Doctor Eggman's Lair

Dr. Eggman's Lair is a location that appears in the Sonic Boom series. It is the ultra high-tech stronghold and residence of Dr. Eggman and his lackeys Orbot and Cubot. From here, Eggman hatches his evil schemes to conquer the world and eliminate Team Sonic. The lair itself is a registered trademark of Eggman Industries.

Appearance and architecture
Dr. Eggman's lair is located on a small barren rock island with veins of lava running across it. The central location is a white futuristic fortress on the top of the island which has an antenna in the shape of Eggman's mustache, an outer shell surrounding it, and the Eggman Empire logo on the side.

The layout of Eggman's fortress extends into the foundation of the island. On the front of the fortress's hill is the main entrance to the lair which is surrounded by several pillars, and beneath the ground is the lair's sewer system which is big enough for the members of Team Sonic to pass through. On the island also lies a small green garden with topiaries and a gazebo which Eggman retreats to when he needs to calm his nerves.

Defenses
The lair possesses several dangerous defenses against intruders. The walls of the fortress' outer shell is covered by laser turrets and grids for inward defenses and the front entrance is protected by stationary laser sentries. Additionally, the fortress' interior rooms have camera-like laser turrets on the walls. Robots like Motobugs, Bee Bots and Crab Bots also patrol the island and guard the inside of the fortress. Accordingly though, there is a hole in the defenses below an unspecified location.

Interior
In addition to being the central for Dr. Eggman's planning of his evil plots and creation of his robot hordes, the lair also serves as Eggman's residence and living quarters. The lair includes the following areas:
 * Dr. Eggman's office: A large room shaped like the silhouette of Dr. Eggman's head and contain a lone chair and desk with touchpad controls. Feature high-tech computers screen on the walls which are controlled from the desk, and disco-lighting with sound systems.
 * Laboratory: A long working quarter which shares the same space as the living room. Here, Eggman tinkers with his robots and other experiments. Features a pop-up screen for outside surveillance.
 * Shoe closet: An enclosed room with several selves that are filled with Dr. Eggman's boots.
 * Living room: A casual living room which shares the same room as the laboratory. Features furniture like a sofa, a coffee table, a tall lamp and a book case embedded in the wall.
 * Bedroom: A lone room that serves as Dr. Eggman's sleeping quarters. It is identical in design to the living room/laboratory, but features instead a bed and a nightstand in place of the other furniture.
 * Rollercoaster room: A bright room containing a rollercoaster, whose entrance is colored a festive red and yellow. Supposedly, the rollercoaster inside is so intense that it tore Orbot and Cubot apart.
 * Bathroom
 * Hangar: A hangar large enough to hold the Big Boy.
 * Missile silo: A missile silo contained inside the fortress for deploying missiles made by Eggman Missile Industries.
 * Personal movie theater

TV series
Inside his lair, Eggman heard that Sonic sought a new sidekick. While Orbot and Cubot voiced their opinions for Sonic's tryouts, Eggman got the idea to apply to destroy both Sonic and Tails, but his plan failed. In a scheme to strike Sonic and Tails at their weakest, Eggman later convinced them to let him stay with them by lying that he had to repair his lair. However, when Eggman's Obliterator Bot malfunctioned and started attacking the doctor's lair instead of Team Sonic, Eggman teamed up with Team Sonic to get through his lair's defenses and reach Oblteratorbot's kill switches. However, they were too late, and the lair was reduced to a ruin which Sonic forced Eggman to stay at.

From his lair, Eggman spied on Team Sonic and discovered that Tails' UT robot was creating tension in the group by revealing their private thoughts. Eggman thus secretly replaced UT with a duplicate he could talk through, and from inside his lair, he made Team Sonic tear themselves apart. As Eggman took time to enjoy UT voicing his self-praise, Tails invaded the lair and gave his services to Eggman in exchange for UT's release. However, the rest of Team Sonic soon attacked the lair and freed Tails after destroying the Mega.

When Sticks sought a pet, Eggman took time in his lair's lab to build Buster to infiltrate and destroy Team Sonic, but his plan failed. Eventually, Eggman's lair was considered to be in Modern Lair Magazine. Despite Eggman's attempts to spruce it up, the magazine's messenger deemed it too old-fashioned. Having been given a week to redo the lair, Eggman hired Amy for the job, who made enough changes to earn the messenger's approval. Eggman then captured Amy in his lair to keep her as his decorator, but the rest of Team Sonic broke into the lair and freed her, before trashing the lair and costing it its place in Modern Lair Magazine.

