Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors./@comment-15024974-20140711031830/@comment-24261123-20140714174450

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Whitestormr wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote: My oppinion, big mistake not to have classic models in Sonic 4, but thats just me. I was mistakened to believe that Metal Sonic had his classic model before his restoration at Mad Gear Zone. I simply thought he was too busted up to notice. Is classic Metal Sonic really that different from modern? I thought that modern Metal Sonic was just a little taller. Modern Sonic had more ridges, a balljoint midsection and more details on his forearms and legs. Classic Metal Sonic had a rounder body and his red eyes are also more bigger than his modern self.

I thought that between the Classic era and Sonic 4, Dr. Eggman decided a new wardrobe while Sonic moving onto his teen years and styles his quills. Both Sonic and Eggman taking on there "modern" selves somewhen between Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 4. (Perhaps Sonic Pocket Adventure more accurately depicts when Classic Dr. Eggman, who is the boss throughout the game, Dr. Eggman is seen posing with his new uniform in Lost Utopia Zone. Plus despite Classic Sonic being the playable character, Modern Sonic is on the title.)

In Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode Metal, Modern Dr. Eggman found Classic Metal Sonic in Stardust Speedway and took him back to Mad Gear Zone. I believed Mad Gear Zone didn't just restored Metal Sonic but upgraded him to Modern Metal Sonic.

The reason why I believed this is because I am shortsighted and my TV is a bit too far away. But also because Sonic 4: Metal heavily implies Metal Sonic to be the very same from Sonic CD and that Dr. Eggman didn't simply made a brand new modern one.

So you see how I find it confusing that despite him being scrapped in Stardust Speedway since Sonic CD, Sega still went ahead to make Metal Sonic in his modern apperance. Sonic Generations prooves that Classic Sonic is Sonic's preteen self from the past, even Classic Metal Sonic was in Generations. So I find Modern Metal Sonic found in Stardust Speedway who has been disactivated since Sonic CD to just be a silly contradiction.

(So my headcanon is that Mad Gear Zone upgraded Classic Metal Sonic to Modern Metal Sonic). Sonic Pocket Adventure had Modern Sonic.