I'm glad it is canon, even if it is one of the worst of the entire franchise and even if there's nothing really important in its plot. Simply because it made no sense to make it non canon, it was just arbitrary. But GOD this back-and-forth drives me crazy.
Not sure if this Bumblekast is on YouTube yet or not but I remember Flynn saying specifically G Sonic is not canon.
Honestly I think Archie does have a lot to do with why this kind of desire for as much as possible to be canon exists, because Ian's run on the book (particularly pre-reboot) genuinely pulled a lot of characters out of obscurity and gave them new life for the sake of using what was already there rather than just invoking memberberries (not that I think IDW or Mania have done this, in fact I think Scrapnik Island bringing back Mecha Sonic and recontextualising his existence is exactly the former, but it has happened elsewhere in the franchise). Mighty, Ray and the Hooligans pretty much got their defining personality traits from that old Archie run, and Ian did wonderful things with the likes of Battle Bird Armada, making the Grand Battle Kukku this brilliantly glorious bastard (something that admittedly is more associated with a moment in the post-reboot story, Eggman's Dozen). Ultimately, I think people want more of that and the reason they go bananas over offhand references canonising things is because they think that means those things are on the table again. I think this too tbh, but SEGA's still been pretty safe with it all up to now since 2018, keeping the Classic/Modern divide to prevent the existence of characters like Mighty and Ray in the main setting, even if it's not an in-universe divide anymore.
Probably meant to be a generic frog (unless associated text somehow says otherwise) because sometimes we have other frogs and today we can't decide whether or not to distinguish Froggy by giving him back Chaos' tail.
Nah this absolutely fits with the running gag of Big making cameos in all of Karasuno's SonicPict artworks. I imagine they've gone with Froggy because his more realistic design gels more easily into the classic world than Big's modern style design would, and apparently they just didn't want to design a classic Big.
18:00 - (...) Do the unique locations from Sonic Mania (Studiopolis, Press Garden, Mirage Saloon and Titantic Monarch) take place in any pre-established locations in the Sonic universe? I ask this, because the game seems to strongly imply that both Studiopolis and Mirage Saloon are on West-side island due to them visibly being connected in their level transitions to Chemical Plant and Oil Ocean respectively. This is especially clear in the Mirage Saloon to Oil Ocean transition, as Oil Ocean is right there on the very same landmass. [Ian kind of thinks the same, but he's not sure because of the Phantom Ruby so we still don't know what is real and what is fake in Mania]
33:15 - Is Sonic 2's Hidden Palace canon? Could there be a third Hidden Palace in South Island? Does S3's Hidden Palace exist in modern continuity? [Probably yes / maybe / yes] 1:12:25 - In #58,Blaze says her Sol gems can only take her between her world & Sonics. Did Sega tell you this,or did you put this forward? I find it odd since the Chaos Emeralds dont have this limitation Yeah, that's a Sega thing. [Special stages are non canon at the moment] 1:48:18 - are inhibitor rings actual canon? only used in 06 I think that's actually kind of up for debate, but I would prefer that they stay canon.
