The LEGO Group has many big rules, but happiness always seems to be the bottom line. Once the speed sphere contraption was finalized, it was once again let loose on focus groups of adults and children alike, who helped shape the wider LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog experience. “Not only does the speed sphere launcher capture Sonic’s distinctive spinning, but it also creates a lot of LEGO fun with loops and making targets out of LEGO bricks.” “Sonic is all about speed, so I was very interested in how this could be expressed with LEGO bricks,” he says.
The finished product went down very well with Iizuka-san and Sonic Team. You don’t want everything to break every time you touch it.” “We tried to test as much as we can to make sure that what we have is the right quality,” says Andre. The launcher also went through a number of iterations, before leading the team to do something quite rare outside of minifigure design: after exhausting the possibilities of existing LEGO pieces, they created a whole new, curved LEGO piece for its core structure. Others used too many Technic connectors, making them impossible for young kids to open. The company tried and tested dozens of designs with hundreds of children in Denmark–including family members–to get the best final product.Įarly speed sphere concepts lacked walls, meaning minifigures could fall out and get damaged. It wasn’t a case of creating two or three prototypes and choosing the best one. Sonic’s Speed Sphere Challenge (76990) in action. The “speed sphere” was the first thing they conceptualized, though this quickly proved to be a huge challenge–an idea that could only succeed by finding the correct mix of size, function, durability, weight, and ease of use.īased entirely on the slap of your hand–or, let’s be honest, a smash of your fist–this stapler-like launcher lets you fire a Sonic-filled, yo-yo-shaped disc with a surprising combination of speed and accuracy, allowing you to take on the sets’ jumps, loops, and hidden functions. To give fans the true Blue Blur experience, LEGO designers had to create a whole new way for kids to play with their products. “So it was like, alright, how do we get some of the speed of Sonic into the LEGO sets?” Developing Sonic’s speed sphere “We had to find the most iconic part of Sonic, and that was in him running really fast,” Otley says. Development of these four sets took around two years, and speed was immediately identified as the defining feature.
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While mocking-up early minifigures–Otley fondly remembers hand-painting a 3D print of Dr Eggman, then sending it to SEGA for its initial thoughts–the LEGO team immersed themselves in the universe, watching days of game playthroughs, TV shows, and more to create their initial ideas board. “Whether it’s gaming, movies, animation, or any other play pattern, our goal is to inspire and bring joy to our audiences and let them freely use their boundless creativity to build immersive experiences they can direct.” Sonic’s Speed Sphere Challenge (76990) LEGO Group “We feel that it’s essential for fans of all ages to engage with Sonic and his friends in many ways, including the highly creative building and unique storytelling that LEGO construction sets allow. “As huge fans of LEGO bricks over many years, everyone on Sonic Team was very excited to work with the world’s biggest toy company,” he says. Takashi Iizuka, the head of Sonic Team, shows a lot of love for the LEGO brand as a whole he even has the LEGO Ideas Green Hill Zone on display in his home. They’re also a very big fan of their own IP–they’re a bunch of fanboys over there–so it was great to work with them.” “They gave some guidance on what they believed was very iconic. “SEGA is a very good partner,” says Andre. You can go to where your passions are, so it’s kind of natural that gamers in the company have slowly gravitated towards gaming.”Īs huge fans of the franchise, Otley and Andre wanted to encapsulate the spirit of Sonic the Hedgehog in bricks, and worked directly with SEGA to come up with starting points. “The best thing about LEGO, at least in design, is that it’s actually pretty fluid.
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“The great thing about our team is that we’re all massive gamers,” says Otley. The latest LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog sets were the perfect fit for concept lead Patrick Otley–a passionate retro gamer involved in the “dreaming and inventing side” of product development–and design lead Frédéric Roland Andre, who previously pitched and created last year’s stunning Horizon Forbidden West Tallneck set before spearheading this project’s all-important design and building stages. Sonic’s Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge (76994), LEGO's biggest new Sonic the Hedgehog set.
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