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Tuesday Fun Find in Sonic Colors
It has been a
while since I've done one of
these, hasn't it? Well like the
title states, I must FIND a fun
find before I can write about
said fun find. Thankfully, I
found a very fun fun find in one
of my favorite Wii games: Sonic
Colors.

Released in
2010, the plot behind Sonic
Colors is that the nefarious
Doctor Eggman is hoping to build
an intergalactic theme park
using the power of the Wisps, a
colorful alien race with various
powers. Enter Sonic the
Hedgehog, who has decided to
investigate what is going on in
this nefarious theme park, and
rescue the Wisp race once and
for all.
Sonic Colors is,
in my opinion, one of the best
Sonic games in recent time.
There are many reasons why, but
one of them is that it is a very
funny, tongue in cheek parody of
theme park culture. While the
game doesn't exactly go after
the Disney theme parks as a lot
of tropes apply to theme parks
in general, it does make a
gentle jab or two at their
culture and fanbase, such as the
notorious theme park prices,
safety spiels before and after
every ride and general
announcements.

This is done
through audio announcements that
can be heard throughout the
levels. With Eggman being the
owner of the park, he is the one
in change of the announcements
as well. All of these
announcements are done is a very
snarky manner that call back to
all the announcements you have
ever heard at any park. But one
announcement in particular is
actually a callback to a very
famous Disney parade! Here is
the announcement as heard in the
game:
Attention ladies and gentlemen!
Please make you way over to the
main viewing area where the
Light Speed Electrical Parade is
about to be... oooh. And, and
that concludes the Light Speed
Electrical Parade.
That's right,
Eggman himself is referencing
none other than the Main Street
Eletrical Parade. Even if it is
a small audio cue, it truly does
show that Disney can appear in
the most random of places, even
within mockeries of their own
mindsets and theme park culture.