
JAKKS will design, manufacture, market, and sell Sonic the Hedgehog 2 branded toy product lines based on the upcoming feature film, set for release in 2022. for Paramount Pictures’ feature film, Sonic the Hedgehog 2. (NASDAQ: JAKK) today announced global toy rights with SEGA of America, Inc. Check out full details on the collaboration below. When it comes to merch, we now know that JAKKS Pacific is going to be offering a line of toys and more for the film. With the first Sonic movie being a hit, it's no surprise to see companies eager to get involved with the sequel.

Some people would be like, “why?” and it’s like, “it doesn’t have to make sense to you.” It’s perfectly good sense to me and it was the right thing to do, and I’m happy to have done it.’"

You know, after a while you do things and start going ‘I think I’m very pleased and I’m very proud and I’m very happy with what has happened there,’ and I think it’s time to say, ‘I don’t want to keep doing this.’ It’s interesting the perception that people have, and we get this all the time like, it’s amazing how all the experts that are out there that have nothing to do with this industry that make all of these assumptions, you know, ‘this is how this works and this is what this does’… "I know people are sort of surprised and shocked by it, and it was like “yeah”, and I’ve seen all the speculation that were like, “voice actors don’t walk away, he was fired! And I found myself going, ‘I think it’s time. “I think my response would be “it’s just one of those things.” It’s a time in looking at the way things are being handled and the way that you are, where you’re at, and what you kind of want to deal with, and do. In an interview with the Voices from Krypton podcast, Smith says it was his own decision to step away. It seems like a dream job to voice one of gaming's most iconic characters, so why leave? Plenty of people thought that SEGA gave Smith the axe, paving the way for a newcomer. Many fans have been wondering why Roger Craig Smith stopped voicing Sonic the Hedgehog.
