Here are the boxed Toy Island talking figures. The boxes left some parts exposed, so you had to beware of dirty or damaged figures. You could test the talking feature in the store. All the boxes looked the same, except the photos on the backs. These average 10 inches high.
They used ReSaurus's box-stickers to decorate the bases. The pegged bases allowed the figures to have plenty of poses.
Talkin' Tails is first up. He did not suffer from 'jumbo body' like their smaller figure did. His expression still leaves a bit to be desired, it looks like he's about to say "Ppppbbbth". He actually says
"C'mon Sonic, let's get busy!" and "Yea we did it!" For some reason, he only has 2 phrases.
Tails Resaurus for scale
Talking Knuckles is really great. It's an EXCELLENT likeness of him, far better then their smaller action figure. He is well-proportioned, his head shape is spot-on, and his poses are pretty decent. This is a great figure that says:
"Time to make a house call!" "No..!" and "This is incredible! I've never seen anything like it!"
Unfortunatly, their Sonic the Hedgehog did not fare quite as well. He got kind of a mad/wierd expression and ended up quite shiny. His body sculpt was not as correct either, resulting in a so-so figure. I somewhat regret not buying this when it was avialable, though, because while Gear aquired the re-release, it does not talk.
This figure Says: "Aww yea, this is happening!" and "Ready to roll champ? Let's go!" Phrases provided by: dorkingdom-blue
Toy Island Prototypes
Prototypes of the Toy Island ones had round bases with labeled fronts.The proto-Knuckles was also made of something different.
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Here's a better look at their re-release "Sonic X" type box for these Giant Talking Figures. Everybody's box was the same, they weren't personalized for each character. As you can see with the right photo, they took away the bases, which is really unfortunate, as they were really helpful for posing the figure nicely. You can also see the glued-down button on his shoe from where they removed the 'talking' part of the figure to cheapen it further. (Do notice that the price was actually the same at retail when these were new so...it appears they either lost money on the actual talking ones or got greedy with this set.) The black/white graphic is what's on the bottom of the box, interesting they kept such a nice detail.
What's going on here? These boxes are Sonic X themed for the giant talking figures...and they're ALMOST identical to the ones above. Can you spot the biggest difference? These have plastic over the figure, instead of being open-style like the ones above. You can tell via the price sticker & "Try Me" red arrow sticker. Why is this unusual?
Because every single known/collected "Giant Figure" that was in the "Sonic X" re-released box DOESNT talk & some of them didn't even have bases included (see above). Also look at the text on the box above. "Collectible Action Figure" vs. this one "Collectible Talking Action Figure". An interesting development to appear in 2013. Discovered by Nick DePerna The Sonic X talking version says ""I'm giving you one last chance Eggman" and "As long as there's somewhere to run, I'll be happy", which, you should note, are different phrases than the first edition figure had. They could be from Sonic X, instead of SA1. Info provided by: BritsBoy122
At the right (bottom on Mobile) is a good look at the original Giant Talking Figures box. Each box was the same, regardless of who was in it. It says "Press the button on their shoe to hear your favorite character talk to you". The other phrase is "Fully articulated figure with electronics". You can see how really Sonic Adventure 1 themed the box is, with the logo, orange Dreamcast triangle and that specific SA1 Sonic stock art down there.
Photo discovered by A83hg
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