Official Sonic Stylebook on eBay

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:34 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8212417418

Just found that interesting auction. 11 hours left for anyone who's interested, the price is insanely high though.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:10 am

So buy it.

Post by **G.Silver** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:16 am

I have seen this book before, and given the Seattle location and all the VO stuff on auction I have a suspicion I know the seller...

It's interesting but it's not very cool, if you ever wanted to see how Sega intentionally (?) caused every piece of pre-1998 US Sonic memorbilia to use the same crappy artwork, this is the way to do it. It provides the rules and guidelines that licensees should apply to the characters as they appear on puzzles and lunchboxes and the like, but the example clipart they include is pretty sad. It's also not particularly long, I at least expected something longer and with more detail. I got the impression whoever put it together didn't really know much about Sonic or, certainly not much about what <b>I</b> would have liked to see in Sonic paraphenelia. I mean, sure, Sonic's a cash cow and all that, but I would have liked to at least seen some hints at quality control, that ideally Sega's standards were higher than this, even if licensees where following the bare minimums.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:16 am

Table Of Contents, lol

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:49 am

I like that expressions page. I never knew Sonic could become kind of blue.

firemario1001 · Post by **firemario1001** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:39 pm

Arghhh, it's the American artwork. It's not the deviation in style that puts me off- it's the fact that they butchered the designs of some of the characters, like Dr. Robotnik.