Godzilla, Kong, Gamera & Co.: The Kaiju Mega-Thread
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Yeah, they've done an ongoing series, a miniseries, and an Avengers crossover
https://www.amazon.com/Ultraman-Vol-Rise-2020-2021-ebook
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CRJQV95
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWYZ56MC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5KFMQ4J
https://www.amazon.com/Ultraman-Vol-Rise-2020-2021-ebook
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CRJQV95
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWYZ56MC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5KFMQ4J
I was more of a Shogun Warriors kinda guy.
I had every one of the robots on that page. I didn't have any combat vehicles. I even had a few of the large figures - Godzilla, Rodan, Raydeen, and Mazinga. I wonder what they would be worth now?
I had every one of the robots on that page. I didn't have any combat vehicles. I even had a few of the large figures - Godzilla, Rodan, Raydeen, and Mazinga. I wonder what they would be worth now?
I never knew it at the time, but that was a weird toy line -- taking giant robot and kaiju figures from multiple anime series, Godzilla, and even Toei Spider-Man's Leopardon, and mashing them up into a single toy line. (But didn't Transformers start similarly, as a mashup of two or three unrelated Japanese toy lines? Or am I thinking of Gobots?) Good grief, they even had a sub-line of vehicles that included the team vehicles from tokusatsu shows like Gorenger, Kyodain, and Inazuman.
The title was kind of clumsy too. I guess they were riffing on the popularity of James Clavell's Shōgun, the perception that it was just some generically exotic term for a Japanese warrior, but shōgun in modern usage is just the equivalent of "general." Kind of hard to have an army of warriors where everyone's a general.
Godzilla and the other regular figures are in triple numbers, just the arm of a SW Godzilla has recently sold for $160 (the arm was, of course, in good condition). Rodan is quite rare, and one recently sold on Ebay for $950, and even incomplete figures can get you upwards of $500, a complete one in good condition would get you upwards of a grand.
Prepare for a super nova in 2027
Godzilla X Kong: Supernova teaser trailer
Godzilla X Kong: Supernova teaser trailer
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So, what exactly does that mean? A new roar?
I remember going on the King Kong ride at Universal Studios in California back in the day.
Yes, the footage is for a new ride that Takashi Yamazaki himself created (the footage, not the ride). Though I have a feeling that marketing added the Southeast Asia angle after the announcement that Japan, China and South Korea are working fast towards a free trade agreement.
Godzilla Twitter Kong
Apparently it's silent. For the first one, the announcer in one of the trailers pronounced it "Godzilla Kong."
Although they're probably homaging the 2002 Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, where the "against" (tai) was written as "x" in the title. There are actually three films that are called Gojira tai Mekagojira in Japanese, and they differentiate them in how the "tai" is rendered in print -- as "対" in the 1974 film, as "vs" in the 1993 film, and as "x" in the 2002 film. (In English they're G vs MG, G vs MG II, and G Against MG.)
I can understand and respect that for many Godzilla fans, these movies aren't their thing. I really liked them. Sure, they are a lot more mindless entertainment but I had a lot of fun with them. So I'm definitely looking forward to more.