Gamera vs. Barugon commentary by August and Jason Varney. Here's what I pieced together:
The first Gamera suit was only used in the original film. Equis Productions, which built most of the Gamera costumes, delivered a new one for Gamera vs. Barugon. At this point, obviously, there were two Gamera suits. August's intros for Gyaos and Viras don't have any info on the Gamera suits in those films. It looks to me like the one in Gyaos was new and later reused for the next film. The costume in Guiron, Jiger, and Zigra is the same, the major difference being a new head affixed to the costume for Jiger. (In the Zigra video, August says, "While Equis Productions had to overhaul the Gamera suit used in the last three films..." I'm not sure if he's including Zigra in that count or excluding it and going back to Viras.)
Lastly, he says that Equis built a new suit for Super Monster that went unused on screen. Supposedly is a picture of it. However, there is almost certainly a Gamera suit (or part of one) used in the scene where Gamera knocks over the "Dojira" poster.
So that gives us:
*Gamera (1965) - New
*Gamera vs. Barugon - New
*Gamera vs. Gyaos - ?
*Gamera vs. Viras - ? (I think this is the same as the previous suit.)
*Gamera vs. Guiron - New/Possible reuse from 1968.
*Gamera vs. Jiger - Reuse from 1969.
*Gamera vs. Zigra - Reuse from 1969.
*Gamera, Super Monster - NewStatistics: Posted by H-Man — Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:13 pm
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