Gymnastic Bar
Purpose
Making the user flip around endlessly. Launching the user in the direction the player jumps.
Description
Small wheels with two gymnastic bars.
The Gymnastic Bar is a gimmick that appears in Sonic Advance 2 Sonic Advance 3
Description Gymnastic Bars are small red wheels attached to two spinning bars. They are always found floating in mid-air in one place.
Overview When a playable character makes contact with a Gymnastic Bar, he/she will grab onto one of the bars which will then start spinning around to the left in one place, with the playable character doing endlessly flips on it in the meanwhile. The player is able to let go of the Gymnastic bar by pressing
By timing it right when letting go of the Gymnastic Bars, the player can utilize them to reach higher pathways in the stages, though the direction of the Gymnastic Bars' spin can affect when and in which direction the player is thrown. Additionally, the Gymnastic Bars preserve the momentum in Boost Mode without breaking it.
Several Gymnastic Bars are set above bottomless pits on lower pathways of the stages, where the player has to time his/her jump at the right time to cross them safely.
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Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Cream | Cheese | Amy
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Vanilla | Guard Robo | Chao | Animals (Deer , Elephant , Flicky , Gorilla , Koala , Kangaroo , Lion , Mole , Parrot , Peacock , Penguin , Rabbit , Sea Otter , Seal , Skunk , Swallow )
Zones Leaf Forest | Hot Crater | Music Plant | Ice Paradise | Sky Canyon | Techno Base | Egg Utopia | XX | True Area 53 | Special Stages
Enemies
Balloon | Bell | Buzzer | Circus | Flickey | Geji-Geji | Gohla | Hammerhead | Kiki | Koura | Kubinaga | Kura-Kura | Kyura | Madillo | Mon | Mouse | Pen | Piko Piko | Spina | Star | Straw | Yado
Bosses
EggHammerTankII | Egg Bomber Tank | Egg Totem | Aero Egg | Egg Saucer | Egg-Go-Round | Egg Frog | Super Eggrobo Z | True Area 53 boss
Moves/
Regular moves
Amy Dash | Boost Mode | Bound | Chao Attack | Chao Rolling Attack | Double Spin Attack | Drill Claw | Double Punch | Flying | Grinding | Hammer Attack | Head Slide | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Mid-Air Glide | Mid-Air Hammer Swirl | Propeller Flying | Spin Attack | Spin Dash | Spiral Attack | Skid Attack | Step Attack | Super Hammer Attack | Super Skid | Super Sonic Boost | Super Tails Swipe | Tail Swipe | Wall Climb
Mid-Air Trick Actions Big Air (Happy Spring , Hop Jump , Petit Step , Spiral Upper ) | Long Wind Jump (Burning Straight , Humming Top , Sweet Roll , Window Jump ) | Stop 'n' Slam (Bound , Drill Claw , Mid-Air Hammer Swirl , Propeller Descent , Soft Bomber ) | Quick Reverse (Back Attack , Back Rotor , Back Star , Milky Turn )
Gimmicks and obstacles
Bumper wall | Cannon | Dash Panel | Fan | Gravity Control Switch | Grind Rail | Gymnastic Bar | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Pole | Rotating platform | Spikes | Spring
Objects
Box (1-Up , 5 Ring Bonus , 10 Ring Bonus , Attack , Brake , Confusion , Invincibility , Maximum Speed , Mosaic , Random Ring Bonus , Ring Magnet , Shield , Warp ) | Chaos Emerald | Checkpoint | Ring | Special Ring
Other
Auto Running | Chao Bounce | Chao Search | Corkscrew loop | Freeze | Time Attack | Time Over | Tiny Chao Garden | Shuttle loop | Winding Tunnel
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Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Cream | Cheese
Non-playable characters
Eggman | Vanilla | G-merl (Ultimate G-merl ) | Chao | Omochao
Zones Route 99 | Sunset Hill | Ocean Base | Toy Kingdom | Twinkle Snow | Cyber Track | Chaos Angel | Altar Emerald | Nonaggression | Special Stage
Enemies
Akatento | Aotento | Ape | Bu-bu | Buzzer | Clam | Condor | Gaogao | Gekogeko | Ginpe | Guards | Guruguru | Hariisen | Jousun | Juggling | Kamaki | Kyacchaa | Marrun | Minimole | Muugaden | Spina | Takkon | Uutsubo | Yadokka | Yukigasen
Bosses
Egg Hammer 3 | Egg Ball No.2 | Egg Foot | Egg Cube | Egg Chaser | Egg Pinball | Egg Gravity | Hyper Eggrobo | Ultimate G-merl
Moves/
Regular moves
Amy Dash | Big Hammer Attack | Boost Mode | Bound Attack | Chao Attack | Chao Ball Attack | Chao Spinning Attack | Dash Climb | Double Mid-Air Glide | Double Punch | Drill Claw | Fire Sliding | Flying | Floating Fall | Grinding | Hammer Attack | Hammer Jump | Hammer Propeller Flying | Head Slide | High Propeller Flying | Hip Drop | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Leap | Mid-Air Dash Glide | Propeller Flying | Mid-Air Chao Attack | Mid-Air Chao Ball Attack | Mid-Air Chao Spinning Attack | Mid-Air Glide | Mid-Air Hammer Attack | Mid-Air Hammer Jump | Skid Attack | Spin | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Sonic Boost | Spinning Hammer Attack | Spiral Upper | Tag Action | Tail Spin Attack | Tail Swipe | Tornado Attack | Upper Spin | Wall Climb | Wind Attack
Mid-Air Trick Actions Big Air (Happy Spring , Hop Jump , Petit Step ) | Long Wind Jump (Humming Top , Sweet Roll , Window Jump ) | Stop 'n' Slam (Bound Attack , Spinning Hammer Attack , Propeller Descent , Hip Drop )
Gimmicks and obstacles
Balloon | Bungee Rope | Dash Panel | Flywheel | Grind Rail | Gymnastic Bar | High-speed warp tube | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Minecart | Platform-raising Wheel | Pole | Pulley | Propeller Spring | Seesaw | Snowblower | Special Spring | Switch
Objects
Act Ring | Box (1-Up , 5 Ring Bonus , 10 Ring Bonus , Confusion , Invincibility , Minus Ring , Maximum Speed , Mosaic , Random Ring Bonus , Ring Magnet , Shield , Slow , Swap , Transparency ) | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Checkpoint | Factory Ring | Goal Medal | Ring | Special Key
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Dreier (Knuckles ) | Jon St. John (Announcer) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic the Hedgehog ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream )
Other
Angel Island | Chao Playground | Corkscrew loop | Fly Type | Freeze | Mini-Games | Power Type | Shuttle loop | Sonic Factory | Speed Type | Time Attack | Tornado 2
, which will launch the playable character in the chosen direction.
