>>11347340Overdosing on copium.
>It's a reference to a game, made specifically for AOSTH. It's an AOSTH, you Sega purist.With the AOSTH part removed in the reference. Look at the Eggman on that piece, wrong design. And I'm not a "Sega Purist," I'm just realistic about them releasing merch for something they are actively trying to bury.
>Sonic Spinball isn't an SATAM game though. It uses the classic Eggman design, and the release omits the Freedom Fighters from the game.OK, if the wrong Eggman design breaks my comparison, the same point kills your reference argument. It might reference a game that references a cartoon, but that Lego piece is not a reference to a cartoon.
But what release removes them? I was unaware that they actually touched the code for that game outside of porting it to other platforms. And if so, that only proves my main point even further that they would scrub their cameos from an old game if that's true.
>Jakks Pacific sneaked a Hyper Knuckles from Archie past SegaThat's not an Archie thing you actual idiot, that's a Sonic 3 thing. Super/Hyper Knuckles went between white and red while in his super form, hence pink. So even if it's a Hyper Knuckles reference, that's not something Archie made or is specifically associated with it. He can even go Super in Mania, and that came out after all this unified Sonic Timeline shit. That's not even grasping, you're just wrong.