This is a selection of large virtual statues that appear in an online game to celebrate Sonic's 22nd birthday!

Sonic Team once made a game called "Phantasy Star Online". It was a MORPG that took place in space on an alien world. You could customize your character and learn the plot while playing with friends. You'll see similar figures to this in the Phantasy Star Universe screencaps on Virtual Items 1. Since PSO2 is a sequel (though not worked on by much/if any of Sonic Team) it still celebrates Sonic's birthday.
On board the Arks ship, citizens can observe giant fun Sonic statues! In the main shopping plaza/atrium seen above, there's a huge hovering statue of Sonic. Below that in a deck area is an Amy & a Tails statue. In the lower utility deck you can find an Eggman & Knuckles. The statues all slowly rotate so you can observe all sides. (inset). While these statues appear, it plays "Escape from the City" over the public speakers on repeat. For the sense of scale, android in the image is about 7 feet tall.
Note: during the Sonic 2013 birthday, the game was not available for world-wide release. Anyone who wanted to play had to bust into the Japanese servers and use a translation patch. I did, to report with these screenshots!

Statues weren't the only things to appear in June 2013. They also gave out masks (via a scratch off lotto system) that you could put on your character to dress up. Here, a bikini wearing woman with Hatsune Miku promotional hair wears an Eggman mask for a wacky look! She's also got a coffin lashed to herself on a chain (behind her) and angel wings on her back. Here, she's raving with glowsticks to the tune of Escape from the City.
Ecclectic? Yes. The space-faring people, Arks, pretty much dress however they want for fun. There were Sonic, Tails, Amy, Chao, Eggman & Knuckles masks.

The space ship deck has a huge movie screen. Here, above the Tails statue, you can see the screen explaining the smaller, virtual statues you can buy/win for your virtual room. Statues of each character were made, so you can collect Sonic virtually too!

This is a photo from an ariel camera at a virtual concert by a virtual idol going on in the PSO2 game. (2 layers of virtual!) Kuna the idol (on stage) sings a song while citizens watch. (You can where's waldo me in the shot too though it isnt difficult) This gives the sense of scale for the ship and the Sonic character statues. That emblem in the corner says "Live Broadcast" in the alien language.