This godzilla was produced 99.1% pure

NES Godzilla: THIS-A MUSHROOMS IS GONNA GIVE-A ME THE POO POOS!

Tired of green godzilla? Well how about BLUE godzilla? … okay, it’s not an original idea at all. Anyways, this Godzilla appeared in the 1988 NES game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters and is more known for the Cosbydaf creepypastas made for it; NES Godzilla Creepypasta and the concurrently-running sequel, NES Godzilla Replayed. Yeah, I’m sure people think more about RED or Solomon than they do Ocean Godzilla when talking about the NES Game but I’m not making either RED or Solomon. They were not even intentionally recognized by Toho officially. I say intentionally because a tweet on the official Godzilla account used footage from the Allone-works adaptation of the creepypasta when talking about the official game… wait, this was in 2022?!

Oh you thought we were done with marijuana godzilla? THINK AGAIN ASSHOLE!

Imperial Toys Godzilla: WHY SO SERIOUS!?

The Imperial Toys Godzilla action figure was among the various merchandise produced by Imperial Toys Corporation in 1985 as a tie-in for Godzilla 1985 which was the heavily-edited american release of Toho’s The Return of Godzilla which came out a year prior. Most of us weren’t born yet however so that nostalgia factor that may have caused intrigue anywhere else is practically nonexistent for the very niche part of an already niche genre of animation. You will not convince me otherwise. So back in 2025, I actually revealed this specific design for my 18th birthday! See, foreshadowing.

Imperial Toys did release several merchandise and toys for King Kong as well in 1986, one of which was a ‘Clash of the Movie Monsters’ set which featured both him and godzilla as well as Dracula and Frankenstein. They had even planned to release a ‘Sparking’ Mechagodzilla toy but never got around to it and they never will as Imperial Toys filed for bankruptcy in 2020.

Who doesn’t love the 80s?

84Goji: Dr. P? NOT IN FRONT OF ME!

Nine years after the box office failure of 1975’s Terror of Mechagodzilla, Toho finally revived their dormant-but-actually-not-really franchise with their 1984 title; The Return of Godzilla (It ironically played a slight role in King of the Monsters in 3D’s cancellation). Even though it was still released within the political ‘Showa’ period of japan, this film marks the beginning of the Heisei era which follow only the original 1954 film by continuity, ignoring every other title after. This film was then released a year later in america as Godzilla 1985, the american version of the film does see some notable changes from it’s original analogue, most notably in Raymond Burr reprising his role as Steve Martin from the 1956 american version of the original film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. If it wasn’t on the nose already, 84Goji gets the name from the year he made his grand entrance.

Changelog is as follows;
-More blueish-grey color scheme
-More lean build
-Detailed muzzle
-Detailed eyes
-Simplified thigh details
-Added knee muscle
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill nodes

You may have noticed that the Redux is actually smaller than the original figure. This is because I did not resize the reference material for the Heisei designs to match my prior Godzilla’s. Also the Heisei Godzilla’s usage of polyfill nodes were seriously lagging my devices, even on my new phone.

We aren’t done with unmade godzillas yet and although there’s actually more grounds to cover if you’ve never seen my posts before

3D Godzilla: The Unmade American Godzilla Nobody Talks About

So if you’ve ever paid attention to any of my posts, I have actually talked about this particular godzilla a little bit so I’ll do a little recap. This is the third Redux of the unused Godzilla design, I have always been fascinated by this godzilla. For its history, it goes like this; Steve Miner was given the go-ahead from Toho to conceptualize the film and scurry around Hollywood for backing. The stop-motion figure you see here was created by William Stout who also did some concept art with Fred Dekker brought in to write the screenplay. Miner spent that year getting the biggest names he could to give his idea a go and had this movie been made and succeeded, Stout would’ve been in line to direct a Rodan spinoff. All of this said, nobody gave enough of a shit to realize the project. A 3D monster-flick utilizing stop-motion with a passionate director who also loved the source material? Nah. Some producers were actually interested but the projected budget of $30 million drove them and other studios away since to Hollywood, Godzilla was a ‘children’s’ property and by the end of 1984, Miner gave up and let the rights revert to Toho who had revived the franchise themselves months prior.

