by August » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:48 pm
As I said, the suit the first suit was damaged (which needed too much maintenance on-set to begin with), and they needed a suit which required less work to operate -- plus, the new Gigan was made for both MEGALON and RYUSEI NINGEN ZONE, so the cost of making a new suit was split between both productions. This is according to Japanese texts on the subject.
What's the big dispute? This is no different that the change in Godzilla suits from GODZILLA and GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, or the change in suits from KING KONG VS. GODZILLA and GODZILLA VS. THE THING. Or why they changed the head on the suit between GODZILLA VS. THE THING and GHIDRAH, etc., etc. Why did they do this?
Because they could.
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