Sonic Christmas Blast
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| Written by: | Jack Olesker |
| Release date: | 1996 |
| Running time: | 30 minutes |
| Characters: | Sonic the Hedgehog |
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Sonic Christmas Blast is a 1996 Christmas special, aired on the USA Network, spun off from the animated series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (which itself was based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series).
[edit] Trivia
- A brief plug for this special was given in issue #41 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book, advertised as An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas. This suggests that the special was made with the intention of tying in with Sonic X-Treme, a Sonic game that was supposed to be released for the Sega Saturn for Christmas in the same year as the special. When Sonic X-Treme was delayed (and eventually cancelled), though, the special's title was changed to fit with the Sonic game that did come out in time for Christmas - Sonic 3-D Blast on the Sega Genesis (which was soon ported to the Saturn).
- The part where Sonic uses a snowboard is probably based on the first part of the Ice Cap Zone level from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 on the Genesis.
- Although the special is based mainly off of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog series, the character of Princess Sally comes from the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon that ran at the same time as Adventures (which was titled simply Sonic the Hedgehog, but also called SatAM by fans to differentiate from the games and the other show), though here she is colored with her color scheme from that show's pilot, "Heads or Tails". She also notably does not have any actual lines; a brief cut right after Sonic speaks with her suggests that dialogue for her was already scripted and even animated, but cut out because, for whatever reason, Kath Soucie (who had voiced the character on SatAM) did not agree to reprise the role. Other elements from SatAM used here are the town name being Robotropolis (albeit pronounced differently) and the drone Badniks being referred to as SWATbots (in spite of not resembling the ones seen on SatAM).