Eggman's lair soon after hosted Eggman's new intern, Dave who took care of the lair's menial tasks. When he overheard Cubot's dislike of him, Dave dismantled him and hid him in a closet which Orbot soon found. Later, when Eggman told Dave to wait for the big projects, Dave sealed himself in the lair's lab and activated Eggman's doomsday device to prove himself evil. Just as Eggman built another doomsday device to compete with Dave's, Sonic and Tails broke into the lair and made the villains calibrate their devices into negating each other. However, they instead created a black hole over the lair which Sonic closed.

Having the idea of turning Sonic evil, Eggman created Evil Cookies in his lair to give to Sonic. Though Knuckles, Amy, Sticks and Tails ate them instead, the evil heroes came to the lair to plot Sonic's destruction, where Eggman taught them villainy until Sonic arrived. When they got Sonic cornered though, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks began fighting over the honor for capturing Sonic. To stand a chance, Sonic fed Eggman an Evil Cookie with his DNA, and together, the unlikely duo got everyone back to normal. The good Eggman thought they would work together now, but Team Sonic was not keen on that and restored Eggman too. Not long after, Eggman was tricked by Sonic into taking the Gogobas to his lair where they constantly bothered Eggman with their guilt tripping until they left.

To boost Orbot and Cubot's moral, Eggman had them set up a party for themselves in the lair and then erased their memories so it would be a surprise. However, while Eggman went for a snack, Orbot and Cubot left the lair to look for him. When they returned, Eggman gave them their party and heard that they thought he was dead. Eggman then erased Orbot and Cubot's memory again as a demonstration, but also any clue as to where his Eggmobile was (which Orbot and Cubot had lost). While at his lair, Eggman met Sonic and Tails who warned him that Cowbot, a robot he had just sent after them, was coming to kill him. Plotting to have the duo upgrade his lair for his usage, Eggman made them stay and upgrade the lair's defenses to be ready for Cowbot. As they waited for Cowbot to arrive, Sonic, Tails and Eggman spend the day hanging out which ended with roasting marshmallows. When Cowbot arrived, the defenses got gunked up with marshmallows, so they resorted to gunking up Cowbot's systems instead. Eggman then revealed his true agenda, which Sonic put a stop to by gunking up the systems with marshmallows.

Following another defeat by Team Sonic, Eggman returned to his lair to watch television, where his remote was constantly destroyed by Tails' Unbolterizer. During a laser tag exercise in his lab later on, Eggman discovered the luck balance of the universe had shifted in his favor, which inspired him to mobilize the Mega for an invasion of Bygone Island, sure he was now untouchable. Once again though, he was beaten. Later, when Sonic and Eggman switched minds due to a meteor, Orbot and Cubot brought Sonic back to the lair, believing he was Eggman. When Sonic could not convince Orbot and Cubot of who he was, he left the lair to find his team, only to return when they drove him away. There, he assembled Eggman's army to fight Eggman in his body. Once Sonic and Eggman were back to normal, Eggman returned to his lair in defeat.

When Dr. Eggman lost his confidence, he brought Soar the Eagle to his lair to take his life coaching seminar. Soar soon restored Eggman's confidence, but since Eggman fired him prematurely, he became unable to make decisions and stayed in his lair, having lost all motivation. Team Sonic, excluding Sonic, soon arrived at the lair to re-motivate Eggman since Sonic's boredom was driving them crazy, but their attempt to make them fight failed. However, Sonic and Eggman were able to restart their conflict once more on their own. As he was playing a video game in his lair, Eggman got a pop-up stating Tails had joined the Lightning Bolt Society. Finding this group already annoying as it was, Eggman left his lair to foil any involvement Sonic would have with them.

