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by **Tyler E. Martin** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:05 pm

In my place of work (Dollar General), I encounter colorful and unique characters on a daily basis. On two separate occasions, a gentleman has come into our store wearing a shirt featuring the poster for Kaiju-O Gojira, the Japanese release title of Godzilla, King of the Monsters (the U.S. version with Raymond Burr). Needless to say, it made my day both times.

by **August** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:01 pm

Did you talk to him about it? If so, what did he say?

by **Tyler E. Martin** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:48 pm

by **Thomas** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:35 pm

Stay Puft on the set.

Got the pic from this site where they also have a kaiju behind the scenes picture as well.

by **jellydonut25** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:12 am

I don't at all like it, but here are a couple more angles of a design that was posted earlier

the pic wasn't loading for me so i figured i'd offer the link to it:
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs37/PRE/f/2 ... oFrito.jpg

by **MekaGojira3k** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:26 am

by **Tyler E. Martin** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:24 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:20 pm

I thought this was cool.

by **TerranigmaFreak** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:50 am

by **August** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:16 pm

by **ryuuseipro** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:57 pm

by **Tyler E. Martin** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:43 pm

by **Flame of Udin** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:44 pm

by **Flame of Udin** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:51 pm

Anyone interested in a My Little Pony Godzilla? The creator is a woman who customizes My Little Pony figures into pop culture characters and selling them (the Godzilla is sold, sorry for building up your hopes and dreams

) . A link to her deviantART page where her other creations are showcased is provided below ( Darth Vader and Edward Scissorhands My Little Pony :eek:

)

by **RaymondBurr** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:02 pm

by **Tyler E. Martin** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:28 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:34 pm

by **Enshohma** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:52 pm

I already posted this as its own thread in the Other Kaiju section, but because its image related, might as well re-post it here too:

To the best of my knowledge (though you're welcome to correct me on this), during the 1960's, the Japanese company called Asahi Sonorama specialized in a unique combination of picture books doubling as record covers, with the audio record related to the main material of course. For a time when video tape and television reruns were not even a conscious possibility, these book / album hybrids did very well, until the market was flooded with many similar products in the late 1970's.

The blog-site Black Sun have featured articles and scans based on these Sonorama albums, particularly the kaiju and tokusatsu related ones.

http://blacksun1987.blogspot.com/search/label/Sonorama

And now they've posted images from something entitled "Kaiju Big Pictorial", which seems to be an insane mixture of foreign monster movies, and even more outrageous original characters:

http://blacksun1987.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... orama.html

Some of the monsters are instantly recognizable, such as the Rat-Bat-Spider-Crab (from "Angry Red Planet"), the Triffids (from "Day of the Triffids"), the Colossal Beast ("War of the Colossal Beast"), the Morlocks ("The Time Machine"), the title horror of "The Black Scorpion", and multiple Ray Harryhausen creations.

But its the exclusive monsters that intrigues me the most, and the main reason why I started this thread, in the hopes someone can translate their names, and offer some idea of who these characters are about. The most prominent of which is a rather hideous looking humanoid giant in vague Roman garb, fighting off a pair of equally fearsome sea monsters.

At first I thought this character was a less than accurate rendition of Talos, from "Jason and the Argonauts", but considering that bronze giant is already featured in the book elsewhere, this is clearly not the case.

And same could be said for the strange robot sharing a page with the Rat-Bat-Spider-Crab, who may or may not be the title robot from "Kronos" (1957). In fact, its likely to be an original character, especially since its no where near as awesome as the aforementioned (or at least as simplistic).

I look forward to any informative replies, but thought I'd bring up this neat bit of obscure kaiju history to you all regardless.

by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:09 pm

by **August** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:32 pm

by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:36 pm

by **Gojizilla** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:45 am

by **Thomas** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:53 pm

Uchusen Daikaiju Art part 14

by **Gojilove** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:21 am

I recently repainted my bicycle and I thought I would rename it and dedicate it to, well who else?

My love. the Gojira bike. Which makes sense because its a huge frame.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:28 am

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