Changelog is as follows;
-More greenery all around
-Added pupils
-More details on the entire head
-Tail gradient is much darker by the end
-Remodeled dorsal plates, more accurate to the stop motion puppet
-New dorsal plates in light of new reference material
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill

You’ve probably heard enough about the story of it’s failed production but not so much the actual contents of the plot. Well for history sake, it goes as follows;

Story Summary
An asteroid hits an american satellite that accidentally launches a nuke at the south pacific, awakening Godzilla who was given his name from a japanese legend about a dragon. A dead baby godzilla washes ashore on mexico following an investigation for a sunken soviet submarine. The adult godzilla starts running amok in california before finding the deceased baby in a warehouse, he is then drawn away by the sounds of the baby being played at Alcatraz. A high-tech prototype helicopter carrying a strong missile is reluctantly fired by the son of the protagonist at the monsters throat which proves fatal. The kid soon falls off but is saved by Godzilla and set down gently. The boy is now left to mourn godzilla as he takes his final agonizing breath.

This is a very very simplified summary of what the plot was going to be purely because many of you have the reading comprehension of decapitated goldfish in radioactive waste but also because the information is a bit to take in and one could only imagine what this may have really looked like had the film gotten its backing or what it would’ve done for the greater Godzilla franchise.

You are one ugly motherfucker

Shogun Warriors Godzilla: FAAALCULMM... PPAAAAAAAUUUUUWWWNNCHH!

This hideous godzilla is from Mattel’s long-dead Shogun Warriors toyline from 1978 (even though the rights to godzilla were acquired a few months after the debut of the Marvel Godzilla) and unlike Marvel or the next Godzilla I’ll be covering, they acquired the rights to another Toho monster in Rodan. You see? This is the first all-new godzilla created for my new crusade and it will not be the last! I made sure that he got all the stops such as…

Limited articulation? Check! Froggish color-scheme? Check! The little rollerskates on his feet? Check, they are actually movable on this figure! The flicking tongue feature? Check, the tongue actually flickers! Even the damn launching punch gimmick? YES! I separated the arms and the fist so that it could literally go BANG BANG BANG! Now I will admit that I did use the Super7 figure as the basis rather than the actual toy but that toy is practically one-to-one with the original toy so it should pass.

I am actually really happy with how he turned out and he’s not the only toy godzilla I’ve done, you’ve actually seen him last year on my birthday.

Toho: You can have our precious Godzilla rights and integrate him into your mainline story. Don’t reference our movies too much nor too little, after that, do whatever you want.

Stan Lee: Okay…

Marvel Comics Godzilla (1977): RANDOM BULLSHIT, GO!

The Earth-616 Godzilla is noteworthy for being the first incarnation of the character in America and I do mean the FIRST. It wasn’t the Shogun Warriors toy or the Hanna-Barbera show or the TriStar 1998 film, it was this guy. Interestingly enough, per the agreement Stan signed with Toho, this godzilla is vaguely implied to be the Showa era iteration… and yet, the godzilla in the current crossover run not only does not bear any design resemblance nor any origin that even alludes to this run, it’s also implied to be the Showa era Godzilla… okay! Yes, he did fight Thor and Iron Man. Yes, he beat them and the Fantastic Four. No, he didn’t fight Hulk. So in regards to his rights again, Toho upped their fee by like 1979 and Marvel did not wanna pay for it so they let it expire. That said, he does appear as Demonicus’ monster in later issues and is massively reduced in size although sizes were anything but consistent and he’d make his final technically-official appearance in Mighty Avengers Issue 1 of 2007 although he looks a lot more like the Heisei Godzilla Jr before the end of Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah.

Changelog is as follows;
-More saturated and comic-accurate color scheme
-Added comic book-esque details on the face
-Thinner teeth
-Elongated torso and neck
-Thinner, slightly more lean body shape… okay, that isn’t entirely comic accurate…
-Remodeled dorsal plates
-More outer dorsal plates overall, fewer central dorsal plates
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill… which there wasn’t a whole lot of actually!

When no one was looking, Godzilla took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That’s as many as forty tens.

and it’s terrible. One more thing… you like green godzilla? you think he’s cool? Well get on board bitch, we’re riding with the green boys for now on!

