2020's Good Sonic Start
The year continues to be off to a Sonic Start!
Merchandise is all around us once again, with good classic/modern and character variety as well as store variety. There are at least 3 new brand names working with Sonic between these two weeks alone, plus more to come on upcoming weeks as well. And that's new stuff too, not some uncovered thing from the 90s. Availability seems ok too with places like Amazon and Walmart that pretty much anybody can get to.
Why "All America Again"?
Because it's what's easiest to find, and what gets sent in the most. There's probably UK and EU stuff, but it's more difficult to get it on a search engine (here) and Gear doesn't currently seem to have any Euro shoppers out cruising in game stores & taking photos etc. Or, there's a chance too that there simply isn't the level of stuff there for whatever reason. Same with Japan, who seems to be (oddly) on the movie boat a little bit. That's why Japan stuff continues to turn up but be really old from like the early 90s still, even though you'd think everything would've been found by now.
Item of the week:
Metal charms keychain. It's not a spectacular or complex item, but boy are these ever long lasting and sturdy collectibles. USA hasn't had a really nice keychain in a long time too, plus it's a new company which is always good news. The "Where" book would have probably been here but I can't judge it without owning it and I don't yet. (Will likely buy it in the future)
Oddity:
GE's sleepy chibi big heads Sonic plush. Why's he drooling?
Next week:
Next week's update DOES have a theme, and it's an unusual one: "All Annoying Items Update". It's surprising, but actually possible to have every single category have something in it that people will find annoying. Some are certainly opinions (funko) but others like the new "Sonic balls" are probably going to be less-so. Prepare for some 'meh'.
Merchandise is all around us once again, with good classic/modern and character variety as well as store variety. There are at least 3 new brand names working with Sonic between these two weeks alone, plus more to come on upcoming weeks as well. And that's new stuff too, not some uncovered thing from the 90s. Availability seems ok too with places like Amazon and Walmart that pretty much anybody can get to.
Why "All America Again"?
Because it's what's easiest to find, and what gets sent in the most. There's probably UK and EU stuff, but it's more difficult to get it on a search engine (here) and Gear doesn't currently seem to have any Euro shoppers out cruising in game stores & taking photos etc. Or, there's a chance too that there simply isn't the level of stuff there for whatever reason. Same with Japan, who seems to be (oddly) on the movie boat a little bit. That's why Japan stuff continues to turn up but be really old from like the early 90s still, even though you'd think everything would've been found by now.
Item of the week:
Metal charms keychain. It's not a spectacular or complex item, but boy are these ever long lasting and sturdy collectibles. USA hasn't had a really nice keychain in a long time too, plus it's a new company which is always good news. The "Where" book would have probably been here but I can't judge it without owning it and I don't yet. (Will likely buy it in the future)
Oddity:
GE's sleepy chibi big heads Sonic plush. Why's he drooling?
Next week:
Next week's update DOES have a theme, and it's an unusual one: "All Annoying Items Update". It's surprising, but actually possible to have every single category have something in it that people will find annoying. Some are certainly opinions (funko) but others like the new "Sonic balls" are probably going to be less-so. Prepare for some 'meh'.
posted by AzureBlaze at 10:46 PM
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