An Extensive Look At Bootleg Sonic The Hedgehog Toys & Merchandise 

For years now, people have asked me to cover bootleg merchandise. Whether it be figures, plushes, and I've finally done it! An Extensive Look At Bootleg Sonic The Hedgehog Toys & Merchandise ! Extensive being a pretty fitting term, given this video is nearly 40 minutes long. I knew a topic like this would make for a huge video, and yet there's still so much I didn't cover! With that said, I tried to make this video into an overview of bootleg Sonic merchandise. Bootleg merchandise has always been fascinating to me, and while I do not recommend you support it, it is really interesting to look into. This video took weeks of writing, preparing and editing, but I am beyond happy with the results! This is one of my favorite videos I've done, I was able to cover so much in it! With that said, if you enjoyed this video, consider supporting it! Be it liking the video, subscribing to my channel, following me on Twitter or even supporting me on Patreon! Share this video with all of your bootleg-loving friends that I'm sure you have, or post about it elsewhere. Anything you can do would help me out a ton. Thanks! I hope you all enjoy this video as much as I did making it! Enjoy the video!

Oh my god! I had that exact bootleg Sonic plush in the middle at 34:40! I won it from some carnival game years ago!

I swear to god I can find the exact first backpack at a Mexico City mercado any other day. Mexico has a lot of bootleg on basically everything popular. Around the early 2000s, we grew up consuming video games in an increasing market. Nevertheless, formal official merchandise was very scarce and what was found lacked any variety. It was also very expensive. Now, the funny thing is how the market took advantage of the fact that the United States had a wider and easily accessible collection. A lot of families I knew would often visit the States and stock up on official merchandise. They would then distribute those to other family members to sell at malls and plazas, but most importantly, mercados. After a while bootlegging derived from those originals became the norm. From helium balloons to backpacks, to piñatas, figurines, toys, Trading Cards, pencil cases (a surprisingly high amount so that "papelerías" would be stacked with low-quality plastic boxes with prints of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dora the Explorer together) tazos (I think they are called "pogs"[?]; these little plastic discs found in bags of crisps), the mercado would often showcase an amazing sight of every weird crossover you could ever imagine. It is very cool and a rather striking showcase of the power of popular media and its natural connection to consumption. Kudos for the awesome investigation backing up these.

"There are no official Lego Mario sets." *_1 year later..._*

The funny thing about the fake Sonic X Silver plush is that Silver probably would have appeared in the anime had it not ended when it did. The final episode of Sonic X aired on April 18, 2005, while Sonic 06 was first announced at E3 during May 18-20, 2005, pretty much exactly one month later. Because of how close they were, the bootleggers who made the Silver plush probably assumed that he DID appear in the anime and bootlegged him accordingly.

I swear to God I actually saw a bootleg Obama Sonic back pack at a flee market near the Cape Town CBD in Southern Africa back in 2008-2009. I think it was near the city hall or Greenmarket Square, lots of bootlegged stuff still gets sold at the stalls there, even to this day.

Snoot Boi is the best name for anything ever.

I unironically want to collect all the snoot boys

100% people talking about Mario sets now existing 50%people talkin about sonics head on rouge body 0% people talking about the fact patmac talks about the fact he found a nickname snoot boy

You got to admit that Blue Speed Mouse is a classic bootleg Sonic costume.

While this isn't sonic-related, there is a flea market in Los Angeles that has sold a bunch of bootleg plushes, figurines, and even costumes. My father and I bought a bootleg copy of Super Mario Brothers, thinking that we would experience a blast of the past with such a bootleg copy (I was 9 at the time, so I fell for it quick). When we brought it home, it barely worked on my LED TV (it had a HDMI port!) Worse, the selection of titles didn't include a single version of the original Mario game. While I don't have it anymore, I can't quit remembering the disappointment of my father's face when the thing he bought didn't succumb to his expectations. To make this story have a happy ending, I ended up buying him an original NES for his birthday last year, and he couldn't be happier to experience his childhood memories from way back then.

I've seen this one 50 times and I still rewatch it. Beautiful.

