The Eggman Robot Battle Set from Jakks Pacific
It’s rare for me to want to mention honest-to-goodness toyshere, particularly the stuff that Jakks Pacific puts out, but I’ll make an eggception for this Eggman Robot Battle Set based onSonic the Hedgehog 2. It’s so cool. I mean it. You’ve got to see it in action.
Jakks Pacific’s take on the Death Egg Robot comes in at 9″ tall andwill retail for $40. (Pre-orders are open atGameStopfor mid-September, butAmazonis out of stock.)
If this seems like a random time to be making a toy based onSonic the Hedgehog 2, it’s anything but — this is a 30th Anniversary product, and it’s a bullseye on that front. We got our first glimpse of the Eggman Robot Battle Set during theSonic anniversary stream, though it was such a limited preview, it wasn’t really worth covering. Also, it got overshadowed by those ridiculousSonic-and-friends King Ice necklaces.
I’ve mentioned this a few times before on Destructoid, but as aZ-Bots-obsessed kid of the ’90s, I would’ve loved this Eggman Robot set. Honestly, it would go well with those mini mechanized protectors. I’m just now reading up on the lore — oh my god, y’all,there’s Z-Bots lore— and apparently, we’re only a few years off from a major event on the timeline: their creation. Z-Bots were created in 2025 by Arthur Zedd and they served humans well until 2084, when a virus corrupted many of them. Pretty good run!
Tangent aside, here’s my takeaway: let’s get more toys based on final bosses, please.
If I could get just the catapult and Sonic spinball, I would. That would take up much less space, and it would be a fun activity for the cat (but mostly for me).
