Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-24204634-20131127152905/@comment-679780-20140124172214

Neon Girl Star wrote: Why is Sega allowing the production staff of this series redesign the characters? It's the same as DiC. Since Sega is a video game company, they'll have to ask another animating studio to make then a show. However this is similar to having a commission on deviantART, you find the person you want to make your picture and pay them for what you want. Of course it will appear different as you intended since different artist. However there is also the matter of licencing, the studio will need to ask permission on what characters they may use for the show which due to legal reasons may not be a straight forward yes or no. There is also the fact that chances are most of the staff have not grown up with Sonic and would do what they themselves will think is right for the cartoon which will further define Sonic's world away from the Sonic's world we know of.

AoSTH for example, they only had the games to work with so they had a lot to fill, the choice of blending adventures and heroism with slapstick comedy paid off in the end though.

It was the same with Ben Hurst, while he knew so much on Sonic, as well as past materials, he was still permitted to be creative and Archie Comics have him to thank for SatAM.

This is why perhaps best to take Sonic Boom with a pinch of salt because chances are "it will be different", and thus we will have a brand new Sonic universe to add to our collection.

I wonder if it's too early to make an article tag for it?