Trivia / Sonic and the Secret Rings

• Bonus Material: First-print copies of Sonic and the Secret Rings at Target included a "Comic Book DVD from Archie Comics" (aka Sand, Spirits and Sonic Speed). It takes place between events in the game, with Sonic recounting his friends and foes to Shahra.
• Prop Recycling: The models of the dinosaurs in Dinosaur Jungle are all recycled from the arcade game Dinosaur King, just with more vibrant colors and added spines to make them more fantastical.
  • Additionally, Sonic's model in this game was later recycled for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Troubled Production: Secret Rings was developed at the same time as Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), which ended up splitting Sonic Team in two and halving their resources. This led to Secret Rings losing out on some polish, though it's pretty fair to say that Sonic '06 is the one that really suffered (likely because director Yojiro Ogawa stuck with Secret Rings, leaving the less-experienced Shun Nakamura for '06).
• What Could Have Been: Secret Rings began life as a Wii port of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), with the developers experimenting on playing the game largely with motion control. Development then switched to making an all-new Sonic title exclusively for the Wii, designed to take full advantage of the hardware, and thus Secret Rings was born.
• Working Title:
  • Sonic and the Secret Rings used to be Sonic Wildfire.
  • For a short while between Wildfire and Secret Rings, it was also going to be called Sonic and the Secret of the Rings, but they took out the "of the" to make it a bit less wordy.