Toho's Latest Godzilla Effort: Lawsuits

Yeah, I watch that Hollywood hogwash and tonight's episode is of particular interest since it features a brief story on Toho's battle against Subway. They're suing for that new 5-dollar footlong campaign featuring a "giant, erect-standing monster." They showed clips of Burning G, Mothra and King Ghidorah.

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by Robert Saint John » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:06 pm

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by Andrew Nguyen » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:35 pm

I got no problem with anybody who jumps into a Starfury and rides fire! (Babylon 5)

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by Baradagi » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:01 pm

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by gojira_fan » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:50 pm

This is so ridiculous. I could understand if the creature actually looked like Godzilla but geez.

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by Legacy_Of_Gamera » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:09 am

WOAH! On TMZ, the feature on the Toho lawsuit showed a clip from Mothra vs. Godzilla, and it was taken from tokyomonsters.com!

It was a short 5 second clip from this exact video http://youtube.com/watch?v=LtSibx5YyEk
Nice to see tokyomonsters.com getting some advertising.... even if the site is just a message board now....

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by ryuuseipro » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:31 am

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by Andrew Nguyen » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:50 am

I got no problem with anybody who jumps into a Starfury and rides fire! (Babylon 5)

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by Robert Saint John » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:07 am

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by August » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:01 am

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by MouthForWar » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:55 pm

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by Andrew Nguyen » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:14 pm

I got no problem with anybody who jumps into a Starfury and rides fire! (Babylon 5)

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by walshbeme » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:09 pm

Obsurdity breeds obserdity. The commercial was horrible and so is Toho. That "thing" was not Godzilla. Grow up Toho and do something meaningful for a change. How rediculous can a professional organization get?

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by Tyler E. Martin » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:31 pm

Tragic. Did they ever try to take action against New Line for the Godzilla gag in "Goldmember?" It wouldn't surprise me, seeing as how it pretty much pokes fun at such absurd practices as this.