Small picture...bigger story?
Maybe. This is a part of a large photo taken at a meeting at "IDW". IDW is a comic book producing company, for lots of different brands. Archie gave up their Sonic comic book title / license in 2017, ending that particular comic's run. However, Sonic was deemed so popular that he SHOULD have a comic, even if it's not made by the original producer, Archie from the late 1990s when it got its start. IDW signed on to take over the task from Archie. The Gear Blog has more about what this is/why it happened.
So, as a comic maker, of course IDW is happy to get another title, especially one as good as Sonic and it holds a meeting with a lot of employees at a typical big 'meeting table', with the Sonic logo in the background and all you'd expect. But, what you wouldn't expect, is that randomly some person in the meeting has brought a ReSaurus old (actually the first) "Big Figure" Sonic. He was their 'giant talking figure' (though only the base had SA1 sounds in it) What's even more interesting is that it's clearly a prototype of the figure, with no paint at all on the face or body. It reveals that the body is the 'dot color' with the blue painted on elsewhere, while the head is blue & had the beige added later. Of course the gloves were always white plastic, as they are separate pieces.
What's the story behind this? Why would someone here randomly have a prototype? Hopefully they don't consider using the poor thing as a model when drawing the art.
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