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GATOS Y VATOS posted:There was a concept video four years ago that was basically this and everyone was excited that it was for an upcoming Gamera project, but it turned out that the video was a tribute for Gamera’s anniversary and that was all. I appreciate that this is less than four minutes long and it still perfectly communicates "the dad is the monster."
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Aug 15, 2020 20:16
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Vintersorg posted:I've been going through a ton of "Brandon Tenhold reviews..." on Youtube and I can tell he's genuine. Usually after he ribs the movie he'll be like, its still fine. His Godzilla videos are good, but obscure horror reviews are his bread and butter. Probably my favorite YouTube reviewer.
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Aug 15, 2020 22:32
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I’ve watched some of that guys videos before but there was a bit too much plot regurgitation for me. I’ll check out the Shin one since it sounds like that one’s better?
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Aug 16, 2020 03:39
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Waffleman_ posted:Godzilla Anime: What if really big Godzilla? This could have been the Godzilla Anime when they revealed that Earth's entire surface had been colonized by mutated castoffs of Godzilla's tissue. I really hope someone, someday, does that idea justice. GATOS Y VATOS posted:There was a concept video four years ago that was basically this and everyone was excited that it was for an upcoming Gamera project, but it turned out that the video was a tribute for Gamera’s anniversary and that was all. Speaking of doing ideas justice someday!
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Aug 16, 2020 05:00
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Everyone in Terror Of Mechagodzilla has the dopest clothes but for some reason Katsumasa Uchida‘s character wears the same suit every day. It’s a good suit but switch it up, guy Edit he does eventually show off a second outfit, but Katsuhiko Sasaki really does wear the same sport coat and turtleneck every day. DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 14:10
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david_a posted:I’ve watched some of that guys videos before but there was a bit too much plot regurgitation for me. I’ll check out the Shin one since it sounds like that one’s better? The Shin one is just him talking about the movie, how it’s different from other Godzilla films, and what he thinks about it. You’ll like it for the same reasons I didn’t care for it.
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Aug 17, 2020 05:40
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I'd love more Shin but it is extremely sick that it got made in the first place so IMO we're blessed to have it in the first place. It's cool that it's just a one-off lightning in a bottle thing. also on using Shin as branding: he's on jet liveries. like pikachu. well why not fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 05:45
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My favorite Shin thing will always be his tiny beady eyes and his dumb little mismatched teeth
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My favorite Shin thing will always be his tiny beady eyes and his dumb little mismatched teeth I really enjoyed that they went for the real life thing of where his eyes were fully sized when we saw him as Kamata Kun and his body just grew around them. Also I really liked that his eyes were unblinking things that didn’t pay attention to humans. It went for the full elder god feeling of indifference to suffering. When the first photos leaked I thought the red parts were supposed to be horrific exposed muscles due to burns and radiation instead of glowing power. Christ I love Shin’s design. It’s one of the few actual terrifying Godzillas. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 06:03
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I seem to recall hearing that Shin's eyes didn't actually work. And it's clearly not using teeth to eat things. Which makes it even more terrifying. It's a Godzilla with barely the pretense of looking like a Godzilla. All the different Godzillas before it could emote and were sympathetic to a degree. But not this one. It's pure malice given flesh.
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Aug 17, 2020 10:48
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The design is beyond amazing - I also love it. I have a SH MonsterArts figure of it and it was worth every goddamn penny. I got the special purple one cause that scene is loving ＩＣＯＮＩＣ  
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Aug 17, 2020 14:26
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This is the only toy I have of Shin which I love because its so gaudy and ridiculous
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Aug 17, 2020 19:33
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Is Shin good? I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet.
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Just Offscreen posted:Is Shin good? I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. No it’s loving excellent.
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The soundtrack is loving killer too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBqCDuwZsCs This music plays over Shin absolutely loving up the city
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Aug 17, 2020 20:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRsjlt2HxQ The music choices are an absolute delight, yes, especially when tracks from older movies pop up
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Aug 17, 2020 20:58
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Shiroc posted:This is the only toy I have of Shin which I love because its so gaudy and ridiculous I've seen several weirdly colored Godzilla figures posted. Are they sold like that or is there an art scene where figures are repainted? I get the impression it's both?
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Aug 17, 2020 22:18
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Violator posted:I've seen several weirdly colored Godzilla figures posted. Are they sold like that or is there an art scene where figures are repainted? I get the impression it's both? In the soft vinyl world (aka "Sofubi") figures are cast in different colored vinyl and then painted. These are known as "colorways" to the collectors. Figures like that one above are usually done as limited figures for a particular store or event. I have a bandai Shin in red translucent vinyl with gold glitter flecks that was for the initial release of the movie and exclusive to Toho theaters. I'd take a photo and show it but it's in my workstation at the shop. edit: the big Biolante Godzilla I showed off a few posts above was the standard charcoal grey that I bought back in 1994 or so. I just decided to paint it for fun. Painting soft vinyls is a hobby of mine (and I make a soft vinyl toy of my cat as a witch- check IG @catmagictoys and for kaiju check my other IG @kaiju_sommelier) edit 2: that hot pink and gold one was an exclusive at the Godzilla shop in Tokyo but was also imported to Kinokuniya book stores. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Here are some Shin GodZilla Sofubi- the standard color Bandai shin, along with the independent toy maker Sunguts’ green colorway 4th form Shin and the standard grey Colorway “Awakening” version. Sunguts also makes the 2nd form Kamata Kun and 3rd form Shinagawa Kun (which I unfortunately don’t have) that are all in scale with the 4th form figure. They are done in the more playful and toy like Showa era Sofubi style. Sunguts’ maker Ichimiya San is a sculpting genius and a guy with a great sense of humor. 
