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  • The fuck was this? Where the FUCK was this in my childhood?

  • I wouldn't mind humans playing a role in a Sonic TV series just like they do in the games, but when you come up with major and annoying characters for Sonic X, you know the show just sucks. I only hope for a new Sonic TV series like this original pilot.

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  • Looks interesting but whoever wrote the narrating is a disgraceful amateur.

  • "Battle for the soul of universe rages"

    What a load.

  • i wish sega and 4kids would make this

  • @SonicFanJamie Sega? Yes. 4Kids? HELL NO!!

  • @JeffL1313 well at least 4kids has great artwork and voice acters belive me i know great art work when i see it

  • @SonicFanJamie 4Kids translates, dubs and promotes the show, and that's about it. From a creative standpoint 4Kids is only responsible for the English audio and whatever they decide to edit from the video (which has been notoriously questionable to put it lightly). You seem to be confusing 4Kids for an animation studio, THEY ARE NOT!

  • Does anyone else notice that the animation is INCREDIBLY slow?

    How did that work out? I guess they needed more time for narration.

    I'd just like to point out that they just reused all of this stuff for the opening of

    the final version of Sonic X, for mere trivia.

  • 1:08 who is THAT foxy guy?

  • Sonic just killed all those people. Nice job breaking it hero

  • @ChaosKirbyoLight That's why he needs insurance

  • This is how it should have been!!!

  • They need to make a CG Sonic series set ENTIRELY in the games' universe while still having original storylines. Also there can be more humans just as long as Eggman/Robotnik is the only recurring one (and as long as the humans look more in place with the setting like they did in Unleashed).

  • @MetalShadowX i agree with your comment. sonics (comic) universe is set on mobius (a future earth) it has both humans and mobians and the comic series used to follow the game series as well. personally i believe that the show should have gone this way rather than the way it did as well as the video game plots. all together the series would have stayed on longer if they used all of the video games story lines.

  • To be fair, the games have never been set on a planet called Mobius! That was the name that was used in the comics and the TV Series!

    SA2 has pretty much established that the planet they are on is Earth!

  • @Bowmaj21 The planet's name being Mobius came from the American SEGA Genesis manuals, though, which is part of why it's so persistent. The other part is that it was used in the Archie comics, which should have ended ages ago back when Robuttnik died. Ding-Dong, the witch is dead, everybody's deroboticized and they get the king back, happy end. You know, everything they had been building up to and working for. Ugh.

  • @XxsoapywolfxX No, the Sonic comics are set on "Archie has lost their marbles".

  • More Sonic Fans need to think like you!

    I'd kill for a CG Sonic Series that does justice to the Sonic Game's Universe!

  • "He'll [Sonic] will need Amy because............we couldn't thoml of a more annoying character to put in until Chris Thorndyke was invented."

  • crystal rainbow stone...

  • I can't even begin to understand why they thought changing the project from THIS to what the final product became was a good idea.

  • Isnt Eggman a human?

  • After watching this, I really wished that the show was like this instead of a show being about Chris and other humans. And co-starring Sonic and his friends. :/

  • That's what I always thought!

    The show seemed to centre around Chris, like almost the whole story was told through his eyes!

  • 1:08

    Oh yeah, just run into that cafe and put the patrons in danger, why don'tcha. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.

  • The hammy narration just makes this more awesome

  • 1:39 The car looks like the car in the CG cutscenes of Sonic Riders Zero Gravity!

  • 0:47 notice how Shadow's shoes are not complete?

  • "The crystal rainbow stones"

    LOLOLOLOLOL

    I can only hope and pray that they make a new Sonic show with the "crystal rainbow stones" XD

  • Why the hell is knuckles in a car?

  • Crystal rainbow stone? O_o;;; Dr. Eggmen? Amy the WHAT? Narrator needs to read up on Sonic more.

  • Crystal rainbow stone? O_o;;;

  • So wouldn't that make episode 1 episode 2 ???

  • The only thing I found dumb in this pilot was the "crystal rainbow stone". That was some real BS there, Chaos emeralds are good.

