Amid the success of Sonic 3 in cinemas, I've been pouring over old Sonic the Hedgehog character ... The new character design ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Sonic the Hedgehog famously went through a drastic design change for his first Hollywood film. Fans were so upset at this [screaming] that the ...

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Much like Sega's design, Sonic's eyes are much bigger in the new version. In the old one, his eyes were shrunken to make them more anatomically similar to an actual hedgehog. This is still ...

The early rendering of Sonic had small eyes, strange-looking legs, and a fucking set of human teeth for goodness sake. The design simply wasn't acceptable, and after a frightening amount of ...

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