*Harry Potter Obama Sonic 10 Wants To Know Your Location*

33:48 - HOLD UP BOTTOM RIGHT. AUNT SHIRT. _WHAT IS THAT_

I love how he says there are no Mario or sonic sets and 5 years later both are extremely popular LEGO lines and they have almost all the characters people want

"No official Mario Lego sets exist" *Um yeah, about that.*

Hey! That custom Sonic that you called good at 14:43 is actually mine! I've been obsessed with your videos lately and that's really cool and funny how I managed to see my old custom in one of your videos. I've made a better Sonic since then and hopefully plan on making newer ones as well. But thanks for showing it off and complimenting it here lol.

I'd honestly buy a bootleg, as long as it's original. SA1 Shadow & Dark Sonic are good examples! In fact, I'm glad I got my Toadsworth, even if he isn't official.

My favorite bootleg Nintendo items are from Soulja Boy.

“Sonic says ‘hey!’, Tails says ‘oops’ as he’s known to say, and Knuckles says ‘WHAT THE FU-‘

5:00 I actually have experience with sonic bootlegs before. When I was a kid, about every month I’d get lucky and sonic toys from jazwares. Luckily, I got one of the last Sets of the official figures for the 20TH anniversary in the store. Around the same time I got my sonic first 4 figures, my friend around the same age also liked sonic. Him and his older brother were into sonic. My friend had the bootleg versions of what I had, with the peach nose, grey metal sonic, and a WEIRD looking tails, and the others. Him and I always wondered why they looked different, but I thought “I think it’s a bootleg, I think.” My friends older brother also had a shadow plush that look really strange. That one I’m not 100% sure is a bootleg, but from what I know, he got it from an arcade claw machine, around the time SA2 came out(sounds real, but it looks really bad). It has almost side ways eyes and was about 2’ 3-9” tall, and was poorly made. It’s probs official, just really badly made but idk. The last thing I know of bootlegs in my area Is that my mall had a L O T of basic cheap merch of Sonic stuff, like the mystery ball sonic racing pull back toys, and a watch. However, the one that was definitely fake were a smooth rubber key chain. It was shown in the beginning of the video. The store in the mall had a classic super sonic, Amy, tails, and I think maybe knuckles. The funny thing about that store had a LOT of bootleg merch for other things too, like dragon ball z(some of it I own, because I didn’t know it was a bootleg at the time), Pokémon, One piece, and a couple of other brands. I’ll update this comment and add more history of bootlegs in my area if this comment gets popular somewhere in the future!👌

10:11 I'll admit that censor bleep sound was clever

I got those bootleg Sonic X plushes for my 21st birthday and they were covered in hot glue strings lmao

4 years later a Sonic Lego ideas set came out and a new line in August 😂

Screw Team Sonic Racing I want a solo game based off Snoot Boi!

7:02 *NO COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO STOP ME!*

9:03 those snoot boys look like their staring into my soul

Like how they’re now both Lego Mario and Sonic sets :]

7:01 “no copyright law in the universe is gonna stop me” -sonic

Me when I find a Sonic bootleg at my local flea market 10:11

Every time I go to a Mexican market I see the most bootleg goofy ahh Mario and sonic piñata’s and I always have to contain myself from busting out laughing from it

Why do you have to talk trash about my favorite Harry Potter character Obama the hedgehog he’s the 10 god

Snoot Boi be like: S N O O T.

10:09 And Knuckles characteristically says “WHAT THE FU-

I remember going to Mexico last year and found all sorts of bootleg things but the most memorable was I found a hat that said sonic mania on it but it had a picture of Amy which looked like the stock art from around sonic adventure. In hindsight I should’ve bought it. Bootlegs are interesting and have a soft spot in me about them.

I've got myself a bootleg version of the Sonic OVA, with the cover having stolen poorly colored art from Sonic Advance series, and a typo that reads "Crape your knuckles." The DVD itself is of the Japanese version of the OVA, but will only play the movie for five minutes before crashing every time without fail. Definitely the funny black sheep of my Sonic collection. Edit: Ask and ye shall receive, behold! i.ibb.co/SmVzdTR/crapeyourknuckles.jpg

10:11 everyone's reaction to Sonics first design on the movie

34:00 There are 5 members in a family Father Mother Sister Brother And S U S A N

13:02: That one didn’t age quite so well.

I never thought I'd be excited about seeing a 40 minute video on bootleg merchandise, but here I am. PatMac is the king of "I didn't know I wanted to learn about this until now"

12:53 You're telling me you're going to reimagine this much of sonic's world in lego from Design so many characters for potential releases And then not do anything with it? Yeah about that.

