New Lego Sonic sets introduce Tails, Amy, and high-speed chaos

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More Lego Sonic sets are sprinting onto shelves this August, featuring some of the Blue Blur's most iconic allies and abilities.

Due to launch this August 1, four new Lego Sonic sets (starting at $34.99 / £24.99) have just been revealed with the hedgehog himself alongside Tails and Amy. The Tails kit comes with his Tornado Plane, while Amy's working on an 'Animal Rescue Island' inhabited by the woodland creatures you rescue from Eggman's robots. 

Speaking of which, the good doctor himself is also included in this roundup as part of the 'Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge'. This kit brings Sonic's ability to curl up and roll across the map as a fast-moving blue ball to life, with the minifigure sitting inside a transparent hamster ball you shoot across the course (which sounds like a recipe for chaos in our opinion). In the press release, Lego designer Frédéric Roland Andre said that 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!"

Much like the original Lego Sonic set (which we said was one of the best Lego sets based on a video game in our Lego Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone review), these draw from the 16-bit look of the original games.

Here's all the details about the sets so far. They aren't available to pre-order just yet, but because a Sonic page (opens in new tab) exists on Lego's official store, we suspect they'll be up soon.

The cheapest new Lego Sonic set introduces the 'speed sphere', allowing Sonic to roll up ramps and across the