Bounce Pad

The Bounce Pad is a gimmick that appears in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, and is the game's counterpart to the Spring in the main game series. They are used to launch the playable characters through the air to reach new places.

Description
The Bounce Pads are large floating disks made of shiny blue energy with a slightly raised middle. These disks hover slightly above a rectangular plate on the ground which it is connected with through an actual spring made of blue energy.

The Bounce Pads are used by the player in gameplay to traverse the environment in the games' levels. When touching a Bounce Pad, the playable character is automatically send flying through the air which allows the player to reach otherwise unreachable places and paths. The Bounce Pads can not only send the player flying directly up into the air to reach a higher platform, but can also send them flying in all kinds of different directions to far-away paths which depend on the Bounce Pad's angle.