I almost forget I am still here half of the time… anyways! Let us take a look at…

Godzilla’s Fashion Statement: Showa Era

Funnily enough, even in the context of the mid-50s to late 70s, nobody bats an eye when Godzilla looks weirdly different than the last year anyone saw him. Do people within the continuity of this era see him visually as the 1955 gigantis monster by Terror of Mechagodzilla or does Showa Godzilla not look any different from the original Gojira? There are answers we will never know. Yes, the suit designs do change in-between movies and I’m only doing this for the Showa era as other designs either bear just enough significant changes to have their own post or are different iterations of the character outright (I’m looking at the G2K and Vs. Megagurius)

Face Lift: Kaiju Edition

MosuGoji from 1964’s Mothra Vs. Godzilla was reused for Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster of that same year under the sub-name of SanDaikaijuGoji; the name being derived from Japanese title of the film which is san daikaiju (三大怪獣) or three giant monsters

The one notable change between the two is the replacement head on SanDaikaiju which allowed for movable eyes but also reduced the upper lip and teeth which was a result of the Mosu suit being damaged during filming, scenes that were kept and very telling when you watch the movie.

DaisensoGoji from 1965’s Invasion of Astro-Monster would be reused for Ebirah, Horror of the Deep the following year. Tsuburaya Productions would ask to use the head of the suit for the Ultraman series and lead to the creation of Jirahs, bear in mind that Tsuburaya Productions had already done this with their SanDaikaijuGoji suit to create Gomess for Ultra Q.

Toho created a rather imperfect replica of the suit where the only notable difference was that it looked less angry and more cheap. This NankaiGoji suit was named after the Japanese title of its debut film; nankai (南海) which is simply south seas

After MusukoGoji, Toho would use the SoshingekiGoji suit four consecutive times from 1968’s Destroy All Monster to Godzilla Vs. Gigan of 1972.

There was virtually no change for the suit aside from visible deterioration as it was used to death. It was given the additional names of AllKaijuGoji, HedoGoji, and GiganGoji for All Monsters Attack, Godzilla Vs. Hedorah, and Godzilla Vs. Gigan respectively. AllKaiju comes from Godzilla’s Revenge Japanese title which should not even be explained while the next two names are from his titular antagonists

Finally, Toho rushed a new suit for 1973’s Godzilla Vs. Megalon with the aptly named MegaroGoji and is the final suit for the Showa Era overall. I would also like to take the time in editing to correct an error in the SoshingekiGoji post; that suit was not utilized in 1973’s Zone Fighter series. MegaroGoji was and what I was trying to say when I meant that this suit in particular could technically tie with Soshingeki as the most prolific showa era suit.

After his debut film, he would get a more angrier expression while his eyes became black. He also got added detail to his muzzle while his eyes were reduced further in the final Showa era film. He would be given the names of ZoneGoji, MekaGoji, and MekaGyakushuGoji for his appearances in Zone Fighter, Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla, and Terror of Mechagodzilla respectively. I don’t even think I need to explain what the names mean anymore.

This is probably a long wall of text and you’ll probably not be reading it which isn’t even that surprising but for now and at least on Toho’s part, Godzilla would enter a near-decade retirement given the box office bomb of Terror of Mechagodzilla as well as the Japanese film industry as a whole being in a major decline while a bunch of American studios and american men did whatever the fuck they wanted with the acquired rights in between 76′ and 83’… what exactly did they do anyways-

Yeah I am back and I know it’s been a near month since but believe it or not, I have a computer and an iPhone now which means I’m super advanced and with the hip hop kids now

MegaroGoji: I’M RIGHT! I’M LEFT ! I’M LEFT! I’M RIGHT!

MegaroGoji! My favorite showa era godzilla and apparently everyone else’s too considering the previous version of the stk got the most likes since the original Shodai stk. Will I be able to get a repeat? No. You all have shit taste now, I’m not sugarcoating it anymore.

Megaro is simply just the name of titular villain Megalon from both the suits and megalon’s debut 1973 film; Godzilla Vs. Megalon. He would be the final suit overall for the showa era, going into Zone Fighter of that same year, Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla in 1974, and then capping off the era in the 1975 sequel in Terror of Mechagodzilla. Worth noting that in-universe, Destroy All Monsters is the final entry in the continuity.

Changelog is as follows;
-More saturated color scheme
-Slightly more bulky head
-Fixed dorsal plate arrangement, thank god
-More dorsal plates overall
-A little less details funnily enough
-More fat across the body overall
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill nodes

And there it is! Every single Showa era design in the Godzilla franchise… or so you think! Yes, there are some alterations between films even when a suit is used various sucks and as such, you will get to see what these slight changes are… maybe