New Godzilla Festival short for 2025

[Benjamin Haines]

Toho's Japanese Godzilla YouTube channel posted this teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpFAv9cCVY

It's great to see that they're making another of these after last year's short concluded the saga featuring the Final Wars suit. This time they're using one of the old Godzilla vs. Megaguirus suits!

Here's a Google translation of the video title:
Special News: "Festival Godzilla" New Special Effects Film Returns! See it at the venue on November 3rd!

[lhb412]

Hell yeah! They produced a ton of stuff from the molds of that suit, so it makes sense they'd have stuff to spare to use!

[Benjamin Haines]

^ There's a promotional featurette on Toho's 2001 GxM DVD set called "Tamao Sato and the Godzilla Lab" featuring more than 20 promotional Godzilla suits based on that design, although they all appeared to be cheaper suits with static jaws that couldn't close. Here are some clips from that featurette: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnimeMatsuri/posts/2137277106321133/

In the Godzilla 2000 chapter of Behind the Kaiju Curtain, Norman England describes the day in August 1999 when Shusuke Kaneko first took him to visit Toho Studios during the making of G2K. They check out the big pool and find Kenji Suzuki's SFX crew shooting there with Tsutomu Kitagawa performing in the Godzilla suit. When Kaneko and Norman move into Stage 9, they find monster maker Shinichi Wakasa tending to another Godzilla suit and Kaneko clarifies, "There are always multiple suits."

[lhb412]

The unarticulated "stunt suit" for GFW was what they had been using. For the Godzilla vs. McDonald's promo they used a Heisei style promo suit and (I think?) a newly made more articulated puppet of his head and shoulders.

... with this? One of the actual filming suits or a refurbished promo suit? Maybe with an independent, more articulated head prop for closeups? (yeah, we only have two shots so far)