![Sonic Sez Friendship is Magic This certainly came out of nowhere – a source has tipped us off that Dave Polsky, writer for such TV shows and movies like South […]](http://www.tssznews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sonicboom3-620x250.jpg "UPDATE: Sega launching new “Sonic Boom” Cartoon")
Sonic Sez Friendship is Magic
This certainly came out of nowhere – a source has tipped us off that Dave Polsky, writer for such TV shows and movies like South Park, Frank TV, Scary Movie, and My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, was dropping hints at the Ohio-based My-Little-Pony-themed convention Trotcon that he was currently writing episodes for a new Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon under the name of “Sonic Boom“. For what it’s worth, Sonic Boom is even listed in his Featured Guests profile on the Trotcon website:
Dave Polsky
His credits range from features (Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2) to animation (South Park, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sonic Boom, Class of 3000) to sitcoms (Pair of Kings) to late night (The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show) to daytime (The Donny and Marie Show) to sketch comedy (Frank TV, Cedric the Entertainer Presents). Add that to the fact that he got his start in game shows (Singled Out) and you have a textbook case of a) versatility or b) terrible career management… take your pick. Dave created and executive produced Disney’s The Buzz on Maggie, in addition to writing other pilots for Disney Channel, FOX, CBS, Castle Rock Entertainment, and Nickelodeon.
Moments ago at his Trotcon Q&A Panel, Polsky revealed more information about “Sonic Boom” – we’re still waiting to see if our source can elaborate more, but early reports indicate that it is a “Pony-esque reboot of the cartoon series”. What, exactly, that means is currently a mystery – Sonic has had no shortage of cartoons over the years, and each one of them involves completely different settings and supporting characters. Any one of them could be rebooted, and it’s worth mentioning that one of Polsky’s contributions to MLP was, apparently, writing music for an episode, so not even Sonic Underground is out of the question at this time.
Right now, you know about as much as we do. We’ll have more on this as it develops.
UPDATE: Our source has offered more information now that the panel is over regarding “Sonic Boom”. All Polsky would say is that it involves Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy Rose, and would lean towards “comedic in style”, making it sound unconnected to any previous Sonic cartoon.
Stay tuned!
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If this ends up being real, and if by chance Silver shows up, I just want Sonic to refer to him as “Fern-head’ once, then I’ll be happy.
MLP haters much guys? Geez, where in the text does it say ‘Upcoming Sonic and My Little Pony Crossover series”? Nowhere. Get the facts straight before you make an ass out of yourself with your hateful comments. Just because you don’t like the ponies doesn’t mean you have to bash the crud out of them.
As far as I’m concerned, as long as our blue blur doesn’t suffer the same fate as Mickey, I’m cool. (For clarity, please watch the Disney short ‘Runaway Brain’ then an episode of MM Clubhouse, then you’ll understand)
Totally still hate the fansMickey is returning in all new shorts. They’re not like Runaway Brain, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Runaway Brain is brilliant.
Yeah. I loved those Disney Shorts. But my personal favorite was Disney cartoon series was Marsupilami. Marsupilami is a little yellow, spotted, long-tail creature who lives in a jungle with his silent purple gorilla friend in a pink shirt named, Maurice. I loved Marsupilami and Maurice a lot. I remember those 90’s Disney cartoons. Marsupilami came around the same time as Sonic SatAM. But I personally prefer Marsupilami. And I love Steve Mackall as Marsupilami. And I do love it when Marsupilami speaks (and does not only say “HOUBA!”) I love this guy. And Jim Cummings (who does Robotnic in Sonic SatAM) does visual effects for Maurice and does the voice of Marsupilami’s main enemy: Norman.
It’d be interesting seeing a series by someone known for their satirical works on various cartoons and Television shows.
When I read the whole story and heard of it, he is NOT working on a crossover of Sonic and My Little Pony, but rather just a special standalone series for Sonic that focuses on comedic preferences to the various series, characters and worlds in the Sonic the Hedgehog continuity. It has utterly nothing to do with My Little Pony (although I bet ya there may be some comedy bits referencing it and the fandom in a similar way various cartoons and comics have) but the great portion of the references will revolve around just the Sonic series and fandom.
Knowing most of Polsky’s works, he’ll focus on the main characters and surprise us with various cameos from various Sonic franchises (Comics, cartoons, video game), the fandom, the creators of the franchises, and of course the many heroes, villians, and supporting characters we love and love to hate rolled in with comedy, intrigue and plenty of excitement and adventure.
This guy helped write Damien from south park i have no worries that he is a funny man. My worry is that the show will be slapstick with no plot. I’ve already left the sonic fandom about 7 months ago because the fandom became a bore (theres seriously nothing going on) so maybe this will be push me back.
Dave Polsky worked with Matt ‘n Trey on “South Park”? Awesome! I hope to watch THIS show soon!
I really don’t get why many of you guys are getting mad at people’s reactions at MLP and Sonic, I mean, the guy who made this article freakin’ shoved those ponies in a banner with Sonic and you think people are suppose to act like it’s all good?
Lemme ask this question if anyone responds: What if we replaced those ponies with Marvel’s Deadpool(who’s getting his own game in a few days, SWEET), and the news of the new Sonic cartoon was that whoever the writer is/was for Deadpool’s comics/game would be behind this? Don’t you think that would have a different effect on people’s enthusiasm for this new cartoon? I know I’d be gitty as hell though, I love Deadpool.
