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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 2, episode 42 (S02E42) |
| Episode no. | 94 of 104 |
| US premiere | 26 August 2017 · Boomerang |
| France | 15 September 2017 · Les fous du volant |
| Written by | Jake James |
| Storyboard | Jeremy Klein |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
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If You Build It They Will Race is episode 42 of Season 2 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by Technicolor Animation Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 26 August 2017 on Boomerang.
Synopsis
A bigger Build-it Box means bigger toys, and everyone has a different dream car. Knuckles wants a monster truck, Amy a cute ride packed with weapons, Tails a jumper, Sticks a camouflaged buggy and Sonic simply speed. Naturally each driver thinks theirs is best, and Knuckles proposes a race to settle it.
Mayor Fink insists on a permit, which takes eight months. By Race Day the field includes Eggman, T.W. Barker, Dave and Leroy the Turtle, and it turns vicious at once: Eggman fires missiles and smoke bombs, Dave sneaks a shortcut, and Amy’s sabotage takes out both her car and Sticks’. Crash follows crash, and Sonic’s Speedster, all speed and no steering, eventually joins the pile-up.
Eggman stops short of the line to start celebrating early, and that pause is all Team Sonic needs. Realising they took it too seriously, the friends strip their own wrecks to rebuild the Speedster as a patchwork of all five cars. With a pedal-powered boost, Sonic wins by a whisker, and his trophy turns out to be a participation award, just like everyone else’s, Eggman’s included.
Trivia
- The title spoofs “If you build it, he will come” from the film Field of Dreams. One of nine episodes on NCircle’s Go Team Sonic! DVD (2019), the only one from Season 2.
- On DVD in the US: NCircle’s Season Two, Volume Two (September 2021), Go Team Sonic! (2019), The Complete Season 2 (2021) and The Complete Series Blu-ray (2022).
- French title: Les fous du volant. The episode aired in France on 15 September 2017.
Watch the Episode
NCircle Entertainment, the show’s US home-video label, has not uploaded this episode on its own to YouTube at the time of writing, though its official channel carries two-episode compilations and Season 2 marathons. Season 2 is on DVD from NCircle (The Complete Season 2, 2021) and has been on Hulu and Netflix; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 2 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.