Official Lego Sonic the Hedgehog set is coming, complete with giant Eggman robot

Sonic the Hedgehog Lego set — (Image credit: Lego/Sega)

An official Lego Sonic the Hedgehog set is coming, thanks to a submission from a Sonic and Lego superfan.

The set is inspired by Sonic Mania's take on Green Hill Zone, and it features a number of familiar characters from the game: Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Robot and a handful of his automated goons, some animal friends to liberate, and Sonic himself complete with Chaos Emerald. The Lego Set also includes two pieces of terrain: a ramp leading up to a rickety rope bridge, and a shuttle loop complete with a bonus One-Up item box waiting on the top.

The Sonic Lego set originated as a submission from UK fan Viv Grannell to Lego Ideas, a crowdsourced service where users can submit and vote on designs for the Lego Group to consider for official production. She says she spent about a year pushing for her set to get the 10,000 required votes on the platform, and once Lego gave it the go ahead, it "was the most exciting secret I have ever had to keep."

There's admittedly a bit of a scale difference, but a Lego designer has left the door open for more traditional Mario minifigures.

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