“There are no official Lego Mario sets.” Man, it feels good to come back here and say that this is no longer the case. Awesome video, by the way! Lego Sonic would be cool!

4:07 I think I may possibly have had the knuckles keychain when I was younger, but sadly I lost it within 5 days of getting it

when tails said “oops” I felt that 😔

I'm a custom plush maker most of the times I take underrated sonic artworks and base the plush after it like I am getting ready to make a sonic plush based off of a shirt that has sonic drinking coffe and says gotta go fast.

The video URL has "TOY" in it. Coincidence? Probably.

8:01 is me trying to make a decent looking character in Oblivion but then I turn the camera to the side

Snoot Boy Adventures By: Bootleg Mario Figure Company Snoot Boy was walking down road when run into Flails. When see him, Snoot Boy say “Henlo fren how you doing”. Flails reply “Hi Snoot Boy how u am good wan go to workshop I make nw planee” He say “okae flails” When snoot an flails mak to worksop flals turn on plnee and it go flie throu wal. flail say “Oops!” in air kunkles was flie. wen plan fly to kunkles and he say “WTF?!” wen hit him. He died. Knuckles is dead. END

I love all your sarcastic comments, like for example: "This _beautiful_ backpack", "He looks *LEGENDARY* from the side!", "This _incredible_ shirt", etc. It's hilarious! Sometimes I can't even tell if you're showing sarcasm for something, or giving something genuine praise, it's great

4:01 Haha, this actually says مز مز, and it means "munching" in arabic. The more you know

Im 15 and I live in Costa Rica, and I tell you, the first time I saw a official Sonic plush, was 2020, it is SUPER hard to get my hands in a official plush :(

Oh, it's not even 'slipping out'. iirc in China, most legit producers (e.g. Nintendo) are required to share their designs, patterns, schematics and such with the manufacturers, leading to those manufacturers turning around and using those to make bootlegs.

Who is here when the release of the first sonic lego set has released?

"There are no official LEGO Mario sets" That line didn't aged well

Once when my dad came from shop, he said me he bought me sonic newest product. Then he gave me sonic pickles jar xD

13:25 Jessie and James have pulled a Jotaro and made their hair their hat

I have the bootleg toyset at 4:14, still boxed but have never found it again online. I'd love to know about the production behind it

19:17 I am ashamed to admit that I just realized that I currently have that Sonic version bootleg one in my room...I always thought this plush look weird but now I know. Damn shame on me for trying to buy something cheap instead of the official one.

I want to buy a Snoot Boi.

14:35 Ah yes my favorite video game character Oonic

3:47 Id actually love to have that clock, it looks very cute

Patmac, help me out. About 10 or 11 years ago, when I was a kid, I went to a local independent toy store and picked up these 4 really weird Sonic figures that I've never seen reference to since, have since MEGA lost, and have always wondered as to whether or not they were bootlegs (they probably were). The figures were pretty much "cyber" robot versions of Sonic, Tails, Shadow, and Knuckles. Their bodies were made of really hard plastic and resembled robotic samurai armor, with big shoulders and armor details. The heads on the Sonic and Shadow figures were made of a soft, hollow rubber that could be easily dented in, but the heads of the Tails and Knuckles figures were made of the same hard plastic as the bodies. They all had weapons (like spears and swords and stuff), and I remember the Sonic figure had LED's that lit up his weapon. I also remember them being fragile as shit. The tip of the Knuckles figure's weapon broke off almost immediately, and the Sonic figure's arm came off at one point, and was filled with loose wires and cords for the LED. What I'm trying to ask is, have you ever seen any figures that resemble these? I've always been curious if I picked up some weird Sonic bootleg toys as a kid or if they were some obscure line or something (probably the former). Great video as always, I just wanted to ask this. More details: I remember that my parents bought me all 4 in one trip to the toy store when I was a kid (which isn't something they would have normally done because we didn't have a lot of money), so I'd imagine that they were incredibly cheap. Thinking about it more, I also remember the designs of the bodies, with how distinctly "robot samurai" they were, looking a lot like traditional Mega Man X designs (namely Zero) with Sonic heads stuck on. Again, any word on these from anyone would be appreciated. I've been curious for years.

