{"id":102605,"date":"2019-10-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/rumour_new_images_supposedly_show_sonics_movie_redesign_but_were_not_convinced_just_yet"},"modified":"2019-10-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T09:00:00","slug":"rumour-new-images-supposedly-show-sonics-movie-redesign-but-were-not-convinced-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/27\/rumour-new-images-supposedly-show-sonics-movie-redesign-but-were-not-convinced-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: New Images Supposedly Show Sonic&#8217;s Movie Redesign, But We&#8217;re Not Convinced Just Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53ad41da6a2e8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53ad41da6a2e8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Here's a reminder of the original\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53ad41da6a2e8\/heres-a-reminder-of-the-original.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53ad41da6a2e8\/heres-a-reminder-of-the-original.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Here's a reminder of the original\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Here&#8217;s a reminder of the original<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update &#8211; Sun 27th Oct, 2019 09:00 GMT:<\/strong> Another look at the apparent movie redesign of Sonic the Hedgehog has reportedly appeared online (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/stories\/347799-rumor-another-look-at-sonic-s-potential-redesign-for-the-upcomin\">GoNintendo<\/a>), and it seemingly matches the existing images supplied by @TailsChannel.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoskiLani\">@JoskiLani<\/a> says they uploaded the photo on behalf of the original poster to ensure the person responsible for the supposed &#8220;leak&#8221; remained anonymous.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And there it is, everyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dJB1zt2tkv\">pic.twitter.com\/dJB1zt2tkv<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Jo (@JoskiLani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoskiLani\/status\/1188292761977384960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Original Story &#8211; Tue 15th Oct, 2019 11:45 BST:<\/strong> Back in May this year, the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie&#8217;s director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/sonic_movie_director_promises_to_change_controversial_design\">promised that the titular character would be redesigned<\/a> after what can only be described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/sonics_co-creator_feels_responsible_for_movie_trailer_backlash\">very passionate feedback<\/a> from fans. Now, images have surfaced online which allegedly show how Sonic will look in his new form.<\/p>\n<p>You can see both of these images in the tweet below. The uploader, @TailsChannel, says that the images were obtained from &#8220;a friend in Paramount Studios&#8221;. It all seems particularly fishy to us so we&#8217;d definitely take what you see with a pinch of salt, but the design <em>does<\/em> look closer to what fans probably expected, whether it&#8217;s real or not.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SonicMovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SonicMovie<\/a> rumour: Multiple images featuring an alleged redesigned Sonic has surfaced online. This is a RUMOUR! We are working to confirm its authenticity. (h\/t BestInTheGalaxy) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZFLqBcANM5\">pic.twitter.com\/ZFLqBcANM5<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Tails&#8217; Channel &#8211; Celebrating 11 Years! (@TailsChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TailsChannel\/status\/1183895203641475072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to know for sure whether this might be the real deal, of course, but at least Sonic won&#8217;t end up looking like that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/random_hooray_now_everyone_can_look_just_like_movie_sonic\">horrible Walmart Sonic costume<\/a> we shared the other day. That thing&#8217;s still giving us nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Sonic&#8217;s also just been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/sonic_will_be_a_hidden_playable_character_in_super_monkey_ball_on_switch\">announced as a playable character<\/a> in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_monkey_ball_banana_blitz_hd\"><strong>Super Monkey Ball<\/strong><\/a> game on Switch.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think? Would you be happy if this did turn out to be real? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a reminder of the original Update &#8211; Sun 27th Oct, 2019 09:00 GMT: Another look at the apparent movie redesign of Sonic the Hedgehog has reportedly appeared online (thanks, GoNintendo), and it seemingly matches the existing images supplied by @TailsChannel. Twitter user @JoskiLani says they uploaded the photo on behalf of the original poster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}