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i think i discovered the heisei series when i started seeing the news items about godzilla's death in the then-upcoming g vs destoroyah.

I had seen up to Biollante when I was in the sixth grade (94-95) when the Trendmasters Godzilla toys hit the shelves. I was all over them. I thought the change in designs of monsters and their origins on the backs of the boxes were strictly done by the toyline. Also, I thought Mecha King Ghidorah was a TM creation(the same with Battra and especially SpaceG the next year, though I was getting suspicious).

Late next spring/early summer ('96) I was reading the letters section of one of Dark Horse's Godzilla comics when a line in one of the letters shook the foundations of my thirteen year old world. It went something like this:

"The Cybersaur is an awesome monster, much cooler than the new Mechagodzilla from the new movie with Rodan and Baby Godzilla."

NEW GODZILLA MOVIE????? I was thrilled/excited/elated/amazed. I called this store in downtown Pgh called Eides Entertainment (where my mom and dad had told me they had seen Japanese Godzilla toys before), and talked to the guy on the phone. I asked him about G-movies post-Biollante and he told me there were five. Suddenly everything about the TM line clicked. The new monsters, the different origins, they all made sense. Of course he told me that Godzilla had died in the latest movie, which bummed me out but didn't ruin my day because ... FIVE NEW GODZILLA MOVIES FOR ME TO SEE. He also told me about Gamera's revival.

Later that summer on August 8th, the day after my 14th birthday, I went down to Eides and picked up Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Godzilla vs Mothra (the only two they had dubbed, for I was not sold on subtitles at the time), plus Bandai Gamera 95 and Minya (I had gotten Super Gyaos the day before). I also picked up my first G-Fan (the one with Gamera, Gyaos, and Legion on the cover) which further brought me into the world of knowledgable G-fandom. Plus, I had searched for Godzilla on the internet and found Mark Malone's (sp?) Godzilla site earlier in the spring.

I got over my fear of subtitles, and got the last three Heisei movies for Christmas. I remember the night before at midnight mass, I was just daydreaming about all the new Godzilla action I would be watching the next day... I couldn't wait. And it turned out that I ended up preferring the subtitled movies over the dubbed ones.

That's the end of my long road to discovery of the unreleased Heisei movies.

Ah tendmasters I remeber looking the plot of Godzilla v KG from one of those boxes and going

I'd seen up to Biollante up until around the release of GINO. Then, I saw a video entitled Godzilla and Mothra: The battle for Earth. I read the back summary and decided that it was nothing more than a company's attempt to repackage Mothra vs. Godzilla 64 and sell it with an innacurate cover. LOL. How wrong I was. One day I decided to give it a shot anyway. I was ENTHRALLED!!! Soon I seeked out the rest of the Heisei series and the rest is history...

One word: Trendmaster, at that point I just saw GvsBiollante and G85 and never knew nothing about the other heisei movies, until the day I bought for my birthday a Trendmaster Godzilla on a flea Market here in Mexico, (it was from the first line of toys, not Godzilla wars) man,I was so confused that time, but happy that Godzilla was still on business.

Like most of you I had seen Godzilla 1985 and GvsB(on cinemax)and knew nothing about the rest of the Heisei series. My quest for Destroy all Monsters! led me to the Heisei series, my cousin seen a magazine ad from some bootlegger and he had listed DAM as one of the titles, I ordered that from him and then I started getting a newsletter thing that had other titles and noticed some Godzilla titles I had never heard of before so my parents ordered GvsKG-GvsSG one christmas, and it took several weeks after christmas for them to come in but when they did I had a Godzilla marathon and was enthralled, GvsKG and GvsM where dubbed whereas GvsMGII and GvsSG where subbed.

I had only seen up to G1985 when G2k came out. Then in a modeling magazine I saw a model scene featuring Baragon,G,Mothra and KG,it said it was from the new movie Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. I was so happy there was a new one after G2k (which I love,and couldn't wait for it to hit US theaters! (LOL,I was so sure it would,obviously there couldn't be a G movie that didn't come out here!) Anyway,A little later I saw RoM on SciFi. It blew my mind it was so awesome! I had to go to a friend's house,so I set up my VCR to tape 2&3. When I got to the other guys house,I couldn't stop talking about Mothra. 2 of my friends were all about it too,they had been watching it. After I saw 2&3 I got on the net and got down to buisness to see if there were more (and to find out what happened to GMK). Well,I found MZ,and you guys know the rest. I had been online since 98,but I had no interest in GINO,and didn't think enough people cared about Japanese G. anymore for there to be a site.
Oh,BTW,GMK was worth the wait!

Wow, sounds like no one followed the Heisei series from the beginning.

I saw Godzilla 1985 way back in 1987 on TV and heard newspapers circulate rumors for several years about a new Godzilla movie. Sometime in either late 1989 or early 1990 a monster magazine printed a small write-up on Godzilla vs Biollante and sometime in mid 1990 I ran across a bootlegged print of the film at a fan con.

In mid 1991 I found Yaohan plaza in NJ and (thanks to Japanese magazines and the shopkeeper being a fan) I was able to keep up with newest releases until the fanzine Kaiju Review (and later G-Fan) came on the scene, getting ahold of boots of the new films shortly after each release. Unless you could afford those laserdiscs, boots were the only way to go back in those days.

C'mon people.. we need to get more people to sign this petition.... everyone you know and their grandmother.. damnit!



Otherwise the evil Miramax will keep this gem from us fans.

"How I discoverd a dictionary"

Not to be a smart apple, but it just bugs me when thread titles have errors (esp. when use periods in place of question marks!). Just...food for thought.

Heisei series?!? What??? Biollante? Destoroyah? Hunh?!? What the crap, why has no one told me about this?!?