Worst Heisei Kaiju

[pocketmego]

Probably the best kaiju of the Heisei era is Biollante. Not to mention that she is also one of the very few ORIGINAL Kaiju of the era. I think that says something.

In terms of worst, I gotta go with little Godzilla. Not baby, and not Jr, but Little. It was designed to be a spin-off kid's show that failed and it should never have even gotten that far.

-Ray

[Tiny Gigan]

The baby Godzillas of any name or incarnation are so excruciatingly lame that including them in the poll is honestly unfair to all the other kaiju who would otherwise get the chance to claim the title of the lamest heisei monster.

Barring the young'uns, I'd have to say that SpaceGodzilla and Destroyah are locked in a mortal battle for lame supremacy and I can't see any end in sight. They both represent the epitome of what was wrong with the heisei series: by the numbers beam-fight battles and minimal attention paid to good kaiju design choices. Neither one of them looks like it could so much as get up if the wind knocked it down, and basically they fight like the bosses of an old NES game, just standing there firing beams and projectiles or, rarely, making a slow attempt to lurch forward.

Maybe the worst part is that some of the concept art for both of them looks pretty slick. I just can't fathom that a company that has a much suitmation experience as Toho churned out such unworkable suits for those two kaiju. At some point there must have been come the realization that SpaceGodzilla would be as immobile as a upside down turtle in a bucket of cement, and even if there wasn't enough time/money to make alterations to him, there should have at least been a lesson learned and applied to Destroyah instead of making him even more immobile and lumpy.

Suits aside, neither of these monsters even had any personality. Gojira138 hits it right on the head with the Gabara comparison for SpaceGodzilla, and Detsroyah seems like something my girlfriend's kid brother would come up with after watching 6 hours of YuGiOh- "It can do pretty much anything it wants and has all the strongest attacks". There's nothing wrong with a strong monster, but when that's by all appearances the only trait that goes into its creation...well, it shows.

[Rodanex]

[TXKaiju]

[MekaGojira3k]

Rodan. The puppet is just terrible. I hate when they use the closeups of the head. Mainly because any time it moves the rubber bunches up. Blah. Terrible incarnation of the character.

[Legion]

[MekaGojira3k]

[zekend01]

I'm going with the young'un hate full on. I HATE how any version of a Godzilla kid humanizes Godzilla. Reduces his menace almost altogether. Yeah, I don't like Godzilla as a parent as a matter of PRINCIPAL.

Other than that, Rodan was a fail. I'd have been happy if he was at least in scale with Godzilla. The render on the poster would have been much better too.

Damn you Toho....