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And I thought £4.29 for the Ninjago mag was pricey.

@Your Vest Friend This is actually the most expensive one I've seen.

Typically they cap out at £10-£12, normally those are the ones which come with large hardback graphic novels. 

The only thing I can think is that they don't plan to sustain the line in the long term, so they're hedging bets on charging more for these early ones since the product can (theoretically) justify it. 

So one of my followers apparently collects this companies Doctor Who line... apparently the magazine is actually pretty good and well researched. 

Knuckles' base is clearly Hidden Palace Zone. 

@Blue Blood Wait are you... Kidding or for reals...

Just I'm legitimately struggling to figure out what else it could be!

Well it's not Flying Battery at least. That floor is just grey-purple with orange. Dunno where they got that from. 

The Doctor Who magazine is very good and the figures are nice and weighty. The paint job can be a wee bit iffy but given that the Sonic characters are made of big block colours and shapes I think it'll work out far better than the tiny details on the Doctor Who humans and monsters.

£16 is absolutely a steep price per issue compared to other ranges of this type. Especially if this doesn't extend into the modern brand we have a very limited pool of characters to pick from. If the magazines are as high quality as the Doctor Who ones there might just barely be enough in here to justify the price. I worry that a lot of consumers would be more likely to pick up a Totaku figure or something though.

Yeah, it's usually the case that merchandise doesn't typically cover both modern and classic (with very sparse exceptions). On a tangent to this, this is why I'm sceptical of that LEGO Ideas Sonic Mania set, but still. 

@Blue Blood Oh man you're right it is!

Better comparison shot is the section where Knuckles gets zapped! It matches the base exactly!