{"id":121923,"date":"2020-12-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/netflix_announces_new_3d_sonic_animated_series_quickly_deletes_tweet"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:00:00","slug":"netflix-announces-new-3d-sonic-animated-series-quickly-deletes-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/11\/netflix-announces-new-3d-sonic-animated-series-quickly-deletes-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Announces New 3D Sonic Animated Series, Quickly Deletes Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf899c31d940\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf899c31d940\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Netflix x Sonic\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf899c31d940\/netflix-x-sonic.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf899c31d940\/netflix-x-sonic.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Netflix x Sonic\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Netflix appears to have given the game away on a brand new 3D Sonic animated series a little earlier than planned.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming service announced the new show on its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXOnNetflix\">@NXOnNetflix<\/a> Twitter handle, before very quickly deleting the tweet and choosing to stay away from the topic since. The post read, &#8220;Rings? Check. Sneakers? Check. Speed? SONIC. SEGA\u2019s legendary video game icon Sonic the Hedgehog races onto Netflix in a new 3D animated series from @SEGA, @WildBrainHQ and @ManOfActionEnt premiering in 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see a screenshot of the original tweet below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Netflix x Sonic Deleted Tweet\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d4e4b3ab51b7e\/netflix-x-sonic-deleted-tweet.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d4e4b3ab51b7e\/netflix-x-sonic-deleted-tweet.original.png\" alt=\"Netflix x Sonic Deleted Tweet\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Netflix via Twitter, screenshot: Nintendo Life<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know Sega, of course, but as for the other companies involved, Wild Brain owns series like <em>Teletubbies<\/em>, <em>Degrassi<\/em>, and <em>Inspector Gadget<\/em>, while Man of Action is a writer collective known for projects such as <em>Ben 10<\/em> and <em>Big Hero 6<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sonic has already found silver screen success this year after his live-action film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/sonic_the_hedgehog_movie_box_office_surpasses_usd200_million_worldwide\">surpassed $200 million at the box office in just ten days<\/a>. A sequel to that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/sonic_movie_sequel_scheduled_to_start_production_in_march_next_year\">already been confirmed<\/a>, so a Netflix series probably makes sense too, right?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re assuming the show will be revealed again \u2013 but properly this time \u2013 at a later date. Would you be excited to see a new 3D Sonic animation, or are you not feeling it? Share your thoughts with us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix appears to have given the game away on a brand new 3D Sonic animated series a little earlier than planned. The streaming service announced the new show on its @NXOnNetflix Twitter handle, before very quickly deleting the tweet and choosing to stay away from the topic since. The post read, &#8220;Rings? Check. Sneakers? Check. [&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-121923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121923","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=121923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}