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Just Offscreen posted:Is Shin good? I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. It's pretty good but whether you think it's InCrEdIbLe depends on your appreciation of its messages about bureaucracy and American hegemony and how they're delivered. I appreciated that it didn't use the very worn Hollywood mechanism of a family in crisis working it out through the larger mega-crisis (hello KotM); at the same time, the sociopolitical themes felt fully-explored about a third of the way through and the rest of those scenes were just belaboring a point already made. All the Godzilla sequences are absolute dynamite though. It's generally very well-crafted, and as noted, fantastic score.
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Shin Godzilla is probably the first Godzilla movie to make me feel how Japanese audiences must have felt when the original Gojira came out in 1958. (Well, as close as one can get without living through two atom bombs less than a decade prior.)
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Just Offscreen posted:Is Shin good? I haven't gotten around to seeing it yet. It comprises mostly of people sitting around tables talking, anno self-plagarized a bunch of the music, the first tadpole Godzilla design is one of the goofiest designs I've ever seen and it's one of my fav movies of last decade
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Two other favorite Godzilla sofubi: MaxToy Shin Godzilla (translucent red vinyl with a brown-black paint rub) and MaxToy Megalon Godzilla. Both are sold in Japan only due to licensing issues, even though Mark Nagata, who’s MaxToy’d owner and planner, is based in San Francisco. Both are sculpted by Pico Pico (instagrams @MaxToyCo and @PicoPicoShimbun )     
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Also the other great thing about Sofubi is that companies put out figures like this  
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You have no idea how jealous I am that you got that
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:edit 2: that hot pink and gold one was an exclusive at the Godzilla shop in Tokyo but was also imported to Kinokuniya book stores. Yeah, I got it at Kinokuniya. At least in Seattle, they created a decent sized Godzilla section last year and have kept it stocked with lots of neat things. I've gotten a similar translucent blue Ghidorah from GMK, a bunch of neat colored blind box mini vinyl kaiju, a keychain of the Oxygen Destroyer and a bunch of other stuff. They have really cool art books too but since I can't read any Japanese other than literally the names of the monsters, they're too expensive for me to buy.
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Shiroc posted:Yeah, I got it at Kinokuniya. At least in Seattle, they created a decent sized Godzilla section last year and have kept it stocked with lots of neat things. I've gotten a similar translucent blue Ghidorah from GMK, a bunch of neat colored blind box mini vinyl kaiju, a keychain of the Oxygen Destroyer and a bunch of other stuff. They have really cool art books too but since I can't read any Japanese other than literally the names of the monsters, they're too expensive for me to buy. Yeah I got the Oxygen Destroyer keychain myself. I passed on the hot pink Shin because it was a bit too pricy for me at the time, but it's a great piece for sure! Burkion posted:You have no idea how jealous I am that you got that If you are talking about the Nakajima Haruo suit Godzilla figure, M1-Go still puts them out now and then. I picked this one up at last year's Designer Con. I know Covid has things hosed nowadays but things will be back to a more normalized life eventually, and there will be shows like the Five Points Festival in your area again, which M1号 attends. Edit: for some reason I thought you were in the NY area
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I was supposed to go to Japan next month and I was going to be on the hunt for that figure. I want it REALLY bad. E: Oh, here's something goji related. I had more work done on my half-sleeve this weekend and next month we will finish with King G himself. We decided on green for Godzilla since if we did it with the true charcoal stuff it would have lost a lot of detail and looked a bit odd amongst the other colour things. 
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Edit: for some reason I thought you were in the NY area I was going to say, I live in TN, I don't live near poo poo
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All those Sofubi dudes own, I love weird “off color” Godzilla toys. Now that I’ve got a 3D printer I’ve been trying to find any STLs or OBJs of the various Showa monsters so that I can print them in weird filaments, but it’s just a complete ghost town on all the usual sites. The only ones I can consistently find are G’14, which, ehhhhh...
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Thanks for the info. That seems like an addicting rabbit hole to go down. 
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I want to do a big photo shoot soon, but here’s a couple zilla stuff I have  
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Vintersorg, that tat is rad! That’s some excellent work.
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 The only Godzilla figure any of us had for a long time. Frankly, it's the only one we need!
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Jimbot posted:
Hell yeah, I have that one too since I was a kid. It was in Roseanne, haha. I don't loving know why I remember that but it must have stuck with me.  E: It must have been everywhere after G'85 was out here.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Shin Godzilla is probably the first Godzilla movie to make me feel how Japanese audiences must have felt when the original Gojira came out in 1954. (Well, as close as one can get without living through two atom bombs less than a decade prior.) Ftfy
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Weird question, but has anyone ever met someone (outside of literal children) who didn't know what Godzilla was? A couple years ago, when I worked at an office full of court reporters, one of them, a woman in her 70s, asked me what my Godzilla figures (dolls?) were that I had around my desk. It confused the hell out of me. She had zero clue. I'd get it if it was something more obscure, but Godzilla's got a gigantic imprint on public pop-culture consciousness.
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