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Postby MekaGojira3k » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:24 am

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Postby ryuuseipro » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:46 pm

The Showa Mechagodzilla costume, tattered and dirty as it looks now, is surprisingly still usable! The costume is still in reasonably good condition, and is in Kouichi Kawakita's collection, IIRC. So is the Titanosaurus head (or head puppet).

I'm also sure that there's nothing left of the other suits from that era, except for some heads (the heads of the Daisensou-Goji and Kong from King Kong Escapes are now owned by collector Shin Watanabe).

I wouldn't be surprised if the 90s Mechagodzilla and MOGUERA were still in good condition.
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Postby ryuuseipro » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:01 pm

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Postby MekaGojira3k » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:55 pm

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Postby canofhumdingers » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:18 pm

I don't know for certain with regards to orga and megaguirus, but more often than not, for shots like that they'll make what are referred to as "pyro models" that are much cheaper duplicates (often much less detailed then the regular model or prop) to be blown up. I'd suspect that's what you saw for both monsters.
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Postby MekaGojira3k » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:00 pm

Ah, thanks. The reason I brought this topic up was because somewhere (I think in the Next Era forum) mentioned doing an Ultraman style show with Godzilla. I just started wondering how many suits they had stored. Heck they have enough, maybe make about 5 or 6 new kaiju to add in the mix, and they have a show. Well I'll stop there so that the topic stays on topic.
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Postby kiryugoji04 » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:12 pm

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Postby MekaGojira3k » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:47 pm

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Postby canofhumdingers » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:00 pm

I stumbled across this picture on google images once. It's King Kong & Gorosaurus on the toho lot in 1984.
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Here's the website that it comes from, where the author mistakenly identifies Gorosaurus as Godzilla.

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Postby william newell » Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:25 pm

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Postby kpa » Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:41 am

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Postby ebirahsmeg1 » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:46 pm

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Postby ryuuseipro » Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:16 am

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Postby MekaGojira3k » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:06 pm

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