The full line of regular figures, as seen at a toy show. You can see from here even that there's something wrong with Knuckles' head. The snowboard Sonic has, is a prototype. It never had the black areas on the final release. Note: 2 sizes of rings. The rings they were released with on final were tiny curls of metal. Why? All their feet are magnetic so they can 'collect' rings. These figures also came with the plastic emeralds that the bendies did.
Toy Island Sonic the Hedgehog. He got the short-end of the sculpt...with a big body and a rather odd looking face he leaves a bit to be desired style wise. He came with an orange snow board, which was also magnetic so he could stick to it.
These at the right (bottom on mobile) are what they looked like ready to sell, notice the changed snowboard. Why are Tails' tails over there? You had to assemble him once you removed him from the box.
This is how the figures' boxes looked when they were initially released with a Sonic Adventure 1 theme.
For a side-by-side comparison of the boxes, here's Sonic in his re-release Sonic X theme box. This box has a lot more going on, but a lot less going IN! Here you can see the absence of his snow-board, and curl metal rings. They left the plastic emeralds in though, which is better than nothing. Too bad they couldn't of improved the sculpt!
Remember, if you're getting Sonic X version of these, NO ACCESSORIES are included except the emeralds.
Here, you can compare early and later-released Sonic figures. It's obvious they've fiddled around a little with his face, but they DIDNT improve it! The changes are small, but really, neither one is still any good. Why would you bother with such a tiny change if it really wasn't going to help the figure at all?
It's a mystery, because all they seemed to do was continue stripping down the figure, making an already mediocre toy worse as it kept being re-released. If you're going to pay for changes, might as well try a real over-haul so the figure isn't so odd and doughey looking.
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Even so long out of production, Toy Island items continue to amaze! Just look at what a difference there is on the faces for this 6 inch Sonic! The right side is SO MUCH BETTER! TI might have actually succeeded if they'd made all their figures look like this. Look at the better eyes, better lower face, and better positioning of the head! It's clearly the same figure...but that one is just miles better. WHY wasn't the better one used/produced?
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This is the standard box back for the first set of Toy Island figures. (So like the Robotnick & Sonic above would have had this box back image. But notice, that the photo shows chaos emeralds in colors they never ended up releasing. The Sonic has a milky white one, while the Tails shows a transparent white one. It's too bad TI never released all 7 colors of the Chaos emeralds to collect.
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