LEGO reveals Sonic the Hedgehog kits with a cool twist

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LEGO has revealed Sonic the Hedgehog kits for the first time, with a number of brick-based blue blur sets due to hit shop shelves in the summer.

This is proving to be quite a big week for Sega, the company behind Sonic, with the LEGO set announcement coming hot on the heels of another noteworthy piece of news —it was announced earlier in the week that Sega is buying Rovio, the developers of Angry Birds.

And now, four Sonic LEGO kits have been revealed, with Sega's iconic mascot getting a blocky makeover (much like Nintendo's Mario did a few years back, with those sets proving very popular).

Seeing is believing, though, so you can take a look at each of the Sonic LEGO sets in the video below!

In terms of prices, these four sets range from affordable to the slightly less affordable:

You can click any of those links to go to an official product page on the LEGO website, where you'll find all of the important details.

The Speed Sphere item, which seems to catapult Sonic across a game-like environment, looks to be a particularly cool twist on the usual LEGO set formula. This Sonic-blasting feature seems to come with the cheapest and the most expensive set.

«I’m especially proud of the Speed Sphere,» said LEGO's Frédéric Roland Andre in a statement, «as it was quite a challenge to figure out how we would get Sonic to speed up and interact with each course.

»Sonic is known for his speed and how he runs and jumps through courses, so for LEGO sets inspired by him there was no way we could create a static set, we simply had to be creative and make them as action-packed as possible!"

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