Mutants, of course. No one actually wants horrible looking bad quality junk that ruins Sonic's reputation. No one wants to collect disgusting stupid items, or have their relatives get tricked into buying it for them by unscrupulous companies. So it is rather unfortunate that Mutant Gear has branched out into a second page of lameness.
However, we can make the best of it, by pointing out these lame things and making fun of them! Here is yet another page of stuff you won't want.
First off, that "Groucho" eyebrow black line is quickly getting FAR out of control. Then...look into her eyes...her UNEVENLY SIZED EYES. Yes, you're seeing right, they have indeed used TWO different sizes of plastic plush eyes to make this amy. They couldn't even bother to make them match.
Naturally, they ruin him. He looks like a disgusting fly with his huge plastic colored eyes, sewn on all sideways and wrong. His body is poofy with over-stuffing, and his shoes are fat too. The legs are too short and shrivelly. Still, it's his face that is the worst. When will they ever learn! No one wants this!
Credit to LightChao11
Amy, they didn't even bother to dress up. She's just holding some jack o' lantern, which is likely a left-over from something else. She still suffers from wonky-eyes, messed up mouth and eye-lash attack, so even without the phony theme, she's still not any good.
Toy Network forgot to put on Amy's dress, so now the poor plush is naked. The faces on these dolls aren't so bad, but forgetting to put her dress on is a pretty big mistake. Sonic DOES have ears, but they have indeed forgotten to add them to previous Sonics. The only surprise here is, that this didn't happen to an Amy earlier! (especially with their record of bad dolls)
This is neither Holly nor Jolly, it is Sonic dressed (badly) as a stupid looking Christmas elf! Now his body is all green, and he has a festive vest and nasty striped hat. They've changed his shoes to elf-shoes as well, as you can see in the bottom of the picture. So basically what this is, is some elf body with a Sonic head sewn on top. You'll have a holiday of horrors if this is under your tree!
Here, the only holiday aspect of Sonic and Tails is that they've had a candy cane sewn to their hand.
Knuckles is next as "Santa's Failure" er, "Santa's Helper"
Her dress is white, her shoes are black and she has on a top hat? A badly done top hat, at that! What's she supposed to be for? Again, they used too large of plastic eyes, and her ears are rather mis-shapen
However, other than her odd theme, eyes, ears and terrible hat, this plush isn't totally awful. Could they be making an effort...?
Photo by: streak the fox
Here we have "Valentines Knuckles". How valentines is he? NOT. All they did was write onto his body (What is this, a tattoo??) "Be my valentine" like one of those terrible cheap bears that show up every year that no one actually wants! Argh! Sonic stuff is not some cheap holiday throw-a-way!
Easter Tails gets a similar amount of effort with a tacked on "Easter Egg" and nothing else. However, this Tails isn't particularly 'mutated' that badly. Yes, the theme is corney...but the plush itself isn't the "Worst thing ever" like some of their other failures. Hmmm.
Too bad. If you need to guess, these are probably Valentines and Easter Amy. Again, they swapped out the fabric for her dress (with polka dot!) and added some annoying accessory. In this case the heart says "Darling" on it and the flower also has words. However, you can't really read them in this photo.
Notice Valentine Amy's black eye rim?
It's mostly missing, save for a few tiny scrap like bits and her eyelashes. It looks like something has gone wrong with this plush...aside from the lame theme and wrinkly arms!
Sonic is ready to decorate his really tacky egg with a rather mutant paint brush. The egg isn't even Easter-like, with bright zig-zags...but that's the least of it's troubles. As you can surely see, Sonic's feet are almost BALLS on the ends of his legs. The bottom of the shoe is so puffy that it has lost all it's shape. Toy Network Sonics all also seem to suffer from 'bent down ears', and this one is not much different, but at least 1 ear is making part of an effort to stay up.
However, the face on this one isn't 100% horrible.
Come on. Another bogus plush, this time with a really mutant 'hat'of some kind. It's obviously some sort of attempt at Patriotic Sonic but it's just so miserable! No one can even tell what that horrible hat is supposed to be. It's like a stars and stripes ice-cream cone started trying to eat Sonic's head.
If toy network wants to make horrible Sonic dolls, the least they could do is leave poor America out of it. But, they go for the bizzarre and annoying on every level so not even the USA is safe from attacks of 'badly made'.
Maybe. It's wierd, at least. And finally, it's something NOT ToyNetwork. Well, let's have a run-down. We have different length shrivelly arms. Check. A very bizzarre wrinkly hand...what's going on with it? Eyes that are not sewn on streight. Check. A huge nose and bizzarre expression. Check. Then, look at his legs. They're fatter toward the 'shoe end' than at the top, and they don't look even. The nose is also somewhat 'carrot like'. They bothered with some shoe detail but...really this is a strange looking plush Sonic doll.
Here are 2 plushes from Japan. As you know, Japan is known more for their quality of Sonic items than most of the other countries that produce them. However, that's certainly not the case here!
Amy's spike/s are very wrong, with it sticking straight up and also she is totally missing her 'bangs' in front. Her ears are folded and tiny. Her shoes are also mis-colored, and lacking the laces that her old sneakers had. But look at Tails's tails! They look more like an arm they're so super shriveled and small, quite unlike ordinary Japan products.
Do you know anything more about these strange dolls? Photo by:
Another stab by ToyNetwork gives us Knuckles with a mutated chest-stripe which has now become a heart! How do you sew something so wrong? Clearly, this is not a "Valentines Plush" as you can already see it above, and it just has "Be My Valentine" written on it. This is just an error, and a strange one at that.
Where is Sega in all this? Do they even know that these are being done to poor, innocent Sonic? One can't help but think they don't know what's going on. Photo discovered by Memeki.
This thing started out on the "Bootlegs/Fakes" page. Why? Just inspect the quality of it. First of all, are those squids or Sonic hands? He's got flailing wacko fingers! Then, his face is rather strange and round, with off-model triangle ears and suspicious square eyes. As you can see, it's supposed to be a keychain, however it looks more like a phony!
Sadly though, it isn't...It's too bad they went to a lot of trouble with the official looking topper to the poly-bag. After this many years in existance, how can official stuff end up looking this bad?
Discovered by Josh.