-=Secrets of Sonic Team=-

Ice Cap Zone

Submitted by: Scott Prower Sonic's snowboarding down the second half of the Ice Cap level. Sonic seems to be doing a move which involves grabbing his board, but he does nothing like it in the final game. For a larger picture, click the image.
Submitted by: Scott Prower Sonic does a large flip with his board. AAt this stage of development there were no large walls surrounding the Ice Cap zone, so you can see a great background to it. Also the whole area was surrounded by trees much different to the ones you interact with on course. You can see a corner of one on the bottom left of the image above. Click the image for a larger version.
Again, the weird trees in the far background can be seen in this shot from the SA webpage.
Submitted by: Scott Prower This image shows off a bridge in Ice Cap Zone, which the avalanche plows through. There IS a bridge in the final game, but it's very difficult to see with the new camera angle, and all you can see is it breaking up behind you.
Submitted by: Big Smile This image from an early video of Ice Caps's Snowboarding Sequence. It has a score counter at the bopping side to side. Click the image for a larger version
Submitted by: Big Smile Sonic flies through some leafless trees as he lands from a jump. This never happens in the final. Click the image for a larger version.
This is from the webpage you go to when online with Sonic Adventure. Here Sonic is clearly strutting along the peculiar bridge from Ice Cap, even an enemy is there. Most likely this was there instead of the rocket used in the final to get to the second area, and the same one crushed during the snowboard action.
Submitted by: Rlan From the Prototype video, Tails swerves through these trees. In the final these trees don't exist. Also, you can see the word 'Level' in the HUD, which isn't in the final game. The ring is also larger than the final.
Submitted by: Rlan Sonic hits the final jump pad, causing ice to fall down. But the pad is very different, in the star shape of the classic Sonic bumpers, but in the final each is numbered between 1 to 5, and the final step doesn't even have this last one, just the land.
A clearer version of the final step of jumps from the SA online webpage.
Submitted by: Rlan Big is jumping for joy, doing his little dance, but the camera is wrong for the scene, and there is no way for Big to be dancing up there, as he would have to catch a fish.