Sonic the Hedgehog Accessories of Japan

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If it's from Japan, and you can wear it, but it isn't clothing, chances are, it's right here. Japan had plenty of accessories with which to decorate yourself. However, many of these items had co-releases in other countries, they just changed the packageing. Don't be surprised if you see some of these things else where, or even own some yourself! Thanks to wider releases for some of these items, they are fortunatly not all that rare, even today.

There never seems to be a shortage of watches with Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean, how many can you really have? The world may never know, they're still turning 'em out! The first watch is shown twice. It says the classic "Segasonic" on it but there's too much glare for the face. The second you'll recognize as the Tiger Electronics game-watch from the USA. This one is still in the package, which is in english as well.

A selection of 5 Sonic watches. This is an old photo and the quality is not very good. You can still sort of make him out if you squint at it. The one on the end (black) looks like the "Pair of eyes" from the ash tray shown elsewhere. It's too bad this is so fuzzy.

These are Sonic Umbrellas. They are the victim of another ancient photo, so you can't really see who is on each one. But they are definately Sonic, this is a Sega World of Somewhere photo.

Each umbrella fit in its own color-coordinated case with a pic of Sonic & Tails on it. Photo by Scavanger4Food

With these close up shots of the umbrellas, you can see they used outlines in an interesting and stylish manner on two of the pannels for each one. Are all the umbrella designs different, or do some of them repeat, but with different colors? The quality of the original photo makes it impossible to tell. These are nice, big umbrealls, which look like good thick quality cloth. Photo by Alessandro

Ah, it's time To Be Cool...with yet more Japanese watches. The yellow one is "Segasonic" again, and the center features the "Sonic in Space" design popular around the time of Sonic CD. Hard to tell what the dark color watch is about. The two "Be Cool" ones may be the American release packaging for it. The right one flips up to reveal the time. The left looks rather similar to that old Quaker Oat give-away deal.

This is an inflatable arm thing. It is like a band, with an inflatable pool-toy like Sonic Adventure Sonic face on it. This was a give away at a game show. Who thinks of these things?

What if one arm-balloon accessory is not enough? It was hard enough to believe someone thought up one...but now there are two. Here is a chao who hugs your arm so you can wear it around. Look at the little hot pink wings! These strange inflatable accessories are somewhat charming, just due to oddity.

A cell phone holder or item wallet being shown with a shirt at the famous Sonic Store in Japan.

Here is one of the latest items out of Japan. This is a sort of wearable hard case for your items. It seems to be by Aniria. These photos are from Sonic Team's site, showing a model and how you might use it. It seems rather high quality. The page it was on says "It is a limited edition Sonic the Hedgehog carrying case for the DS lite,ipods,digital camera's ect.It has a hard shell outside made of polycarbonate.It is lightweight and the image of Sonic shines.The image shows that you can also use it to store your trading cards. Thanks to a great translator for this info! So it can be assumed that the graphics/words are in some sort of reflective material. Polycarbonate is known to be very hard, so this will certainly be a tough case. Over all, it looks like a very high quality item. This leads one to suspect that it is probably also expensive, although only if you live in Japan can you order it.

Look at this fun collection of cute old house slippers! Several different pairs are represented here, and all are from the 1990s. In the back, is the Christmas theme Tails slipper, the next two have arms, but nothing else and blue shoe-bodies, the front ones are just his larger size plush head, and the very front has a fun pair of Eggman slippers. These use most of his body (except the legs) and even have floppy little arms. All of the slippers appear well crafted, and actually make a pretty good likeness, for the head. Even the Eggman torsos are quite decent. Adding something as unusual to these to your collection would be great, but they are all fairly rare. Photographed and owned by Alessandro

Here are 2 vintage Sonic ski caps. They're beanie style, made with thick knit fabric. The rims are kept flipped up, and each one has an added cloth design. The first has the Sonic & Knuckles logo (it says 'Sonic & Knuckles Sega' around the edge) The second is all gray with just the Sonic phrase and classic stock art Sonic embroidered on. Neither hat is common. Photo by Scavenger4food

Here's an early and simplistic cap. The art is embroidered on, and is clearly in the early style (very vertical pupil, round hand and wide spikes). It also uses the Segasonic label, from before they un-fused his name. The small writing to the side is the Sega copyright. It's a nice real classic design, though why the hat is this extra-bright orange color...there's no telling. It's still a bright and interesting collectible. Photo discovered by Berzerker.

This curious watch has a gimmick that makes it unlike all the others. It's a simple digital watch (see face in the back) but it is covered by a clear dome full of liquid. This serves to magnify the text underneath, as well as allow a semi-3D figure of Sonic to float around and move inside. He's flat on the back, but has raised details on the front. The floating figure adds interest and movement to an otherwise simple item. You can tell this is a pretty early item, as it says "SegaSonic", it is from 1991. This watch is uncommon. Photographed & owned by John.