with some drab plaid shorts to create a set for babies / toddlers only. It has Japanese 'getting ready to run' classic Sonic in front of a big yellow lightening bolt. The logo is in an orange & yellow rectangle at the bottom. It's a decent enough set, but too bad the shorts don't have a Sonic element to them.
This tee sort of tries & fails a little at it's message. It has Sonic, Tails & Knuckles in a white ring with stars on it. The 'slogan' at the bottom is "Too Slow!" But with the way it's positioned, it looks like it is labeling the characters as 'too slow' , which is weird & makes no sense. The art is either neo-classic, (the flying Knuckles) or early Japan style (running Sonic & flying Tails) Red screen-tone dots are also used a little bit to create a shadow/background. It looks like the design uses a bit of faux weathering. This was discovered in 2014, but where is it sold?