You could order a whole Sonic statue, or you could slowly piece one together over the course of a month. In what's probably the strangest delivery of the blue speedster, Numskull Designs has stuffed all of Sonic's bodyparts behind tiny closed doors for you to open in the wait for Christmas. It's an advent calendar working towards one big surprise, instead of 24 small ones.
Yes, you did read that correctly the first time. Numskull is slowly dishing out pieces of Sonic to you. Maybe on the first day of Christmas, you'll get his eyes, and on another day you get a hand, but Sonic does not arrive all in one package. I reckon as a kid I would have either been absolutely delighted, terrified, or both, to open one of the small cardboard doors and only find Sonic's mouth, but it's so bizarre that it's kind of neat.
After opening every door and uncovering all of Sonic's... pieces, you can complete the nine-inch figure by snapping him together. It's kind of hard to explain and do the whole situation justice, so if you're still struggling to understand what's going on here, there's a video showing how the advent calendar actually works.
I can't decide if the concept is stranger for an advent calendar or for a little plastic Sonic, maybe both. It's not like Sega's beloved hedgehog is the first to get a little weird with the merch, though. Just last month, Final Fantasy 14's director and producer showed off a soulless version of Eorzea's defender, Y'shtola, that can be yours for a cool $1,000. Even as a fan of the MMO, I'd rather take the 24-piece Sonic.
Advent calendar aside, Sonic has found his way into other jarring situations over the last year. Back in September, a Sonic the Hedgehog cartridge sold at auction for $430,5▨00—a price so outrageous even the former head of Sega's Sonic Team thought something was off. Sonic also made a guest appearance in the Atlus mobile game Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:where he's listed as a demon. So, even if we stop and reflect on decades of Sonic, perhaps being ripped up for an advent calendar isn't his most shocking incarnation.