Having gained success with his Eggman's Tomato Sauce, Eggman hosted the Comedy Chimp Show at his lair where he revealed his plan during an interview to take control of Bygone Island's appliances with his robot sauce cans. As Eggman started his takeover, Team Sonic came to the lair to stop him, but were outmatched by the numerous robots. Fortunately, Tails swooped in his plane and took Eggman's control which he used to disable Eggman's robots. Having also accidentally ruined his plan by revealing it on television, Eggman was left with thousands of unsold tomato sauce cans in his lair. When Eggman tricked Sonic into thinking that his running was creating a horrible noise, Eggman took him to his lair where he ran some "test" and gave Sonic new shoes with Power-absorbant Insoles. While Eggman claimed they would mute the sound he made, they would actually power his Giant Robot whenever Sonic ran, but his scheme was foiled by Sonic himself. Upon having a tolerable morning in his lair, Eggman departed in his Egg Tank to battle Team Sonic. However, Eggman accidently created a time loop which repeated the day endlessly, causing Eggman to repeatedly wake up in his lair. When Eggman realized the loop kept him from defeating Sonic, he began working in his lair to solve the problem, bringing Team Sonic over (after several attempts) for help. Thanks to Tails, Eggman invented a container to seal the time loop and restored time to normal.

While in his lair, Eggman found a Granifier Giganticus on Bygone Island and went with Orbot and Cubot to enslave it. When they failed, Eggman returned to his meditation garden for relaxation, only for Team Sonic to arrive with the monster who fell asleep in his garden to horrible music provided by the heroes, which Eggman had to accept to avoid further collateral damage. Eggman later met Nominatus on the internet and would spent time chatting with him in his lair, something which made Orbot and Cubot leave for feeling unappreciated. Eggman soon entrusted his lair's schematics to Nominatus, unaware he was using them to take control of the lair to destroy the world. Orbot and Cubot returned to warn Eggman of Nominatus, but were too late. His agenda revealed, Nominatus drove the trio out of the lair using its own defenses, but was later purged from the lair's systems by Orbot and Cubot.

While Sonic and Amy hanged out, the two visited Eggman's lair where they blew up its antenna. The lair was further damaged later on when one of Eggman's missiles, launched by Amy and Sticks, hit it. As Eggman spied on Team Sonic from his lair, only for the heroes themselves to play a prank on him by misleading Fly Bot. Eggman blamed this humiliation on machines, and deserted his lair to start over without tech. Seizing this opportunity, the Lightning Bolt Society took the lair as their new base. While lounging about, they haphazardly pressed buttons that launched weapons, deployed robots, and shut down Orbot and Cubot. Team Sonic and Eggman thus went to the lair and made the Lightning Bolts leave after misleading them over the surveillance, though Eggman had to spent weeks reprogramming his lair. When the garbage man later went on vacation, the trash consisting of failed inventions started to pile up at the lair, prompting Eggman to head for city hall to complain.

Archie Comics
After being defeated in his Big Boy, Dr. Eggman retreated to his lair. The next day at the lair, Eggman was unexpectedly approached by Knuckles at breakfast who proposed an alliance. However, this turned out to be a plot by Knuckles-albeit ill-planned-to help his friends defeat Eggman's Big Boy in their next engagement. Eggman promptly returned to his lair to have the Big Boy repaired by Orbot and Cubot. However, Cubot and Orbot got distracted by the piko hammer inside the mech and ended up causing damage to the Big Boy. As a result. just as Eggman left his lair in the Big Boy, the mech fell apart while the piko hammer was flung back to Bygone Island. The Big Boy was soon after repaired, but got destroyed once more by Team Sonic, so Eggman returned hom, where he revealed to Orbot and Cubot that he already had another creation ready for Team Sonic.

Having returned to his lair after failing to sell a bridge to the villagers, Eggman surmised he had to earn their trust to use them. When he failed that by showing goodwill to the villagers, Eggman set up the Eggtoberfest at his lair so he subtly buy the villagers' trust. Having gotten Team Sonic to operate the rides, Eggman discovered from inside his lair that the villagers were not falling for his scam and sicced his robots on them. However, Team Sonic beat Eggman's army, leaving the Eggtoberfest a smoking ruin around Eggman's lair.

When meeting the Maverick Hunters, who got stranded in her dimension, Sticks took them (along with Comedy Chimp and Fastidious Beaver) to Eggman's lair to find a dimension-travel device. Having "persuaded" Orbot and Cubot, the group had them make a Genesis Portal to their destination with one of Eggman's machines, with Sticks following the Hunters into it.

Trivia

 * The lair is very similar to Dr. Robotnik's Fortress from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Both are build on mountains.
 * Both have huge telescopes.
 * In the living room, behind the sofa, there is a Russian stacking doll that resembles the classic design of Eggman's game series counterpart.
 * According to Bill Freiberger, it was designed for a joke that got cut from another episode and wound up as a background prop.