Where's Sonic?

[Autosaver]

LONDON - 12th October 2012 - SEGA® Europe Ltd. and Pan Macmillan are excited to announce a new Search-and-Find print book for children featuring the popular videogames character Sonic the Hedgehog™. Where’s Sonic? A Search-and-Find Adventure will hit stores across the Europe on Friday 19th October 2012.

The book contains a number of vibrant environments inspired by levels from the hit Sonic the Hedgehog videogame series. Search for Sonic in the busy scenes of Green Hill, Chemical Plant, City Escape and more as he battles his way through one dangerous zone after another. And the fun doesn’t stop when you find him! There’s a checklist of things to spot in each scene, from Sonic’s friends to his most notorious enemies and host of recognisable iconography from the Sonic universe such as Wisps, Badniks and of course the infamous Gold Rings,

Sissel Henno, Head of Brand Licensing for Europe commented; “We’re very excited to team up with Macmillan for this ‘Where’s Sonic?’ book. This is our first publishing project for Sonic the Hedgehog in the UK and we’re looking forward to seeing the reception. Macmillan has a great level of experience in the category and also offers excellent distribution. We’re planning to offer more publishing products both in the UK and elsewhere going forward.”

Where’s Sonic? will be available to buy from retailers throughout Europe as well as from the official Sonic the Hedgehog merchandise store www.sonicmerchandise.com

A new search and find book has just been released. In the book, you have to find Waldo various Sonic characters and goodies. From the looks of it, it will be reusing Sonic Generations assets. I'm not so sure if any of you will get the book but I think it would be interesting if someone bought it.

[TheOcelot]

Where's Wally (Waldo)? There he is........

EDIT:

Edited October 12, 2012 by NightwingFox

[Endy]

Why would anyone want this...

Edited October 12, 2012 by Enderwoman

[Tori Himemiya]

This is going to be hard.

I can only see a blue blur.

[Debug Ring]

Hits stores October 19th? That date seems familiar. Oh right, that's my birthday! I'll be looking into this most likely.

[...]

Why would anyone want this...

Little kids would want it.

Does that answer your question?

Edited October 12, 2012 by NiGHTS

[Salamander]

I don't know, will even little kids fall for the fact that it's just copy-and-pasted stock art? Where's Wally?'s still around, and even a Doctor Who version ("When's The Doctor?", wasn't it?), and this doesn't look like it will compare well to them. If they'd actually done original illustrations for it, it could be pretty amazing, but this looks like pure cash-in material. Although I'd be glad to be proven wrong.

[Your Vest Friend]

You guys want me to drag my scans of some of it from the Latest Collection Additions topic or no? Because I think it'll only prove your doubts...right.

Edited October 12, 2012 by Wally Gator

[BlazingTales]

I found him.

[Crash]

Oh god, no! Why!!

[Debug Ring]

Oh god, no! Why!!

Maybe they want to make money? Edited October 12, 2012 by Debug Ring

[Autosaver]

I found him.

Oh, so you're the douchebag* that keeps circling Waldo whenever I open the book?

*I hope you guys realize I'm not serious

[LATER BUDDY]

Think of it this way, your little 4-6 year old kid that's into these kinda books gets presented to the flashy blue and cool attitude dude hedgehog and becomes a staple in their childhood. This kid grows up to be us and sits on his ass in front of a computer all day on a Sonic forum, buying almost any game with his Sonic's face on it.

[Your Vest Friend]

Alright, dragged the scans here. It be stuffs.

[sonfan1984]

It sounds cool. I'll buy this for my 8 year old nephew. He loves Sonic and reading.

[Crash]

Maybe they want to make money?

.........

(I knew that!)

[Debug Ring]

.........

(I knew that!)

Then that's the answer to why.

[Wittymations]

Alright, dragged the scans here. It be stuffs.

Huh, for stock-art models, those seem kinda elaborately designed. Like a pause of a huge battle scene or something. Granted, everyone's in a generic pose, but still.

[Indigo Rush]

Tch, this one was superior.

Had hand-drawn artwork and everything.

[Phos]

Think of it this way, your little 4-6 year old kid that's into these kinda books gets presented to the flashy blue and cool attitude dude hedgehog and becomes a staple in their childhood. This kid grows up to be us and sits on his ass in front of a computer all day on a Sonic forum, buying almost any game with his Sonic's face on it.

Basically Sega's gettin em young.

[#EndyGate]

Alright, dragged the scans here. It be stuffs.

Oh god, it's far worse then I thought D:

[Blue Blood]

Tch, this one was superior.

*picture*

Had hand-drawn artwork and everything.

Naturally. This one is the epitome of cheap and lazy really. Stock art of characters and objects randomly C&P'd over stock background. It's horrible work.

[Solkia]

Little kids would want it.

Does that answer your question?

and me

[JezMM]

Gaw, that is really disappointing. I loved that SatAM inspired one as a kid (it at least used real zones, even if they were artistically stylised to the SatAM style) so would have picked this up if it wasn't just copy-paste en mass. Was sort of hoping it'd just be a pre-rendered cover with drawn art inside but, oh well.

The best thing about the old one was following Sonic's route through the scene like a little platformer you could play with your finger. 8D

[Soniman]

and me

Like he said, the kids would want it.

I kid.

Edited October 12, 2012 by Soniman