    Imagine a new Sonic show (people's been asking for a Sonic X sequel, but..) what if it was based off Archie comics or something? xD

  • @SSD417 People would watch it then naruto lol

  • 2:29

    Knuckles is a bamf.

  • This is extremely cool! I can't believe that there were citizens as animals in the pilot! I love the proper show of Sonic X, but I think maybe they should've included the animal citizens in as well. But whichever way, I still love the show!

  • i heard that this was really the actual plot for the series but this plot was lost in a car crash so...they have to rewrite it again...

  • @SaffeeBear lolwut? A car crash? Where did that came from?

  • @Melkac well i just saw it from another comment...so...i guess? XDD

  • to be honest... i wouldnt mind if sonic x takes please on earth, with humans.

    but why did they add chris at ONE OF THE MAIN CHARAKTERS?!?

    Srsly, what where they smoking...

  • @xxXUltraViolettXxx They added him because he is an awesome character.

  • @xxXUltraViolettXxx To be honest, probably because the writers could get into Chris' head and thus come up with material for him.

  • This is way better then the sonic X that was aired, only one thing I hate....crystal rainbow stone?.....

  • @sonicfactor No it isn't.  The show is much better the way it came out.

  • Ok, I have to say this because it really irritates me when people say "There should be no humans in Sonic!" DOCTOR EGGMAN IS A HUMAN! People seem to forget that!

    But I will agree that they shouldn't make other humans the central focus of the story! Lord knows that Chris Thorndyke and Princess Elise proved that to us!

  • @Bowmaj21 Personally I only want Eggman as the ONLY human in my Sonic game. And maybe Professor Pickle at times too.

  • I think most of the fans who didn't like the idea of Sonic being in a world that seems to be mostly humans were fans of the SatAM Series where the cast was mostly anthropomorphic animals!

    I remember when Sonic Adventure first came out, fans would say things like "It doesn't make any sense that Sonic and his friends are the only animals in a world of humans!" Funny how when they were watching SatAM they never questioned why Robotnik and his nephew were the only humans in a world of animals?

  • @Bowmaj21 I never watched SatAM actually.

  • It's actually pretty good, worth checking out, but remember it's a different continuity, so the story and content differs from the game series!

  • @Bowmaj21 Both Chris Thorndyke and Princess Elise are great characters who need more love.

  • I can think of a lot of Sonic Characters that need more love!

    Personally, I couldn't care less about Chris and Elise!

  • @Bowmaj21 Your right "Dr. Eggman" is human but "Dr. Robotnik" wasn't and the Character changed when sonic x "or sonic adventures which ever was out first" was out

  • Umm, the last time I checked Eggman and Robotnik were one and the same, and therefore both(?) humans!

  • @Bowmaj21 Clearly your don't know much do you? Yes they are the same person but he was different back in the day not human. Read up before stating your thoughts.

  • Where the hell are you getting your information; the comic books?

    In the Games he is, and always has been, a human!

    Why is that so hard to believe?

  • @Bowmaj21 I understand that you can't get the facts straight since sonic never talked on sonic 1-3 or etc. But even so if I did get the information from the comics, then it would be relevant and true since it was enforced by "Sonic Team". What happened in Sonic adventure happened in the comics also and a few others. Read it if you feel like it they changed Robotnik "not human" to Eggman "human" check it before you common with your silly "ideas"

  • MY ideas are silly?

    The comic have their own versions of what happened in Sonic Adventure, but they aren't considered canon to the games!

    There could be a comic where Dr. Eggman was grown by in a plant pot from a friggin' crystal, but that wouldn't be considered true in the games!

  • @Bowmaj21 Apparently you don't know what fillers are, What happen in the comic happened in sonic adventure "poorly though" later on they decided to stray off the path that the comic had, example sonic the werehog. In the beginning, Robotnik was just like the one in the comic, the story mode was the same except more simple, meaning even though he never said it, he wasn't human.

  • Ok, am I reading your comments wrong or are you just not making any sense?

    How many more times does it need to be said; the comics are not canon to the games!

