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New video tomorrow probably!

Some of you might have noticed that there would usually have been a new 4th Dimension video by now and there hasn't been. That's because the day I set aside to edit the video, we had a huge thunderstorm here in Manchester that necessitated an almost full day of having the PC unplugged!

(some call me cautious, but my motherboard's been hit by lightning TWICE if you can believe it. It comes through the broadband line. Our neighbours only lost a router, but I'm on a wired connection and it...

End of Mobius pt10 - audio

Oohoohooo here's where it kicks off, Boomers. This is where little Dave gets BLOODTHIRSTY. Sonic's about to have something happen to him that there's no coming back from...

PLUS! This edition comes with us looking at illustrations from little Abby and very little Dave, which you'll have to refer to the video version to see.

End of Mobius pt10 - The Gruesome Bit

Oohoohooo here's where it kicks off, Boomers. This is where little Dave gets BLOODTHIRSTY. Sonic's about to have something happen to him that there's no coming back from...

PLUS! This edition comes with illustrations from little Abby and very little Dave, and also I've tried out a thing where I zoom in on us so you're not just looking at our rooms - the resolution it ain't so good, so I dunno if I'll keep doing it, let me know if you care either way.

#56 Deleted Scene - Splat Factor

I had to really force myself to delete this bit, because I think it's one of the funniest bits from this weekend's episode, but the fact is that it's very slightly gross and some people might have complained, possibly. In my opinion you don't need a strong stomach for this, because it's just a report of a gross thing in a child's diary, but I'll let you off if you stop halfway in.

4th Dimension pt4 - audio only

The start of The Good Bit

4th Dimension - part 4!

We're back! And to kick off the summer (somewhere in the middle) we've got THE GOOD BIT, this is what we mean when we say Sonic in the 4th Dimension, this is where the good stuff starts, this stuff (and stuff like it coming up) is why we think of it as the ultimate Sonic story.

All right, we're back!

Hello! We're back on schedule as of today - by which I mean, you didn't get any patreon content last month and you are getting it this month. Basically I didn't have time to edit the videos in June (as those of you who read the post at the time will remember) when I had a Summer Special to do on one of that month's off-weeks, and also a holiday to go on on the other. But! Starting NOW there'll be...

there'll...

...look I forgot to leave the video rendering when I went to bed last ...

Back home!

Yes! You might have noticed we didn't put up an End of Mobius or a 4th Dimension this month. Sorry! That's for two reasons, one is that we had that Summer Special and that took up all my editing time (back when we used to have lots of specials, we weren't doing the patreon yet, so I didn't realise they don't fit together well)...

....but partly it's because we went on holiday. I've been in Shropshire, where instead of the same walls of my flat, there's all, like, trees and rivers and th...

Disruption (and presents)

RIGHT!

Normally, about now on an off-week, we'd upload one of our patreon exclusive videos (and audio version for everyone who's REVOLTED by our DISGUSTING faces).

This month though, I (Dave) have had to do too much editing to make one. You'll still get it, it's just you won't get it today. When will you get it? I don't know! Probably next week around the time of the next episode, something like that.

But! Don't despair, because you still get some STCTP this weekend. That's ...

End of Mobius 9 - audio only - Whispering blasphemies through a slot

Patrons! Patreons! It's time again! Here it is, the last part of the fanfic before... well, I won't tell you yet, but next episode, something extremely fanfic is going to happen. But first, Sonic and Knuckles are trapped in a cell, arrested by the Echidna elders of the planet Jacob, with no means of escape! Well, one means, a really obvious one that we flagged up a month ago. Let's see how long it takes them to think of it.

End of Mobius pt9 - Whispering blasphemies through a slot

Patrons! Patreons! It's time again! Here it is, the last part of the fanfic before... well, I won't tell you yet, but next episode, something extremely fanfic is going to happen. But first, Sonic and Knuckles are trapped in a cell, arrested by the Echidna elders of the planet Jacob, with no means of escape! Well, one means, a really obvious one that we flagged up a month ago. Let's see how long it takes them to think of it.

Audio - 4th Dimension pt3

Whoever it was that pointed out that the audio versions of these bonus videos all have different names and don't order properly, I'm completely on your side and agree. Trouble is I can't seem to find out what I've called previous episodes and just get confused every time trying to pick. Whoever it was, just tell me how you'd like them labelled, and I'll follow that from now on. :D

Note to listeners: It's been pointed out that there's a bit that only makes sense in the video because I go...

