- For the Sonic Colors Comics episode, see Egg Planet Park (comic).
Egg Planet Park[1] (エッグプラネット・パーク Eggu Puranetto Pāku?), also known as Doctor Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park or Doctor Eggman's Amazing Interstellar Amusement Park, is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It was a galactic amusement park built by Dr. Eggman, supposedly conceived as an apology for the villain's past transgressions. With five planets chained to it, the park was actually used as part of the doctor's plan to harvest these planets' natives, the Wisps, and use their energy to power a mind control cannon to subjugate the Earth's inhabitants as a stepping stone towards Eggman's conquest of the universe. Fortunately, however, Egg Planet Park was destroyed the day before its grand opening by Sonic and Tails.
Concept and creation[]
According to Takashi Iizuka, the reason why Sonic Team wanted Egg Planet Park in space was "because it's so huge. The scale of it is so ridiculously huge that no planet could really accommodate it". They wanted to show that Eggman's amusement park would be so big that it had to be in space.[2]
Description[]
The Egg Planet Park, from the Wii version of Sonic Colors
Egg Planet Park was, as its name hints, a colossal amusement park that stood over Earth, notable for being located beyond the planet's atmosphere. To access it, visitors had to go through "Eggman's Ultra-Accelerating Space Elevator", in which an elevator would lead them through a massive and incredibly long pillar a high speed. The park's center and main area, the Tropical Resort, held various hotels and shops, and was chained to the three different planets and two other regions in outer space. All of these planets and regions were connected to the Tropical Resort through "Space Tapes" that were maintained by large tractor beam generators located on them.
Despite the large variety of environments the amusement park housed, all of them were full of colorful lights and friendly-looking Egg Pawns welcoming the visitors. They also had various rides and other buildings that fit the theme of the planets and regions. However, Dr. Eggman himself had repeatedly stated in his PA announcements that the park was very dangerous and performed very poorly in healthcare control, with the planets being filled with torture device-like rides and polluted areas.
History[]
Past[]
The idea of building an amusement park in space was conceived by Eggman several years ago. Thus, the doctor began building his amusement park, finally finishing it years later.[3]
Sonic Colors[]
In the Wii version of Sonic Colors and the remaster version Sonic Colors: Ultimate, having almost finished Egg Planet Park, Eggman kidnapped several planets inhabited by the alien Wisps and chained them all together at his amusement park. The reason behind this was because the Wisps possessed a powerful energy source known as Hyper-go-on, which the doctor wanted to use to power his Mind Control Ray to enslave Earth with. To harvest the Hyper-go-on he needed, the scientist created a factory on Asteroid Coaster, where Wisps were drained of their Hyper-go-on, which had the side-effect of mutating them into Nega-Wisps. As a cover story for the construction of Egg Planet Park and the hidden operations on the different planets, Eggman falsely claimed that he had built the park to make up for his past misdeeds.[3][1]
On the day before Egg Planet Park's inauguration, Sonic and Tails took a trip to the park's Tropical Resort, with the former wary of Eggman's intentions. Eventually, the heroes found Orbot and Cubot, Eggman's lackeys, chasing a White Wisp, named Yacker, and a Cyan Wisp. After Sonic saved the Wisps, the Cyan Wisp phased into his body, giving him the Cyan Laser Color Power. Full of questions, Sonic and Tails tried to communicate with the Wisps, though they were unable to because of the fact that they spoke a different language. As such, Tails started to create a translator from his Miles Electric to communicate with the Wisps while Sonic continued to investigate the park. Eventually, Sonic found Eggman, Orbot and Cubot, who were counting kidnapped Wisps. Frustrated over the fact that Sonic kept getting in his way, Eggman ordered the release of Rotatatron to destroy the hedgehog as he and his lackeys left the scene. However, Sonic easily defeated the robot. During the battle though, one of the robot's arms got lodged into Eggman's Mind Control Cannon without anyone knowing it.
Returning to Tails, who had just finished his translator, Sonic learned from Yacker that Eggman was kidnapping the Wisps. With this information in mind, The heroes started to make their way across Egg Planet Park's attractions to free the aliens and unravel the doctor's schemes. The hedgehog would also deactivate the tractor beam generators that held the Wisps' planets captive, gradually liberating the planets from the scientist's control.
Egg Planet Park being consumed by the black hole, from the Wii version of Sonic Colors.
After having freed all the Wisps and their planets, Sonic and Tails started to celebrate with them in Tropical Resort. Meanwhile, Eggman tried activating his Mind Control Cannon to enslave the world, having acquired enough corrupted Hyper-go-on energy for that feat. However, the cannon backfired and created a black hole made of corrupt Hyper-go-on as a result of the damage caused by the arm of the Rotatatron/Globotron. With no other option but to escape, Sonic and Tails went to the elevator that lead back to their world, only to find Eggman awaiting them in his Nega-Wisp Armor. Forcing Tails into the elevator and sending him safely back home, Sonic started to fight the doctor, who used the Wisps for his advantage. After gathering enough Wisps for himself however, Sonic performed the Final Color Blaster on the Nega-Wisp Armor, destroying it for good. Meanwhile, the black hole would consume the rest of the park until it was extinguished by the Wisps.
Sonic Generations[]
In the console/PC version of Sonic Generations and the remaster version Sonic X Shadow Generations, a past version of Egg Planet Park got transported to White Space as a side-effect of the Time Eater's time-traveling, where it was drained of color and life.
The attractions of the park were the last areas Classic and Modern Sonic paid a visit to after ending up in White Space. Inside the park, the Sonics were able to fix space, thereby restoring the park from its lifeless state. When the Time Eater later got destroyed, Egg Planet Park was seemingly returned to its rightful place in the timeline.
Other game appearances[]
Team Sonic Racing[]
In Team Sonic Racing, Dr. Eggman mentions Egg Planet Park at random in Planet Wisp-themed tracks.[4]
Former points of interest[]
- Aquarium Park
- The Bucket O'Sushi
- Waterslide
- Asteroid Coaster
- Roller Coaster
- Black Hole Parade
- Egg Shuttle
- Game Land
- Options Satellite
- Planet Wisp (under construction)
- Starlight Carnival
- Light Speed Electric Parade
- Hyper Sleep Ride
- Muscle Atrophy Simulator
- Launch Pad
- Sweet Mountain
- Bake Me Crazy
- Choco-Coaster
- Experience the Future
- Terminal Velocity
- Tropical Resort
- It's an all you can eat world
- Free Money Ride
- Pick a car, any car
In other media[]
Books and comics[]
Archie Comics[]
Sonic, Tails and various Wisps in Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, from Sonic the Hedgehog #219.
In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics, Egg Planet Park, known as Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, was an amusement park in the In Another Time, In Another Place universe. Like its game counterpart, it was built by Dr. Eggman as part of a scheme involving the Wisps.
Trivia[]
- Although the amusement park was described to have five planets chained to the park, Starlight Carnival is not a planet while Asteroid Coaster is an asteroid field.
- It took Dr. Eggman several years to develop the park.
Gallery[]
Artwork[]
Promotional materials[]
Sonic Colors Comics[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Egg Planet Park, "Egg Planet Park: The beginning of an adventure"
- ↑ Sonic Team Talks Sonic Colours. IGN (10 October 2010). Retrieved on 5 May 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sonic Colors (Wii) United States instruction booklet, pg. 3.
- ↑ Sumo Digital (21 May 2019). Team Sonic Racing. PlayStation 4. Sega. Area/level: Wisp Circuit. "Eggman: Reminds me of my theme park."
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