If you were in attendance at Gamescom 2023, you may have noticed a particularly large visitor, posted at the front of one of the Koelnmesse’s largest halls to greet passersby. That visitor was none other than a larger-than-life statue of Sonic the Hedgehog.
These sorts of statues are common in the public halls of the Koelnmesse, but there’s more to the statue than meets the eye. It’s actually something of a relic, initially being built close to three decades ago for the SegaWorld indoor theme park, which opened in September of 1996. Sadly, the short-lived London-based venue shut down in the year 2000. Its massive Sonic statue was promptly relegated to a storage tomb. Until now.
