So Much Stuff & More on The Way

 What's the update supposed to do?
There is just SO MUCH STUFF coming out seemingly all the time. The updates can't keep up with it, and there's not infinite time to just keep doing 'huge updates' or 'multi updates' or something to try and clear out the image bins AND deal with the inbox mail.

That's right (and if you couldn't tell...well...that's because its going badly) the Gear Submissions inbox IS actually operating but everything is buried under so much piles of new stuff that the responses/answers and additions aren't going as planned at all. It's all basically under a back-log so if you sent in anything and didn't get a reply, this is pretty much why.
It extends to questions too because they get buried in the items mails. I'm trying to keep after it, but it may take some time to get it back to more normal. 

While this sounds gloomy...
It's actually pretty much good news because it means more Sonic things than ever before are showing up everywhere so collectors and fans are no doubt super happy. It's just, as a collector site it's hard to keep up with. If Gear was just a photo showcase or something, it wouldn't matter as much 'to keep up with', but it's where lots of people go to actually find out about what's available now--because it's not like GE or Bio World or something is advertising on TV and making announcements of products that everyone can see. How are you supposed to know where to look for new products especially if they're hiding socks in the electronics section? (and other random things sometimes) 

In an effort to do something about it:
There may be the return of the 'themed update', where an update only has 1 kind of thing on it to make it go faster and push more items onto the site at once. Also, if you sent something in to the email, do have patience because it'll get-gotten-to, just not as fast as probably expected. Nothing's broken, it's just buried under stuff.

Next Week:
That said...prepare for t-shirts! 
Any category that has loads of stuff in it/maybe an update to itself to see if that helps anything to go faster.

How about that new game announcement Sonic Shadow Generations?
The trailers look great so far, everyone seems pretty positive about it. Hopefully the positive continues because Frontiers is a lot to live up to--but it seems like this newer era of Sonic could actually do it. Like Frontiers really gave him/the team/whatever the ability to turn over a new leaf and stop getting distracted by weird stuff. (Or, an interesting theory posting about online is that having Sonic have like a zillion gimmicks and what-not in the mobile games keeps the main games more focused somehow or is a base to let them try things without consequences)