Tails' Lab, also known as Tails' Workshop or Tails' House, is Tails' basic operating location which he uses to construct his inventions. It also functions as his second home, where he usually can be found hard at work. In most games, the workshop's main purpose is to store the Tornado, a plane owned by Sonic until Tails possibly got it as his own.

The first operating related function is seen in Tails Adventure. Since then the location or even the appearance of the workshop has been different all the time in every game. Tails either has many of these workshops or moves the same one from place to place, as it is never in the same location in the games.

Contents 1 Game Appearances 1.1 Tails Adventure 1.2 Sonic the Fighters 1.3 Sonic Adventure 1.4 Sonic Battle 1.4.1 Music 1.5 Sonic Advance 3 1.6 Sonic Rush 1.7 Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood 2 Appearances in Other Media 2.1 Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie 2.2 Sonic X 3 Gallery 4 Trivia

Game AppearancesEdit

Tails AdventureEdit

The first time Tails had operating location is in Tails Adventure, where it is described and named as "Tails' House". It serves as Tails' base and home on the south shore of Cocoa Island. Japanese instruction manual states the game taking place before meeting of Tails and Sonic in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as the house could be his temporal living place. However the English instruction manual has its own variation, stating the game taking place after Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and describing Tails being vacation on the his favorite holiday spot (dubbing it "Tails Island"). It is small house with hammock being set on the yard. The house has two main rooms for different purposes.

During Tails Adventure, Tails' house operates as hub for swapping equipment and other mundane affairs, not as full playable stage. There also is the research lab where Sea Fox is stored and being place where the player can equipped it.

Sonic the FightersEdit

The second, different operating lab is only seen at the intro demo and preclude scene of Death Egg II fights in Sonic the Fighters, where it is located on the beach of unnamed tropical island, possibly Westside Island. It is large grey house with yellow roof with large satellite on it, which can be utilized to get signals from the space. It has the large door of round shaped Tails' tails symbol on it. The Tornado is seen parked right next to the lab. The front yard has round launch area.

The inside of lab is actually a large storage area and launchpad for the Lunar Fox. There are seen boxes and large computer table connected to the satellite on the roof. The upper layer leads to the cockpit of Lunar Fox. In the game, Sonic and Tails notices the terror of Death Egg II and tries to get eight Chaos Emeralds to power source of Lunar Fox. After for doing that, Lunar Fox is then moved to the outside to the round launch state and thus launched to the Death Egg II.

Sonic AdventureEdit

A similar workshop owned by Tails is seen in Sonic Adventure, this time located at the Mystic Ruins, close to the Angel Island (which is located in the air before landing) and a wooden train station tower, that leads to Station Square. It is slightly similar to the one from Sonic the Fighters with the exception of it being smaller, and having a separate small apartment on the top. It is seen that the workshop is powered with hydro power, as the generator is rotating next to the workshop. The player is only able to go to the small hall, where the first Tornado is always parked.

During the game, Sonic and Tails has to collect a crystal item on small staircase of the workshop's door to access Windy Valley. As Eggman gets away with the Egg Carrier after getting the fourth Chaos Emerald, Tails sets the airfield on the peninsula to launch the Tornado into the air. The small walking path disappears and the palm trees get moved horizontally while the airfield rises from below. After Sky Chase becomes a failure with the Tornado getting destroyed and duo getting separated, Tails got another Chaos Emerald and decides to build another Tornado at the workshop. Tails then uses a separate launch tunnel for the new Tornado. It is located underground which leads out from the waterfall near the workshop.

Sonic BattleEdit

In Sonic Battle, Tails' Workshop is separate from Tails' House, although both are located in Emerald Town. The lab contains a battle arena and a training area, as well as computers which fail in analyzing Emerl.

Tails' Workshop appears in Sonic Battle as his battle area when Emerl is chosen to train with him in the story mode. It also has a unique virtual training mode to truly test the Gizoid's abilities. The arena is almost entirely open, with only a few cylinders in the corners.

MusicEdit

Sonic Battle Music Tails Lab(03:04)
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Sonic Advance 3Edit

During the credits of the good ending in Sonic Advance 3, it is seen that Cream and Vanilla find the inoperable Gemerl from the beach a long time after the final duel between Super Sonic, Eggman and Ultimate Gemerl. Cream then brings Gemerl to Tails who is seen fixing it while Cream and Cheese are looking on in curiosity at the repair.

Sonic RushEdit

Tails' Workshop is seen briefly in Sonic Rush, as it is located at west of Water Palace. Based on its icon, it has a similar appearance to the lab which appeared in Sonic Adventure.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark BrotherhoodEdit

Tails workshop is also seen in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as it functions as the team's base for the first 4 chapters. In the north area of Central City, it serves as a hangar for the Tornado.

In the game, the lab serves as the team's first stronghold. Here, its function is similar to that of Pokémon Centers from the Pokémon series: a place where the team can go to rest after a battle (in the game, there are a number of strongholds like this lab).

Appearances in Other MediaEdit

Sonic the Hedgehog: The MovieEdit

Dwelling place of Sonic and Tails is seen at one of the floating islands at Land of the Sky in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. The island has ruins of a crashed Boeing 747 and USS Enterprise, that have workshop inside, where Tails works. It is seen to have satellite to take radio signals.

Sonic XEdit

During the Sonic Adventure story arc. in Sonic X anime, it is seen that Tails does have his own workshop at Mystic Ruins. He has seen living there for while since at all of main characters got separated after the latest conformation with Dr. Eggman.

GalleryEdit

TriviaEdit

• In Tails' Workshop in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, there seems to be a pot with a sprout inside it. According to rumors, this is a possible reference to the seed Sonic found when Cosmo died in Sonic X.
• The music that plays in the Sonic Battle version is remixed for the background music of Route 99 in Sonic Advance 3.

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