{"id":90673,"date":"2026-10-06T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90673"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:36:34","slug":"sega-announces-7000-sonic-the-hedgehog-pottery-and-i-cant-stop-watching-how-its-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90673","title":{"rendered":"Sega Announces $7,000 Sonic The Hedgehog Pottery, And I Can\u2019t Stop Watching How It\u2019s Made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time flies by fast, especially if you&#8217;re Sega&#8217;s blue mascot, as 2026 marks the 35th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/sonic-the-hedgehog\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"154971\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a>. While Sega has various plans to commemorate the milestone, one of the most elegant is a hand-painted porcelain sculpture that is both graceful and <em>expensive<\/em>. Even if you can afford to shell out big bucks for this Blue Blur pottery, you&#8217;ll still need luck on your side, as only 50 of these pieces are being made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sculpted by the artisans of the Japanese studio YOYOYO, this ornate piece costs a whopping $7,000. It comes with a certificate of authenticity, a wooden stand, and a wooden box, but you&#8217;ll need to<a href=\"https:\/\/yoyoyo.work\/en\/products02\"> enter a lottery<\/a> to have a chance to buy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what makes this piece so special? To realize the idea of Sonic being the &#8220;world&#8217;s fastest blue,&#8221; the studio incorporated gosu, a cobalt-blue underglaze pigment that results in a color that\u00a0never fades. This created an &#8220;eternal blue&#8221; finish, and the artisans also designed this sculpture to have a shelf-life of at least 100 years. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/DzCJw-H7Xfo  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the base, durable Amakusa porcelain stone\u00a0was chosen, as its white surface lets colors shine through, and the artists used techniques<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies by fast, especially if you&#8217;re Sega&#8217;s blue mascot, as 2026 marks the 35th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog. While Sega has various plans to commemorate the milestone, one of the most elegant is a hand-painted porcelain sculpture that is both graceful and expensive. Even if you can afford to shell out big bucks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90676,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90673\/revisions\/90676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}