Here's a shirt with a design on both sides. While uncommon today, there were several 1990s shirts which were designed all the way around, on a certain theme.
This shirt tries to take advantage of 'foreward facing Sonic' the stock art. With a knees-up shot of him on the front, they had to improvise the back. Remember! Until Sonic 2 NO ONE knew what he looked like from the back. Their inventing has sort of paid off, as he's still recognizable, despite the one enormous fat spike in the center. The shirt still is quite interesting to look at, and cleverly done. Not content to stop with Sonic, they've added rings to one sleeve, and the logo (big) on the other. A lot of trouble went into making this shirt, possibly why it is uncommon. Discovered by Finalapocalypse.
Discovered by Finalapocalypse.
This shirt showcases the attitude of Sonic. (Remember, in the UK he's classically described as "Dude with a tude") Sonic was always supposed to have an attitude, and the funky font says "Race me? Yeah Right" and has a little dotted line trail for the mini-Sonic icons that are found among the letters. Laughing Sonic the stock art is the main design, and is rather appropriate for this phrase. Over-all quite a good shirt, it's too bad it is as rare as it is.
Here's a fun classic.
This shirt says "It's a Ring Thing" with the easily recognizable in-game font--a nice touch! It has the not-that-common side view jumping Sonic stock art, and a checkered band across the whole front as an accent. There are a couple rings present as well, one of them even looped over the band for a bit of visual depth/interest. The shirt itself is just mottled gray. The logo is large enough to play a part in the design. A genuine classic shirt with a real classic feel, this one is a nice addition to any collection. This was produced in boys sizes. Owned and photographed by calistine.
Photo found by Calistine
Here's a sweatshirt from 1994, a black long-sleeve that's not too common.
It has the usual 'getting ready to run' stock Sonic on it, but this time with a background of cell-shaded yellow blocks with circles in them. This geometric background is obviously trying to imitate something from the background of a Sonic game. The yellow pieces add interest to the sweatshirt's design, and the logo appears rather small in one corner.
Now HERE's something you don't see every day. A CLEARLY Archie Comics/Sat.Am. Sonic based shirt. While it's thought that Australia had the greatest attachment to Sat.Am Sonic, they no longer have a clean run on it, with this. (if it is infact, American) The top says "Sonic Knothole League", with "Live from the Great Forest" in the shield shape. It uses slightly modified stock Sonic to wedge a mini bat under his arm, and add a cap to his hand on the back. The back says "Home Run" and makes use of more stock Sonics to make it seem as if he's on nearly all the bases. But, if you look carefully in the background you'll see "steaming" Robotnick...though he's clearly the week-day/wacky version (and not the metal-arm one that appeared in the tv show)
The top is striped to appear more jersey-like though it gives-way to confetti on the back. In all, it's a quite unusual shirt for your collection, and possibly the only merchandise to directly reference Knothole.
This black tee features the foreward-looking Sonic stock art, but with him looking off to one side. Instead of the traditional logo (almost always used on classic items) they went vertical with his name, and added an orange to yellowish fade. "The Hedgehog" is written in the traditional font, small at the bottom. That little dot in the middle is the copyright. This could be ordered through the SegaVisions "Sonic Mall" a type of 1-page catalog found in that magazine. (mail order) Photo discovered by SonicBoy19