    Just answer me these questions; what comic are you refering to and what exactly is Eggman (Robotnik, whatever) supposed to be if he isn't a human! Then tell me if it makes more sense than what I am saying, which is; Eggman is, always has been, and always will be a human!

  • @Bowmaj21 Probably reading my comments wrong. Read the comic was a canon to the game and series. Sonic X was actually an anime series since japan funded and made the series when they changed the original pilot *the one before humans were there just like in the comic* Like most *or all* anime series they get the plot from a manga *comic* if you read the early comics you will actually see every event from sonic x except the fillers. Like I said over 10 times Eggman is human but Robotnik isn't..

  • "Read the comic was a canon to the game and series."

    I'm not going to keep arguing with you, but you're still wrong!

    And didn't we already establish a few comments back that Eggman IS Robotnik?

  • @Bowmaj21 Your running out of ideas so you wanna stop, it isn't arguing i am just stating facts. And like I said in my comments, Eggman is a updated version of robotnik. They change him to fit sonic x and etc. You can't say I am wrong if I put proof into these comments.

  • What proof?

    And for the hundreth time I'm not going by the comics or Sonic X! There are things that happen in Sonic X which don't happen in the games. e.g. In the games Sonic lives on Earth and doesn't come from another dimension like he does in Sonic X, therefore, him coming from another dimension is not canon!

    Now that I think about it, almost every incarnation of Eggman or Robotnik that I can think of is a human, so I don't know where you're getting you're info from!

  • @Bowmaj21 I am using both sonic x and the comic to prove a point and your saying your not going to look at them so your info is irrelevant. In the games they did what sonic x did but they didn't show chris or show how sonic and his friends got to earth They would think you would know already since a intelligent mammal that runs faster then a jet wasn't born in earth. Look up the facts I know I did, but you just said you didn't and Robotnik isn't human but they change his bio when he is eggman

  • Sigh, again Sonic X is it's own story, i.e. not canon to the games! Why do you keep ignoring that?

    But I'm going to humor you, what exactly was Robotnik supposed to be if he isn't human?

    This should be good!

  • @Bowmaj21 You really aren't that smart? You don't see the comparison from sonic adventures 1 & 2 including sonic battle to sonic X? Come on, I am actually trying to show you proof and your not even trying to take in what I say. "Robotnik" was a good scientist from the dimension that sonic was "Mobius" and sonic used to be a brown bad hedgehog, until the chaos emeralds turn sonic to a Good blue dude and Robotnik evil and as fat as an egg. Do you understand or is this too much for you to get?

  • You're clearly getting your continuities mixed up!

    You are talking about the Fleetway's Sonic the Comic's backstory for Sonic and Robotnik, but that isn't how it happened in the games!

    Seriously, in the games you will never hear Sonic saying things like "Hey, remember when Dr. Ovi Kintobor turned into the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik?" because those events didn't happen in the game! He wouldn't say "I wonder what Chris Thorndyke is up to!" because Chris isn't part of the game universe!

    Understand?

  • @Bowmaj21 That would be because "stay with me here" Chris came when Robotnik turned into Eggman! And sonic X started when he is Eggman. Everything you were saying proves that you just "thought" that Robotnik was human, which clearly he wasn't until he is eggman. Look we could talk about the storyline of sonic and etc. but we are moving off from the point at hand "which already I had proved to be right" that Robotnik wasn't human but eggman was! Now what do you hav to say to that, hmmm?

  • I'm saying that you aren't making any sense and you aren't listening to what I am saying!

    I'm not saying that your facts are wrong, I'm saying that none of that info is relevant to the games!

    And you still haven't answered my question, if Robotnik isn't/wasn't human then what is/was he?

    Clearly you have no idea what the term "Canon" means! Do you need me to explain it? Cos if you do I'll happily explain it, if you'll only listen!

  • @Bowmaj21 It;s funny that you can't read through what I said, I said sonic x was a canon to the comic but you haven't read i suppose. Next I did say what he was, Robotnik was an alien and sonic adventure 1 & 2 were relevant to the series. I can also see that your not even looking for info, just saying the same things and questions over and over even though I answered them a long time ago. I don't know if I hurt your feelings or if your a idiot, but your wasting both our time!