My 1 year old brother is in the hospital so thank you for lifting my spirit patmac also I love snoot boi Edit:He just got out today (YAY(

I'm proud to tell you that now after 5 years they are making Lego Sonic sets and they look really cool

10:11 Oh PatMac showing some edge

Snoot boy for smash ultimate dlc!

22:47 I remember having that Tails back pack, which I turned into a Tails Doll plush, which I have lost in the time, though I do have one picture of him, which I also can not find. But damn that brings me memories..

I love how Knuckles is saying “WTF?!” at 10:11 Who else died of laughter because of that?

Here in Finland finding knock-off products is very difficult. In 1990's there was much more knock-offs available, for example Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys. I realized only couple of years ago that my Raphael plush from my childhood is fake. But I would never sell that plush because it was one of my favourite toys as a child and it is a good quality plush. :)

You missed my favorite bootleg The dark side of the hedgehog.

“At the time I’m making this video no official LEGO sonic set exists” *Boy do I have news for you on next year.*

3:53 now I see where they got the movie design for sonic

0:37 That t-shirt looks like what annyoning kids at high school wear to make them seem "gangsta."

2:53 “Obama” is actually also the name of a city in Japan. So if this backpack was made by some Japanese bootlegging company then it may certainly be older.

Santa: "ok, son, what do you want for christmas." Me: "I want a snoot boi." Santa: "A what?" Me: a snoooooot boiiiii. "

PatMac: What a world we live in. 2020 and 2021: Yeah what a world we live in.

18:29 He/She had to do it to the other chaos

Bootlegs are why copyright-laws exists. Also I really want to know if there’s a coldsteel bootleg. (that would be legendary!)

All I know is Spain has way to many of these shops that have bootleg figures such as the super Mario run figures and well the figures you are showing in this video. Anyway I really enjoy your videos and I hope you make them for a long,long time.

8:30 "Sonic Generations" we gonna talk about how they got the wrong Sonic?

Just today during school, we were learning about wars and other countries in social studies, and in a video our class watched, there was a little kid wearing a bootleg sonic x shirt and I immediately thought of this video.

Sonic merch:exists Bootleggers:allow us to introduce our selves

In a parallel dimension: The bootlegs are actually fanmade OCs.

I kind of like the Hyper Sonic and Super Sonic Rose and God Saiyan plushes.

33:50 I have questions about Rouge the hedgehog..

13:18 Boy I got news for you (Even though PatMac is basically dead unfortunately)

Man I remember watching this video late at night on my cracked tablet. Idk what but it always makes me nostalgic

Apparently, Piccolo is now called Shrek and Ben 10 is called Spider-Man for some reason. Do bootleg manufacturers even try?

4:01 Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures Part 1: Veggie Blood Part 2: Bootleg Tendency Part 3: Chipdust Crusaders Part 4: Sonic is Unbreakable Part 5: Orange Wind Part 6: Crisp Ocean Part 7: Hole Ball Run Part 8: Redbagnium

My cousin actually owns a bootleg sonic product, it had this really weird packaging with a mishmash of renders from different sonic games, and a logo reading SOMIC in the sonic movie font, it included a crappy sonic and tails, and a surprisingly quality metal sonic, I never thought I'd see a bootleg sonic product like the ones in the video, but here we are.

16:31 Well Sonic Superstars just got announced, so he sure is.

"...store things inside Sonic the Hedgehog..." (spits out tea) I say, what was that!?!

During this quarantine I’ve learned more about video game merchandise than I ever thought I would

34:48 Actually, I'm in that kind of country, there are here lots of store in the style of "everything 1 dollar", and these stores, in the toy sections, are filled with lots of bootlegs, even I own a fake Sonic Funk and a fake Movie Sonic figure

I always loved seeing distorted arts in these bootlegs. They go from a hedgehog to a cat or obama harry potter

Snoot boy from the side is absolutely legendary Will be remembered for the ages

4:02 if you call him Ogórki, you are just calling him Pickles, cuz this is a polish bootleg

I got a bootleg Knuckles backpack plush (I thought it was official) from a small store in a mall and I can confirm the pocket inside it is barely able to fit two sticks of butter. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.

17:13 if you click on the timestamp repeatedly you can read “LinkLovesZelda”

I have that dry bowser plush at 21:32, it was actually well made and i believed it was official, i wish nintendo actually did make it..