Tails' heli-tails

From: William T. Graham <wgraham_at_freenet.calgary.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 23:22:00 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Erich Schulman wrote:

> If someone does and plays a tape of Tails flying and studies it one frame
> at a time, some light just might get shed on the subject. My equipment isn't
> up to the job, so I really don't know what you'll find if anyone decides
> to try this. If you do try it, don't forget to post your findings here :-)

The pilot epiosode of "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" (namely "Super
Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad") shows Tails flying quite clearly.
While flying, he is drawn with 4 tails at 90 degrees to each other, each
tail curving up at the end in an "S" shape, and all tails rotating in a
clockwise direction (as viewed from above). The drawing in this episode
is in the unmistakeable style of Scott Shaw!, with the same body-morphing
technique seen in the Archie comic Sonic mini-series.

Usually, Tails' heli-tails are just drawn as a blur. There is another
"Adventures" episode ("Tails Prevails"(?)) in which Tails (accidentally)
starts a cyclone vortex by twirling his tails, which wouldn't happen with
counter-rotating tails.

 - William T. Graham, .net Freedom Fighter -

Received on Wed Apr 26 1995 - 01:28:30 PDT