  • @Bowmaj21 He really isn't. Let me try to clarify what he is saying. He's talking about the old Sonic comic that came with the first game back in 1991 in America and is somehow trying to relate the mutation Dr. Robotnik went through to the the fact he isn't apparently human.

    This comic was "canon" way back when, but was retconned when SA2 came in.

  • But I don't think it's canon in the original Japanese version!

  • @Bowmaj21 No, it wasn't.

    Communications between the Japanese and American studios were never the best, so the Americans didn't really know what the story was, so they assumed that there was none so they started making up their own, with a comic to go with it.

  • Well, to be fair, there really wasn't much of a story at the time, other than "Dr. Eggman is kidnapping small animals and turning them into robots to take over the world and Sonic has to stop him!"

    So all the comics and TV series pretty much had to make up their own plots, which is where the confusion comes from!

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  • I agree, but I didn't mind humans in SA1 and SA2

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  • @Bowmaj21 Elise was a tribute was the scrapped plan for Sonic to have a human girlfriend.

    A couple more humans among the core group honestly wouldn't bug me. Where I want to see a few less humans and more anthropomorphic animals is the extras.

  • awwwwwww.... i you mean to tell me sonic X could have been even better D8!?!?...but it wasn't D8!?!?!? sad face ;O;

  • It's kinda soft... low... but it's a bit cool. I like the new Sonic X better, but this could've been done well. But what the **** are those crystal things? Seriously, I do like the show the way it is.

  • "no chris no humans whatsoever" .__. isn't robonik a human

  • So it was supposed to be like this? I'm with everyone here, they shouldn't have changed it

  • I'd rather watch this over and over again instead of some lame spin offs of the Sonic Adventure Series and a Crappy 3rd Season.

  • OMG WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT?!??!?

  • @SonicHedgehogRocks99 i know right. im pretty sure that if the show was good during grithith's run people wouldnt care who's voicing who

  • Leo Burnett and 4kids are the devil!

  • @Shadowfang3000 T-Thats what m-mama told me.

  • @Lacard129 He was an educated gentleman, have pride my comrade! :D

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  • 2:28 don't know why but...meh....something looks off about his pose

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  • Actually, I don't mind the idea of humans and Mobians co-existing in a Sonic cartoon. AS LONG AS CHRIS THORNDIKE DOESN'T EXIST, that is. But I agree with everyone else, that voice-over is just silly.

  • This actually looks decent. Besides that fucking voice over. The fuck?

  • Watch this

    watch?v=G4jd0UWGPgY

    Just watch it.

  • Sonic X became hated because of the gross overuse of Chris Thorndyke, who stole scenes right and left from Tails and contributed nothing that couldn't have been handled better with Tails except for the fact that Chris was rich. It's extremely difficult to make a rich character interesting and with Chris they failed miserably. It would have been better to toss Chris, have Tails start out pathetic, and gradually show him become Sonic's best friend and a hero himself.

  • See this is more like the SatAM cartoon, it takes place on Mobius. Ha, jeez, you could have beaten them.

  • The pilot is better than anime in some ways, but I want to ask logical question for you fans. If you don't like humans in Sonic series, what's Eggman/Robotnik supposed to be? Don't get mad. I understand that obvious and general problem is that characters would be just badly developed, useless or are just annoying just like Chris, which broke entertainming of series. Remember, making a good human character is not impossible. It's have to be believable, likable and make sense.

  • @MarioSonic3

    He's a robot... Read the archie comics.

  • @MechaRainbow This has been pretty much expected. Eggman's robot origin is originally from the american media, television series and comic books. There's many incarnations of this character, so your note is understandable. And yes, I actually have read comics.

    What I'm talking about is japanese version of Eggman/Robotnik who appeared in games, OVA and Sonic X. He's understood to be human mechanic scientist in those.

  • THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN WAY BETTER! it would have killed the Japanese verion of Sonic X too!!