Sonic in the 4th Dimension - part 3

DINOSAURS!

Yep, we're about to get to The Stuff that we remember about this book, the really GOOD stuff that makes this our favourite Sonic book (and you'll find out this episode what that stuff is going to be), but first there's something we have to do: it's 1993 and this is a book in which the characters have a time machine, so of course we have to have dinosaurs. But this is a good book, so James Wallis manages to turn it into something a bit touching.

End of Mobius pt8 - audio

Knuckles is dead (he isn't), and once that's sorted out, they all go to the planet Jacob, where he's worshipped as the "Chaos Child" flippineck

Audio only version for all you pod-heads (it may appear very slightly shorter than the video version, that's because in the video I show two still images at 1:25 that demonstrate the state of my hairiness. You're missing nothing.)

The End of Mobius pt8!

Knuckles is dead (he isn't), and once that's sorted out, they all go to the planet Jacob, where he's worshipped as the "Chaos Child" flippineck

audio - 4th Dimension pt2

It's the audio version! Yeah!

4th Dimension pt2

Teletext, smeg and time travel adventures: it's the 2nd chunk of chapters from the Sonic novel we've been remembering fondly since this podcast began and are finally getting to read again

#49 Deleted Scenes

We love a digression on STCTP, but sometimes they can go on too long, and in #49 it was funnier to wind through bits during our section on Asterix, holidays and Popples. But if you're into the show enough to be on here, there's a chance you'll want to hear it all. So here it is! (Also a couple of other bits from the start that made me laugh, but I cut them because they made the intro too fussy) -Dave

AUDIO - End of Mobius pt7

I actually remembered to put the audio up this time! :O

The End of Mobius - OC Time!

Yes, it's time for this thing to really go off the rails. In our 7th reading of Dave's overblown teenage Sonic fanfic, we stop spending any time with actual Sonic characters, and instead get involved with Dave's blue echidna OC and his wacky space religion.

This video is the least fun I think Chris has ever had making STCTP.

AUDIO! - Sonic in the 4th Dimension pt1

Whoops! I forgot to put the audio version up, sorry!

SONIC IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION part 1!

Finally! The book we've been wanting to read this whole time! You heard us raving about it as far back as episode one of the podcast (possibly before we even started on the first Sonic strip IIRC), and now we finally get to re-read it together.

But is it still as fundamentally good as we thought it was? It's a high bar: we thought it was easily one of the, let's say, three best Sonic stories ever written, and opinions vary on what the other two are (except that they're both by Nigel Kit...

#37 Deleted Scenes - The Number of Dumbbells

Yep, not #47, #37. I was rooting around in my box of sound, and I stumbled upon this little collection of bonus deleted scenes from ten whole issues ago, way back in October.

Evidently I intended to post this then, and as far as I can tell, I didn't. So here you go! Have fun trying to remember the context of any of this!

It contains a very good editing joke from Sam that presumably got cut from the final episode, so I'm gla

The End of Mobius audio - 6!

It's the same as the video! But it's audio!

The End of Mobius - 6!

We're onto the second of the original "parts" now. Mobius has been Ended, and now it's a question of who will survive and how!

Robotnik's Lab pt6 audio

Yep! It's the audio from today's video, for all you podheads out there. 

Sonic in Robotnik's Lab - FINALE!

Yes! The first of this month's two patreon exclusive video episodes is our LAST look at the first of the fabled Martin Adams novels, in which we find out where this whole thing was going anyway. How do you deal with Robotnik in a way that suits a novel, but still leaves room for him to return? How does the Eggor story turn out? Well, in those regards the book has its ups and downs, let's put it like that.

Next time, we'll begin the book that we've been raving about since the very start ...

#45 Deleted scenes

Hello! Dave here! Usually you'd have a patreon-exclusive video about now, and there is one, it's recorded, but my workload's been ridiculous this week so it isn't ready yet. Also we're recording STCTP tomorrow and I'm guesting on something else on Sunday AND it's my wife's birthday zoom...  somehow during all that I've got to find time to sort out the video.

So yeah, couple of days late on the patreon vid this week. But to make up for it, 1) next weekend's episode (#46) has a god-t...

End of Mobius - AUDIO only - part 5

Who wants to see our faces? Nobody. Exactly. Here's the latest video with the video switched off, for all you podheads.

The End of Mobius - part 5! I think!

Robotnik finally makes his final attack on Mobius, in Dave's increasingly fraught teenage fanfic. Could this truly be?? The End?? Of Mobius???