LEGO announces new sets, with new Animal Crossing and Sonic the Hedgehog kits set to be available on August 1, 2025.

Strangely, the humans act more cartoony and buffoonish in the live-action films than the animal characters created through CG animation. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 wisely avoids and downplays that aspect.

Possibilities for incorporating comic characters into the films are ... The majority of the animals in the Sonic franchise don't carry over a lot of traits from the animals they're based on.

which got them a bunch of characters to choose from, including this Teddy Roosevelt-looking man in pajamas who was ultimately used as the basis for Sonic's nemesis, Dr. Eggman. Of 200-plus ...