Godzilla on Okinawa again (in TOMG)!?
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Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:36 pmby ryuuseipro
Look for the scene in Terror of Mechagodzilla where Godzilla, revived, starts charging at Mechagodzilla (who empties his entire arsenal on him). The shots of Godzilla in that scene have Godzilla on the Okinawa set from Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla! Note the hill (from which King Caesar first emerged from) on the left, and the exploding breakaway rock (which King Caesar hid behind before Mechagodzilla blasted it apart with the Cross Attack Beam) on the right (it explodes again here just as Godzilla's back was set ablaze).
Posted:
Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:48 pmby August
I don't think it's possible that they used the same set, which would have to have been kept standing for a year. There's no logic or merit to such an assumption. Sets are struck right after productions wrap, because they need to go right into the next production.
After GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1974) and before TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975), Toho made two other visual effects films, THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS and ESPY. The former was such a big scale production, that it would have required the use all of the visual effects soundstages at Toho.
Interestingly, while shooting NOSTRADAMUS, there was a pyrotechnics accident, which burned down part of the visual effects soundstage. Which was widely reported in Japan at the time. The fire destroyed a number of props in storage as well, include the original Mogera costume from THE MYSTERIANS (1957).