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Good evening friends, Tristan here. In today's report, Peter Moore testifies before Congress, a Genesis/Sega CD hybrid called the WonderMega hits EBay, and something that has hit home for all of us here at Sonic HQ brings a wonderful turn of events.

For those who ordered the Sonic Adventure wallscrolls when they "came out" last month, you may have noticed that Express.com never got the wallscrolls on time. Well, I got an e-mail the other day from them, and all Sonic Adventure wallscrolls are ready for shipping!

Okay, so you people will stop emailing me, I asked for Sonicpandemonium account to be removed because everything is now at Shadow of Light. A few hoax pages may be missing, and I'm sorry as I wasn't aware that they all weren't on SOL. You can resend them to Trez if you wish. But that's it, it's done, no more emails.

BTW, we still have a lot of uncut SatAM episodes for those looking.

I would KILL for that Sonic T-Shirt...

In fact - I would kill for over half the items I'm about to show you guys from something I found called "The Sonic Fashion Project". While searching through my translator some more, I've found some pretty awesome pictures of various items and merchandise within the Sonic store in Nagoya Japan. Clothing, plushies, jackets, giftboxes. The AMOUNT of stuff on the page is AMAZING. I never knew Sonic Teams page went into all this stuff. And I know I'd go practically BROKE in this store in Nagoya. See for yourself - :)

Believe it or not - Gamecube was the name that was supposed to have been Dreamcast! ;)

Yuji Naka posts a column to Sonic Team's web page every now and then (see previous and below articles), and the latest entry contains an interesting revelation. Apparently, when Sega was deciding upon the name for its new 128-bit console, Sonic Team looked at the shape of the system and suggested "G-Cube." If Sega had taken Sonic Team's advice, we may just have ended up with the Sega G-Cube instead of the Sega Dreamcast. Hmm… perhaps Nintendo would have then opted to release the Nintendo Dreamcast?

Source: IGN DC

Yuki Naka has put some interesting material on the Sonic Team website. ^_^ One of which is new pictures of the Sonic Store in Nagoya, Japan. :)

I've managed to find a way to translate some of the stuff he has on the page. (Yes, I've found a way to reliably translate some Japanese now. YAY! ^__^) And one of the other entries from his "web diary" (see article above) talks about the recording session for Sonic Adventure 2. One of things said is that a new character has been confirmed! ^__^ He talks about something that was called a "Volume of Post Recording" on Sonic Adventure 2. The translation is a bit wacky in areas and _VERY_ hard to follow (I believe its due to errors in grammar during translation), but here's what it got translated to:

[It] had gone to the studio of a Touhoku new company in Akasaka for the audition of a new character etc. of 'Sonic adventure 2'on this day. It is anxious because [it] thinks as going, and it is not done to SCE separately that it is bad whenever the studio in this Akasaka is in the vicinity of SCE whenever [it] goes. (^_^;) Video production for the Tokyo game show of '(*fantashestaronrain*)'was the vicinity of SCE. ‚?‚?‚?‚?‚?‚?‚?‚?‚? ?[ has been reconsidered in the studio because there was no audition recently.

I said the thing was wacky - I didn't say it was legible :P

Remember these pictures below? I've managed to get a lot of different stuff translated and its REALLY cool. ^^ One of the things (concerning an article that was posted a few months ago) was concerning the "Pokemon Train" where people were wondering why Mr. Naka had pictures of Pokemon on the ST website. It turns out that this entry of the diary was comparing Pokemon's train advertisements to the Sonic Adventure train advertisements before its launch. And he mentioned how the SA advertisement campaign was much smaller than how Pokemon is being advertised.

I'll be going through my translator pretty much half the day. So if I find anything interesting, I'll be sure to post it here! Later! ^___^

Source: Sonic Team

Sonic Team has updated thier website - and located on it are new wallpapers featuring the "Sonic The Skateboard" theme! ^__^ The picture is available in:

1280 x 1024:BMP file(1339KB)
800 x 600:BMP file(699KB)

Each file is available as a zip! ^_^

Source: Sonic Team

This has been posted on SUML, so listen up: Sonic the Movie comes on Starz October 1st at 3:35 P.M.

Source: Sonic Underground Mailing List

It's here, and it has SAGE coverage...in fact, most of the SHQ RA News this time around focuses on the expo. You can either stream it, or download it all. I'll be back Monday with a news update.

Well, folks, we have some Sonic E-Bay related auctions to pass your way, including yet another offer of all 26 eps of SatAM.

First up, here is an auction for Sonic 26.

Next, another auction here has Sonic 31 on sale.

To wrap up the comics, here is one for Sonic 24. The one selling all three of these ships worldwide, so don't let being outside of the US bother you here.

Here, we have all 26 eps of SatAM. This dude ships to US and Canada.

Finally, here, we have a book of how to Draw Sonic and company. Unfortunely, this person only ships to the US. :(

Well, there you have it for now, folks...