While it would be Sonic who would get all the laughs and take part in most of the action, Sally would devise the plans and coordinate the team.
#PRINCESS SALLY ACORN SERIES#
While her design would change and the Sonic-princess romance (initially) toned down, Princess Sally Acorn would emerge as a major character in both SatAM and the US comic book series released by Archie Comics, fulfilling a leadership role. Other designs also suggest Princess Sally was at one point set to be a human character. In earlier versions of the concept, a "Princess Acorn" character, with an entirely different design to the finished product, is shown as being both a love interest and a strong character in her own right, ready to take on Robotnik as part of a "freedom team". As such, when DiC were designing their Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, they chose to use Sally Acorn as the female lead.ĭiC appears to have toyed with a "princess" character from an early stage, possibly as a love interest for Sonic, or as someone to be captured by Robotnik, fulfilling the damsel in distress cliché. Of these, the character Ricky became known as "Sally Acorn", the only obvious female character in the original game (although strictly speaking Flicky was designed as female). When brought to the west, the rescued animals in Sonic the Hedgehog were given localised names and a backstory, as outlined by the Sonic the Hedgehog Bible. They’re improving in certain ways, but not consistently, and definitely not in alignment with what a broader gaming audience has come to expect."Pink Sally", the design used for Sally Acorn during SatAM's production. I just see the current state of things as a consequence of Sonic having a fractured identity from his very beginning, with wildly different visions of him among the games, Japanese comics, UK comics, French comics, American comics, the three entirely disconnected DIC cartoons– If they want to tell a world-spanning story, and they seem to want to periodically, then they have to figure out what that world is, and those characters’ places in it. those characters only really have anything approaching a meaningful presence in the U.S., which becomes a big problem when you consider the rather famous infighting between Sega of America and Sega of Japan in the mid-to-late 90s. you’d just have characters you like, but with all the quality of writing that the games have, which if you don’t like Sega’s current long-standing non-committal character and worldbuilding, giving them a prefab won’t solve the core issues there. I mean, if you make the comic/SATAM universe canon, you’d have two issues: 1. According to Ian Flynn, who has long been boosting efforts to bring the character (and the other Freedom Fighters) back into the Sonic franchise, getting a statue would also simply be “big” for the character. There’s more to this than simply convincing F4F to make a Sally statue.
The poll is set to run through Wednesday, though participants will need to join F4F’s Facebook community in order to vote. While those may seem like small numbers, that’s actually the most votes any character has gotten in this poll in years. While the results of a poll do not guarantee the creation of a statue, F4F will at least explore doing something with the character if the numbers are strong enough.Īs of this writing, the yeses are winning with 73% of the vote, 578 to 217.
This is a weekly poll called “Thursday Temptations,” wherein F4F tests community interest in various characters. F4F is currently running a poll asking its community whether or not they would pre-order a Sally Acorn statue. More than five years since she last appeared in the Sonic comics, Princess Sally Acorn may finally have a shot at a new piece of merchandise via high-end collectibles maker First4Figures. Looking at previous polling winners, like NiGHTS into Dreams’ Reala, it will likely be years before a statue is available, if one even gets made. Chief among them, even if F4F decides it wants to make a statue, SEGA itself still needs to say yes. As we said in the original article, there is no guarantee a Sally statue will get made, even with really good numbers. That means yes won with 76.4% of the vote, placing her in the top 12 of all time, just ahead of Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy. Of those, 800 were yes, which is also the highest amount any character has gotten in years. The poll received a total of 1047 votes, the most one of these polls have gotten in years. UPDATE: The poll is closed, and the results are in:
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