Anyway, if you’re answer would be yes, then try to understand why so many people are having negative reactions to this now. Also, gotta give props to the guy who pointed out that the other shows Polsky did weren’t included in that banner, but that was a few pages back.
^This right here.
The same guy works on South Park, My Little Pony, and now Sonic the Hedgehog… think about that… South Park AND My Little Pony… that’s just wrong.
Of course, given the stuff certain perverts who think they count as “bronies” post on deviantart nowadays (I don’t even visit FurAffinity, but I’m sure its MUCH worse over there), maybe I’m not as surprised as I think I am.
Now I’m worried for the fanbase AND the franchise.
What I’m worried about is that the rabid bronies will blindly hate it then hop onto it and loving it like they did Alicorn Twilight Sparkle, Equestria Girls and the 2012 series of Littlest Pet Shop. And then here comes the crossovers, crappy fanfictions, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn… (As if Sonic hasn’t had enough images of him screwing Tails…)
*shudders*…Ughhh…. Why on Earth did you bring that up…
Yes, but he’s also worked on one of my favorite shows called Pucca. I’m not sure if anyone here has heard of it (seems not, since no one has brought it up), but it’s a pretty good show and I find it pretty hilarious. If he writes it with Pucca-comedy rather than MLP-comedy (sorry MLP fans, but that show is stale in my opinion…), I think it’d be good.
And better yet, Pucca has no creepy manchildren or porn (as far as I know).
If this is true I hope that there will be a nice balance between comedy and action, as well as endearing moments and maybe some genuine character development.
So far if the show will really focus primarily on Sonic, Eggman, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, then that’s a good start since I’ll finally have a show that focuses on the characters that really matter. No more Sally, no more Chris nor any of those spotlight
stealing original characters that no one gives a shit about.
A lot of people actually do give a shit about Sally.
Also, you say the toons should focus on the few main characters, call at the common few, then skip all the way to Sally and Chris as if there are no other characters. You may not like them, but not everyone wants to watch a Sonic cartoon that just focus on a main few when Sonic has the big cast that it does. We’re not talking about a game here where you wanna focus on gameplay the entire time, this is a show that needs to touch on subjects of the rest of the universe, or we’ll just get another cheesy AOSTH. This needs to be something more like SATAM or even Underground or the OVA, not like the games that are already bland enough as it is. I’ve gone on enough now so I’m done.
I do really like Amy a lot especially her Piko Piko hammer (I think that is what it is called), and her personality but why would she replace sally (I mean as a character no relation to their love interest but still) I mean they could both work for the ones who are sonic, Amy fans why not just use both I mean come on should I bring up that they do not even have a remotely close personality so saying she is better is like comparing a mailbox to a trash can it just cant be done that being said the same goes for sally so no one is better because there is nothing to compare it is just different I personally like both of their good quality’s so I agree with your post so this is more of an add-on then a reply but anyone who reads this post just think about it
Making this new cartoon like overrated SatAM is the last thing I want. No offense.
Don’t agree about Sally. She is over 100 time better than Amy, she’s whimsical.
But Amy is 12-13 years old and for her is a normal behavior. Amy is good, but Sally is better.
I love Sally but her personality/history really doesn’t fit the Sonic world.
Barely anything fits the Sonic world at all, he barely had a story or set theme when he started. The main goal of his game was to be a tech demo, but sooner or later, the guys at Sega of America wanted to actually do more with him. If anything, Sega of Japan actually withheld info on Sonic themselves, so that didn’t help.
As long as it’s not another Sonic X disaster and actually focuses on the world of Sonic….I’m pumped.
They did the same thing to Teen Titans. They f*&%ed it up and there is no action in it whatsoever. Just comedy. Comedy intended for little kids. This next Sonic cartoon will may be the same: nothing but a sitcom with little to no action.
How the hell do you know? You haven’t even seen the show yet. You just made some stupid little assumption because you saw the word “comedy” there. Just like all the idiots who assumed this was gonna be some crossover cartoon between Sonic and My Little Pony.
Not to be too spamtastic, but it looks like someone out there in the old wide web has not been taking too well to this rumor:
http://i.imgur.com/39iNBS5.jpg
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=591646&page=2
…I must say, I laughed my butt off when I read that XD
Ironically, the movie used in it actually being appealing for all ages, unlike MLP or current Sonic games, regardless of writing.
You know how important this is for me? I’m excited about this cartoon and I want it to be aired on Finland too. If My little pony get to the Finland, why Sonic boom won’t?
The only thing I’m wondering about is the quality of this show (Like will it be CGI animation, or have an anime look, will it have the games voice acting, or different voice acting, will it have a continuing story, or just be a show with random events to happen daily). I don’t really care about the genre. This show could be a comedy, action-adventure, or even a drama for all I care (Not that I want that to happen just an example). I will watch this show no matter what. But I am also concerned on what channel will be airing this cartoon.
Why is everyone getting bent up over a simple picture? Oh wait… I almost forgot, I’m in the SONIC fanbase…
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Jesus shitting Christ guys why
Thanks a fucking lot Ryan Bloom, you literally baited this article harder than Kotaku did on a feminism blog post written by Patricia Hernandez. Now we have idiots that think perverts are only exclusive to Bronies (IE: Pot calling kettle black) and discussion mostly exclusive to either MLP or how this show may or may not suck.
Thanks.