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#1 Secret History of Sonic & Tails (Tom + Ben from Mashed)

Season 1, Ep. 1

Welcome to your new favourite podcast all about online animations: Rogue Pixels! On each episode, you'll get to hear us chat to your favourite creators about some of the biggest cartoons on YouTube. This week, we're talking to Tom Jenkins and Ben Michael of Mashed about one of the internet's most-beloved Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, Secret History of Sonic & Tails.


Over the past seven years, this Sonic cartoon has taken on a life of it's own. A lot of that, of course, is down to Sonic's best friend. It's fair to say that Tails (voiced by Mick Lauer and animated by Zeurel) is one of the most recognisable characters from the Mashed archive. Fans have created art, video game mods, and more based off this version of Miles Prower. Tom and Ben break down the origins of the character on this episode, as well as how they decided to bring him back for There's Something About Amy.


Rogue Pixels is the podcast that shares your love of the biggest and best animations online. Each week Colm Ahern chats with the creators of the internet’s most successful cartoons in order to learn more about how those toons came into existence. 


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Secret History of Sonic & Tails Credits:


Animated by Zeurel

Produced by Tom Jenkins

Written by Mick Lauer 

Voice Of Sonic: Blake Swift

Voice of Amy: Eileen "EileMonty” Montgomery

Voice of Mr Sega: Mick Lauer 

Voice of Tails: Mick Lauer 

Music By: Alex Walker Smith 

Sound Design and Mix by Laura Rankin


Rogue Pixels is a Spud Gun Studios production.

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