  • whats Amy meant to be? Couldn't hear what the narrator said

  • What is Robotnik then if he isn't a human?

  • Crystal Rainbow Stone???? What the fudge?!

    Anyways Shadow looked so awsome just walking away like that ^^

  • my god that narrator is so cheesy. and WTF is with Crystal Rainbow Stones? It still seems better than a Sonic X without chris.

  • If this was dubbed it should have been dubbed by SABAN rather than 4kids, but SABAN was bought out by Disney in 2002 a year before Sonic X aired.

  • @kiltsonfire164 agreed' sonic x should have been dubbed by saban entertainment not 4 kids

  • @tombakerazshadow If Saban dubbed it i would like to have Jason Narvy (AKA The Skull in the Power Rangers series) voicing as Sonic.

  • @kiltsonfire164 why is that lol??

  • .....this is so much like the actual game...

  • T-T, why 4kids, why did you fuck this awesome looking show into what we know Sonic X as! T-T

  • @Brickman274 Part of it is the stick up Alfred Kahn's ass, part of it is censorship issues due to the fact that the network gave it a lot more scrutiny than they did Power Rangers. The series also suffered from really godawful timing, like RID did, and lacked the Grandfather Clause benefit.

  • @Brickman274 Um 4kids did mess up the Dub but the show is still the same in the Japanese version apart from there being better music, better dialouge, more violence and sexual situations, and better characterization (Chris is a much better and much more lovable character in the Japanese version.)

  • @pkstarstorm1up Um they both sucked.

    Japanese version had barely memorible music a J-Pop for weeaboos.

    Dialouge i guess was better,

    Violence was the same except for like two shots of a punch,

    Sexuality like all animes doesnt make the show better.

    Characters were even worse in the JAP version. My ears still bleed from Jap Chris voice. Jeez...

  • @DarPower1 No they didn't. Your an idiot. The music is very good in the Japanese version. There is no such thing as a weeaboo. Dialouge is very good. There is much more violence. I never said sexuality did make it better. and the characters were much better in the Japanese version. You just must not have hearing abilities because Chris's voice is very adorable in the Japanese version. The Japanese version is a very great anime and Chris makes this show cool and original.

  • @pkstarstorm1up I didnt even realize there was music until i bothered to ignore the dialouge for a second. Yeah, there is, im commenting with one. Dialouge was average, calm the fuck down. Much more violence my ass. Chris voice is terrible, unlike you i actually know Japanese and before and after i learned it it still sucked, hes more annoying than the english version.

    "DONT MISS IT!"

    oh shut up chris....

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  • @LuckDice i knew that...

  • ya and proble old friends from the old shows of sonci might be there btu nop thay had chris and the other but i still like it any way

  • "IS IT TRUE HE HOLDS THE ULTIMATE POWER?!"

    Shadow walks away

    "I've had enough of this narrator."

  • @TailsDM Lmao!! You dont know how Funny that is to me.. And then Shadow's face expression...WOW

  • ANd this footage was used for the 4kids opening.

  • I don't know why but the narrator kind of scares me...anyway, this looks better than the actual show-I wish they didn't change it :(.

  • @VixenThorn Same here. This is better than all 78 episodes of Sonic X Combined! IMO :D

  • @VixenThorn the narrator is stupid, but this makes the series look uber cool

  • @BartmanBegins have you ever watched everybody hates chris? well its kinda like that in america

  • shut up narrortor i wanna hear the story without humans and without you talkingg

  • WHY THEY PUT HUMANS?!? who change the plot of this cartoon?...4 kids?...tv tokyo? ANSWER ME!!!! XD

  • I may have been okay with Sonic X as it is now...Though, I agree that it would've been more interesting if Sonic X was based more on the original pilot.

  • I like the footsteps sounds :D

  • Original Pilot = Epic Win!

    New Pilot = Epic Fail!

  • Cool pilot, but the announcer almost put me to sleep.

  • Why did they combine Knuckles and Rouge in the preview? Not only is he not a new face, he isn't a treasure hunter. Nice. XD

  • @ParisAdria

    If you watch the OVA Sonic the Hedgehog, it gives a much crappier cowboy knuckles, but it also mentions him as a treasure hunter, so maybe somewhere in his back story, he is.

