Summary
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Paramount and Sega have revived Sonic's original movie design for a new ugly Christmas sweater.
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The Ugly Sonic Shirt puts the original look of the movie Sonic on one of the ugliest pieces of clothing you've ever seen.
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Ugly Sonic's shirt was part of a giveaway to promote Sonic 3 which hits theaters next week.
With a little more than a week to go until Sonic 3 hits theaters, Sega and Paramount have kicked off marketing for the threequel. It included 12 hours of Sonic themed giveaways throughout the Wednesday afternoon and evening with prizes up for grabs including plushies, t-shirts and a very ugly Christmas sweater to remind us of how far we've come.
Donning a Christmas-themed sweater that isn't aesthetically pleasing has become a holiday tradition, but I can't imagine you've ever seen one as ugly as this one. Aptly called the Ugly Sonic Sweater, included in Paramount's promotional offerings was a jumper that features the original design for the film version of the Blue Blur.

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For those who have forgotten the Ugly Sonic saga, and if your brain has deliberately erased it from your memory, then you're in luck, before the hedgehog's big screen debut, a trailer revealed to the world what a live-action CGI Sonic would look like . Simply put, it was terrible. So terrible, and the backlash to it so loud, that Paramount delayed the film's release so that Sonic's design could be revised, the end result being a much more palatable one because it actually looks like Sonic.
Ugly Sonic is back in ugly Christmas sweater form
A nightmare before Christmas
Five years later, it's nice to see Paramount able to poke fun at themselves and the Sonic design that nearly derailed the adaptation before it was even released. The shirt reveal even features footage from the original version of the movie, which serves as an unwelcome reminder that the OG design for Sonic's hands was almost as bad as his face. The shirt's reveal is paired with Donut Lord seeing Sonic for the first time, screaming before shooting the original's design with a tranquilizer dart.
As for the shirt, it's not just the big old image of the original movie Sonic's face that makes it ugly. The color scheme and the incorporation of what appear to be Ugly Sonic silhouettes stretching really contribute to this being one of the worst vacation jerseys ever created.
Even before the trailer debuted in 2019, fans were left to fear the worst with glimpses of Sonic's legs as sneak peeks suggested that Paramount had made the hedgehog look far too human,
Unfortunately, if you've just learned of this jumper's existence, you've already missed your chance to win it. Paramount's 12 hour giveaways have already ended, meaning the lucky owner of what appears to be a one-of-a-kind Ugly Sonic Christmas jumper has already been determined. The same goes for the candy canes with chili dog flavor. Yes, they were indeed a prize and I will need the winner to send me one if they see this. I need to know what they taste like.

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