Badnik Mechanic

So for this years Halloween I wanted to make something a little different, I decided to make a live action spooky short movie. Night of the Living Tails Doll starts off as a typical youtube unboxing video, but then as the sun goes down, the plush comes to live and looks for it's next victim. This is the first time I've attempted to make a short film like this, normally I just film 'presenting' style hence why the lighting isn't amazing at one point. The short was filmed over a number of nights during October and 1 week in September for the daytime scenes. In terms of production values (LOL!), I more or less filmed every scene on my own, there are 1 or 2 shots where I had to ask a 2nd person to either hold a light or move the camera where it was impossible for me to do so without building some elaborate contraption to pull off the intended effect. So I hope you enjoy this, and hey it's a live action Sonic movie that you don't have to pay for!

I can say for certain that the story mode for that game never left the pen and paper stage (Least I'm 90% sure it didn't). ASRT had a few interesting things that have yet to be found, but we're mainly talking about weapon/items and alternative rules for track transformations.

Depends who the client for the game was, ASR and ASRT were Sega Europe funded and they dealt mostly with them for the development of those games.

Old post but... I'd say the manual isn't trolling. The game was made by Sumo Digital and they normally do put stories into their games and have a lot of story elements planned even if they don't make it to the final release. Case in point would be Sega Superstars Tennis which did have a story written up for it, but I don't think it was ever released. ASRT also had a ton of creative assets cut from the game just a few months before release (a completely alternative sticker set and other graphics for a few things). Some of these did get released but not very well documented. So whoever wrote the manual probably was working off a older brief which got changed mid development.

This is the year we get the Smash Cards!

I actually managed to find some video of this costume. It's extremely brief and it great quality. But it seems the Knuckles costume was used at some of the old Sega roadshows and would often be used at the more big profile one. One show in particular was the BBC Radio One Summer Roadshow event. 3 of the Sega busses turned up to that one including the Sonic, Tails and Knuckles mascot, the brief clip shows them dancing on stage. I really need to get around to doing the 2nd sonic mascot vid.

Yeah yeah...

Why don't you tell us about the ones you like?

I'm taking it with a grain of salt... The surprise screening was supposed to be a double feature of Terminator 1 and Terminator 2, fans turned up and they showed Dark Fate. So they got to see it for free and were all Terminator fans anyway so... yeah... I think I'd like to see it for myself or wait for a few more outlets to publish.

So the movie is out this week (UK). And there are a few reviews out. Basically, the French media got the wrong embargo date, so a lot of reviews from french sources... and the movie was shown at a Surprise screening yesterday, so a bunch of thoughts from that... There be LOADS of spoilers ahead. So the one thing which keep popping up and this has my alarm bells ringing... The movie is being compared A LOT to the Force awakens, in that it feels like a re-telling of Terminator 1 and 2 in order to set up a new storyline. So I hope this is a case of a re-telling like how Predators was a re-telling/sequel of the original Predator, and not a Force Awakens style of sequel/retelling.