  • @vladashram Play Zero Gravity, he brags about being the best tresure hunter in the world.

  • God damn I hate Executive Meddling. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST SONIC CARTOON EVER.

  • @atomofish It is the best Sonic cartoon.

  • @atomofish I like Sonic Underground better. Even in the original Japanese version Sonic X isn't that great. The animators didn't research Sonic and Shadow before drawing the model sheets for them, and it suffers from the "Leave The Camera Running" problem, hence the insertion of all those inner monologues.

  • So who's bright idea was it, to add Chris and such? Because I wanna punch them in the face.

  • @sonic5993 4kidstv's idea :)

  • @sonadowfangirl30869 No, Chris was created by Sonic Team themselves because he is Sonic's best friend and a great character.

  • @pkstarstorm1up yeah, that's what i meant..i think XD

  • @pkstarstorm1up Isn't Tails his best friend?

  • @Inufan20 It's not been stated. Sonic and Tails are very good friends yes but they never have had a brotherly bond in the Games and Sonic X like they do in SatAM and Archie comics. Chris on the other hand is different because in the Japanese version Sonic has stated himself that Chris is his best friend.

    Besides you can have more then one best friend.

  • @sonic5993 Sonic Team created Chris because it's better with Chris.

  • ...This is what Sonic X was supposed to be originally?

    WHY, SEGA?!? Why did you change it by adding Chris and such?!? This pilot is much better than all 78 episodes!

  • @BartmanBegins Sega had nothing to do with this. TMS changed it because the Sonic games now take place on Earth and they could work within the new Sonic canon to appeal to newer fans.

    Chris was added because at the time, kids anime had a popular trend of adding human kids as main characters. See Transformers Armada for the prime example.

    Also, would it really be a big difference if the humans were animals instead? They're still humanoid and probably would still have the parts the humans have.

  • @CCrockyourass

    Well not really..... Sonic Colors in both Mobius & in Space.

  • @CCrockyourass No Sonic Team created the anime and many of the characters. Everything that happens in Sonic X is what Sonic Team decided is canon to the storyline.

  • @pkstarstorm1up Uh, no.

  • @CCrockyourass Uh yeah look it up. Sonic X was created by Sonic Team and Sonic Project and broadcasted by TMS Entertainment, Chris, Danny, Francis, Helen, Cosmo, and Molly were all chracters that Sonic Team created personally.

  • @BartmanBegins One more thing: this promo wasn't ever meant to be the real Sonic X. It was just a concept idea, a demonstration of what TMS could do for a Sonic anime. This wasn't set in stone by any means. In fact Sonic X first started as an adaptation of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, nothing more.

  • @CCrockyourass Yeah, yeah, whatever...

  • @BartmanBegins No it isn't. Sonic X is much better the way it turned out because Chris is awesome!

  • @pkstarstorm1up Are you kidding me? Chris is one of the most awful characters I ever came across. I'm not the only one who thinks that. A big majority of Sonic fans hates Chris. You like Chris? Fine. I personally hate him. That's all.

  • @BartmanBegins Chris is in no way awful, his personality is alot like Tails so I don't see how he could be hated. Plus Chris is actually very popular in Japan, it's in the U.S. that he recieves his hate.

  • @pkstarstorm1up Whatever...

  • @BartmanBegins If you ask me though, this original concept of Sonic X could have been a continuation of SatAM since it appears to take place on Mobius.

  • @BartmanBegins lol are u shadow? XD you speak like him

  • @sebastien12364 Because I said 'whatever' twice? XD

  • @BartmanBegins no because you say You like Chris? Fine. I personally hate him. That's all.

  • @sebastien12364 I see.

  • @pkstarstorm1up Your opinion but I hate how 4Kids dubbed the show. The dubbing is awful so I watched the Japanese version (I prefer watching the original Japanese with English sub)

  • @BartmanBegins yeah! Sega should know that EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS!

  • i wonder if nazo would've been in this version of sonic x